Tage 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. . .
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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.
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With an automobile damage
suit faolng you.
Let me carry thla liability In
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late . . ,
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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.