Show OIL COAL MARBLE notes bearing upon our mineral wealth councilman 3 divia of bait lake sent in ag more location notices thurs daiy diy hia katoa acquisition of oil land 1 in saddle horse cannon ex sher ff leavister Lea mister attorney dick son vie olsen and john ju id returned from the S abad oil fields a fe v alys ago after staking off acres more of oil lands with the announcement that the etbel trust contemplated put ting a plant 11 iron county favo coal experts appeared ipp eared in emery counte inspecting col properties frank cairroll and george brandon of Ast ledale have a deal on outside cip for a birge brict of count oil linda both gentlemen gert lemen have here of das trying to close bitters up they are reported to hive jad i substantial offer ahey are ilso to dispose of some valuable vilu able coal lands advocate A E smith avit acord and peter borreson have acres of oral land 9 allies south of sunnyside Sunny side in their judgment the oil showing here 13 as goad is elsewhere mr smith some few levs ago located an eli tente claim with a fissure vein 12 foot wide streaked with ela tente in the same neighborhood he found paint some of which was sent to isalt lake and pronounced a birst clise article A W miller of provo speaking of the green river oil fields davs the coun try is already being over run with men cuing options and taking up ell as I 1 have worked in the la and indiana oil fields and I 1 certainly hink there is excellent prospect tor discover of good flo AS of oil whether he wells will pay to work is a question depending largely upon the attitude of the railroads and the chances to build up factories in the oil region W L R chardson chard bon and daggs well kno mining men of salt lake were in to monda having made ex animation of coal lands in the county or prospective investors rhe former gentleman was i former 1 operator in county pennsylvania where coil oil was first discovered in the unit ed while here he gatheral ga therel a few pointers on the anty oil tern tor and a favorable ion concerning it mr di ggs is 1 to hive made a deal for acrea of coal land but the rumor cannot be con firmed at this point mrs A D ir lind returned from silt lake monday accompanied by her daughter miss edith and II 11 W griffith deputy clerk of the court party together with iri bro aning ind fred mickel left tor the sinbad oil fields wednesday morning in which territory mrs ireland has bitely acquired in interest the litter is a ahre b siness woman and it the land looks half as good as it is reported to be herbele ind some influent nl friends will put up i derrick and plant and proceed at once to bore for oil A omen and henn g olsen cime in from their marble quarry near somer ville ago to escure rhey reports having a tu nel in over 40 feet in length a fine slab of marble 12 feet tuck exposed the stone is maidl sho ving better as the develop ment work proceeds so ne Siim ples were recently sent to pina ai d vere pro bounce all right for a rheo eners believe they are opening up the finest quarry in the west and reports from the simples sent broadcast over the country justify this opinion oil anil oil land the general use of petroleum belongs to the present century it would be 1 to suppose that its ex s tence in considerable quantity quint ity in various of the world has become knoon only recently recent lj it his been kno to the people of the old world fro n the most ant equity but in gemeril it was valued as a medical igent it win fo ind all ov er the lo 10 ver va 1 of the euf bratos and agns gns in the lonion islands a petro leuin spring has flowe 1 constanti cons for tie last thodis nd a and it is thought thit the p rp tu 1 fires used in connection with some ancient religious rites were simply petroleum spring fires the existence of petroleum leum on this continent has been kno to white peo 1 pie during the greiter part of the cen tury passed it is believed to have ben 1 to the mound builders as there exists today wells antedating any discoveries oy ans the indans gathered it in cons demable quantity eel ling it as a medicine genen lly known ander the name of seneca oil in 1811 oil was discovered in boring ailt stells in ohio in 1829 a flowing well was discovered at burkesville Burkes ville ky later on considerable oil waa oata ned in various places in the middle states an 1 sold as a medicine pennsylvania did not really enter the list as a producer of an magnitude until 18 when barrels were produced this increase ed to 3 barrels in 1803 ahe coil oil craze struck all the eastern states and there was a general rush of the ad venturous to the petroleum fields of the K stone from this the prodoc tion gradually increased till it reached a total of aa on barrels during the height of excitement in pennsylvania single farms gold as to with a royalty add cd in this respect the pennsylvania of tort years igo is almost rivaled by the california of tod iv lind in kern county that should bought a little over a ear ngo for per acre has been sold hecei aly for 86 per acre ire scores of men in san rancis and los angeles ho n year ago and even a much liter date could not buy a square meal nov count their from to and a few of them at these men have made their money from the purl nce of oil stocks in oil compiles com and from the sale of oil linds the oil lands of rutih and wyoming of in agne greiter promise which case there will be hundred of poor men made well to jo or even rich and rich men made richer |