Show Oi Chari Elko Raise Questions By JEAN McELRATH WELLS NEV S Special Special- p e cia I Quien sabe Who Vho knows says the man from Texas when Wells residents ask if he thinks Vell oil oi will wil be found in Elko County I J. J J B. B Parkhill huntsville Tex is supervisor of a 9 to man 12 crew located in Wells Wels They TheY plan to spend three to eight months making a gravity meter survey of northeastern Elko County for Gulf Research and Development Corporation whose headquarters are in Pittsburgh Pa Branch of Firm Finn The present exploratory work is one of several similar geophysical geophysical geophysical geo geo- physical surveys of the area scheduled to cover a period of years and to be undertaken separately separately sepa sepa- by different major oil oi com corn panics paries Gulf Gul Research and Development Development De De- Corporation is a branch of Gulf Gul Oil on Corporation During the past year year Gulf Oil Oi maintaining an office in Wells Wels has leased mineral exploration rights to large areas arens of land in northern Nevada including the Dolly DoIy V Varden area near Elko which will wil be drilled dried this year Mr lIr Parkhill has been working with wih the Gulf Gul company since the early and has made surveys in many parts of the United States and abroad including one year two-year expedition to Denmark Traveling in pairs the survey crew works in orderly patterns in an area extending 60 to 70 miles in all al directions from Wells Vels but principally east west and south 1 r Hard lard to Stop With ih jeeps and sturdy trucks equipped with wheel four drive they are rarely stopped by rough country countr Their portable gravity meter a little instrument weighing weighing weighing weigh weigh- ing six pounds is sturdy enough to withstand the rough going yet so sensitive that it registers and andis andis andis is upset by an earthquake great distances away Different materials have varying varying varying vary vary- ing degrees of gravity pull pun according according according accord accord- ing to their density Given the longitude latitude and exact elevation elevation ele ele- ele- ele vaton at which a gravity meter reading is made scientists in inGul's inGulf's inGulf's Gulfs Gulf's Gul's Pittsburgh office are able I with wih a fair degree of accuracy to tell tel what the surface sub-surface structure structure structure ture of a given area may be Compare Results Comparing that information with wih reports from other explorations explorations tons and considering results of those previous explorations they can indicate wh where re it may be worthwhile to proceed with wih further further further fur fur- ther exploration which may in in- elude clude eude drilling Mr r Parkhill says These modern prospectors with their scientific educations their swift swit transportation and complicated technical equipment their charts chart maps graphs and detailed reports report yes and the wives vives and children who accompany accompany accompany pany their peregrinations seem to have little in common with their bearded leading burro-leading fore fore- runners They do share shae one trait a liking for open country and the fascination of the search for the pot of gold Cautiously Conservative Regarding the possibility o of finding black gold Mr Parkhill Parkhill Park Park- hill hil is cautiously conservative He points out to questioning Wells Wells- Vels ites Hes that the gravity meter survey is being made as a result resul o of earlier reports from geologists geologist based on rock outcroppings am and the general stood-on-end stood nature of oC the mountains in this area It Hi money to drill an oil oi well wel more than a million dollars I for a single well wel in some cases and one good well wel in ten is con considered a fair return observes Mr Parkhill I But even yet the only sure way of finding out where v there is oil oi is to drill |