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WILL INTEREST TONOPAH PEOPLEPixm of OIL OX AN ISLAM* IX I, MONO LAKE. (MU* ItFORNU.VV. M. Mcliann and \Y. F. Rector of Merced are in Tonoiwh on a mission which Is of Interest to some of the people of Tonopah and to Tono-pata Itself. They represent the Merced Petroleum Placer Mini hr company, owning 107 claims of oil lands In the vicinity of and on Mono lake. The Mono Lake Lumber and Railroad company runs through the land.•Wo have on the island In .Mono lake,** said Mr. Rector.’ “fourteen acres on which we find oil on the surface, the equal of which is to be bad In only one well In America, and that Is located in Pennsylvania. The oil will burn in a lamp, just ;ts It comes out or the ground. A two and a half inch pipe was put down only fifty-five feet when n flow was had. The formation, which Is of shale, sandstone and clay is as flat- as any to bo found anywhere In the west-The project Is being promoted by Tonopah capital, and we art? now here arranging the details of the promotion.”
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Tonopah Bonanza
Tonopah, Nevada, US
Sat, Jun 29, 1907
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