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Show a. , sv r, am v about twiee a year. He formerly was with the old Knutsford Hotel at Salt Lake City and at one time was president of the city council at the state capital under the American partys control. This first well had a depth of thirteen hundred and fifty feet when the tools were drawn. Davis has never lost faith in Emery county (Concluded From Face One.) oil field. He will be back as a vtrata being penetrated, and when here great later. the oil producing layers are reached it is customary to "shoot the well, Permit Now Approved. in which operation a metal can filled lowMOAB, March 25. A telegram with nitroglycerin is carefully from devil a and Secretary of the Interior Fall the to ered go bottom, a heavy iron bar is dropped down to the Big Six Oil conqtan.v, received on it, the resulting explosion breaking today, brought the eargerly awaited up the ground around the bottom of news that the prwqiecting wnuit for the hole and ojwuing the way for an the test well of the Big Six Oil here The outstanding feature of the was approved in Washington, D. C, comgathering at Huntington was Prof. March 21st. The plans of the Pack's talk on oil structures, in which pany are to resume drilling activities he declared that the HuntingUm dome, on which the Ohio well is being drilled, is the most perfeot structure he has observed, and felicitated the ienplc of the Kmery county town on being located so close to this undoubted productive field. During the week SALT LAKERS SEE OIL which lias jmsued since this talk wai made the leasing figures for ground on the dome have advanced 500 per cent, as indicated by deals dosed a day or two ago. The Huntington dome is the part of the oil fields w hich lays doseest to Price of any in which jiartieular interest has so far devel- W-- T , oped. easier access of the oil into the well. ('lose to a hundred and twenty-fiv- e persons came with the Salt Lake City crowd, while two hundred and seventy arsons were banqueted at tlie tabernacle. taken up by a syndicate of Zion men GREEN RIVER PROJECT ON and by English interests, who own much of the adjoining oil shale Senator Smoot Lending Aid to Big Irrigation Plana Locally. Frank A. Wadleigh, passenger traf-fi- c Rio manager of the Denver and WASHINGTON, I. C., March 30. Grande at Denver, Colo., has had today discussed wnh s million maps of the Utah oil fields Senator Sinoot Interior Fall arthe of printed for free distribution the Secretary for making careful estithousand rangements country over. Twenty-fir- e cost of the Green river are being sent to Utah with the Price mates of the in Utah on which Chamber of Commerce receiving its irrigation project have already been surveys preliminary quota. made and on which favorable returns Considerable amusement has been have been received. A joint fund of caused .in Zion financial circles over $30,000, half contributed by the state the recent publication in a Salt Lake and half hv the federal government, City evening pa)Mr of a story to the is now available for making final sureffect that oil had been struck by the senator veys and estimates,' and the Midwest Refining eonqmny in the has in be work this that pushed urged Circle Cliffs field, says Saturday's order that a full and estimate rejwrt Deseret News. Even the most casual for submission to conbe followers of the development of Utah may at ready next the regular session. gress The project, if favorably recommended by the secretary of the interior when the surveys are completed, can only be adopted by act of congress, but a favorable rejiort from V 'if the detriment would go a long way toward getting an authorization and appropriation when the next sundry civil bill is framed. In tbe event congress provides for an exiwnsion of the governments reclamation program, Senator Smoot told Secretary Fall he wants the Green river project in such a condition uliat it can be undertaken promptly. Ha Si t! I a v said 0 lor NEWS: A. PR lip m ere P Costs Ten Millions. Under the project alwve referred to more than two hundred and forty thousand acres of laud surrounding the town of Green River would be wtf e Id I is estimated by Register Gould B. Blakeley, of the United States land office at Salt Luke City that up to date approximately seven million acres of government laud in Utah Lave been covered by apdications for oil proHjxcting permits. These applications number almut three thousand, while not more than two hundred and fifty permits have been granted. Mora than eighty thousand dollars has been taken in by the local office in filing fees. The greater portion of the five million acres withdrawn by the government in 1911 as naval oil reserves have been filed upon, while the additional acreage represents what also is considered The lauds promising oil territory. involved extend, with some interruptions, from the Wyoming and Utah line at the north to the Arizona line to the south and forma a atrip about forty miles wide on the eastern aide of the state. to Blakeley, while the recording of these applications and giving of the required information to applicants at the counter has almost doubled the work of the office, he haa been given but one extra elerk. At present the office ia in a greatly congested condition due to the flood of applications that have come in since the middle of February. In an effort to relieve the situation Blakeley last Saturday telegraphed Commissioner William Spry of the general land office, requesting that he be given more help. A further inrent ire to apply for aid was occasioned by a recent dispHteh from Moah, which stated that letters had been received from .Senator Sinoot, stating that applies lions for permits, which had been filed in the Salt Lake City office last fall had never lieen rereived at the general land office. Blakeley explained that this may have been the ease in an instance or two, where there bad been conflicts. He cited one case where an applira-tio- n had been made for land which had been indented for years. Another lease was one wherein tiro applicants had filed on the same piece of ground. Drilling Begins Soon. The seeoud standard rig to ojierate in the Circle Cliff a field will lie on its way to the district by way of Green lliver within the next few days, according to an announcement made last Saturday at Zion by the Circle Cliffs Oil rompany. The first rig in the field is that now being operated by the Ohio Oil coniuiny. The Circle Cliffs concern, hacked by Utah. Wyoming and Iowa men, was organized recently to develop the claim of M. J. Gothhcrg, wlio was granted a prospecting jicnnit near the Ohio ground in Circle Cliffs about four months ago. The rig and other machinery has been bought by the Cinrle Cliffs company in Casper, Wyo., tLe management announces, while the lumber for the derrick was obtained in Salt Lake City. Both the equipment and the lumber were ahqqied to Green River this week. The rig is to be an eighty-fofoot standard type, rupable of putting down a hole to a depth of five hundred feet or more if occasion should require. Arrangements have been made for water for drilling operations and work ie to lie pushed as ur rapidly as possible. Officials of the company assert that Green River has been selected as the base of its operations in the Eastern Utah fields. Pioneer Driller Here. J. Davis, who put down the first oil well in Eastern Utah in the San Rafael Swell eonntry some nineteen years ago, accompanied the big Zion crowd from Price to Ilnnting-- . ton last Saturday. For several years he has made his headquarters in Buenos Ayres, S. A., but comes to Utah OLD EMERY OIL DRILLING RIG View Looking South, Photographed At Moment Spudding In, March 26th. without delay. F. W. Strong, president of the roinjiany, is in Sait Lake City at present and has been advised of the approval of tbe Hrait. Rig Is On the Way. of prospects know that the Midwest Refining company has not even started to drill in the Circle Cliffs. While the rejiort was too wild to inspire confidence, investors are accepting it as a warning against fake news stories imblishcd either through a desire for sensationalism or in an effort to promote the sale of questionable stock. Henry A. Schweikhart of Salt Lake City has purchased a rig, which is now being transported to the field, and expects to begin drilling work within the next two weeks on his government lease about fire miles east of the Ohio Oil eonqtany's claim and about twelve miles southeast of the claims pf the Old Emery and San Rafael companies in the San Itafael A. D. Utah Oil and Development company last Wednesday started its rig that got into Price last week . from Akron, 0., to the Salt AVaah section of Kmery county. It was pulled out of Price with a team of ten horses. This company is a New York concern, locally in charge of Charles Magnesium of Castle Dale, who is viee president and general manager. The young man is a native son, as it were, and interested the jwople back of him in the proposition some months ago. It will take several days for the rig to Swell reach its destination. The opening up of two new wells the Raven Oil and Refining comby Rig For Castlo Dale. pany at the Rangely oil fields make Frederick J. Casper of Chicago that concern the largest producer of and George II. Mulvey of Salt Lake crude oil of any company operating City went out of Price yesterday af- in Utah. While the wells are not in ternoon for Emery county. The peo- Utah, they are just over the line in ple these gentlemen represent are Colorado. The Raven Oil and Refinknown as the Castle Dale Oil com- ing conqiany is financed principally pany. Its holdings are some four by Utah capital and is a Utah coiqxtr-atio- n miles east of the town of Castle Dale. with headquarters iu Vernal. A rig has lieen purchased and is on The Columbia Trust company of the way to Price to lie taken in there immediately. They are today reject- Salt Lake City is circulating a large ing the spot where the first well is to number of leafleats concerning the go down. They are to return to this jxniKihilitiea of developing oil in Utah m commercial quantities, as describcity today or tomorrow. ed by A. G. Burritt, a geologist of experience. The publication says: f At Applications Delayed. present no oil has been developed in receiv25. Letters March MOAB, ed here from Senator Smoot state the uper part of the Cretaceous systhat some of the applications for oil tem of Utah, not other oil horizons of course be found with future prospecting permits and for leases in may this section have not yet reached development. The Circle Cliffs district contains a fold promising Washington, D. C., although several an oil field of large considerable magniof them were applied for as long ago as last June. One of the letters from tude. The formation in Washington the senior senator states that the ap- county is well defined and promising. BUSINES8 MAN OF PRICE plication of J. T. Duncan of Moab is on file and is practically safe. DIES OF LUNG TROUBLE NEW LICENSE FEES . HADLEY TJje new automobile law, iwssed by THROUGH EASTERN UTAH Ike recent legislature, will become effective this (Friday) morning, and The Big Six well at Moab is said after yesterday all motorists will be to lie down more thari a thousand remedied to pay the increases in lifret. Drilling was resumed Inst Sat- cense fees uiude by tbe new legislation. The new fees will increase the urday. Glenn M. Ruby, geologist of Den- cost of licenses for passenger vehiver, Colo., spent most of last week at cles about five dollars a car and for Vernal and in the Basin country in trucks abont 50 jiere ent. the interest of some of the Standard subsidiaries. If you are in doubt about your inThe General Oil emiany is ship- come tax give them everything you ping a rig into the Ephraim eonntry have. It may prevent their calling over in Sanpete county from Los An- for more. geles, Cal a. The lower sands are exHow to iwy the income tax isnt pected to be tapped at twenty-on- e hundred fret. bothering ns half as much as how to Bern k Thomas of Salt Lake City get the income. last Wednesday announced that they Weihe, world renowned violinist, are soon to send the second rig into the San Rafael Swell. The firm has tabernacle, March 11th, 8 oclock. patented land east of tbe Huntington Advt. holdings of the Ohio. Touch a sympathetic cord and Articles of incorporation halve been humanity waits for you to touch it filed at Zion for the Standard Petroagain. leum company. The ineoriKirators are Orson P. Pratt,, president; I. X. Hinckley, vice president; M. E. secretary; J. W. Fife, treasurer, and P. B. King and Matt Warner, directors. The latter is a resident of New Amstrong (No. 23) DrillPrice. The properties are in Carbon ing Rig good for 18 hundred county. feet, haa drilled just one well For several weeks past a number to 700 feet. Tools, Rig and of Salt Lake City men have been inRoinley Tractor complete. Will vestigating the merits of the newly ell very reasonably if taken at discovered Hill Creek dome in the once. w south of the Uintah Basin. The dome writ or" Call lies just west of thei big gilsonite mines over near Watson. Part of the structure has bren covered by jieople Tavern Hotel, Price, Utah said to represent Standard Oil inwhile the been remainder has terests, On-et- h, FOR SALE D. A. BURRIS jm las mi Jn da ia & P tb M a i; da u In VI fii le, aoi-m- al CONCERT EXTRAORDINARY -- DOINGS OF THE OILMEN To I brought into intensive cultivation. The undertaking contemplates the creation of a reservoir by damming the Green river about twenty-eigmiles northeast of the town and would cost, when completed, approximately $10,000,000. The project is on the site of the old Green River eunqrany, eunqiosed of Utah men, which about ten years ago drilled to bedrock and made other improvements before being forced to abandon the venture because of the enormous cost. The old rompany expended more than $100,-00- 0 in the work. If undertaken the job will be financed entirely by the federal governCorner 8th and Main. Phone 235. ment, it being one of the projects on the reclamation program. As to The Home of Bntterfck Patterns. the states part of the $30,000 available for investigation, George F. state engineer, last Wednesday said he waa unaware of any decided os such fund, but explained that Utah SHEEP STEADY, BUT THE LAMB thereafter. This call was afternoon IS MARKET Wednesday by the wool W$AK had appropriated $250,000 fur solthe Utak committee of marketing dier settlement purposes and suggestFarm State bureau. ed that it might come out of this. (Concluded From Paare Six) An outbreak of' septicaemia hu FATHER OF PRICE YOUNG ter to the United States department been reported to the live stock boird LADY PASSES TO REWARD of agriculture on the cause of runty by G L Jones of the bureau of that stockmen live stock. He industry at Provo. The outbreak MT. PLEASANT, March 25. An- examine their urges was discovered on a farm near Pap cerand be drew P. Jensen, Sr., Black Ilawk war tain that small equipment are able to follow son when it caused the death of fin pigs veteran and one of the original band the sows into the pens. Attention to cows. Samples of the tissues wen of pioneers who helped in the settling balanced sanitation and pure sent to Dr.-R- . W. Iloggan, state verations, of Mt. Pleasant, died last Wednesday water are likewise mentioned as meth- terinarian, who has determined the night at the family home of infirmi- ods of preventing rants. nature of the disease after a micrties incident to old age. Deceased however, Wool growers from all over the state oscopic examination. Jones, was born in Sweden, Septemtier 28, well in hind to the disease be reports 1837, and came to Utah in 1859. He are invited to meet at Salt Lake City, with but little danger of the contawas married in Salt Lake City to Tuesday, April 5th. A detailed exgion spreading. Miaa Anna Stonebnrg shortly after. planation will be made of tbe wool For that good printing. The Sax They came to Mt Pleasant the same pooling plan to become operative soon year and aided in the upbuilding of the new settlement, nis wife (Red in 1865, leaving a small son and daughter. In 1863 he married Miss Wilhcl-min- a Lundblad and to this union nine children were born. Ilis second wife died in 1910. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Claus Anderson and Mrs. Peter Fredericksen ; two sons, Arthur and Amer; seven daughters, Mrs. H. P. Jensen, Mrs. J. D. Meyrick, Miss Selma Jensen, Mrs. Marion Xeilson, Mrs. J. H. Standfield, all of Mt. Pleasant; Min Leona Jensen of Price and hire. H. G. Wood of Pasadena, Cala. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon. ht It A. 1. ts. MILLIONS OF ACRES HAVE BEEN ASKED FOR LOCALLY According FRIDAY, APRIL Einanuel (Mike) Salaverakis, about 38 years of age and a bnsinen man of Price, passed away at Albuquerque, N. M., last Tuesday. Sqme eight or nine months ago he left this city for Prescott, Ariz., in tho hope of regaining hi health. Later he went from there to New Mexico, lie suffered front lung trouble. The body will ar- rive in lriee today and the funeral services are to be held from tbe Greek church next Sunday afternoon at 2 oclock. Rev. M. E. Pctrakis of St. Louis, Mo., and formerly stationed at Price, is coming on to conduct the services. Deceased is survived by his widoa', one child and four brother, all of whom are residents of this city, lie had lived at Price for some six years and was interested iu the Hotel. His friends locally were many. Upright, honorable and honest in his business dealings, he will be missed and mourned by tLose who knew him best. Met-ropo- le Your really brave mdn feels no shame when he experiences fear. Even the most ferocious of elephants will tremble in the presence of a mouse. We, however, are not prepared to approve the enforcement of prohibition to the exclusion of the bottle. There are a lot of babies yet to be raised. True, the beauty of women is times but skin deep. But that far as the average male eye can trate. someia ns pene- For tbe last three centuries 82 per rent of Mexicos arable land has been bold in large estates. prof. j. j. McClellan Organist PROF. ANTON H..LUND Baritone PROF. WILLARD WEIHE Violinist Monday, Apr. Carbon 11 Stake Tabernacle. AD School Children Under 16 years, 50c. Audits, $ L00. 6 n fo T n ei lei F I u |