Show Lljf rnuv£-niirprniirtit CONSOLIDATION A 4G VOLUME IOAR GRAND Jf Hl m IMPORTANCE HPIAINS PRODUCING GRAND GRAND CLARK WRITES O tCTION CHAMBER relative TO between HIGHWAY the TWO CITIES c COM-ji‘MEKCe JELL IS oil company WILL DRILL MANY WELLS IN BLU IELDS- WORK TO START UP IN NEAR UTURE of DOWN NOV AND INDEPENDENT THE MARCH NUMBER 1920 4 " EET: 1600 NEARING CONIDENT MEN O SUCCESS M Salt Giving is Way Limestone to Near Sands Oil ormation Will and Tapped be Caprock 1 the Than inwired 1800 S BIG Y 11 charge Coan who has construction work for & Coan contractors J road Rush Belief is eet ' Commerce B-THOM DRILLING COMMENCE A I'SON 1GHW A WILL SOON BE ONE O THE OPERATIONS BEST IN UTAH ARE NOW BEING SPEEDED UP ( COMPANY MOAB COMPLETION 13 TO SIX OIL COMPANY WILL STANDARD AND RIG IN DEVELOP HOLDINGS MOAB AND SALT VALLEYS SECURE Less at 1 the to secretary of TIMES THURSDAY MONUMENTAL letter from W P Pei ry A Clark was in Monday night Grand Junction from Thompsons Mr Clark is mak-ing which preparations to prove up on his of the road the 160-acre coal claim in to status as hompsons canyon ‘situation Moab and Grand between and he will get title to the pro R C Clark of this place lie perty shol'Ly expectsto leave re(titly state road agent for letter to the tor has Bluff as soon as the roads south written a setting are Crand Junction organization passable for automobiles to reply In Anjber VALLEY UTAH BASIS Believed Ela GRAND COUNTY OIL n THE O Moab-Thompsons post of the Equipped Clark to drill 3500 feet if necessary bring in the deeper oil sands thoroughly develop its extensive in holdings Moab and Salt valleys to the in on road and to was from the Big Six Oil Work is being Company a local camp yesterday will in the rushed on the work and grading soon be is operating the continued encountering of salt of depth will tell the tale operations are being speeded up with local fields Such announcement the of this in the advent good weather Mr Coan made week by the officers Western A Hit's well on the MaxA delay of a few days in drilling to grading of the Six expects have thirty teams on Big well lease has operations will be experienced due to been the outstanding work within a week or so The detail the fho hint Tnn iu iiiizwlwl The company is now perfecting its advantagesof the irniv out in CHUI 44 Ilk illAUVMi contractors management of the Monumental feature of the operations of the com- Xvin luvv CUUIC 43hitri are completing the ThompMoab and plans to actual development Crand river road between I'lKul (11114 Hi rcu Will Knmi commence Oil City unit few ‘hiv hi it na ui tn n scns-Valley a A Clark's company which will soon start pany during the past weekor sev-I ilsfM nv pi nnv'vob more work Standard rig ii to letter is as follows: hv this pvi'nnw Am iHceo Mr vuw ihl all that will be weeks being remiired and it is Moab-Utah eb drilling operations in the Bluff fields oral days drill has intended to have the has been ordered and is being rushed to past the that section It is the machine on the ground and boring intention of the company to through pure crystallized 4i ndMiK Ifju ehniibl nmtirn inju 4iva Chamber of Commerce mi Moab-Thomnsons road vnv vi The entire muuMi ouuuin niiiit within two months complete the drillingof well formerly pock salt but geologists and oil men lirnA The first Granl Junction Colo uayrim will be completed it is understood by well put feet by who are observing tLie operations are uiivc With a new cable the according to the officers of the down 1185 Mr Clark of Star rig is jtiv Already Gentlemen: letter vast the opinion that amount of rock' company will be in Moab where the change is close at l 4itic)lv 111 t'lnL'iiwr 4kii I have from you signed This well is now nearly to the Goodrich 'hand a ulllj M ti IV 1'4 UVIV VV yvork has been done in Moab canyon At o'clock has Jan CO and it is that it can eight this 11 14 sever'd hundred secretary dated sand figured be morning uvIIUII - OI Zvvl‘ ovnn Ul wiUV Ivcli 11 IN SLciLinnil that is to company acres oi by your nroiect beginning near patented land leases in addition tu road The drill encountered a white substance mlVI 1111 written in regard to the made to produce in the nil will Ka ix1 nn JJ V ll V1U1 11 111 4ZVItll 900 hfirr4l zlllilv Ilf cliolii-nlJiriziii resembling CUilipiVUUll governmentland Grand Junction gypsum and somewhat lilirli 1'iinle the surfacing of Moab and VIIVU flip VlV ncillllilurn LllI'I'VUl tunnnn Within fewvv wweeks later lime vv un in win tinmi nt nii ui has the of al to he salt bed has The already sufficient had of roads work 'The will commenced show up and1 which bjen pierced the eomapny have charge state comnanv Thomnsons-Valiev Ci tv road will no Jliv in its treasury to rig ti 41 the dri j:ii said to ho one of 41 the funds a for mid wi is A secure this several years our 011 unis well as iMiiiiga uy uiv utui 10 ut uue 01 mi- him county proaucciiironi of tueifor 0'°m the ivusuig today wnvn me commence it is is intended wurs siaieu and drilling tested as greatest known to exist in the United commence work and it of being the meeting link a number additional holes'! limewe the atfirmncu will be ecini-any done by the state on force to raise a rt is belief of those on States drilling fund $30000 Something around 625 feet the railroad and Moab untila production of 3000 barrelsis atA number of large trucks esam tninorl the uToiinil that the drill is atrnnkwithin a month through the sale of its ivkinK xirJii nearintythn nf salt havA-hupn probably in the best position to give ICIIIUU ca sirtas"ill jUALliy IIIC leiy III'' constructed for this work will this HHIVH ed with stock Permission week pipe line N M hmestane which geologists small or pockets ol of Ci was of a from Gallup to capping stratas pockets n you the information you want the Big Six by the oil 111 IlilUIHIR Kinvvi 1UI lilt: granted U3VH company lhe itmiuuiiii uiv uig smil containing Grand county has about 120 miles the iieicis company has HlcUUVdn wuueiueb uimmivd tnv utu sands uea Utah Securities commission for the Altogether the situation is declared facing to LU C U1 IIlcll IUI d llllb UJIIlrJ lr The' Moab-Thompsons road of state road build and maintain umbia ng on the ground and casing1 when rale of its stock in this state and by geologists and be highly the oil to nnli pti IVnil vn kntnru niuftu lavuidUK vi itiuiuuiiuiia men and under the Utah laws the cotinty nnrl IIU VVllVl nthoi VQM1 Civ Lrtlllj2 suy Coninivtecl will be the eoual of anv requests for stock that lliippcjluic the oil as it is practicallycertain have already the men encouraging in no vi puts up half of will money and the in T'Vln T? 4? nil fiziLI line! that big tint ronu hi uh1 inurrniou iiaiii cuunti practically finance the the sand known to underlie nrimi come in deeper than was thought by inthe population 6f this some according to engineers whohavc first well it is state half and 11V LJIUll VU 4X IVA I1CC ClllClIUY UVCfi UJg UU dig 1IIUL1 HU lit company's will next be atthat it will be dlLUI stated encountered the indications brought spectcd the work under way county is only about 1500 altogether- proven there being a number of wells the valley Graded Graded Scores of local people who have faith in wdhin a coupie hundred feet are s£ate and government there that are already profitableproducers terOilthein capping is penetratedhas exccptionally high and protected in the local fields At present the hi brighest hviirhaLit r!bkyv The well vvnil is have interested varying quantities been of the proving rntiiur The extreme isolation of the good system of drainage the road building a road between are themselves in this companyin order to showing up during the week and there out the report of several prominent awill be easily will be district however has retarded the de maintained and will ovMoab and Thompsons that well is the field hasten the thorough development of of the d'l The examined over mis ueen some gas now geologists who and th in this when finished resources there iiiv troubles the oil good earth road and velopment to 1600 feet h that eicoiiit common but the close a year who declared resources constantly increasing scarcity down very ago during stormy weather Tlui this 36 miles will cost about $230000 of oil will A contract has already been entered have the result of Geologists who have studied the while oil in small quantities would be section opening also with nroad iui is iiou uivvHivu provided iiuint! numerous vu") into between the Big Six dollars and we have also nearly all practical oil the nun than formation as we as company and men encountered at a ess depth mam Kubstnitial culverts of solid masonry these fields Mr Clark states the the road between Moab and Green the Gustavcsson Oil whereby nave m nere rlnrino- line (luring fno on sami cjim mat ve reacreu until a ueen hr pasi naeNnil wnnh would not fajiaai the trip quality of the Bluff oil is of an ex- who Within six months from the latter will drill oncompany Big Six ground river graded up in good shape of approximately 1800 feet had high grade Laboratory several weeks are highly encouraged depthattained Moab to Thompsons can be readily in Salt valley It is intended to complete large proportion of the citizens of ceptionally A of the product have that er tne inai on been in less than tests shown ouliook win made a car in considerably the Salt valley well Grand do live in in than is the the which county who not Moab brought at less 1800 feet various companies now the oil is That w worth from $15 to $28 per hours The contractors on the Star rig js located 'along The local are! two A Grand river between barrel accordim'fact that' have-holdings in the fields down about 800 feet are to opinion they i Mr Clark the express and the road U tu in o Ul viT aie II' HV De IWIIllHIIIilliaU un till vn uiv from Moab Cisco and from (luuiuing oil and it heavy grus encouragedby the uuiiiiniiuenivti now en route to Salt vallev oil outlook ill and figure H'lU jn rating properties of the vmin being hirge quantities of Usjlessje n)ijnncr which opera state lubrica Moab to Cisco has long been Thompsons but has been delayed by v'tililfllhln have been in evidence all that the bringmgjn of a big field is been kept dally v valuable pressure have under of the state tii way he road but at the last session n muddy roads through trie salt formation MonumentalOil company is they proves1plastically sure is best indicated by The It will take legislature they decided to eliminatea that the sand about two months lor say when encountered the steps they are taking toward BROTHERS BUY HAMMOND fully financed to thoroughly develop the Big Six to get its good will be heavily impregnated with No less operations than four company own many state roads and andamong its Juan toil holdings and place the San HAMMOND STORE BUILDING rig on the ground and in them the road Cisco It is that the operation in between Moab pointed out companies are already making arbasis pre fields on producing the of the of the I'omand if they had of oil through the salt formation opinion officers done this it would rangements to begin work and this llainsence A West C Hammond that it has been have forever cut off all chance of having forced up respective of the results at the Wesproves full of and road between supply casing other the two settled' RANGER QUIGLEY PROMOTED -TO from the mother- sand rendering the! tern Allies well A very busy drii nig L Taylor whereby they will buy the a and it is is both equipment believed that the portions of the ot assured in Moab ami county striking water practic-allv season the DEPUTY SUPERVISOR possibility building occupied by has Hammond wellcan be put down 2500 or 3000 feet out question or this1 Salt valleys Oil has already been enThe people here decided to have the Company The store occupied the if necessarywithin there-i that fact that road from officialsof the Western Allies' countered and two months Thompsons tu Cisco for reason proves for T who building under a lease several Levi is field Ranger Lewis Quigley after Kendrick who and that state road and build the aria uuiui wuipainva anti inthe sands are ism allplace and the as Hammond brothers manager of the will have has been that is years Big Six road from ranger in company local fields are exdepth needed to dividuals in the Cisco to Moab which would several of years have exercised the option to purchase charge of operations the south division of the Ia shorten the tremelv gratified and are confident bring in a commercial lield declare which thev held under the lease route to your city from charge The of Although number outside peohere about 30 miles thereby opening that maximum of 200 additionalfeet the operators throughout the county Sal National forest was this week ad consideration was in the neighborhood pie ar financially interested in the road to of $6000 'Pirn building will lie thoroughly up the directly from here vised by' the district office at Ogden Big Six company large majority ob and Grand Junction and at the same time overhauled improved the locally promoted to the posistock is owned Thedevelgiving the people who live in the changes Castle that he had been contemplated are Among ject of the of the forest Valley a company is solely to chance to get to Moab by' tion of deputy' supervisor new front for the building and a ceits holdings and ep reach production driving 15 they have miles while Deputy Supervisor Quigley will be lomerit sidewalk drive 90 miles to get now to here he will There cated at Monticello where have are only 14 miles of road to be built charge of the southern division The BOOZE RUNNERS ! this plan and on then grade the road i SUSPECTED REP BROWN SELLS HIS appointmentcarries substantial inAccording to tests made by the Midwest from Cisco to Grand Junction making E B Enrich of Casper Wyoming has drive across the in Mr Quigley Oil & salary geologist of the Standard Oil Coin-' Refining company of Wyo desert from Grand crease for six the $100 ITTIIlinnnilA: AT THOMPSONS Junction to in the the first of INED forest service years pany was an arrival TO LEAVE COUNT Cisco and then down the been the oil produced in the Moab field is ARM rived to has been on left spent week Mr Enrich Tuesday but Moab along settled country all of which time exceptionally high grade and will at least of an The road from Thompsons to Cisco the La Sal forest return in a inweek to spend ilo-no and is hard to months Moab vicinity there are few crude oils in the counmaintain and a very and and nil Italians making an extended detailed exthat road to construct and the Midland Three men woman butary to you surpass the local product i'l Iynn S Pace secretary of Pace the rivamination of the local oil fields Other passing through Trail it road quality who so long as The from Cisco down The tests gave the following were crosses the 1 hr 11 1'iothers company and A R Brown desert all Standard flOil and n the is in geologists of the Thompsons in a car and who were suspected both Grand Junction good shape to within of way from now Castle valley were in Moab er already results: of being liquor runners were is of no value to this ami nf 14 miles con-i subsidiary companiesof have Moab and this direct county milne the fields their to closea deal whereby Pace road to and Gravity car yesterday there will not be made investigations at rested there Thursdayand to l1 ivionn available HI BICU‘1 a that le-1 Initial Brothers lave purchased Mr money SLIUULeu it is understood Mr Enrieh's boiling point 108 company build it for searched About a pint of whiskey was many years is the Brown's ranch in Castle valley formerly vour city result of Gasoline content 402 found in their car in addition to three would ''tailed- examination Transcontinental op travel would have The xv pi 15(1 fifteen-gallon owned by Mat Martin The ranch to favorable reports that have been made Water white distillate kegs which were empty travel 35 miles with the Iaco what crOss-cuuntrv cross-c th"s farther 1I14 the Brothers' home ranch 415 adjoins Pace road down the wayp'y the geologists who preceded him ‘Wax distillate The Italians who were arrested and d river but they would atiavel tnar il'Al TH vu come will be operated in connection with vvyuiu he here Sediment and water ii: by Deputy (Sheriff K milo Holbrook nave fine road of the increased 35 3b TnuC miles Jim from Mopb to Green on account rxf increased 987 could not give a satisfactory explanation the latter The consideration it luidi river and rtuuvtij' good roads or wouiu you neighborhood of a wonderful drive from but over of thev the rig for the Oil ana ?e whv invy carrying ihv was in the Cisco to that the iou tourist business' A drilling Standard oi were Moab film tigu that tnc 'r7f7 that of nun wny wviv rather Afhar re e When it is considered Qhzvirt‘ $9000 W If the road is ailavrivPdat at ThomnJ M ‘'"L built company oi uian arrived uuiup- the richest Pennsylvania oils somfi "vn County down the river Labie io yvu uan an though Mr Brown who is the representative va that the and will be used by the 1)iss and Attorney O A rlan-1 hauling to road uu all sons Saturday Moab and to Monticello win give high in lubricating properties contam from Grand county' to the state in who went to Thompsons 1o and San Moab val7rren you will have a Juan company for operations direct route for truck year Grand legislature intends to leave with his business of will drill its first but from 15 to 20 per cent gasolme the decided to arraign ley Handle case country The company part of this while the trip across the mid the family the latter month to' of Wyoming product from 25 to 'them in justice court on a''charge of for C°It that v'ell on well ground west Grand river river! would never be practical and wo KI vou and you or by nrtm Boneta Montana where he has me gentlemen mile per irtii MAW cent mncolmn gasoline kir comparison nn riuAn it their possession ml' This seems from :35 )iiving liquor in rtf as about a quarter ot A are at resolution as soon imrcbased stock ranch Boneta is present giving your city the should Pi's would appear that the Moab crude pethe stoukt the Courthouse bridge house !in( defendants weru bulk of the state oa comcamp wus the located about thirty miles from Missoula trade in Grand and San possible asking at the ti oleum stands in a class by itself $100 by of the ence dy constructed fjneI Justice Juan aIrea been Air hiked formerly resided in counties and as we arc growing Brown this well site and it is understood that Clark fast it - erry A and it is for the so un Montana in the R reason that seems to me that our inter-o-it U au p Story of Crowder Okla and engaged orations will be commenced near J R That the party have been he enjoys better health in that climate is and that has of t'ime in yours know absolutely summer rig reached A Nichols Hannah Okla for future The were smuggling liquor is iat this and some that he making the change Grand the people San Juan are now up- Thompsons is understood to be a arrivals this have oil route proposed by Moab morning They is the of officers iliiniin'h Star Colorado opinion' ot nnr regretting that Grand county Ji you 'U v tkia eomitv people while would 11 r m TT in iminftr onnu tn of many for you considerable capacity tit'ULLic ii lLllMvn uiiu m v Garnd Junction who have been in ivumij mn the unu's offset any loss while and assist us to gv their the Browns are leaving this section William checkmaup onuua property wjth you would sus-ani eyes for Edward Edward and touch with Grand county officials for happiness by losing is wish them prosperity and travel vitally necessaiy officials of the Standard idea in of time in effort some tourist on what :irP view development worn an to apprehend chnnp some jn their C01!' J the farther distance and growth am! ±°it t been in themselvesas being the new home Moab reThey expresed Italians The following from the so if this river thousand times company whowhohave will have road is built the trip turn as we u't1-: for change of highly impressed with the oil possibil-the Grand Junction Sentinel tells of' the get and o"n the river behind cently orest Supervisor Charles DeMoisy you to ities of this from Cisco to Moab more necessary operations section preparations that Colorado officials Jr left Saturday for Provo to attend the attract more matter party had it iicir travelers of us in 'this only had made into capture the of is supervisors of central tlan At best the'MMland Trail: eluding Grand county aand meeting Trail n°W succeeded cross: the Midland called to consider road because travel is cut eastern Utah Y A' a summer Is On officers: t' and Winter Harvest allotments both in on Soldier yange section and off Colorado suspect?-1 vurJuyp meaning Grand "Three men and a womanthis winter so that again is counties is still in the pion-an Summit in cd of running liquor into state as well ioa need an what we an argument for populated have been now is i'rt HAllO from the west are under arrest al "Officers here between at "'U build officials enable us to up through a country HOLD with to head off the Thompsons having been taken into Utah ana can easily STILL n'ake room for J farmers veurthatcitv and ours ofYou road where custody there vesteiday evening after booze runners and capture their cargo more J101e Population and it maintenance eimer 7 fir must be see they had failed to negotiate the desert and car Yesterday afternoon early a and 'n ou'' lives is is impossible and niindsto get what we almost no one roads from between Thompsons ami message ‘waT received that the party tnaii not a is drop 6tt in nee Ket goods to this coun-mLi do not and forget that there returned to the Utah city en route to this city Mack was again Thompsons and °Ren the HaiKlui in UP water between jk Sheriff Jeff Watsonand a force of a high power Cadillac car country between of an(l chance for any settlement :i m"1he wrnPY lav and Grand Junction for perma-ma Cisco and no armed with Winchesters carrying a considerable cargo of C np HprAMYl V' HE A Ut'enient thereby on this road while betaeen Art in wait for the party a few miles be whiskey1 party was hastily formed giving you line the of that ZlOlPERrt Mt J rea'lv in'es lnore and most a the trip to a vour state least partiallj to this city hue and point below business than the al co yound Mack hut returned settled large of waiting On amount we give you now countrv vill be at after several hours Mack made the There hours of waiting mot rnJ1agme and result if we built the now there are Pfopje their return to this city late in the city spent party returning to this wereonly' Utah from when it was evident that the milBa T°SS t!le desert all the way 90 ing in west of Mack toward foi evening a message was received farr? road speaking everj without half I Thompsons announcingthe arrest of plans had again miscarried here that a dozen am surethis am whnk'acountry m this lettei the °r otber the citizen party in that city "It was bn their arrival that people living like you to the gne this received Talstance few at Cisco and we would past trips have been the news was and Thompsons except a a" "or to months the desert other booze runners had found matter immediate made Grand Junction and you think it vHl of road returned to J the road us whether by a impassable ard had they maintain from advise Colorado points party western Thnompsons to Cisco until the 14 miles this plan or "hethei the to help of Utah town where were liquor usually consisting pay shall you and runners ‘UIISt'ucted but placed under arrest work at cross purposes three men and a woman Snma weeks we get nn we certainly wish not their possession was found but much done on ether proposi-t'Thope they deliver "In some one here to were here planning to vestb-J agoconsiderable of whisky and it is r now L!'ate the real situation consignmentof liquor three quarts before von a lsition made our local thought that they hid the several cases to have to purchasers Local officers change we have wort-2iepS will see fit lO be and that of their but they carrying somewhere along taJ°?iard to get will advised coming were and so you plain youthis road built th had been ?et the this side of Thompsons desert road help and have laid for their arrest after they build Ji with us plans proposition and that city The officers from here had actually delivered liquor oountry which if this SGI?wiil be pleased to hear from you roadiSJm' the members planned a search for early this morning that " 'll miscarried and not only did give you a territorv their and expected to unearth ths taben of the party make escape Junction aw?ys belong to Grand if aiiy action truly with the liquor catch" but they got wholesale houses and that yours very C will away CLARK R 'aster than any section triT : i assume 1 I o besecured1' i 1 rt 4 -unction unil Granduntv corporation The beenpounding' foril i i-v 5 1 f h : a a I V j ‘ 1 V 4 4 IX 4 4 I 4 1 n 11 r t 4 j I ii V i c I Xi- i 4 a I 1 I ' Cl V v I ' c 111 I 1 1 1 4 1 r4 1 I I IV V c m 1 1 1 1 a 1 I 1 1 4 I I z neighborhoodif between 1 i s n 1 1 i 1 - 1 i i 1 1 a ! 4 between e I ‘ account - ' pc-ciallv I ' i I I I ' t ‘ i i v c 1 r I J I ex 1 l-i I I 1 ' -i n 1 v 1 1 V b - 1 1 1 v withU I I 1 4 mii 1 I I 4 i-ilinnrlr 1 1 1 a A v I -J V- j ''n Il z-1 n 1 r b ‘ I I I 4 I ' I J i II I 1 1 1 i j ! j I f d-CoL iiiiiii ' 1 1 t I e i r a v i i i : i ii - i L'rt- 1 i i -is i i i : w ! a ! 1 i a t i -1 ( I r v I actual a ir-i ! a of-the eliminated i sufficient I i a I 1 I : a I a J I I a -a I Notes : I Oil ' a j a a j-try 1 j ‘ a I expensive ' a 0l-ondl 9 I 4- j I j I t -ill j j I L I 4 x- 1 -II L 1 1 C 1 e f J - -E T-h ! 1 n 4 1 1 1 o 4-la i -- a I i 1 s ° t istated I ! i 1 I ' 4-U - i i l $ ! ' i 1 H 1 J 1 V I i-it I i desert I a a a e I 1 1 ' I I I 1 j- I into I n a ex i i I Vi 24- - ! I : a a ( - ' ' I : ‘ i ' I 5 c -an all-year I co-operating S ' ' a ac-trv j 1 traveling deputies 1 1 S 1 H s - 1 j -of I W t in-t -what 1 s ' -is -rs -h's ? WK?? |