Show notes on the oil industry IV aiji 0 it 4 4 r rz it X 4 4 6 r 4 it ro a a it is it a a is a is 44 4 california oil companies paid in dividends during the month of november beaumont texas has producing oil wells on the alt the oil producers there shipped cara of oil on orders the fossil con oil company of wyoming has decided to continue operate operations longale all winter and is covering its machinery etc with sheds the san rafael oil company through its manager A J davis has let a contract to D L bough boug her er of oil city pa for the drilling of an oil well not far from the san rafael well in sinbad valley emery county news register I 1 evanston wyo W mcmillian ma manager ria gerof of the inter mountain 1 i n oil co spent a few days in salt lake this week mr mcmillian says his company will be ready to drop the drill at round mountain next week news register evanston wyo J L renton white has arrived from philadelphia to superintend operations on the guttery well at hillard the gentleman is an experienced driller and expects to locate with us permanently L L bettys manager of the milton land water company owning oil lands between woodside and green river in emery county has ordered lumber and material for the erection of a derrick and is now on the coast buying drilling machinery R R ives of ogden prominently identified with the piedmont oil company of wyoming wyo ming made the mining review a pleasant call recently mra mr ives reports that alls well with the company and that the outlook for striking oil is excellent G L bern bemis is of this city one of the officials of the utah wyoming oil company is in california for the purpose of purchasing a complete rig and drilling tools the plant will be used in the exploitation of the com banys oil lands near fossil wyo price advocate the el verde rio oil company composed of eastern capitalists 4 is putting a plant of machinery at solitude on the rio aio grande western railway and will soon have begun boring for oil W F reeder is in charge of operations the cincinnati utah sc wyoming oil company is making arrangements to sink for oil in emery county this state and in uintah county wyo frank AV W fould is president of the company as well as president of the foulds milling company of cincinnati news register evanston wyo the moorcroft company composed of spokane and st paul capitalists will begin drilling for oil in a few weeks the company owns a large larae tract of land south of and on which the indications for finding oil in in paying quantities are very flattering statesman boise idaho george H wheeler J a chicago expert has visited the owyhee owahee oil fields he reports that the idaho marafine Pa oil comp tOmp anys well would bo be already a paying pumping proposition it and tad predicts thata that a gusher will be struck the present strata of blue clay is drilled through news register regi lster evanston wyo while ahil 0 di digging 91 ing a water well at fossil this week john sights our county assessor encountered a large flow of oil at a depth of 23 feet the discovery was made about a half balf mile north of the consolidated well in which oil was encountered enco mitered a couple of weeks week ago and so the good work goes on the spring valley oil pipe line company with main hial id offices at cleveland ohio lids has secured the services of ca C N X sherman a practical mid and expert experienced lr encode oil well driller who is now at tho the companas comp anys property near aidar Evan stott wyo where he will look after the interests of the company coit pany and have charge of its oil drilli drilling tig operations L L bettys who i recently purchased acres of oil lands in emery county from the land oil company is Is ori on the coast purchasing a drilling rig kag before maving leaving he left orders order s with lodal local dealers for lumber for derrick and necessary buildings 4 mr bettys J Is 18 u under contract to sink three wells in in the locality mentioned within a year price advocate schofield parties have secured something like 1500 acres of oil lands landa near green river and are preparing to organize the eastern T utah itah oil company among those interested ai are 6 mark P braffet A fi 11 earll bishop Pati farmley tilley dr F X mellen and joseph gamage their holdings are i on the grand county side of the river and are said to be exceptionally good herald baker city oregon the hirsch oil 01 II 11 syndicate of portland shipped their the ir oil 01 I 1 drilling outfit some days ago for malheur malteur Mal heur it is due at huntington today or tomorrow this is is a first class modern up to date outfit consisting of 40 horse power boiler drills and casing for three or four wells it is the intention of the company to drill several wells in different parts of their large holdings S F engineering mining review at the arroyo seco well at a depth of about feet the drill passed through the shale into coarse sand or gravel and a big flow of oil came to the surface work is progressing favorably A strike of oil on this property means a good deal for M monterey monterey county the oil is of a very fine ne quality and will command a good price dr P A H franklin and hon john E dubois dabnis prominent in utah mining circles and who are heavily interested in the yankee con of tintic gintic and the blackbird mine of copper gulch beaver county have turned their attention to the oil industry having purchased a controlling interest in the bald mountain oil company owning oil deposits near ephraim this state this shale it is 16 claimed exists in practically inexhaustible haus tible quantities the surface product it is claimed going 34 per cent oil 30 per cent of which is a superior lubricant the iced company compan has announced its intention to put in retorts and a drilling plant capable of going to a depth of 2500 feet the leading efti I 1 zens of ephraim are exultant over the promising I 1 outlook for this new enterprise castle dale progress an oil location boom has struck our emery neighbors the visit of an oil expert to that locality and his favorable report after examining the country some 14 miles east of that town in the vicinity of what li i locally called south salt wash j is the cause the oi oil ll 11 man says the place is an ideal oil oft zone and has written to some business associates now in mexico to come here and look the field over 11 0 guiteau of los angeles an oil expert of note and many years experience has bag been malting an examination of the green biver ni ver and fossil oil off fields ot late and he is confident that this intermountain region offers a great future in the way of oil exploitation and production during his stay in salt lake mr guiteau made the mining review a pleas pleasant atit call he is in this field in the interest of capitalists and investors Cast ledale progress county commissioner D S gilles reports the future of his section green river biver looking very bright the big well drilling plant of the california utah oil company was about ready to begin drilling when he left there sunday and manager don robbins bobbins and the men behind him in this enterprise enter price are as enthusiastic concerning the ultimate success as is possible to be green river kiver is visited almost daily by oil men and the con census of their opinions is that that dietr district act i is the coming oil center of the country the steamboat enterprise according to commissioner gilles lends a metropolitan air to the town little is known of the future plans of the steamboat company but that a great transportation and passenger business is contemplated no one doubts the channel is being cleared and for this purpose it is said has been set aside |