Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-14 | Page 1 | Oil is Struck in Fallon, Nevada

Oil Is Struck in Fallon, Nevada Strike at Depth, of Forty Feet-Gusher Feet-Gusher Is Looked for Within With-in Two Days. Special to The Tribune. RENO, Nov., May 13. Oil lias been struck in the now town of Fallon. Churchill county. The strike was made this morning ami promises to crcato excitement equal to that in California. Cali-fornia. Tho strike was made on the property of R. L. Douglas, at it depth of forty feet and) Jt is expected that ai gusher will be struck within the- next two days. The oil sand and stratum Is quite thick. A man from Beaumont, Tex., says the Indications arc the finest in the world for the development of a great oil field. His view 1p concurred with by another mans at Fallon, who operated In the Kern county district for several years. j Standard rig hay been wired for and ln a few days derricks will arrive. A small strata of oil sand had previously pre-viously been encountered-, but the borers did not know what they Indicated. Samples of the strike wero taken last night to "Wadsworth and they will be analyzed! In order to determine If the strike really Ik petroleum and also Itn quality. Fallon Is located at a point of the great depression- In tho State and If the fields are there it will not require deep borings to develop the wells.