Show OREGON IDAHO MAYI MAY 1 I HAVE BIG OIL OL FIELD FIEt FELD I Experts Flocking to Payette and Other Othel Towns AJon Along j Snake River Rive BASIN 60 MILES SQUARE Encounter Salt Water Formation FOI Forma Formation mation ma- ma tion and Oil Oi Below Belo Feet Depth Boise May Ia 4 The The prediction I Is f made here by bj experienced oil me men that within the next GO 60 da days dau 01 there ther will wf be developed in Western Idaho an and eastern Oregon one of the bIggest big bIg- gest oil al fields fels in the United states Stales s. s Already oil y 01 men from all al parts o of ot the country are arc flocking to Payette Ontario Vale and other uther towns along aloni th the Snake river Thu rho Held field is claimed b by experts t to be CO GO miles quare square t The Thc countr I mies country re resembles resembles resembles re- re a vast basin surrounded b by h hills his his' and mountains and is qui quite I level At most places in the basis basin I can cn be o picked up petrified pieces oi of or shell shel crabs and other rait mit water ani ani- mals male Tho ho theory Is advanced ad that thai originally the lan land was covered b by y salt water r an and later was a vast inland In in- Inland In- In land lake which was drained b by thi the river It has been discovered disco cre red ered b by drilling that this basin has two formations at a depth or of soc SOO OO feet feeL Th The first feel down don the formation Is Js that made b by fresh water wa wa- ter cr and I below low that that a a salt raIL water formation for for- nation mation maton Is encountered re I The Thc Columbia Oil 01 Gas Development Develop Develop- font ment company has put down six prospective pros pros- I holes since It I was These rhese have been sun sunk Ie to a depth of from 40 t to feet and arc located In II each quarter section of ot land owned owne b by Y the company The management ha has sas ordered ordre a standard drilling rig capable of or drilling to a depths depth of feet In all al the test holes sunk oil on sand and has been encountered has hasit haste The Oregon Oil on Gas Ga company it Its te 5 well wel at Payette down own to a depth th or If 1800 feet feet and the drill Is now penetrating tIme the tIe hard sandstone one which Is S supposed to tu cover the oil all be bed Ata At t Ata a depth of f feet ot a strong how flow fuw of ot ofas ns was as encountered with wih some oil 01 II g been found td and nd pockets of or gas Jas have at t frequent Intervals Oil Oi in irs Well cU cUI It I Is known that oil 01 ha has bec been struck ck b r the tho company compan at a a depth th feet In large enough ti tills of f lUant- lUant n a nine Inch hI tie e to up not safe or orIn or of oil and Is a Jow- Jow low grade 01 all rale illuminating illuminating- se In Inas for tor Hurp 0 pipe has l as ased hl dr I 1 sh pipe un and r 1 ed ud ns n it el r-nn r feet teet A o. o oil oP 1 Is 8 of ot 1500 u to o n. n depth doplh Struck to n been struck In J i such e mown to 1 have been It it six ix feet feol feola that at the sur- sur the tho pipe a ove o the th to top or of race is high grade c 0 on oil an and simar sim- sim m- m This rids gra 51 larto ar to that loal taken talen out ot of the PennS' PennS vania anla fields During feds the next month months f four OUI 1 large U g ge gein e Durn In c coun- coun u in- in drilling be 18 gs it Is that some ct c- c and It t accomplished I ll Ite will ho be fact that the significant 3 a all of back 0 is now nov buying 01 any j when enl the l floated w en ena the hC he s tock that was organized foa ed and n t that ha v wa a comp n. n the tIme On stuck on here Is now no no rio 0 treasurY treasur market |