Show THISTLES OIL SHALES They Are Rich and the Flow of Crude Oil Is Fair Thistle Jan 5Thc spring of 1001 was for f short time especially lively In all prospccts though two companies one headed by J Sloan Jonson oC Seattle and the other by n mnn from California after carefully prospecting the Immediate country around here they made a number of company locations at points where oil showed in seepages springs and oil sands Excited by their movements a number of our local residents owners of what was known as sand asphaltum interested themselves and made nne moro extensive developments which proved the fact that beneath those asphalt veins lies 3 series of oil shales which show a very high per cent of paraffinc oil and yet beneath the shales Is found a driftor seabed composed of oolites or concretions ranging In size from that of a birds egg to that of a goose egg The peculiarity of these eggshaped concretions Is that the center of each and every one Is filled with a most beautiful transparent 011 This locality above referred to is within threefourths of a mile from the railroad rail-road and covers ISO acres and forms a basin The owners of the above are Bob Henderson et al o Thistle and A L Hobson of Ventura Cal New developments late last fall in the Hobson Hob-son claims revealed extensive flows o heavy or cisphiiltic oils and barrels and barrels oani now be seen coursing through ll fissures broken Into by blasts The especial oil shale bed and the one most developed is on the Henderson claims and contains the most desirable oil shale ever seen by your correspondent |