Show HOPE PE TO fiND Oft Olt ir IN SNARE V VALLEY Mil Oregon Oil Oi Gas Company I Setting Up Rig at Payette Payette Pay- Pay ette ete Idaho TO MAKE THOROUGH TEST I i Wells Wels and Springs In Vicinity Afford Aford Indications of of Pet Petroleum orell pai rda Aug Ug 3 m m chinery for the Oregon Oil al fe Gas company arrived in this week and Is being set et up Ull south of Payette cannery canner and arid the now new Radio factory factor and In a a few w chi days It I will wU he lie le In place and nd ready for drilling It rt T cons consists of ofa ofa r ra a a foot tool latest Improved Star ShIr drilling machine When tho the machinery Is In readiness and the drill drI makes malas ts Its first impression In the earth the preliminary work whIch It sem sterns m is ij to develop an Important Important Im Im- ml- ml industry for this of ot the tho te Snake river valley aley will wi have begun The com company pan which is backed principally pried pried- pally paly by Portland Ore and eastern castern capital has secured b by leare lenc several sc crl thousand acrs of possible oil 01 lands Inthis in inthis inthis this vicinity and is prepared to m make T c a thorough exploration of the oil 01 anti and gas as indications here There arc ar r ia many indications of oil 01 and gas gs hero her her which are plainly dEs dis In a n well wel on the Holmes ranch In bottom bolom oil 01 Is eo so EO prevalent prevalent pre pre- valent alent In the water lter that it cannot bo be bou u used d at all aU for domestic and the he stock will scarcely drink It in bottom are al also o Impregnated with oil In the- the slough that runs through H. H S. S Loveland's ranch along Snake river a n short distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance northwest of ot Pa Payette ette tho the water is covered with oil continually rho The gas s which leaks from froin the earth Into Mrs Mr E. E P. P Paines Paine's c cellar n at h lieu her r ho home H Hon on Grand a venire Is Is' Is Isso so prevalent lent that It pollutes vegetables and In fact tact practically everything that Is left there for a short time Indications Not Wanting these there ir are n oilier Indications that it will only require r tIon to d develop p an nt oil field in tho the vicinity of or Payette C. C W. W V. V Taylor Talol secretary and manager of the the company wim IS on the tho ground personally looking after the development development develop develop- ment work vork says sas the oil indications aro ari stronger In the vicinity of Payette than han any other place In III the Snake River basin Ho He says he believes the tho reason gas goas has never been encountered here In tn large larse quantities Is because of ot the fact that wells are arc very shallow On account of ot so much Irrigation tho the water is very ver near nem tho the surface and amI nearly all Ole Che wells are sunk only a comparatively short distance The Thc company has expert drillers here and is prepared to give the Held field Helda HeldI a thorough test I I |