Show new field in california record gardner cal cau oil and gas have been struck on mono island in mono lake mono county androw and now every open lot of land about the lake or near it has been taken up the strike was made several days ago but it was not generally known until the arrival of treasurer joe brown of mono county last week he arrived from los angeles where he was when the discovery was made the strike was made on mono island by the great western oil and development company which started the work of drilling t there about four weeks ago at a depth of feet the dr illers struck an unusually strong flow of gas and this was followed by a rush of oil which amounts to over twenty barrels a day drilling will continue and later the well may be nitro in order to open it up and get the main flow mono island contains slightly over 2300 acres of land and the western company controls all of this except twenty acres in addition to this amount it also controls a large tract about the borders of the lake totaling about acres the oil belt apparently extends entirely about the lake and the land about the inland sea for a distance t ance of three miles from its borders has been taken up for oil almost every place there are the oil sands and the shale and the best of surface formation the next largest holder of the acreage about the lake for oil lands besides the western company is jud judge jude e rector and associates of merced who control about acres the oil found is greatly superior to that found in the california fields as the base is instead of asphalt oil with such a base is far superior to the asphalt base owing to the products byproducts by mono lake is already an inland sea in mono county and the water level is at an altitude of feet it will be necessary for the company to raise 1000 feet in order to get I 1 et above this basin and complete a pipe line to goldfield and tonopah To which they announce they will do within a short time this pipe line has already been financed one of the banks at los angeles having agreed to put up on the deal another pipe line it is anticipated will be run from the lake to stockton dali california fornia the oil will have to be pumped from the lake level feet to the summit which is an elevation of feet this can be easily done ac according cordin to the engineers by utilizing the large amounts of gas at the place for pumping the western company has already ordered five new rigs and within a short time the field will be one of the developed ones of the coast and oil men declare it will be the greatest of california |