Show j NOTES ON THE OIL INDUSTRY the hoists and mills in and around chloride arizona have been equipped with oil burners and oil is being used as fuel in the generation of power at a saving of 60 per cent two new oil companies have filed their articles of incorporation during the past two weeks the white star oil company and the salt lake oil company see detailed account under the heading of new In corporations journal miner prescott arizona J D wakely and emil hayne returned last night froma five days trip locating oil land on beaver creek they located acres and brought back with them for analysis several demijohns demi johns filled with samples of the oil which comes to the surface in several places the green river oil company the incorporation po ration of which Is noted in another column expects to begin active operations in drilling for oil the property of the company is located on the anticline of the oil fields and was selected and filed on b by S L boggs of this city who has valuable properties adjoining independent elko nev the engine and boring machine of the elko oil and development company arrived tuesday and were taken across the river wednesday A carload of 6 inch pipe has also arrived and as soon as the derrick is built the work of boring for oil will commence this wi will 11 be about the first of the comino coming week F T knowing knewing president and dr J 11 atkins secretary of the gold standard oil company have been in the city the past week or ten days in the interest of their organization and have met with encouraging success in tho the sale of the treasury stock of the company during their stay here they have made their headquarters in the office of cole marix investment brokers which they have embellished with many fine photographs of california oil scenes city councilman A J davis returned last week from the green river oil fields on the R G NV road mr davis and associates have secured valuable lands in this section and mr davis states that unless nature belies her surface indications in this locality some splendid oil wells will in time be developed there mr davis has had twenty years experience in the pennsylvania oil fields and is therefore competent to judge on matters pertaining to oil and its existence and he believes that oil in paying quantity will be found al aji green river at a depth not exceeding feet he also states that the oil from this section is a splendid lubricant and worth about 8 a barrel it can be used without refining or reduction being different in this respect from the product of the california and texas oil fields asit as it Is not an illuminating oil he has given it a thorough test on the machinery at the knutsford hotel and states that it will last for twenty four hours or three or four times as long as ordinary lubricating oil another feature in favor of green river oil being that it can be produced and sold cheaper as a lubricating oil than the trust can manufacture it and put it on the market it being a well known fact that known wells of this character are now about exhausted emery county progress fred mitchell of salt lake came down from the north wednesday and on the following day accompanied by paul faul judd departed for the desert in the neighborhood of sinbad where he will examine several acres of oil land in the interest of salt lake and eastern parties on which they hold an option samples of the sinbad oil sent to salt lake gave such good analyses as to attract a favorable consideration of several men of means the white star oil company has begun active work in the exploitation of its spanish fork oil fields A wagon road to the property has been completed and contractor gustave westphal is now on the ground with his derrick and drill the company means business from the word go and will doubtless be the first to have a well down to the oil flow of all the different parties now interested in the oil industry in utah see the advertisement ts ti of the white star elsewhere in these columns |