Show GET fiET ET HIGH GRADE OIL OILIN OILi i IN WELL ELL NEAR BLAIR II I Quality Right Determining J Quantity Delayed By I Losing Tools EXPERTS ARE CONFIDENT From Action at Bottom of Well That Supply Is Large M. M 1 A A. A PIUs PilEs and mill II U A. A Miller who have hae been In charge of ot tho the won well drilling ling operations of ot tho Hay flay K Nevada llda e company compan on tho timo salt marsh near Blair Nov I havo arrived In Goldfield Gold Gold- Held field with samples of ot limo tho tho oil which L they struck at time the depth of or lili feet Experts Exports who have examined 1 tho the samples declare that there Is no doubt of tho tim excellent quality of ot the tho oil on which is said to lo have havo a n base baso Pitta declares unequivocally that the tho I i oil 11 Is there thieve but an unfortunate acci accI- dent flue to tho clogging clog up or ot the RIO well voll broke the tho cable callIe which was attached at at- at attached to the drilling Instruments antI and the tle tools are arc in lu the tho bottom of or tho well voli It will require two weeks weeks' time to bring them to the time surface as special apparatus must be bc brought In from rom Los Angeles In time the meantime there thero Is ob absolutely no wa way to ascertain tho the probable extent o of tho timo oil flow or whether It will bo be necessary to sink to greater depth Air Mr PUts Pitts is Js an un old oil oU expert of or mUll many years' years experience having hud haul charge of the thc drilling In lii some ome of or tho tim largest fields nelds of oC Texas and California I 1 o been confident ho 10 o said that wo wn could find oil in our well an and I was not a bit surprised when hen we were enabled to got a n large sample of ot th time the stuff Oil ou I. I U ml III h Crude The character of ot the time oil oU we en countered when whon tho the cable broke Is of ot tho time hl highest hest rn g-rn grade e. e It would woul bo bu worth at least 5 or 6 56 a barrel In ill Its Us pros pres enl emit state Of or course I 1 am Rm unable to sa say whether wo we a n great flow of or the time oil for Cor that would be mere merc uv a allU iu no ito otto can until vu ve raise the tools and continue our work Tho The flow of or gas simply forced time the dirt and san sand over o tho the drilling apparatus ap up- and formed a wedge which became immovable the harder we pulled on the tho tools I did not nut know at the time that wo We hud hutch encountered any body bOd- bOdor of or oil but suspected 1 from the action of lit the time drill drUI that wo we had passed Into n a i different nt formation Upon attempting at nt- nt tempting to raise the drill however it Il became wedged ll anti and tho time cable broke I am satisfied however that there thero la is a large supply of or oil in our well for tor the tho reason that such a n large amount was forced upward In so 80 short a time Were It otherwise we would b hardly r have ha secured a fl trace |