| Show ait 11 oil R ak e at the J sloan johnson mining investment company has located a group of petroleum claims claims in spanish fork canyon C M owen is getting out a general map of the green river utah oil fields the map shows many of the oil locations recently made in this locality and is a valuable work geo R randall who has been employed at the shasta consolidated well will erect the rao rig for the keswick crude oil company on sand flats mineral wealth redding cala price advocate the san rafael oil and mining company will begin the expenditure of ten to twenty thousand dollars in the emery county oil fields within the next two or three weeks one company of this kind will do the country more good than all the claim grabbers and jawbone experts that could be shipped in here in ten years governor heber M wells and his associates are quite heavily interested in the green river oil fields and so is geo W heintz the popular general passenger agent of the R G W road among others who have recently acquired oil lands in this vicinity might be mentioned frank E wilson who has acres to his credit with his associates the white star oil company owning property near the mouth of spanish fork canyon has the honors of putting up the first oil drilling rig the drill on the was down a depth of bf feet having passed through several stratas of sandstone and a six foot strata of oil bearing shale it is believed the oil body will be reached at a depth of or feet the piedmont oil company of ogden has issued an interesting yet conservative prospectus regarding its oil holdings in uinta county wyoming the company undoubtedly has valuable property and in a section now becoming noted for the existence of splendid oil measures R R ives of ogden is secretary for the company see advertisement elsewhere in this issue M M miller of this city prominent in mining and stock circles is now at his old home at angleton texas where he has large real estate interests made almost phe nominally valuable just now on account of the oil boom in that section mr miller took his family with him and will be absent ford for sometime his friends here are pleased to know that ahat he is strictly in it 17 the utah colorado company is in receipt of two barrels of oil from its is oil fields on the utah colorado line where the association has a spring which flows about gallons of oil daily so it is said the oil boing of excellent quality A big tank has been put in and the oil is being saved as it comes from the spring E W wilson and R B and H 0 shepard of this city are interested in this promising property the standard consolidated oil and land oil company of california writes the mining review that it is well pleased with the active and increasing demand for its stock which is selling at ten cents a share it is the intention of the company to push work as rapidly as possible and the assurance is given the public that no efforts will be spared to put the property of the company on a dividend paying basis at the earliest possible moment vernal people are very much interested at the present time in the oil discoveries on the utah colorado line and the indications are that a great deal of activity will be noticeable in that section this summer the utah colo rado oil company with hon wm win oneil of vernal at its head is arranging for systematic work in the exploration of its oil holdings in the locality mentioned while a number of big syndicates are in the field making many locations castle dale progress ira browning and H P returned from the sinbad oil fields monday morning where together with C R johnson of salt lake frank mandel of hailey idaho and harry farrer of green river they located about 2000 acres of oil lands johnson and mandel who are experienced mining men and were here representing a syndicate appeared to be highly pleased with the country and oil prospects they took out samples of oil which they will have hav e analyzed by expert chemists S F mining and engineering review work is progressing rapidly at the well of of the arroyo seco oil and development company on see sec 16 19 6 monterey co it is now between and feet deep and everything looks exceedingly well H R earle the secretary has just returned from the well which he saw started and well under way he also visited the entire district and has returned more than ever pleased with the selection of his companas comp anys lands and enthusiastic at the prospects this is a good company price advocate the green river oil company is now securing maps of its holdings in uintah county and before long the company expects to secure machinery and start work in good shape the company owns free of incumbrance 2560 acres of land that lies within a well defined oil belt or anticline which has a trend northwesterly and southeasterly this ground is located between the garn well or spring where the oil and gas bubble out of the ground and flow on the surface of the water and the sunday morning property where the oil oozes out of the ground and percolates the sandstone strata on the e surface on claim every of the land owned by this company can be found numerous discovery points such as oil sand etc the ground has been examined by numerous experts from california colorado and pennsylvania who pronounce it one of the best pieces of land in the green river oil fields on the oil belt castle dale progress on his return from price yesterday george yv brandon found a telephone call awaiting him to come to price at ai once at a late hour last night he started north mr brandon ls is interested in some of the most valuable e oil land yet located in the sinbad valley land on which both black and a deep yellow oil seeps out in almost a flow and it was in refer reference euce to a deal for this land that he was called north A california oil man had examined it and is willing t to spend some money to develop it providing he can secure a large interest camera kemmerer wyo JB A virtue and E mccarrick of salt lake city who are respectively secretary and president of the utah wyoming oil company are in the fossil district again this week looking over their property there they are accompanied by colonel mitchell an oil expert of international reputation colonel mitchell has been identified with the exploration of oil fields in several foreign countries and is probably the most able judge of the character character of our prospects of any one who has been in the field thus far after a careful inspection of the district distri qt he pronounces the outlook very brilliant S F mining and engineering review the standard consolidated oil and land company is preparing to receive bids for the erection of its derricks bunk houses etc its first derricks will be erected on section 1928 39 19 28 28 in the kern river kiver district its stock which was placed on the market at 10 cents per share is meeting with a large demand from investors who are conversant with the location of this companas comp anys property and its directorate it is the intention of this company to commence and complete its developing work as rapidly as possible the aim in view being the payment of dividends to their stockholders as soon as energetic efforts make the same a possibility R R hill representing the anryo seco oil development company of monterey county california arrived in the city a few days ago and has opened a branch office of the company in in the D P F walker block mr hill reports that the oil interests throughout california have not abated in the least and that men of moderate modera e means have through small investments made snug fortunes others have become immensely wealthy while very few have lost money the company represented by mr hill aill under date of may report that they are now down feet with the best indications the gas is coming up so strong that they have had to take off the night shift for fear of fire the companies whose lands adjoin the arroyo seco are in oil and are getting from ten to fifty barrels per day mr hill is well posted on the oil fields of california and will be pleased to furnish any information desired the editor of the mining review has known him for a year or more and is pleased to state that he is an honorable and reliable gentleman with whom it will be a pleasure to transact business W I 1 snyder george westervelt Westervel fc and A A sweet of this city and judge L W shurtliff of ogden are interested in a acre tract of oil land in carbon county twelve or fourteen miles west and a little south of colton and about three miles from what is known as daniels ranch on this tract there is an oil spring which flows so it is said from one to three barrels a day the flow according to chemists report being maltha a liquid form of asphaltum the product being free from sand or grit of any kind these gentlemen have also located another tract in the near vicinity as well as some sand rock bearing oil near soldier summit the holdings first mentioned are being surveyed and will doubtless soon form the basis for an incorporation S G stromme of bakersfield cala is making a careful examination of oil resources and is more than pleased with what he has seen during his visit to the green river and the sinbad oil fields mr stromme who is an expert drillman and an experienced oil operator is in this section in the interests of royald royal D laidlaw and charles D lee of Backers field prominent in california oil circles and he is confident that within the boundaries of our state he will be able to find bonanza propositions for his people indeed he is confident that oil of excellent quality and in great quantity will be found in the green river country as well as at sinbad thirty five miles southwest of green river and he is satisfied that drilling at the latter place will begin at an early day mr insists that good rigs should be secured before any attempt is made to sink for oil as with poor and inefficient machinery failure is almost sure to result in speaking of the surface indications in utah fields mr stromme says that they are much better than in any of the california camps and that there should be millions in oil in this country earnest work being necessary however to show the location of the oil measures dr clarence barrett of this city has in invented a process for the extraction of oil from oil sand and shale by leaching for which an application has been made for letters patent dr barrett Barret fc is a member of the oil company of this city the property of the association adjoining the oil lands of the white star oil company in utah county near mill fork siding by tests made with his leaching process dr barrett has demonstrated that he can extract the oil from the oil sands and shale from the company companas comp anys Is property at a cost of but little more than a dollar a ton the plant which it is proposed to construct as soon as the patents are issued will cost in the neighborhood of and it is estimated that the works w will ill handle fifty tons of oil sand daily which should yield 1600 gallons of oil all of which has been contracted for by salt lake dealers of every thirty gallons of this oil the doctor says there is but three gallons of illuminating oil the balance being valve oil with a commercial value of about 50 cents a gallon the new method of leaching 0 will necessitate the using of large quantities of sulphuric acid which could be supplied by home smelters shelters sm elters from waste and sulphurous gases but whether the smelter management can be induced to pay attention to this industry remains to be seen the mining review recently had the pleasure of an interview with prof L H mitchell the eminent geologist regarding the new oil fields near fossil wyo on the union pacific in speaking of these new oil discoveries prof mitchell stated that he found every indication of the existence of oil in south twin creek valley within a short distance from fossil the oil fields in this section being about five or six miles in an easterly and westerly direction and so far as explored about three miles in a northerly and southerly direction the formation being eocene by more or less folded rock of the upper cretaceous and he is confident that the oil will be found to exist in the upper cretaceous stratas of bituminous shale and calcar ibus sandstone were also noted in the eocene tertiary and also volatile petroleum gases so far as demonstrated from oil long exposed to atmospheric action the product of these fields is a high grade lubricant prof mitchell acted in the capacity of expert for the utah wyoming oil fuel company of this city and expresses himself as being well pleased with geological conditions the company owns between 1400 and 1500 acres its group being within a quarter of a mile from the first well driven in the district which is a flowing well in the valley mentioned there are seven oil springs giving off oil and gas sufficient to prove the existence of an oil body in the cretaceous formation economically no this is an excellent field as it is on the railroad and but two or three miles from coal the people in that section are enthusiastic over the outlook for an oil boom in the near future |
