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Show ANOTHER RIG IS TAKEN INTO UTAH EVEBT THE BUN. PRICE. PAGE SIX SI THIS FRIDAY, MARCH TRIP AY. SUNS MAP OF THU KASTKIIX UTAH the secretary has not granted tension of time for drilling, jJj that there is no authority Vi 7 extending the time fixed bv statuu Secretary Payne, under dat -January 12th, last, in response to tv quests for extensions of time explicitly that under the law h not grant such extension, but further, that there would lie T tion taken looking to the eancellaC of permits for failure to comply the terms of the permit if the paJ? tee in good faith proceeded to best of his ability and was vj adverse conditions beyond his taL trol, such as adverse weather. Be jL rected, however, that the permit or assignee who eould not meet tb drilling resuirements in the time should file a corroborated davit within tweleve months and jR t days from the date his permit vH approved, stating what he had dun towards complying with the temu. The department regulations reqnia four things. The permittee nua slake his claim within ninety must have a drilling rig on tb ground within six mouths; he am drill a well at least six inches in & aueter and five hundred ieet den within one year; at the end of tvi years he must hare one or more web to a depth of two thousand feet if b has not struck oil before that tim Summed up, Secretary Payne hdl4 that where a prospector operating der permit is proceeding in goof faith and to the best of hia ability a comply with the requirements of tb law he will not be disturbed in kit rights, but the department plain that this ruling does not gift any permittee the right to hold i claim indefinitely without making u honest effort to meet the terms of his permit. This leniency ia shown by the da part mental ruling, because the law itself does not auction a change ii the regulations to give a longer period in which to do the drilling. OIL, FIKLIIS RAEAEL SWELL SALT LAKE CITY MEN SPENDING BIG MONEY. Banker At the State Capital of 4he Fat ore of Eastern and Southeastern Utah As to Striking of Numerous Paying Welle Oldtimer Sends Warning. Opti-miat- ic piu This week the drilling equipment of the San Rafael Oil cuiiijiuny, a recently organized coneern at Suit Lake City, left the yards of the Ibn-ve- r and Kin Grande at Price liy team headed for the Sau ltafael Swell adjoining the holdings of the Old Emery, buek of which are Ogden capitalists. The latter's first rig went in Mohr-lun- d by way of the Utah railway to some tlin-- weeks ago. Deni & Thomas, Salt Lake City brokers, are prominent in the affairs of the former rompaiiy. In faet, the rig fame to Price from Nevada in their names. Equipment for a boardinghouse and other neeesary supplies are now on the road with the rig. From lriee to the company's holdings is a total dislanee of miles. Fifty of this has most excellent roads. The remaining eight are ltad. It is exMeted drilling ojteratioris will begin during the next week or ten days. Christian Vrang, Salt Lake City geologist, is now on the ground to pick out a site for boring. The Han Rafael Oil corporation is at $75,000, divded into 1,500,-00- 0 shares of atork, fully paid and On million shares have been placed in the treasury and Iva thousand in escrow by the securities commission until the sale of treasury stork has fully Inanced the operations planned. Thomas is confident that the company has secured one of the best locations on the Swell. One advantage of the situation of the property, lie says, is that the San Rafael river runs of it. Sufficient through the center ' wood for all fuel needs is said to stand on the property. Although the town of Green River is considerably nearer to the holdings of the the road is so rough that it was decided to send the equipment in from Price. Great credit should be given the citixens of Green River, according to Thomas, for the energy which they are manifesting in building a road into the field. With the equipment all purchased except a truck to lie used in hauling supplies, and a good cretj employed, Thomas believes that bis company will lie one of the first to begin drilling ojieratioiia. Dr, W. D. Donolier is tsi president. divj-h- e fifty-eig- . ht eapi-talix- er eoui-an- An Oil Well Ruling. WASHINGTON, D. C., March l-and oil wells held under plus locations on California and AVyomiq naval fuel reserve lands revert totb diligent prosecution navy unless of repairs or production ia shown, tb secretary of the interior decided day. The leasing law enacted but year provides that leases be gnntoJ to p resunt occupants whose wells naval reserve lands were pnidurigy 'on that date. It therefore devolni upon the secretary of the interior to decide what was a producing well, a a number of wells have been suspend ed or abandoned. He declined to make a general definition, but in tb first decision reached, which vu h the case of wella controlled by tb Associated Oil company, he grants! leases where there was an indicatioi of diligent prosecution of wort and denied leases on the rest. Gaa to- y, UNCLE SAM GIVES FIGURES ON PETROLEUM PRODUCTIM LOCAL FIELDS DESCRIBED BY ZION BANKINGHOUSE Oil possibilities in Utah is the subject of the last market letter issued just a few days ago by the Copper National bank and the Rankers Trust Rich company at Salt Luke City. beyond measure in agricultural, metal and coni resources as demonstrated by development already accomplished, Utah now seeks to prove its rights to recognition as one of the great the letter producer of petroleum, That surface indicain part saya tions were considered favorable for the accumulation of oil is indicated by the fact that there was a greater area withdrawn by the federal government in Utah as oil land than in any other state in the uuqin. The latest report by the government on withdrawals showed! approximately two million acres under this classification in Utah, and in California, which ranked second in withdrawn acreage, approximately' 1,500,(100 acres. The enactment of the leasing law by congress about a year ago made it jHwxible for corporations and individuals to undertake the development of all oil lands on the public domain, otlier than naval oil reserves, and within recent months curators from all parts of the country have been exceedingly active in the Utah fields. Because the greater jiortion of the withdrawn acreage is witliin the ortion of the southeastmi surveyed ern section of the state and isolated from transportation there has been some delay on the part of the operators in getting under way, but their desire to test out the fields as quickly as possible is rellected in the fact that at least seven test wells are being put down, all but two of which are on lands leased from the federal or state governments. The Ohio Oil company is the most active just now of any of the cor Mirations oierating in the state. It is putting down three test wells one in Circle Cliffs field in Garfield comity, one on the Caineville structure in Wayne county and one alsiut four miles northwest of Huntington in Emery county. In each instance the Ohio is iqierating a standard drilling rig capable of putting down a hole to the depth of live thousand feet or more and the crews are experieneed men from other fields in which the ronqiany is oerating. Among other districts of the state that are considered promising as cl producers are the Virgin river field in 1L Production of ietroleura in tb United States during last .lanuuj amounted to 38,271,000 barrels, whid was 600,000 barrels less than duriig December, but was more than fov million barrels greater than duriag January a year ago. Imports, whid amounted to 13,193,000 barrels, wot the greatest ever recorded in any ok month and were 347,000 barrels w than in December and more thu twice those in January, 1920. Estimated consumption of domestic in! imported petroleum, the quantity delivered to consumers, chiefly refineries, amountted to 49,G51,000 barrek Stocks of domestic and foreign petroleum were increased by 1,07701 barrels. A halt to the long continued decrease of stocks in California shown by a reported increase of barrels held in storage in that state. Net stocks of domestic pet lenm east of California incresied 450,000 barrels, and stocks of Mexican petroleum held by importer! JJ the United States increased 296W barrels. Production decreased Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Wed Alrginia more than million barre and fell off slightly in Ohio, Fennijr vania and Montana. Increases reported for the other states, hou ana in January ranked fourth anwtf the producing states, surpass was offered $1,000,000 for the right Kansas by a small margin and & to drill in the church cemetery, but tucky advanced from ninth to for sentimental reasons the offer was enth place, surpassing West Aug ia and Illinois. rejected. In the tract just acquired by lease by J. J. O'Conner, president of the NOT ONLY GUM THE CARDS, BUT THEY DELAY THE GAB Roekonno company, there are five acres which have been Bet aside by There are more evidences of oil i the owner of the land. Laura Ann ever Tuft of Huntington, for cemetery the state of Utah than there CoL vf in Pennsylvania, declared pur; loses, and, while this )iarcel has C. Newell in an address before not lieen deeded to the cemetery association. the owner insisted that it commercial club at Zion a few evj first be w'ithheld from the lease provisions. ings ago. lie put down his in 1876. I want to say to youg As the Itockomio company plans that you the development of the tract, there men, said be, is a inedibility that the history of the assured that the Ohio Oil or the Shell Oil companies are not wash? Texas cemetery may rejieat itself in ronnection with the little plot aear their money in preliminary ope tinns in this state any more Huntington. of you men would waste yours. if you want to kill the businc IP' COMMON SENSE TO RULE, at the start you can do so by leOW SAYS SECRETARY PAYNE a lot of those little hotair comp0 start , and fleece the people-- . up According to late statements from Colonel Newell in opening h iishington, I). (., the secretary of of the interior has instructed the land dress recited a brief history oil United in the industry department of the government to ereisc common sense and a degree of ciaring that the first ever obtain? taken fr equity in handling the eases of oil commercial quantities was ermits issued by the government, Sennaoa Lake back in New of oil particularly in eases where prospect- Following the discovery ors for unavoidable causes are unable the lux mi spread down Oil Creek, next discovery was in Pennsri to comply strictly with the requirements of the leasing law. However (Continued on Page EtglU) 33L-00- 0 the southwestern part and the Millard rounty field, aliout midway between Salt Lake City and the Virgin district. Some shallow drilling has been done in both these and small production from shallow wells has lieen obtained in the Virgin river territory, hut development there has been hanqiered to a certain extent because of the large acreage withdrawn ns oil lands by the federal government. It also is rqiorted that the Royal Dutch iieople are deeply interested in the possibilities for oil at the in the north end of Great Salt vicinity of Pninnnitury oml Rozel. The San Rafael Swell in Emery arid AVayne comities is considered by geologists ns the biggest and most remarkable structure favorable to oil accumulation yet found on the continent. It is understood the Carter Oil company and probably the Shell of California arc prepared to put down deep test holes ns quickly as they Hre grnrited jiermits by the government. The Swell is accessible through Mohrlaml. Price or Green River and roads and bridges are being n so that practically any of the district may be readied by automobile by a few hours ride. Trucks and some passenger aulotiin-hilc- a are now being operated from each of the three pi arcs to nriaiii pur-lio- larts of tlir Swell where the roads have lawn completed. Almost due south of Green River about forty-fiv- e miles is the Xequoia anticline, which ia said to lie second in size to the San Rafael Swell. As yet it has been explored hut little and oil prospecting ennits filed covering this region have lieen comparatively few. Southward from Thompsons. another station on the Denver and Riii Grande,, are a number of structures favorable to oil accumulation and one of the fields, the San Tuan, has been in the producing class for a number of vi- rc. " - STILL ANOTHER COMPANY GOING INTO HUNTINGTON More than twenty-on- e hundred 'ap- on prospective plications for lcn-- e oil lands in Utah thus far Imw- been filed in the Salt Lake City laud office, says Sundays Telegram. As these applications with a very few exeep-- t hi.udre-- and mu are for twenty-fivthe total area covered by sixty Ica-the is r.ot far from six millions of acres. Tln-.-figures an ir. addition to the ai pi'iatimis fit d at A crnal for mi hinds iii n pmtii-- of i.e l intiib Basin. Iruct ic.il !v all of t!.e grout - e pri.-pcrtiv- i- l es t o:! producing nu l rtfrug of the country have made applications for leases. A number of these have been granted and it is expected that drilling operations other than those now being conducted by the Ohio Oil rompany wil be under way within the next few weeks. In addition to the immense amount of acreage involved in the lease applications, there are being acquired by various comjianie, including the more prominent one, holdings of patented lands adjacent to the known structures on government lands or on newly discovered domes outside of the government holdings. These already amount in the aggregate to several hundred thousand acres. Lease deals involving patented lands in the various districts are increasing daily, while the outright purchases of promising tracts of land A lease acare Wing consummated. quired during the past week ly the Roekonno Oil company, a local concern, on a tract of patented hind located on the Huntington dome and close to the holdings on whieh the Ohio Oil company now is drilling, recalls tin celebrated incident in with the pnqierty of a liap-tiin the Ranger field of Ti Mis. The congregation which is jow receiving if'JfhMiiiii jn royalties frnni oil produced on its property. ron-neiti- 'i. -t cujr AA . , |