Show OIL SHALE OPERATORS AROUND WATSON ARE BUSY A dispatch from watson utah a few days ago says the ute oil shale company plant the largest in this section is expected to start operations on may 1 construction st ruction of the plant which is located thirteen miles north of watson on th the eWhite white river was started four years ago and it is now low completed and ready to run it has capacity sufficient to treat tons of shale every twenty four hours tests of the com banys shale deposits show one barrel of oil 0 to the ton the western shale companas Comp anys plant which is six miles east of watson is in steady operation and producing from four to six barrels of oil a day the plant is small but is operating very successfully i A sha ale leplant plant is to rebuilt be built inthe in the willow p creek section which Is in th the a southeastern part of Uinta county R S colett co lett now has a force of eighty men at constructing a road from rainbow the terminal of a branch road of the uinta railway company to willow creek where the plant will be built which is a distance of from fifty to sixty miles it will cut the road distance oyer over the present road in half construction of the plant is expected to follow very quickly after the road is finished farmers and sheep and cattle men of the willow creek section will benefit by the road considerable interest has been created here by the striking of gas in the carbonero field captain colley of mack macir colorado has shipped two standard rigs to the field and will start drilling very soon moving pictures of the shale plants and deposits and the prospective oil fields in this di district brict have recently been taken and will be exhibited lin in motion picture theatres theartres the atres throughout the country i |