Show the california utah oil company starts work on the third well w utah 0 1 company haa commenced active 01 orations erat ions toward the development 0 the enery county oil fields tho vi it to green ol 01 the leiding men of this concern was men tinned til our list S nee then however the compin t as selected the ground upon which it nil sink its first well and il ready the ib be ng set up the te is located nine miles south ot green river station on the grande western road on the west s de 0 the river amery count and on is kno the blue ridge the lant as sidetracked oden nearl 0 o weeks ago till the comp ny s expert selected the s te for the well As soon as he reported the plant ft as ordered to grien biver californi Califor nn utah corn pan s ng 13 the arst of the standard type to be bet up in the rutih oil felds iud has a capacity capi city to drill as deep is feet ahe la corn joeed of some of the lading oil men of california whose filth ir the emer count oil fields ie boun aless the capi vitalization is 24 shares at a par value of 1 eich but not i shiro is for sile the men behind the enterprise are put mg up their jovn money to exploit the field own a large acreage and appear to mean business bour expert california oil drillers have contracted to sink the well for about 82 a foot the company supplying all the miten alb the calls for 1300 and manager roberts sais a water well will not be the lole must be dry or contain oil it was necessity necess iry to sen 1 to the coast for the umber ag well is the machmer be cause no dealer in birned lumber needed for the post and w alk ing beim which operates the 2 ton toil used to sink the well sticks 26 inches square were sent for ww A J davis manager of the san rafael 0 1 comply op enting in sin rafael bhain emery count states that the cota piny s well is now awn 1118 feet having passed through two oil bearing bind the drill no v in san 1 which is believed to overlie atio tl ird santa and it is believed this will be re ached within the nett or feet the formation at this point is almost identical with that of the spindle top wells it beaumont while the oil is a splendid the Stin dirl 01 company to whom samples hive been submitted g that the quality is I 1 worth sl a gailon is it comes from the well mr divis is veil aleise I 1 with the outlook so fir and is confident that they will hn e a producing well within the next t vo or three weeks bilt licske mining rev ew I 1 i ahe and inars it appears i have begun their deadly work in the W oming oil fielda such persons ire a j curse to any community comm unit ind should be squelched at once ahe rutih and wyo ming oil belt oie and the sine and the best that be spiken for it is the i plain truth when i gool flo v of 1 is struck it is ti ue enough to so we commend the folio ving from the ton wa press it now res that the 30 birrel flo v encountered in the well of the P ir aune oil company was no sich thing in fact there aia no 2 nor even 20 barrel alov parties brou frou thit vicinity bbate there a flo v of a out ten 1 ir aels ind even abib t his since been disputed it vill i rol iol bent ualle be red iced to our old cit i id in other one it is a f ct that oil vas en counter 1 but in abt what quantities it is difficult to determine from the numerous leports going the ro ands this sort of thing will do the 1 oss 1 no good for i lie perpetrated one div must be denied or explain ed the next and aroa of that kind will u investors to feht sav of propositions aiom that quarter R A ho has investigated the emery county oil lin 1 a that the colori lo 10 parties who prospected 1 hunsuc cess full foi oil at somo d stance east of greet river in grant count have removed their entire to woodside dp m emery county where the believe there is oil waiting to be 0 oi ed up the country do there 13 full of oil investigators and investors so there is in kin i ot a favorable sho ving there ill be lots of excitement XA X A Secret irv dickeron of the 01 cobai wy the new local enterprise re ports thit the lan 1 holders in the concern are responding ceirtil heir til to the assessment levy and that there ill soon bo enough funds in the treasury tren sury to effect the ancor horation po ration ao f r as e indications count the oil folks hold a four ace hind auf A correspondent eints the s to tell him whit i wildcat is as the v ord is associate 1 the oil business we believe the terra well pennsylvania aad ms ip pi ed to bold enterprises in exploiting new oil districts hence the term vil 1 cit propos tion which ia often api lied to enterprises requiring the ture of more or less mone much pa tience energy ind time with the fian casl or artistic success quite uncertain A wildcat proposition does by no meins me ins suggest fraud or dishonest in the oil business it is cimpi simpi an enterprise in chich some man or men think oil can be struck it a veil be drilled in an ui proved territory like ours sometimes men in vest only their own 11 the enter prise if tho 11 la i failure no one is out of pocket but themselves if they strike oil they all the profit ind do not have to share their baina with the p if tovener they enli t outside capital in their enter u an 1 sell stock to the general public chit happens ell is obtained the investors aroun 1 tear their hair and arv fake aft in tiers and the like on the other hind if oil ii struck and the stock which was bought tor a song jumps to par or more the stockholders hug themselves ov the promoters are as oil kings an I 1 are blamed only by those hom they could not induct to buy stock of course there are tr iu ie in tho oil business as there are feuds in ad other line but so tar as ve ate informed the number is small on the s abject of wildcats the pa 01 reporter ro centi 1 all honor to the wildcats if it were not tor them there would not be to day a single oil district in california so m we sav welcome to the wild cats may the make emer county the richest territory in tt e united states |