The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, January 20, 1925, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTage Si THE EUGENE GUAED TWsrlnv Eveniner. Januarv on 7 jj CO-OPERATION OF per ted there is no doubt that the total amount will be rained, it. the i confident prediction. v CHICAGO.' Jun. m OP) Nuw pupers art llliuwiiig iuc'rcusi'd itiU'rest in church news uim llie ciwrcii alioulU reciprocate by utuilying Ibe viewpoint uf I'tlUur.. reporter ami prom ussoiiiitiuii, Dr. 11. J. Wade, executive Bucrutiiry, told the woii Hervice coinuiisaiuu of tlie .Uctliodiat Episcopal til ur tli, at its uuuuul en mon todiiy. 'American newspapers," l'Jr. Wade taid, "are pribtiiig mure religioiiH edi tormls tuau hitherto, aud flre paying wore attention of news of church una minibus. "Suue, siife, adequate, couiiisten publicity piny' an important part iu any worthwhile enterprise. Tu frown upin it is unwise, to omit it in weak euing, to exjilt it unduly i folly, but to uho it skillfully is to expand." RECEIPTS LISTED i CHICAGO, Jan. L'O Total receipts lor the seven moutbs lor world aer 1 vice, June to December 31, 31)24 were $5,009,587.57, according to the report lot Kev. O. W. Aumau, D. U tress urer of the world servico commission ; meeting here today. Dr. Auman, formerly district bu perintendent at Denver, said the inon ey w88 disbursed s follows. Board of foreign mission. $1,753, WO. Board of home missions and church extension $1,753,040. Board of education $426,528. . Board of education for negroes $11)7,048. Board of Sunday schools $150,240, Board of the Kpworth league $43, 560. Board of pensions and relief $39,- 084. Board of hospitals and homos $45, 660. General deaconess board $23,423 Board of temperance and prohibl bition and public morals $05,125. American Bible society $52,082. Board of education (commission on course of study) $15,615. Commission of life service $10,513. Amounts paid by various areas in eluded: Denver $114,510, Helena $57,155, Omaha $303,803, Portland $103,140, irian Francisco $200,131, Washington i $2t)8.oou. Dairymen of State Open Session; to Consider Measures , McMINNVUjLB, Ore., Jan. 20. The . Oregon-Dairymen a association I i opened its annual convention here to iday, with a number of resolutions be : fore it for consideration. These were . drawn up at the conference here yes 1 terday of the executive committee of the axsociation and representatives of : allied industries. Measures indorsed at this conference included: S Compulsory testing for tuborculos- : Is of all animals in all counties west 'i of tlie Cascade rango. Further protection to farmers sell ing cream or milk on a bntterfat teat. . That the reduction of $10,000 made : ny the budget commission for the or V fice of dairy and food commissioner j be, restored in order to afford insp.ee t tion of dairy farms. ) Proposed a tax on butter and but V tcr substitutes, the money therefrom to go into the dairy and food fund ; and the irrcduciblo school fund. The tnx proposed would bo BO cents per thousand on butter, and 10 cents a pound cn substitutes. It was estimated thnt $20,000 a year would be rained. liaise of salary of the dairy and food commissioner from $3,000 to $4,000. Appointment of a committee to In vestigate a model milk ordinance pro posed ty Dr. Frederick Strieker, sec retary of the state board of health. Cottage Funds to Be Complete Soon . Efforts will be made to completo this month the pledging of the $25, '; 000 necessary for tho erection of a I Lane county cottnge at tho children's farm home at Corvallls maintained by the AV. O. T. V., according to those, who have been active in behalf of the campaign under way hero for the past three months. Although the 'time waa extended beyond that ex- FISCHER-SOULTS LUMBER CO. 6th and High Thono 572 OAK FLOORING HAMMOND SHINGLES Wall Board Roofing Cement LUMBER and LATH CONCRETE BRICK BURIAL VAULTS DRAIN TILE IRRIGATION PIPE SEWER PIPE CULVERT PIPE HOLLOW TILE BLOCKS SEPTIC TANKS Eugene Concrete Pipe Co. 135 Blair. Phone 003 Safe Robbers Take Climb For Loot! POHTT.AND. Ore., Jan. 20. Safe! robbers climbed seven storiea to the I roof of a building here yesterday by I scaling a superstructure, entered a i trap door on the roof and later broke I open tho safe of tlie Kilham Htation- eiy company, on the second floor, and the safe of the Goodyear Itubber company, on the first floor, taking a ! total of aproximately $700 in cash and $hOO in checks-from the two; safes. Tlie building 'is two blocks ; from police headquarters. T TO PRESENT CASE KLAMATH FAU.S, Ore., Jan. 20. hfforrs of the Oregon, Callforui and Kustern. railway, known sa toe rahorn line, to procure a frnn chi8e to cross Sixth street here were blocked before the city council last night when n telegram was Teceived from W. F. Turner, president of the Oregon Trunk line, asking that any action be deferred until after bis railroad had been given nn oppor tunity to present Its views. President Hubert B. Htmhoro was seeking no exclusive franchise across Sixth street, while some members of fcred the insertion of tho. common used clause, to permit other lines to' enter over the same street If neces sary. Council members and taxpayers were in the midst of a heated debate when Mayor Fred Goddard ordered the telegram from the. Oregon Trunk executive read. As soon as the ini port of the message had dawned on tho officials, Councilman West moved that further action on the franchise bo delayed until tho Oregon Trunk had opportunity to be heard.' This motion was passed without further debate. . . For quality cigsrs. Prince Nemo. SICK WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Can Be Carried Comfortably Over The Critical Period by Lydia . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Note Mrs. Headden'i Case Maeon. Georsria. 44 Durinff tha Change of Life I suffered with my wnoie rignc side and could not lie on my left aide. I was in ueu snout two months and could not get up only ns my son would ttitme. Al ter doc tor in with out relief a man who was rooming with us told my son Vecretable Compound cured his mother at tha Changeof Life.sol began takingyour meaicine. Alter uiKimz it ior two weeks I could get out of my bed by I myself. I am now 63 years old and in I better health and stronger than ever in my nio. i nave recommended the Vegetable Compound to many suffer ing women, young and old, and you may use my name anywhere as long as you pioane. i win oe giaa to an awer any letters Bent to me." - Mrs. F. B. Heabden. 6 Holt Avenue, Macon, Georgia. In a recent countnr-wide canvass of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, over 200,000 replies wore re ceived and 98 outof every 100 reported they had been Denetttcd by its use. for sale ty druggists everywhere. DON'T WAKE UP With an automobile damage suit faolng you. Let me carry thla liability In The Travelers Hartford or U. S. F, & G before It It too late . . , J. H. McKinley '.' 22-lnt National Hunk ldg I Insure everything lliifii IT NEVER COMES ON A ' SILVER PLATTER Prosperity conios to those who work and earn It. U never results from luck or coincidence. Hint is why It pays to iter! enrly in laying asida a cer tain part of your Income every month. Thla is the first month of 1925. Make a dplt now here at the Flrat National and keen It up HKUULAKLY. 40 Years ef Htlpfvl Service TIRST NATIONAL BANK 'IKClf of Eugene1 ieer Noted Geologist, Without Price, After Years Study, Says: ' OIL FIELD IS. HERE CLEMENT L. WEBSTER, M. S.; Geologist, Minerologist, . Paleontologist and Scien tist, who is endorsed by the Department of the Interior through the Geological Sur vey, through J. W.,McGee, assistant: chief and acting chief at all times for J. W. Pow ell, who was chief of the Geological Survey; endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution and the Bureau of Ethnology, who appears as an authority in "American Men of Sci ence," second edition,, and in the publication of the world known as "Who Is Who;" whose works published on paleontology are used as textbooks in Yale college and are referred to and accepted by all workers in this line of science; who is the author of 200 published titles, including books, maps, geological charts (mainly scientific), cov ering the principal gas and oil fields of the United States, portions of Canada and Old Mexico; who conducted work in engineering for the Iowa State University as a specialist in geology and paleontology; who is a member of many of the highest scien tific societies of the world, with over 30 years of technical and practical experience in the leading oil fields of the world, tells the world what he knows about Guaranty Oil Company's properties here and at Eugene. v , This wonderful man has spent over one year in making a careful survey of the oil structures in and near Lane county, Oregon, including the drilling block and the two oil wells now being drilled by the Guaranty Oil Company of Oregon. Without solicitation, .of his own free will and accord has signed and submitted the following favorable report upon the Guaranty Oil Company s properties. Only one motive can be found or ascribed to him for so doing and that is that he naturally wishes to be on record so that in the future he can tell the world, "I told you so. MR. WEBSTER'S REPORT . Doctor IX E.' Olson, . .. . President The Guaranty Oil Company, , ' Eugene, Oregon. . 1 Dear Sir: : ' : I herewith submit to yon, my report upon tlio conditions found existing in the oil bearing regions of western Oregon and the Eugene iuadranKh', 'and other territory embraced within this great oil area, which in this report I have provisionally .designa ted as the Pncific Coast Oil Area. . GENERAL STATEMENTS ' . ' It may bo sufficient for the purpose of this report to state thnt: Herein -are presented facts as to conditions found and known to exist in the oil area hero considered, and on which conditions tlie conclusions .here presented are based,' these con clusions resting upon well developed geological principles recognized by leading oil geologists and oil development companies. EXTENT OF THE OIL AREA INVESTIGATED AND TIME CONSUMED IN INVESTIGATION Tho extent of this Pacific Const Oil Area in vestigated by me extends from the southern .state lino of California on the south to and beyonU the southern' Btnto lino of Washington on the north, and -comprises much of the western half of tlie .states of California and Oregon especially; ami tlie i time consumed in these investigations began about tho first of December, 102.1,' and extended to tho Inst of December, 1924. Tlie presentation of inter esting details encountered and investigated in this research work would bo too voluminous for this report and here serve no essential purpose. Tho great and now famous oil and gas area of California is too well known to the oil world to warrant discussion hero. Suffice it to say that this is now recognized as one of the greatest and finest productive oil areas existing within tho Uni ted States; and it is well known to oil experts that this great area is very far from exhaustion today. This area in California presents some features of special interest, one of thm being the adequate porosity of many of tho oil sands which permits of tho accumulation of large bodies or pools of oil; and another being tho richness of tho several groat general oil horizons, down to tho depth of 4000 feet and more. The geology age of tho strata of this great oil area varies somewhat, the lowest California oil being as now recognized, iij the topmost Cretace ous, and extends upwards into the Tertiary, in cluding the following great subdivision: Tefon," Sespe, Vnqueros, Montercv and Fernando. THE PACIFIC COAST OIL AREA OF OREGON This area in Oregon is a continuation of the same great oil area of California with, of course, some lithological variations from the general char deters there, the geological ago being practically the same as two main divisions. In the Oregon area there oxists a slight question ns to the geology age of one or more of the subdivisions, but as this question is not vital as to the occurrence of com mercial oil in the state, this matter will be passed over in the report. In tho southern central and southeastern por tions of Oregon tho oil structures and lithological characters of some of the oil strata varies some what from that of tlie same area in this state' as it extends to the state lino of Washington, and pre sents somo phases of especial interest and import ance, but ns this report is especially concerned with tho Eugene Quadrangle, a discussion hero of these questions will bo deferred. GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, CONDITIONS AND OIL STRUCTURES OF THE EUGENE QUADRANGLE Specinl and extended study and investigation of this quadrangle has been conducted by me dur ing a part of the period previously mentioned in this report, and these snmo investigations continu ed over wide areas in northern Oregon and extend ed into Washington. In all my many years of labor and experience ' in geology and oil field investigations in the United States, t have nowhere seen finer or more numer ous typical geological oil structures (including domes, anticlines, synclines, monoclines, closures, confining beds, etc.) than are shown in tho Eugene quadranglo and certain regions contiguous to it in Oregon. It is trno that nt times a wildcat well may bo drillod on a good geological structure, but this is not the rule. This fact is well illustrated by drillings conducted in a c6rtain Wyoming oil field, -, as well as elsewhere. Iu the Eugene Quadranglo is. presenter! facts and geological conditions of great interest and im portance as bearing on the question of this finally proving a productive oil fitld. Here is. shown to be present the great beds of fossils and marine life of the same geological age as the great oil produc ing fields of California, and this usually shows evi dence of a large source of oil supply; there here exists largo numbers of oil structures of the most perfect type and generally they are found with per fect, or nearly perfect closures, all of which means very much in favor of the accumulation of oil; splendid confining beds above aild below. It has an important closure on the cast side of the area formed by a great dike of basalt of special geol ogical interest and importance. This dike is known to me to extend northward for more than 125 miles and to have large and important branches. This is indeed a remarkable and rare feature in the , known oil fields. A rare and remarkable feature relating to the dike is the fact that Iiowhero have.,; 1 observed much if any evidence of metamorphism , of tho marine sediments, although in many places there exists a perfect contact between them. A very important fact is also noted, and' that is this great' -dike is geologically very young, having been form ed nt a period long after all the marine sediments of this quadrangle had been laid down. This may . have some bearing upon the question of early ac cumulation of, oil here. After its appearance, this dike had the effect of closing this oil field on the east, and also aided in forming, together with other mountain-making forces at work here, tho import ant oil structure hero and there of tho monocline of this quadrangle. The oil well nt JPjigenc is being drilled on the apex of a splendid oil dome or anticline not far from tho dike. Comparatively few -as perfect oil domes exist in moajtqther oil fields. The oil woll now being drilled nt Cottage Grove is so nearly analagous to the one at Eugene in all respects that the statements herein made relating to tho Eugene well can apply equally well to this. The geologicnl series at and near Eugene in which the oil wells of this quadrangle are being drilled belong to two great geology ages: the up per part of the Cretaceous, and the Tertiary. TJie latter perhaps included tho Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene. There may be some doubt expressed as to the exact of at least one of the nbove formations, : but ns this question is not of material importance as to the occurrence of oil in the Eugene Quad rangle, this question, like some others herein re ferred to, will not here be discussed. Oil and gas seepage exist at various points nt and near tho two above wells now being drilled, showing,, of course, that they originate from the rocks below. In a few cases, I am convinced, marsh gas has been mistaken by a few for petro leum gas. Tho depth to which tho boring of tho '.veil nt Eugene bns reached, 1 am informed, is approxim ately 2500 feet; and the drill .has already passed through several oil sands yielding, the officials of the company state, from one to seven or more bar rels of oil. This was eased off, the drill continuing gri.iter depth. This oil occurs at about the central portion of tho Tertiary as here represented. Tho baler, at tho present depth, is now bringing up con siderable quantities of gas and some oil, as report ed by officials of the company and by all the drill ers; and both oil and gas from the well at Cottage Grove, which is down around 1500 feet at tho pre sent time. OIL HORIZONS OF THE EUGENE QUADRANGLE ' In the qundrangle.thero exists at least two dis tinct general oil and gas horizons: ono at or near the center of tho Tertiary series ns hero represent ed, and a second horizon in tho Cretaceous imme diately underlnpping the Tertiary here, the same being equivalent of tha very productive oil sands of southern California. The drill at tho well nt Eugeno lias" already passed through this first oil hori zon of the Tertiarv as previously stated, and will reach tho Cretaceous horizon below at the depth of 34(H) to 4000 feet Reprint from Cottage Grove Sentinel Paid Adv. and there is a possibility of oil and gas being reached even before tho depth of 3400 feet is at tained); and there appears from tho evidenco a possibility of oil being reached here at even a some what greater depth. The drill alono can definitely determine that question at tho present time. EQUIPMENT, DRILLERS AND DEPTH TO WHICH DRILLING MAY BE CONDUCTED Tho drilling equipment at these two wells I believe to be among the very best for tho purpose and work undertaken, and can attain any required depth that may reasonably bo desired, and the same is being handled with great efficiency. GEOLOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL L0CA . TION OF THE EUGENE QUADRANGLE This quadrangle could not well be better loca ted either geologically or topographically. Geol ogically it presents features splendidly adapted to the accumulation of large bodies or pools of oil and gas; and topographically it is splendidly situated in a most desirable region between the Coast Eange and Cascades, and in these respects duplicates some of the largest and best oil fields of the world. DRILLING SITES ' In some places 'in this quadranglo it will 1)C safer in boring for oil to locate the drilling on the slope of the structure than on its apex, for the reason, among possibly others, that the porosity of tho oil sands is so reduced the oil will not ac cumulate at tho apex but on the flank of tho dome. In other cases, however, tho boring may safely be begun on the apex of the anticline. These facts are well illustrated by Plate I and Plato II of this V report, which represents actual and common condi tions in oil fields. - PREPARATION FOR THE BRINGING IN OF THE WELLS Adequate preparations should bo made for the bringing in of the two wells of the Eugene Quad rangle, and so be prepared for whatever events may take place at such bringing in. GENERAL OPINIONS OF GEOLOGISTS AS TO POSSIBILITIES OF THE OCCURRENCE OF OIL IN OREGON AND THE EUGENE QUADRANGLE Many of the leading and experienced geolo gists of the country are convinced that the oil area of Oregon considered in this report will prove a productive oil field when properly developed; and I personally share in the opinion, this opinion on my part being based upon the long and continued personal investigations and study of the region herein considered, as well as on extensive know ledge of all the principal oil and gas fields of Ui6 United States and portions of Canada and Old Mexico. METAMORPHISM 1 find that in the Eugene Quadranglo as well as in many other oil areas in Ofegon here consider ed, metamorphism has played a much less import ant part than has generally been supposed, and that there is much less evidence existing as to metamorphism here than has been thought possible. PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF THE OIL SANDS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OIL AREA OF OREGON From my investigations T have found that the oil bearing sands and limestones oftsoullicrn Cal ifornia gradually become; less porous.( contains less voids) ra they extend northward and enter Oregon aiid continue to its northern boundary, this being chiefly, noticeable in the upper parts of the Ter tiary 'throughout the entire area here considered. This lessening of porosity of tho oil sands of tho Tertiary of Oregon becomes a most important . matter at times and one which cannot bo overlook ed without grave danger to the development of this nrea as a profitable oil field. But very few even of the oil experts have recognized this important con dition, and those who have have kept it to them selves or the oil companies employing them. This lessening of the adequate' porosity of the oil bearing strata, in places of this region, is re sponsible mainly for the lessening of the size and importance of tho oil pools here. The truth of these statements becomes appar ent to the expert who carries out nn extensive and .. protracted research investigation throughout this extensive nrea, as I have done, and in no other way can these facts be adequately ascertained. The Cretaceous rocks below, do not appear to lack this porosity, as do the upper portions of the Tertiary oil rocks above. The high oil structures or domes on the east . crn border of the Eugene Quadrangle are the first to peel or show the bad effect of this lessener por osity and the consequent lessened accumulation of oil into pools here, while the smaller oil structures of the monocline below generally offers the greater inducement for the accumulation of oil into pools. In the area here considered this lessener porosity of tho Sit strata is rarely ever due to metamorph ism, but to a condition existing at a time when the constituent elements of this strata were originally laid down in tho ancient sens. This lessened por osity of .oil strata is not uniform by any means throughout the entire nrea here treated of, but is more or less spotted with this condition. As stated this condition should be fully understood, that all elements of risk may be eliminated so far as pos sible in the exploration for oil in this area. This condition as above set out l"ias proven a stumbling block to many geologists who have not had the , time or opportunity for adequate studv and inves tigation of the oil strata of this entire Pacific Const Oil Area. THE GUARANTY OIL COMPANY OF OREGON From my personal acquaintance witli tho per sonnel of tho Guaranty Oil Company of Oregon, I am much pleased to say thnt during mv long and. extensive acquaintance with corporations I have nt no time found a more honorable, square dealing, conscientious group of men belonging to a body corporate; and such are certainlv entitled to tlie .hearty support and encouragement of every loynl citizen at nil interested in the development" of the natural resources of n region or state. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) CLEMENT L. WEBSTER, Geologist and Mining Engineer. j-.ugonc, uregon, December 30, 1924.