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Show Goodrich townlte, belonging to the I Oil company of 8an Juan. Two aro Just north of the Goodrich townslte, 1 belonging1 to the Areola Oil company, and the other Is the Galloway well In John's canyon, twelve miles In an air line northwcSi from tho others. No. I well on the Goodrich townslte is 2-0 feet deep and struck oil March 5. 1907. It flowed over the gaslng continuously con-tinuously for Ave days after coming In, the flow being estimated at 800 barrels a day. A mall gasoline, pump : ha recently been Installed and th well will bo pumped from now on, the product having a ready sale in the district for use In gasoline engines-. It is estimated that it will be ?od for at leat 100 barrels a day and may exceed ex-ceed that amount. Oil is High Grade. ' "A comparison of tho oil produced 1 Int he San Juan field with lha Call- ' fornia product will be Interesting, j sine the public Is mor or less ac- , qualnted with the quality of the latter j oil. While the California oil is from 1 to 22 degrees Baumo, tho San Juan oil Is rroni 38 to 51 degrees Baume. The California oil brings from 50 cents to $1 : a barrel, while the San Juan oil will bring from $2 to $3.50 a barrel.' The products manufactured from a barrel of California oil, when refined, . amount to from $7 to $10, while $21 worth of products can bo manufactured from a barrel of San Juan oil. This oil contains 53 per cont of light oils, 43 per cent of. lubricants lubri-cants and 1 pt cent residuum. It has a parafllne baee and Is an Ideal refining refin-ing oil, producing a great per cent of gasoline, which Is a product greatly In demand for automobiles and gas engines in general. In fact, the crude oil, as it comes from the Goodrich No. 1 well, is being used to run gasoline ongln.es for pumping purposes and makes a wry good substitute for gasoline, gaso-line, which speaks highly of its quab liv as a light refining oil." RAILROADS SEND MEN T0SAN JUAN That work in the San Juan oil fiejd is progressing with a great deal of on-thusiaxm on-thusiaxm is Indicated by advices from Bluff, the center of the" field. Almost daily arrival of capitalists or their representatives, looking for oil land. Is reported. Engineers for the Santa Fe railroad arrived in the field recently. They came In by way of Gallup, N. M., driving driv-ing over the government road to Chin J..e and thence into the field. It Is said on good authority that these engineers en-gineers wero sent out by President Ripley of the Santa Fe to view the road and report to him personally. Other engineers have been through, but this is the first time that the president has asked for a report. The D. & R. G. engineers were also in the field daring the month, which shows that they are taking notice of the field. lt is stated that the Chicago Oil company has three rigs on the road with which to begin drilling. This company is supposed to be backed by the Standard Oil interests, therefore their decision to begin active operations opera-tions Is gratifying to the other operators oper-ators in the field. The shooting of the Areola well was a success in every particular. The water has been cased off and tho well now stands half full of oil. the bailer not being able to lower the oil a par- o tlcle. Before the shooting, it was an Indifferent producer, but now It is estimated es-timated that it will yield 100 barrels a day. The Areola company Is already al-ready selling $20 worth of oil a day for fuel In the field, uud it has ordered or-dered a pamp, storage tanks(and delivery de-livery wagons, when It expects to sell from $100 to 300 worth a day. Government Experts There. Government geologists arrived in the field during June and will make a complete report to Washington. It is learned on good authority that ono of th geologists in the number, familiar with the field, says that a report will show tho field to have great posslbill- ties, with signs of making one of the biggest oil fields in the country. Of his recent observations' in. the ' field upon a recent visit, W. S. Tar-bell, Tar-bell, editor of the Denver fining investor, in-vestor, says: "Oil seepages occur in the canyon of the San Juan for forty miles up and down tho river. It is stated by Mr. Meudenhall. who went through tho canyon by boat, that in pluces the paraffins is accumulated in great chunks where the oil has evaporated. At the Honaker trail a seep from the Honaker sand yields from four to six barrels a dav of oil. This is remarkable, remark-able, as it must have bcn going on for geological age5, and It would Recn. that the supply would sooner or later., become exhausted. The lnfereonc is that, there is a tremendous supply of ; oil in this sand back for miles In the I formation, and that when wells are drilled, an almoat Inexhaustible supply sup-ply of oil will bo found. j "Already there ar five wells in the i tielj which produce oil lu commercial quantity. Two of these are 'on the |