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Show PAGE THE SUN. PRICE, SIX FRIDAY, JUNE s, FRIDAY. UTAH-EVE- EY !aav lit.- i teu to fifteen tear. Iu California the productive horizon are thick and the gns pressure is usually hiph. mi that the wells producing undvr these conditions prohuhly will not reach the minimum production for tweLfy to twenty-liv- e year. 1921 - Spring Canyon ' wais Coal Co. Attracting Attention. MOAB, May 2S. All the remaining desirable lands iu the vicinity of BUREAU OF MINES GIVES VAL- the Big Six and Shufer oil domes, south of Moab on the Gruud river, UABLE INFORMATION. lave !een filed on iu tbe )ast few These days by Denver geologists. (ionics were examined a year ago by Present Day Method Gone Into By H. C. Premnicl, geologist, who was acting iu behalf of the Dutch Go!ocit Working For the Well Spacing, Water Shell interests. Ilia rejairt waa faGot-emine- nt devoting Condition, Policy of Drilling and vorable to the structures, considerable aiwre to a description of Other Matters Important Discussed. the dome and holding out exceptional chances for encountering oil there. Ilis name is among those who recentTlie United States bureau of mines ly filed oil tracts in that seetioiL has just announced the imtilication of Two engineers are uow down the rivSome Principle er looking over these domes. The Bulletin No. 104. Governing the Production of Oil Big Six Oil company of Moub has exWells' by ('ail It. Beal, formerly tensive holdings there. Iietroleum technologist of the bureau, and J. O. Ijcwis, limner chief DOINGS OF THE OILMEN THROUGH EASTERN UTAH technologist. The pajier discusses some of the fundameutal factor The Western Empire Petroleum governing oil iiroduction, taking up first the condition affecting the company reports that its rig for the amouut of oil in the oil aand, then Coalville test has been ahipied from those factors that control the rate Texas and should be on the ground f (reduction of oil well. and finally within the next week. discussing several related problems, F. W. Strong, manager of the Bg most of which deal jiarticularly with Six Oil eomimiy at Moab, aud Howthe effect of the production of one ard W. Balaley, a director, made a well on that of another. The subjects brief business trip to 1rice a few covered include parasite of oil sands, days ago on matters connected with Itimate production of recoverable the oil situation. ail, the percentage of oil recovered An interesting rumor from Juab from oil aanda with present day methia to the effect that the Utah ods, the effect of geologic structures county Petroleum company haa encountered ultiand rock pressure and depth oil indications in its well mate production, well ajweing, water soiqe promising southwest of Nephi at a depth of dethe factor conditions, governing about twenty-eighundred feet. cline of oil wella, the jiolicy of drillW. II. Donaldson, who haa charge a to maintain production, ing on "flush" and 'nettled" of the Uintah Oil and Exploration company's projicrty at their oil wella production and so forth. at Moffat, waa in Vernal on business Ufa of Well Important. last Wednesday, Donaldson is a forKnowledge of the length of time a mer clerk and recorder of Carbon well will produce oil ia of iuiNrtance county. to the oil ojierator, aaya the bulletin. Dr. E. F. Davis, chief geologist Not only does such know edgy make for the Matador Petroleum it possible to charge off on a Bounder was a Duchesne visitor last comiianv, week. It tans the depreciation on capital In- is understood that in the near fuvested in physical prierty, but it ture Dr. Davia will return with some also provides information for making of the high officials of the Dutch dejdrtion deductions on account oC Shell group. tLe progressive exhaustion of the oil William O'Neil of Roosevelt haa resources, and give the operator a been in the Midriew country recentthe laaia for working proper manageHe haa leased ment of hi property. The life of an ly on oil business. more than hundred nine acres of listoil well may range from a few months en ted land north of Roosevelt for low f very high or very productivity to many years. In aoroa of the Ap- hia California clients. He does not know when drilling will begin, but palachian fields the average daily he thinks this summer.' production amounts to only a few ia There an unconfirmed rumor ia nut well and the gallons wmped ftener than once a week. In the that the Leonard Petroleum plana to Gulf Coast field the lives of oil wella put down a test wll on the Farnham associated with the salt domes are, dome and that a standard rig ia or as a general rule, very short. The aoon will be on the way. At Farnaverage salt dome well haa a produc- ham, however, there ia no conflict tive life of not to exeeed two aud between the Leonard and Utah comor three yean. panies. Small holdings in an oil field are The Crescent Eagle, near Crescent s potent factor in shortening the Uvea Riding, now haa two rigs at work. f the wella for the reason that line The lighter rig is being used to do drilling ia forced and operations are assessment work on the placer claims ant carried on in the nuiat workman- and a new hole has been started with like manner, thereby permitting In- the heavier one. For the time being cursions of water and the waste ol the hole which waa put down aliout gas pressure. The llealdton, Okie., one hundred feet ia standing with the wells, as a rule, were rather prolific easing set lending completion of asand all had fairly high initial produc- sessment work. tion. The great fault in this field, The Ran Rafael Oil ror)oration, however, was the clow spacing, owing the neighbor of the Old Emery on the to small holdings which caused a very east, is rerted to have resumed rapid reduction of gaa pressure. drifting and to he down about two hundred seventy-fiv- e feet. Important Factors Noted. ia Old soon to hare a The Emery the Probably the nut important of factors that tend to cut off or to pro- neighbor on the west if dans of the Reserve Oil eoiuauy ere carried out. long the life of an old well ia the net The company waa recently organized value of the oil to the producer. When the well decline to a small daily pro- to take over the claim of C. A. Quigduction and this margin become very ley and ia reported to have bought ia now on the way to the arrow, a alight increase in price will a rig which cause a corresponding increase in the field. After recovering its tools and setmargin, and the life of the small well will be greatly extended thereby. An ting its easing the Old Emery last increase in the price of oil may make week ran into some more delay bepossible the cleaning out of the well, cause of making repairs to the boiler. the extraction of thousands of barrels It was expected that the repairs f oil from it and add many years to would be completed about last Friits life. The exhaustion of a prop- day. In the meantime the manageerty or a well does not necessarily ment ia making a thorough investimean that all of the oil baa been gation of the Summerville structure, withdrawn from the productive aand, west of Woodside, with a view to but rather that the projierty can no moving a rig into that field. The Old longer be ojwrated at a profit. Alv- Emery well ia down about two huneolate exhaustion of the oil in a aand dred feet. h impossible, and the life of a well The Standard rig of the Utah Oil ia, therefore, mostly a relative term. Refining company is on the way to In 1015, when the price of oil in the Farnham structure and Jhe site Oklahoma was forty cents a barrel, for the well has been selected near wella were abandoned before they the renter of See. 12. A thorough reached one barrel daily, but at the investigation of the structure has present higher price many of the been made within the past ten days wells can he pumped to a few gallon by geologists, who, besides selecting daily before aliandonuient. Many pro- the drilling site, have arrived at the duction records in the Rarthiivii: ronriusion that the west fault comand Xewata field (Oklahoma) show mented on by F. Ii. Clark of the wells that have produced for thirteen United States geological survey ia not years and are siill averaging two or so extensive as wa originally bethree barrels drily. lieved. The discovery is considered of iniKrtanre. a it is believed to inof Life Well. Average a greater area favorable to oil dicate Hint all wells Assuming, however, accumulation. or gas are iibaiuVmeil .it fh time they reach One of the most difficult jobs that a production of one barrel loilv, the M of rt'.lilca have could be tackled by a blacksmith was well- - in tl an .'1crage life of two to twenty done by 1. C. Borreson the last of h vrurs It is true that the wells in the week, when lie welded a will be abandoned suvne locrdiiii.s drilling stem for the local oil ninch carii Ukiiv of the wells well. Ordinarily such work is not drilled to lh Wheeler w.ml ;i attempted outside of a large inaehii.e fi ! 1, for example shop, but the job wa done in fine a fw month i pfter (lie:r shnie by Borreson and tlie stem is as completion. Zlie live of the shallow good as new, says the Moab well in Southeastern Kansas would of tbe 2th. Borreson be very short if cut oft at one barrel is u former resident of Carlwn coundaily, but on account of thj In.v op- ty and until leaving here for Grand erating cost the wells are now being county was a resident of Runnyside. James Doyle, well known oilman pumped to touch smaller amount i. As general rule, the wells in the fields of Denver, Colo., has leased from A. f North Texas and Louisiana, ex- M. Johnson and Mrs. Harriet Johncept Ranker district, will produce for son their interest in four of the fifteen or twenty years before they Doyle oil shale claims out near Verreach one barrel daily. In Illinois nal. Doyle will pay a royalty on and in Southeastern Ohio the aver- - the production. etri-leu- 30x353 Standard Tire Non-Ski-d TWa new low pric ia made posaibla by strictest economies and special- ized production. Plant No. 2 was erected for the solo purpose of making m 3Qa3)-fnc- b Miners and Shipper Celebrated Spring Canyon Coal Mine t STORKS, IT AH. General Offices. 817 Newhouae Building. Salt Lake City, Utah. FRANDSEN BRICK Non-Sk- id fabric tires. With n daily capacity of 16,000 tires and 20,000 tubes, this plant permits refined production on a quantity basis. used an tbe beat obtainable. Tbe quality is uniform. All It ia the beat fabric tire ever offered to the car owner at any price. Firestone Cord Tires Tire repairmen, wbo judge values beat, class these tirea as having tbe e car manufacturers use sturdiest carcass made. Foity-aeve- n them m equipment- - They are the quality choice of cord users. high-grad- of the COMPANY Yards adjoining the Denver and Rio Gkunde Railroad track on the sooth, three blocks east of depot. Office at the yard. tee riven and prkve quoted on appUraUou. Batoffln Box 3. Telephone 7IM. Mauufac-tnrof Eh-ti- er Brick of AH Kinds price; UTAH ht conaid-ration- ' one-ha- lf 30x3-inc- New Price $24.50 Cord h 4639 32x4 34x4 54.90 MADSHX UAItAliK, SIDEDOOR PULLMAN FOR COLORADOANS EN ROUTE MEXICAN Beating their way to Loa Angeles, Cals., two men, their wives and three small children, the youngest one of whom ia 0 months old, arrived at I'rovo last Friday in a railroad refrigerator car. The child peacefully slept in a baby carriage tucked away in a corner of the ear. An improvised fireplace furnished the necessary beat for the passengers. The parents are about 35 years of age. After walking eleven, miles from Florence, Cola, the company ia said to have boarded the train at Canon City. While the train nude a atop at Soldier Summit Thursday of last week, the railroad men there collectdollars which they ed thirty-fir- e presented to the travelers. It is said that one of the men ia a former Union Pacific brakeman. BUMPING THE ROADS. Automobile stages are Apw oe rating between Salt Lake 'City and Southern Utah points in competition with the railroads, and from all the motor car owners are able to make money. A jiennit has just been granted for an auto stage line from Zion to Richfield and another re-jio- rts stage is running from there to Fillmore. High passenger and freight rates are fast forcing people to upon motor ran for transportation purposes. Perhaps the time ia not far distant when the ore and roal from many mines wj)l be handled by trucks as present high freight rates threaten to destroy the great mining industry. de-pe- That good printing. Tbe Sun. KDJ5 lltlCK, UTAH ANOTHER EAST HAS BIG SHORTAGE; PACIFIC SLOPE AVERAGE Poolhall Quarrel Results In Murder State agents of the bureau of crop Up At Colton. estimates. United States department of report that there will Joe Farias, a Mexican, waa killed be agriculture, a short fruit crop this year. The at Colton about 0 oclock Thursday will be fairly general east eveing'of last week. Hia body bear- shortage of the Rocky Mountains, except in wound ing a fatal stab or bullet portions of Michigan, New York and but at the time undetermined waa New England. The reports refer found on a pile of coal near the Dento atone fruits, such aa cherver and ltio Grande seetionhouse and but also inries, plums there. Farias, it ia stated, engaged dicate that therepearhes, will be a material in a quarrel in a poolroom earlier in of apples and grapes, though the evening with another Mexican, shortage not as extensive as the shortage of Francisco Media, 45 years of age. atone fruits. It ia too early, the staTbe two left the poolhall together tisticians say, to make an estimate who and it is the opinion of those of the probable yield of blackberries heard the men quarreling that Media and raspberries. With the shortage Last of stone killed hia fellow countryman. fruits it is expected tlie supreports state that Media haa not ply for domestic canning purposes been seen since the murder. He is will be limited in many sections. described aa being five feet seven While considerable frost damage has inches in height, weighs almost a occurred in some of parts California, hundred and eighty pounds, has dark the outlook for deciduous hair and black mustache, has a few fruitsgeneral on the Pacific Slope is still repock mark4 on hia face and was aa good. garded wearing overalls and a brown jumper when last seen. Sheriff Boyd and OH locations and leases such aa the Deputy Boahard of Utah county blB companies are using. Always in were at Colton the following day and stock. The 8un. traced Media to Thistle, where hia SHERIFF'S BALE. IV THE SEV trail waa lost. It ia believed he made enth Judicial District Court, Carfor the Tintie district, where there bon County, State of Utah. Evanston Store company, a corporation, plainia a large Mexican colony. tiff, vs. J. C. Jensen, First National Rank, a corporation, and Thomas No, we can hardly credit the ru- West, defendants. To be sold at shermor that our young men are waiting iffs aale on the 18th day of June, If II. at the east door of the courtfor a decline in the price of marriage house in Price, Utah, at 10 oclock licenses. are Possibly they merely a. m.. the EH of the NW and the hoping they will be wiped out entire- WH of the NEK, and the 8 of the 8EK of the NEK of Sec. 10, and the ly 8WK of the NW K of Sec. People with swelled heads are ognized by their lack of sense. rec- 15, Twp. IB 8, K 10 E. Balt Lake Base and Meridian. T. F. KELTER, Sheriff. First Pub. May 10. Uit June 10, 1911. 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