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Show A PROMISING FIELD. Mr. Geo. L. Eggers Now Investigating the Oil and Gas Eesouroes of the Territory. ES THINKS BOTH WILL BE FOUND. A Practical Oil Man Looking Tor Evidences Evi-dences of Petroleum in Utah. .- Mr. George L. Eggers. general manager mana-ger of the Wyoming and Denver Oil Pipe Line company, is in tho city. He will spend some weeks in Utah and thoroughly investigate the petroleum aud natural gas resources of tho territory. ter-ritory. Mr. Eggers is an old time Peunsyl--vania oil operator. He has been engaged en-gaged in developing the oil resources of the west since 18S4, and since that time has visited every part of the west where there was any promise of oil or gas.' His many years experience in the Pennsylvania oil fields has made him au invaluable man to western operators. op-erators. Mr. Eggers attention was turned ! Utah by tho recent articles in Thk Times, describing the natural gas strikes here and the movement on foot to mako a thorough search for petroleum. pe-troleum. He said this morning that th prospects for bo.h oil and gas in Utali were much more favorable than lie had expected and ho is confident that both uuderlie Salt Lake City in good paying quantities. The geological geologi-cal formation, lie said, promised well. 'J'ho remarkable even fnrmatbn of ilie slratashero surprised him, as ho had expected to find them much broken by vulrauic action. "The vicinity of Salt Lake City." he said, "is a splendid field for operations. I have not yet been able to make more thun a superlieial examination but nm confident that oil and gas will be I found. The gas from the we'lls already struck is a good indication of a much atioro plentiful supply at a greater depth. What you now have Is not enough to be of any great commercial com-mercial value but it promises well for the future. . "Natural gas or oil," he said, "would prove an immense boon to Salt Lake. Tour people want manufactories here, and to get them the very first question they will have to Solve is that of cheap fuel. You have the raw materials in abundance. Show the capitalists of the ' east that you can give them cheap fuel too, and it will bo impossible to keep them out. ' In regard to the Wyoming oil fields, Sir. Eggers said that his company owned about 00.000 acres in the Rattlesnake Rattle-snake mining district, in tho new county of Natrona. On almost every claim of this land an:- oil spring bubbles up from which oil is constantly con-stantly flowing and in many places the gas escapes from crevices of rocks in large -'quantities. The field has, however, a3 yet been only prospected, pros-pected, but so promising is it that both the Standard Oil company and a big English syndicate is after it. The company has put dowu several wells close to the ind River mountains, moun-tains, which vary in depth from 350 to 800 feet. The best of these wells produce pro-duce about 1,000 barrels per day. In color, this oil is black. When fresh it contains a large amount of absorbed gas, and it will yield both illuminating aud lubricating oil of excellent quality when distilled, and a residue which can be used as fuel for steam making. Utah, Mr. Eggers thought, was an Mfea more promising field than Wyoming, Wyom-ing, aud he said that the prospects lor gas and oil were much better than lu Colorado fields, which now produce about 2000 barrels of oil per day.. The Florence field alone supplying Colorado, Utah and New Mexico.' lie is of the opinion that the proposed search for oil at Green Biver, in this territory, will prove successful. |