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Show mil HAS Petroleum Is Said to Run From Hillside in Considerable Consid-erable Quantity. KE.NO, Nov., Ort. 11. J. J. Korncs, Fred L. Milnor. .'. C. Young, Joe A. Brown and J. O. Alispaeh, oi" tho Coni-mertiiU Coni-mertiiU Pot rolcuin company, and Steve Corecoo, of the firm of Corooco Bros., have returned from ;iu auto trip to the oil fields of Colusa county, Cal., where the Comntereial i'etroleum company has secured J'Js acres, on whirl an oil spring and a number of strong seepages exist. They brin back very interesting interest-ing reports of the present showing and of prospects for development. Accord-in; Accord-in; to the statements of members of the party, lurc quantities of hih-grade oil flowed from the spring when it. was opened and a considerable amount was baled up aud brought back to Reno with them. On tho side of the mountain about 500 feet above JSoar creek, and within about one mile of Wilbur Springs, thero is a largo deposit of caleite and oil residue from the spring that is now running and also from a place about 100 feet higher up the mouutain, where tho oil broke out many years ago, before be-fore the recollection of anyone now in that region, and which probably flowed for a long time as a gusher of oil aud water. . The present opening was made about 1902 by W. Gibson, from whom the land has been obtained, who started a small open cut into the side of the mountain and caused another "blowout" "blow-out" of oil, which flowed for days in such a large stream that Bear crock was covered and nothing could be seen going down the creek but oil. Farmers and ranchers have used oil from here for a number of years for lubricating machinery and automobiles, as it is a high-grade product just as it comes from the ground. An effort is generally made to keep the flow under control by damming the spring so the water accumulates and holds the oil back, but it has been frequently opened recently by ranchers aud other visitor?. At present the flow from the spring is nor as large as it has been at various times after being kept dammed for several weeks or months; but at the present time oil flows freely from this spring and can bo rapidly baled from the top of the water that comes with it from the aperture. The small gulch down the mountain from tho spring to the creek is a scries of cascades and pools, upon which the oil ! running down shows a rainbow-colored I stream all the way. j About 700 feet from this spring is a strong seepage of oi). in which there is jbut little water, and the gulch in which this is located shows oil residue on the ! surface for nearly a thousand feet up ! the gulch from this seepage. Arrangements Arrange-ments arc being made for drilling at one or more points on this tract within the near future. |