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6 NEWS OF THE MINES AND THE OIL FIELDS BOOM DAYS START CALIFORNIA OIL STOCKS Brisk Trading on Los Angeles Ex change Indicates Season Will Be Profitable The amount of trading on the Los Angeles stock exchange shows that oil stocks are becoming more active every day. With the sharp gains in Union and Mexican issues, the excitement on the floor of the Los Angeles exchange has been intense. So many visitors are crowding, around the pit that there is scarcely standing room, and It looks like the boom days of last winter and spring. Very few of those on the floor coma out of idle curiosity, as nearly all are interested In the "market." A "bull," or rising market always causes more interest or excitement than a bear, or a weak market. Union Oil In the last few days, has gained nearly $9 a share, and Mexican Petroleum limited com mon has advanced more than $10 a share. The already large business of the exchange has Increased by leaps and bounds in the past ten days. The Los Angeles stock exchange was formed In this city sixteen years ago, and is one of the oldest stock ex changes in the west. There have been five other exchanges In this city, but the present exchange has absorbed them all. The membership of the ex change now is sixty-nine, and there Is but one seat left unsold In the treas ury. The seats at the present time are >alued at about $2500. * I "I have often been asked," said L. F. Parson, manager of the exchange, yesterday, "the question, 'What is a stock exchange?' Especially through out the west have I heard this, as there are so many residents from the middle west who have settled In Los Angeles and have never resided in any of the large eastern centers where the stock exchange is well known. "An exchange Is formed to concen trate, systematize and facilitate the business that always Is carried on In every large financial center. In all classes of what is known as collateral securities. It Is not an organization for profit, as the exchange as an ex change does not make any money. The members pay so much for a member ship known in financial circles as a 'seat.' This membership entitles a man to all of the floor privileges and pri vate telephone and telegraphic serv ice. The members pay certain fixed dues, which provide for the running expenses of the Institution. "A broker must make his word good to either his customer or fellow broker, or, according to the drastic rules, lose his membership. In this way the ex change protects the buying public, for only by the reliability of its members can its credit and Integrity be estab lished. ' . «... ■.<•. "The exchange protects the public, In that it requires the stock traded in over Its bpards to be listed. In order that a company may have Its stocks or bonds traded on the floor It must undergo a thorough examina tion. Even after It is listed, the ex change can call upon a company at any time for a statement as to Its condition. Therefore, the public can procure at any time from the records of the exchange Information regard ing listed stocks. "By the establishment of an ex change the Investor Is enabled to keep track of his investment and the buy ing public is protected from paying prices for stock that it might be forced to pay were there no exchange to give publicity to the stocks. "The exchange also requires Its mem bers to abide by a fixed commission. If a member deviates from this rule he is liable to expulsion from the ex change. This protects the public from exorbitant charges. "In the first nine months of this year $10,000,000 worth of new securities have been listed on the exchange. This brings the total amount of listed se curities to about $295,000,000. A re markable feature and one that can hardly be equaled by any exchango In the country is that the average rate of dividends for the entire list is 7 per cent a year. "Last year the total amount of busi ness done on the floor of the Los An geles stock exchange was $6,340,025.03. For the first nine months of this year the total business amounted to $8,224, --163.08, and my prediction that the ex change will do more than $10,000,000 worth of business for the year 1910 un doubtedly will prove more than true, as the market Is more active than ever In these nine months 11,902,155 shares changed hands through the me dium of the exchange." J B Neville Is president; Fielding J. Stilson, first vice president; Joseph Ball, second vice president; D. A. Mc- Gllvray, secretary; D. C. Sullivan, treasurer, and L. F. Parsons, manager and assistant secretary of the Los An geles stock exchange. - ■ - AMERICAN OILFIELDS BUILDS NEW DERRICKS BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 11. — The American Oilfields well No. 56, on sec tion 36-31-22, which caught fire while flowing some weeks ago, and the Hon olulu well on section 31-31-23, which burned at the same time, both began flowing Friday night at the rate of« approximately 500 barrels each. New derricks have been built over the wells, and preparations for handling the oil are fairly complete. The American Oilfields well on sec tion 12-31-22, which first struck oil at 1670 feet, and which later was sunk to a little more than 1900 feet, Is on the pump now and Is doing about 450 The Coin well on section 4-31-22 is reported something over 3700 feet In brown shale. The Union on section 10-31-22 has not yet reached oil at 4200 feet. The Bear Creek's well No. 2 on sec tion 14-31-22 is making over 200 bar rels since the water was cemented off. On section 9-31-22 the Carnegie well is down 3900 feet. A new company formed by Oakland people under the name of the Oakland- McKittrick OH company, is preparing to develop property three miles north of McKittrick. The State OH company is deepening its well No. 2. • BUYS WEISS INTEREST BISBEE, Oct. 12.—Attorney ('. L. Mi - Reynolds has purchased the "Weiss Interest in the Santa Fe property of Sonora. The development work now being carried on at the property Is showing up a very satisfactory body of ore. The property is now believed to be ready for a mill, and New York investors have arranged to put in about $50,000 for the purchase of the neces sary machinery. Crown Oil Company Ships Material for Furthering Work in District i __&fm__. * '.',' ' ::f ■ a , ' ■'?:;. ;i ■■. v. I-- J:£. '■:. :;. i* Jl&sS__fir*MßiS * '^llls ■' ■ _ a •■ • ; . "W&3l_%r_w&- - >^w ' Ps&ußm\__E&7\ w_^3^3_Stf___wf_m !HP*i ■Ri^.:' <^!j__m&___%-_M-i DERRICK AND PROPERTY OF CROWN OIL COMPANY IN MIDWAY. A carload of six-Inch casing will be shipped today to the Crown Oil com pany in Ventura. Superintendent Augustine has received a contract to' continue drilling the Ventura well No. 1 to a depth of 1800 feet, and for the j drilling of well No. 2 to a similar depth. | OIL MEN BUY ACREAGE IN SAN EMEDIO FIELD Recent Discoveries and Produc tion from 100-Barrel Wells Result in Much Activity Late reports from the Western Min erals well on section 25-11-23 on the unset flat toward San Emedio, con firmed by Fred C. Ripley of the Santa Fe, who Is president of the Western Minerals company, Indicate a discovery of high gravity oil. The well came in at a depth of 1680 feet, It Is said, and is now pumping between 75 and 100 bar rels a day of oil testing 31 gravity. The superintendent estimates that when the well is thoroughly cleaned out and In first class condition, It will produce from 100 to 150 barrels a day. Oil men are said to be enthusiastic over the success of the Santa Fe in the new field, and as a result land val ues for miles in each direction are advancing. The Western Minerals company now has a steady production of about 300 barrels a day from four wells that are now pumping in this field on section 22, 23 and 25-11-23, and fully seven miles southeast of the old Sunset field. Several choice pieces of patented land in the vicinity of this well have been recently changed hands. M. H. Whlttler and Burton E. Green, formerly with the Associated Oil company, have been quietly buying up properties north and northeast of the Western Minerals new well, and now control some of the finest land In the district. It is reported that they propose to begin development work on their properties in the near future. E. L. Dolhenv and L. A. McCray of the American Oil fields, and likewise C. N. Plummer have all acquired valu able properties In the same territory. NATIVE COPPER STRUCK IN LONDON-GILA MINE PHOENIX, Oct. 11.—Native copper has been discovered on the property of the London-Gila Mining and Power company, just above Winkleman. Tho new find Is about 2400 feet from a dis covery of sulphide ore made some time ago on London-Gila ground. News of'the discovery was brought to the city by Dr. N. H. Morrison and W. W. Francis, president and financial agent respectively of the company, who have been at Winkleman most of the time since last spring. They are high ly elated over the finding of native copper on their property. The copper occurs in red oxide and conglomerate. The red metal was en countered at a depth of ninety-six feet, and at 104 feet the mud and rock brought up by the droll was richer than ever. No trouble was experienced in panning the copper. Drill hole No. 1, where the sulphide discovery was made, Is on the Pinal county side of the Gila river. 'When this hole had been sunk 100 feet the drill was'moved to the farther end of the property, across the river and on the Gila county side. The first hole then fill' d with water, which Is now within two feet of the top. It is esti mated that enough water can be drawn from this shaft to supply the town of Wlnkelman. In the second hole, red oxide was found at a depth of thirty feet. Mr. Francis says that enough red oxide lies under the surface of the London- Oila claims to paint the territory of Arizona. The oxide is the very best grade of mineral paint, and when there is a market for it the company will be able to sell It by hundreds and thou sands of tons. The two holes that have been drilled are on what might be termed the ten tacals of a crab. The body of the crab Is represented by an enormous deposit of copper In the center and the tentacles by cracks through which copper-Impregnated water has flowed, precipitating Its metal along the way. As soon as the hole that Is now being drilled is completed another will be drilled in the center. The San Francisco and McKlttrlck is pumping 150 barrels per day from Its well No. 18, which was brought In last Sunday. LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1910. EDITED BY JAMES WYNKOOP The present depth of well No. 1 is i 1400 feet. . ; --; The company considers It capable of ! producing about 50 barrels dally, but j '; the recent development of wells of larger production by the Dixie National i and White Star company has induced I the Crown to drill deeper.^ _____ RAY CONSOLIDATED ISSUES FAVORABLE ANNUAL REPORT The Ray Consolidated Copper com pany at Hayaen, Ariz., has Issued its report for the year ended June 30. It records that the year's developments at the mine and the progress made In construction of reduction plants has been most gratifying. The assured ore In the Ray proper ties has been brought up to something over 69,000,000 tons and the acquisition of practically all of the outstanding stock of the Gila Copper company adds In excess of 15,000,000 tons, or a total of more than 75,000,000 tons. The concentrating mill now being constructed will start operating a sub stantial part of Its capacity early next year, and the smelter will be In opera tion a few months later. Over 97 per cent of the outstanding Gila stock was exchanged for Ray Con solidated under the offer authorized at the meeting of stockholders In May. The mill, as now planned, Is expected to treat at least 8000 tons dally In full operation and the smelter will have ample capacity to handle the resulting concentrates which should give an an nual output well In excess of 80,000,000 pounds of refined copper. President Aldrldge says that an ex ceedingly favorable contract has been entered into with the Arizona & East ern Railroad company, for the trans portation of ore from Kelvin, the terminus of the Ray Kelvin railroad, over their tracks to Hayden Junction and thence over the Ray Kelvin tracks to the ore bins at the mill. A satisfactory contract has also been entered into for the refining on the Atlantic seaboard of the company's blister copper and sale of the refined product. The report calls attention to the fact that the fiscal year of the company hereafter will close with the calendar year December 31 and the date of the annual meeting be changed so that the next fiscal period will cover eighteen months, but reports will be sent to stockholders semi-annually during that period. The balance sheet to June 30 shows cash on hand amounting to $2,234,235, as against $2,285,536 in the years pre vious, accounts receivable $20,838, against $18,660 last year; capital stock, $9,701,500; surplus, $1,000,000, against nothing in the year previous; accounts payable, $29,234, against $62,178 last year. The principal expenditure during the year were $760,864 for development, construction and equipment, $576,567 for property additions, $303,189 for Hayden plant construction, $577,310 for mine de velopment, $410,077 for railroad con struction and equipment and $142,558 for structural steel. GLOBE LEACHING PLANT TREATS 125 TONS A DAY GLOBE, Oct. 12.—A. Y. Smith, man ager of the Commonwealth Mining and Milling company of Pearce, says his company has a cyanide leaching plant In operation and that it is treating 125 tons a day. A few months ago the Common wealth erected a mill for the treatment of 600,000 tons of tailings which had accumulated during the many years of operation, and the day after the new plant started a disastrous fire oc curred, destroying the whole works. Since that time Mr. Smith has been making tests as to what would be best for the tailings, and has decided on the leaching and cyanldlng. As soon as matters settle down with this plant a new mill will be erected for the mine ores, at which time the cyanide plant for the tailings will be increased In capacity. The Common wealth has been one of the big money makers of the - southwest, and there seems every probability that she shall continue. FIRST OIL IS EN ROUTE TO ST. MICHAEL, ALASKA What is said to be the first shipment of oil from San Francisco to Alaska Is now being carried to the northern country by the steamer W. S. Porter of the Associated Oil company. The oil Is consigned to St. Michael. The same steamer also is carrying a cargo of 600 tons of pump and tank materials, which will be used In the construction of a 40,000-barrel fuel sup ply station being erected for the Nome electric 11g... plants. Drilling i 3 In progress on the com pany's property at Midway which was recently sublet by the company to representatives of the Consolidated Midway. The well has gained a depth of 750 feet. Splendid progress is be ing made with the rotary, averaging 75 feet a day. SOUTHERN PACIFIC OWES 16,000 COALINGA ACRES Odd Sections Leased to Sub sidiary Include Many Producing Wells COALINGA, Oct. 12.— Kern Trad ing and Oil company, a subsidiary com pany of the Southern Pacific company, has lease holdings In this field amount ing to over 16,000 acres of land patented by the Southern Pacific company, be ing all the odd numbered sections through this field. On these holdings In township 20 south, range 14 east, sec tion 23, are three producing wells. This section on the east side averages 900 feet deep; on section 13 there is one well drilling and eighteen producing wells. The east side of this section is 140-foot territory. On section 25 are four wells drilling and twenty wells producing. The west side of this sec tion will average 1000 feet. This Is the old Corey & Canfleld lease. In township 20 south, range 15 east, on section 3, there is one well drilling; on section 7 there are two producing wells, and 1400-foot territory; on the west side of the northwest quarter of section 19 are four wells drilling and five producing; on section 31, two wells drilling and one well producing. In township 19 south, range 15 east, section 3 has two producing wells; on section 11 are three wells drilling and three wells producing; on section 31 are five wells producing. This section is about 900 feet deep. On section 35 are three wells drilling and one well producing. This section is deep territory and light oil. This makes a total of eighteen wells drilling and sixty wells producing. The produc tion of this property at present repre sents not less than 180,000 barrels a month, which naturally goes to the Southern Pacific company. The value of this property, from a very conserva tive estimate, amounts to something over $45,000,000. Most of these holdings are in the very heart of the west side field. The value of same outside of cost of wells and Improvements is not less than $5000 an acre. <iw. :''--. ,'. A princely estate and fully appreci ated by the officers of the Southern Pacific company. The holdings that are Improved are well housed, and supply stores are stocked with the latest and best obtainable. .. . ;. The geological staff comprises men well known in the profession. The company has on section 5, 20-15, near the town of Coallnga, a large general business office building, also supply houses and stock yards, full of oil well supplies and casing, brick and lumber, boilers and engines. A thorough sys tem controls the entire property. TOMBSTONE HAS WATER UNDER FULL CONTROL TOMLCTONE, Oct. Tombstone, the oldest mining camp In Cochise county, will shortly come Into its own again and take its place among the producing sections of the great south west. The company operating the properties in the famous old camp, the Tombstone Consolidated 3 hies com pany, now has the water situation well in hand and is pumping from the lower level of its main shaft, known as the "boom," water to the extent of between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 gallons every twenty-four hours. From .11 appearances this company will, within the next few months, put on a force of miners to develop Its var ious properties in the Tombstone dis trict and will again put In operation the large stamp mill, which is now idle, and the old camp will resume Its place as in the day of old among the producing camps of Arizona. PROGRESB AT JACK POT WONDER, Oct. 12.—At the Jack Pot the crosscut to cut the big ledge Is making steady headway. On the 200 --foot level a drift Is being run on ore. In the meantime the retlmbering of the shaft continues, and when it Is finished another crosscut will probably be run to tap the big ledge at the 300-foot level. ORANGE COUNTY WELLS INCREASE PRODUCTION Five Million Barrels Is Estimate for Current Year—Field Supplies Santa Fe FULLERTON, Oct. 12. Within eighteen months Orange county has come to the fore as a producer of pe troleum. Its wells are located along the hills on the edge of the La Habra valley and lie about six miles from the town of Fullerton, from which they have received the name by which the field is known. Discovered years ago, this district has been a valuable producer, and Its wells have paid good and substantial dividends for years. The last year and a half, however, has witnessed a great Increase in output, which this year will be close to 5,000, --000 barrels, something more than' It was In 1909. From Fullerton fields the Santa Fe railroad gets a good part ot the fuel v used on Its Southern Califor nia lines and In the shops at San Ber nardino. \-'.i'-W ' ' E. L. Doheny was an early operator here. He developed an excellent prop erty for the Petroleum Development company, which he founded, contract ed to supply the Santa Fe locomotives and later sold his holdings, both here and In Kern river, to the railroad company, which today has about sixty wells on the pump at Fullerton and obtains a monthly production of 90,000 barrels. < The company now plans to lay a pipe j line in the near future from its wells, to San Bernardino to coiivey oil to the shops, a distance of about forty miles. Some of the Santa Fe's oil Is too light for fuel, and this goes to Los Angeles refineries In exchange for a more suitable fuel. VARIETY OF Olid The Fullerton district has a variety of oils, some testing as high as 27 and 28, like that which the Santa Fe exchanges for heavy oil, while some tests as low as 14 or 13%, like that of the Olinda Land company. There Is, furthermore, a very ' wide varia tion in Fullerton's formations. Wells as close as they are usually placed in a crowded field will sometimes be en tirely different in their logs; one will get the oil at 1500 feet, while the other may have to go 3000; one will get heavy oil, the other light oil. By some the field is divided into two sections, the Olinda and the Brea canyon sections. The two, however, are running together by development of the intervening ground, now part of the Union's Steams lease. Both sections are prolific, both vary about as widely in details of formation and both are being developed largely by the same people. The town of Olinda Is distinctly an oil town. Its Inhabi tants are either employed In the field or cater to the wants of those who are so engaged. It has about 1600 in habitants. A short distance from ' and In sight of the Brea canyon wells, but across the line In Los Angeles county, are wells of the Puente Oil company, geo logically supposed to be an entirely separate field. Its oil Is among the highest grade found In .. California, testing as high as 35 gravity. The Puente is the only company operating here; It gets Its product at very shal low depths—Boo to 1200 feet— only within the last few months has it at tempted to go further. TWO DEEP TEST HOLES Two deep test holes have been sunk below 2000 feet and^ have opened an other rich sand of petroleum similar to that found above, giving every promise of being even more prolific. About 300 feet has been uncovered. The oil strike's trend here appears to extend toward the San Bernardino line through the Puente hills In the direction of Chino. The Puente company owns or has under lease several thousand acres in these hills, which It has held for the future without development. It de votes all Its attention to Its refinery at Chlno, where It produces the same manufactured goods as the Standard, but does not give any attention to as phalt, which Is usually the chief prod uct of the Independent refineries in California. '■/' 'I Its field production is an incident of its business, not the main part, as with most businesses. It consumes all of it own oil. i LOBSTER SALAD BRINGS DEATH TO 5 OF 13 CLUB Three Recover from Fatal Dinner; 5 Still Battle for Life ELIZABETH, N. J., Oct. 12.—The services of specialists from seven lead ing medical colleges will be sought In an effort to save the lives of five men who are hovering between life and death in the general hospital here. They are ill with typhoid fever, which attacked every one of thirteen man who sat down together at a dinner of the Entre Nous club here a month ago. '•'■'•'- Five of the thirteen have already died, three are safely on the road to recovery, while the other five are In a dangerous condition. The latest victim is Daniel Sullivan, who died yesterday. After an autopsy by professors from the College of Phy sicians and Surgeons of New York this statement was issued: "This typhoid resulting from that dinner Is very virulent. We will have to make several tests in the New York laboratory before we can say whether or not there are other com plications." The typhoid germs are supposed to have been contained in a lobster salad which was served at the club dinner. FARMERS OBJECT TO EARLY RISING-RAISE MILK RATE ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12.—The unwilling ness of farmers to get up at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and milk a large herd of cows, with delivery of the milk at the nearest railroad ' station before 6 o'clock, Is one of the main factors alleged by local purveyors to be responsible for the recent Increases In the retail prices of the fluid. 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