Show uhe san ta ael oil company Compan jrr 9 operations operatic nr ETAL mining has a twin sister and jg this is the oil industry mining for A AL the precious metals is not confined to limited ali fields ids and more is generally known of the industry than is the case in oil exploitation production and and yet when oil is found it abounds in such immense in quantities that the possessor of a flowing ingiald and producing well can calculate almost to y cant what the value of the output w will i 11 be from cearto year to year As a matter matte of wc fact t ther 0 oil in industry try of late late years has hasa created almost as ma many y millionaires as has mi mining far t the 11 e pr precious ebous me metals ds for gold silver lead and copper or the res results ts obtained fro from m anys jeom commercial mercial pursuit or business venture ar for many years year in the i united states the production n of oil was con fine fined d to ohio pennsyl varia vania virginia if ginia and othar eastern arid south ern t states Fir finally foElly the fiel fielce of operations ex ten tended ed as far west as col rado to be folio wed d sev several ral years ago 1 by the discovery of fine oil measures on the pacific enat the success at Q W au L 1 M y nv an 41 s 4 V N 11 aa sevie 14 DRILLING PLANT OF THE SAN RAFAEL OIL CO tending t en g oil prospecting pro spec tino and a nd production in the far I 1 rest leading to more systematic exploration in iii the search for pei petroleum oleum fields the sue successes esses attending these efforts fully demon the fact that oil like gold is where you find it and it is now known that very extensive areas of the west are with oil producing stratas which in their i gd geological formation are a with those of the eastern states while le the oil is of much better grade and of greater commercial value n i i jl it is hardly more than a year now that tha great treat oil gushers bushers redeveloped we on spindle top at beaumont texas and the excitement consequent upon this wonderful discovery has caused many to engage in the search for oil in many other portions of our great commonwealth and now many localities in this intermountain r region ebion g heretofore nothing in but barren wastes present stir stirring xing scenes of activity in the endear or to wrest from mother earth her wealth of illuminating min mina ting and lubricating oils for years it has been known that portions of utah were oil bearing Inde indeed edthe the great d deposits epos of hydrocarbons mineral wax asphaltum and gilsonite have made the eastern and northeastern portion of the state so justly famous throughout abe business world have more than confirmed the offa ex pressed opinion of experts an and d geologists that oil was a necessary and undoubted ac compani ment of such exhaustless ehaust less sources of wealth AS a matter of fact the te theory that oil abounded in the localities mentioned is not of recent date amon among with formations and 1 creolo I ical conditions in these sections for the existence of oil in the green river country in emery and d grand counties has been known of for the pa past 4 ten or twelve years surface indications cat ions such as oil springs and oil seeps div ing every assurance that with depth lakes of oil would be found by those having the faith and possessing the means to prove by intelli 1 gen gent t and systematic exploration that the surface indications had not belied nature which in the formations exist existing Dg in these localities can be read as an open book by geol geologists ou ests and men experienced in the oil industry neglected but not forgotten this is the bistor history y so far of the oil fields of eastern TJ utah tah and when such magnificent success attended the drilling for oil in the texas oil fields lo 10 cal men of experience and enterprise at once turned their attention to the promising fields within the environments of our own fair state abany companies were organized for the purpose of going to the deep in the hope of finding the source of the many oil springs and heaps from which oozed forth oil of the finest quality and value the first of these to begin operations in the eastern portion of the state was the san rafael oil company of this city which lugan beran operations in sinbad valley in the san sail rafael country emery county a few months ago the company putting up the first oil drilling rig to be installed in this portion of the state a stroke of enterprise that has since been followed by several other strong companies the san rafael oil company which wafts was incorporated on the ath of juneol june of the present year with a capitalization of shaf shares s of a par value of twenty five cents each owns 2000 acres of land in the locality mentioned in emery county soon after its incorporation tionda it put in a drilling plant constructed especially ally for its use by the star drilling machine company of akron ohio and at th the e present time the sum of has been ex in drilling equipment and development work up to date in its drilling operations the company has attained a depth of k af alt IV ak M aft Y AM MCM J 4 X W CAMP OF THE SAN RAFAEL OIL CO 1240 feet the drill hole being ten inches in its diameter so far the drill has passed through two stratas of oil bearing sand one at a depth of feet and another at 1 feet the second sand producing enough oil of extra fine quality to ensure thib the success of the enterprise had it been dae deemed med i wise to shoot the well and begin petroleum production however this being only a test well it was de ter mined to case off the two oil flows and PO go on to the third oil sand which it is b believed eli eved will be encountered at a depth of feet at a least the formations already passed through ali have been very re regular aular the and sands in their occurrence being almost identical with those found in the oil city fields of pennsylvania the quality of the oil according to many tests made is of ibs ihs b highest i h est grade of lubricant bein being p 78 per cent oil there are eight oil springs on oil the companas comp anys property from which oil flows to the surface the value of their ing rated at from 9 to 15 a barrel so encouraging has been the success attending tendil tending lc the operations of the san rafael oil company compan y in the sinking of its initial well that the management has already contracted for the drilling of a second well and now another rig is on the ground and another hole ingoing is going down about a mile south of where operations were first begun in oil exploitation and it itis is believed that it will not be long now before discoveries of oil will be found in this new venture which if successful will be followed by others of a similar nature until this barren region will present a perfect forest of oil drilling rigs as many other companies own large tracts of oil lands in the immediate vi cikity and are only waiting to see what success attends the efforts of the san rafael com co m 77 A 4 L I 1 4 Z tz 7 7 A R V t 7 N SHOWING FORMATION AND OIL SPRING OF SAN RAFAEL OIL CO pany before beginning operations on a large and systematic scale the work now being done by the san rafael oil company is being watched with a great 1 deal of interest by salt lakers and by those who are identified with the oil industry of utah and adjoining states and for the reason that the personnel of the company is composed of some of our most reputable and reliable business men the roster of the association being as follows A J lee president thomas nichols ichols vice president W H dark clark secretary and treasurer and A J davis an oil operator of twenty years experience manager the company having expended and over of its own money in well equipment and development before any of its treasury stock was offered to the general public the pr property i of the san rafael company is located about sixty miles south of price on the R G W railroad and is easily accessible having struck a good flow of water at a low depth the water problem of that region has been solved As soon as the wells are listed as producers it is the intention to con a pipeline from the oil fields to price for the economical conveyance of the oil to the railroad and this can easily and cheaply be put in the photographs Z of the san rafael plant of the oil spring and of the general formation which embellish this article were taken by mr frank dark clark of this city |