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Oil GRAND COUNTY UTAH VALLEY TIMES AND THE EBRUARY' THURSDAY j W h INDEPENDENT 12 NUMBER 1920 CASING 1809 Down To ARRIVES WELL 1865 LINCOLN Company Driven Rig THE O GRAND VALLEY Hole Be ' J CONSOLIDATION OR SALT Developed Be r pT- ' l IN Local of Holdings r ' CONTRACTS DRILLING '4 inics-Itiitrprnitintf MOAB CO i''St 1 ' - - 46 SIX " s A BIG 'I - - Bije VOLUME 4 j - - U r f r 1 - q ' !x-4 - Xt-S" -f 1 w- -e " "' - ' ' r f PUT BE ON At Interest At PUMPS Delivered Equipment Work To Be Well Tomorrow To-day wMMM Mi ALLIES TO Well Oil 10 Resumed Much Displayed By i until a test of taa The casing for the Western Allies main thorough well' Moab last well's capacity is made which will was received in night and work will be resumed at the probably bo next week well this morning Many offers have been made for the Although the casing and equipment holdings! of the Western Allies company has railroad by oil companies been at Thompson the and it is that point for several days the impassible a tentative sale has been condition of the roads to Moab has made but this report can held up earlier delivery A special not be verified The officers of the freight outfit was hired for the job company are very optimistic over con the local trucks being unable to negotiate dltions at the well they static and the roads our six horse teams that within six months they hope to the have completed at least three more were required to move enough of equipment to begin work wells The next well to be drilled will The managementof Western Allies be located on the Snyder lease on the that it is their plans to announces north side of the valley' Tool houses clean out the well and shut off the water and other buildings are now in the at of once after' which the pumps construction on that farm will be installedand a thorough test course is and if no difficulty experienced in of the flow of oil' 250 bar-ikl off the in made The shutting water thepresant tanks ordered by the company well it is planned to move this rig not yet have arrived having been onto the Snyder lease the last of next shipped from the east but Tt is claimed week that a fair test of the oil flow Levi can Kendrick who holds the drilling bo made without these tanks contract on well No 1 will be in Owing to the unpleasant publicity charge of the completion of the work given the company through false He will be assisted by driller Walter which were circulated it has Bailey the man who brought in the been decided to allow only those people well Chs Nelson tool dreaaer and who are directlyinterested in the "Ouriey"'HU an experienced oil well ield in from the Pinev Wyom company to isbe around this well While driller the work proceeding A night ing Great care will be exercised in guard will be employed and every drilling into the sands and it is doubt taken to prevent damage or ful if the full thickness of the produc fire at the well It is estimated that sand will be ascertained in this inside of five days the well will well Mr Levi stated that it was his cleaned out and nut on the Dumps opinion that a commercialwell would be had by opening the Nat Levi president of the company sand to a depth is on the ground as are also Dominic of twenty fret It is estimated that P Ber-1 thq rank Grosso M to a sands have been pierced jgefa and" Henry Ruggeri mom-' will re-1r bers of the (Continued on'Page Eight! company J' "y '1 v this week Tle Big Six company which is completion of composed of local men ownes a largo & of oil lands and the well on its holdings in Salt Valley it acreage and leases is drill is at Thompson planned to at least three rig already The holes during the year and will be unloaded and delivered on The first well this and in Moab will be spudded in ground week valley as the company's actual begin early an off set to the Western Allies well operations will on the Maxwell lease Arrangements eTheeH which will be completed have been made with the management oi the to Western Allies to provide oil bv the local company was driven last for a' depth eight feet steaming purposes during the of hundred by the Big Six and in this by a Salt Lake comaptiy Work year last was suspended early year when way a considerable saving- can be made lessors was unable to provide casing on the fuel eost as by the use of coal the oil in strike which costs sixteen dollars the When the recent Moab was made the Big Six company expenses are considerable I who had acquired the groundon which BigKendrick Levi field manager of the Six the stated that actual operations unfinishedwell was situated in Salt Valley would begin early next to immediately drive the hole All Levi The log of the week equipment has" been to the sands at valley well tallies with that Of Thompson but owing to the Salt condition of the roads some difficulty the and had when will Western Allies well bit be experienced in drilling was suspended the getting the rig feet' of silt to the about thirty-five company holdngs A string of officers of the local According to casing has been shipped from Wyoming be Cut and the pipe is the Levi sand should until received the company two contractors will clean out the hole and in the next hundred feet John Bowman secretary and field do all preliminary work preparatory of the Consolidated to rushing the hole to Wyoming completion when manager Oil company was in Moab the first the pipe is delivered of the week in conference with the When operations were suspended by of the Big Six And as a result the Wyoming company last summer of this considerable gas was encountered at conference a working agreement with whereby the the bottom of the well some Resentingthe attitude of certain so called oil experts who have used was entered into Little attention was Wyoming company contracts to complete showing of oil the columns of aSaltLake paper to condemn as a fraud the oil strike that paid to this at that the well time but since Mr Bowman stated here the Allies well made citizensof Moab thia wjeok caused to be nvritten an answerto he had made tentative arrangements Westerp was brought the article Salt with the Guslaveson Oil Under similar coriditidhsthe officers which has' been tbrwawleji to-the Lake Tribune qver their company for inOf the Six that the the drilling of the well Big are confident The article-is The rig is signatures herewith reproduced: be drilled into within a at Thompson and will be placed oil sand Moab Utah ebruary 6 1920 Valley at once very short distance m Salt Salt The Editor of Salt To The Lake Tribune: Lake City Utah oil company the Reul already American ! - received CITIZENS ATTACK ON "EXPERTS" NEW officers pre-caustion tion ' I J ‘ I Dear Sir: Some days CAUSE iNhstimTA EARLY ABOUT UTAH ' ' - ' c-j t - 011 : w ovucij uetu engineer xui ura Wyo company of Rawlins returned from an extended trip of inhpectjon to the extreme limits of San Juan county'to the south He spent TUfiftdav a 171 ' i WOLSKILL TRAPPER THROUGH MOAB YEAR 1830 WILLIAM I Ohio' Oil - -1 : -They ‘ KENTUCKY A - PASSED IN THE the ‘"nifrht in AfrtaK arrl lAff Sevier Where do Sevier county river and Sevier lake get their names? Hawlins yesterday morning Mr Solwas question is answered in a letter ‘yibilities enthusiasticover the oil pos- This to the in that he state historicalsociety from Moab and stated looked for big activity Enoch Jorgensen of Sandy not only in the Moab and Salt Valley fields-this "The Spaniards under Escalante ia summer valley but first entered'that on who many other structures 1776 the which in his Isabelle" he be productive called river Santa opinion would in said the "The Valley of Santa Isabelle southern country' Mr the is occasionally referred to in old Spanish Sellery followed structure from the records but the valley river and Moab valley south to the San 'ic u? after bes' While in the southern lake as now known were namedof Kentucky oil field he Sevier examined many of the wells Brigadier General Johnactive then as an He experiwho was very made a pumping of and solver western the Ellis well' fighter Jh®t on which was om-' 5 1? if'rst t0 be drilled problems from about 1790 to 1875 This there William Wl although having stood idle for His fame was at high tide when nearly ten Wolfskill of Kentucky came west years produced fivb barrels and Pet day in trapping and trading the test began and on the la1 the well Mexico New W produced six barrels The around Sante a party 21LJro m bis field is of "In 1830 Wolfskill organized to find very high srade and in at Taos whose object was California respects compares many grounds in the v®Jablywith the oil recently struck new trapping the old m mountains' They followed Moab crossed Mr Selleiy stated that he expected Escalante trail north and west the river where Moab is tbe Grand Holbrook field in Arithe the Green river near ll0nth and would return to now crossed City Mi- 'Tmediately The: present site of Green River afterwards journeyed almost due west to thence is company which a branch about where Emery nf thence ostandard Oil now is mo?" company has had up Ivy crjeek and down Salina canyon But Moab field for some time to the Santa Isabella the 4 kthe dlscovery of oil here and i‘ their Sevier record uses the name that rePorted find terwi they have so myj earliest original can tentative arrangements that it Wiliam Wolfskill is was ir??he the valley estern Allies for the tak-tbe of Kentucky who named company Also it is and d river Sevier" ‘at offers have been made excerpt tn gives an vi Jorgensen 'Cid ease holders Including Mr "American History and its Geographic tL m st? frbm Reality and the by Bi? Semple m Conditions' K aix Oil company company up "They followed he which says: the of the rim the Sevier almost to SCHOOL vvay West--war? " worked their STUDENTS basin then California" The tarn Jor £ to Panguitch Mr ferred to is near TO COMPETE OR PRIZESSgensen believes Mr Jorgensen In conclusion of the Rocky "Traders and trappers called Sevier ur company will' Mountain J and be four silver medals' lake ‘Ashley lake' and ft of but the to tL: high school students river was similarly spoken ThrelPen'M Bevier first used I believe b University of Utah nnlests w'll be igna in name todes bating held one Wolfskill was everof after ln the speak-tas' Great basin extemporaneous the longest river ane-7nj readinbeen The state ff gion" J win?ldxd- nJ° elRbt districts -the speaking contest the in feme n these districtswill The contestants of World on Uigh School will talk ‘the HnivS1 Day et on some phase a choUnrS1M wben the winners will Peace ha Contestantstwowill be given sAcific topic Moab is ln the thifd diswith hours to prepare trict WnfTPriS five minute speech Crbon Emery' Grandx a is Carol ties Ulntah and Duchesne counboPk nicken'S" "Christmas to be used in the reading contest ten min-Ite suML be debating tournament given a Each entry' will read and an hour to that the ederal selection to Ptovidtol £ sboud pass legislation PllS8theltlatter contests two series of labnr Tt- or compulsory arbitration constffi pvlesin all Public utilities girlsaid one for WiH be held one for each to get a go! na jty fist boys the winner in conceded In this silver medals for second tmedls T11 be given to medal with LCaTH place ' the well ' Taking a e 8 --the so-called e-n en-wio conclusion I : t 1 ? : - ' j de-??ine ' t ' ' thevemmoei°lvedi L con-rinninr g-oi thet of the up statments made recent oil boom at Moab" by ‘ Has Mr the Calverts we find: 'boom collapsed? i J of Jhn ago-passedthrough - I ' I ' ( -body d materials " i ! -and "Collapse The facts j v j ' enterprise s well'-' f It is true that production reports were circulated estimating the well at from fifty to two thousand barrel per day These' estimates however they were mainly based upon geological may or may not beand correct: the driller a Experience as to how the well deductions came in the structure with all of the While the writer is ofnot qualified to discuss site the fact that the formation and Mr Calvert can company: of ' convey Western Allies is attempting to conceal the real conditions at the well with a view misleading the public that they are afraid to permit the public to At the time know what production they really have same Mr Calvert knew what the Western Allies Company had no casing on hand and that in fact the last 200 feet of the well was isdrilled without casing also he knew or should have known that Moab not a manufacturing center The facts are the Western Allies Officials where casing is turned out? immediately after the oil was struck went to lorence Colo in person and placed a rush order for casing packer pumping material and tanks The casing etc is now at Thompson Utah and will come to Moab as fast and bad will permit one as weather conditions roads Not moment tune has been lost in getting the necessary material to case off the water-to the wellprove the production of A further statement in the Calvert report: "The formation of the district holds forth a still more unfavorable aspect than the wk'll" Let us ask "what does Mr Calvirt know about the conditions at the well?" not see jt drilled he did npt aete it baled he has no log of the well He did did and he not get a peep into it? and the Western Allies peoplethewere not in the least in convincing Mr Calvert one way or concerned other " it then endeavor to make Why should Mr Calvert appear that the presented an "unfavorable" aspect rom the foregoing statements in'" and similar led to Mr Calvert's report other ones believe that we are investigation and Mr Calver's report is not wholly based citizens upon geological of that it is not fair and impartialto the Moab and the state of of wisdom words we from Moab where Grand where we are drillingia exposeda short distance ths formation showing that tHc sand we have struck is River cross-eats of from in place and has a thickness one hundred and fifty to two hundred These facts feet The well itself shows that this is a producing sand to as much consideration as Mr Calvert's cursory we insist are entitled field the tog of this well And furthermore examieation of the proves T the drawn by Mr E Wolverton a recorrectness of a cross-section' to the study of the Grand putable geologist who has devoted several years entered a ‘River structure which shows conclusively that we have by oil sand and this cross-w ction was completed Mr Wolverton in this well several months before the drilling beganCalvert's article that falacious gleaned from Mr To those who have for by the speculative purposes made Western Allies company reports were that the Western Allies have offered no stock we have to announde to develop acreage for sale if that they intend ibr sale and have offered no hold it and they get the more can acreage which they now a i pany of A ' "Although thickproductive Lake 'l'8S j ' made the Monday I I ' j changed Utah tad news was received in Moab morning of the death in Salt L Nielson Mr Nielson week ToBb on hw way to the capital from his home in Blanding called there by the At'its annual meeting held several sickness of his iwifle find children the week ago Midland' Telephone who had been spending the winter of Moab decided to extend with relatives company its According to reports received here telephone line from Green River but six Nielson was siek hours on to Price a project which the com- bMr - had had in' mind for several with pneumonia when death claimed pany but which was impossible to him Monday morning at four o'clock years u the shipped to Thomson and period The carry through during war was The stock holders of the company at was taken to his home at Blanding their recent meeting authorized the Wednesday where funeral services will immedate constructionof the line and be conducted The deceased was a young man liked steps were at once taken to secure by all the his death news of his shoqk-to a The Eastern Utah Telephone com-Dviia came many line 1lxsnt111 a price has soar evidently Trienas1LHe was we son 01 Ida E Uaii pany A iw snnnnm concern iiv hvij wiiVv of lies of the heard plans the' Midland N Json aqd survived by a wife and for it is suddenly?' taking two cniidren ne wan 34 years of agi company his life became prominent River and during steps to build the Price-Green' line itself as a stock man being interested cattle The following from Saturday's Salt in the business in San Juan tens 01 tne county iaKe irinune suuuen the Price O DECISION COMPANY MOAB TO EXPAND BESTIRS EASTERN UTAH TELEPHONE CONCERN TO ACTION are: there are more lafge oil operators at Moab time dur-'? now than at any for ing or prior to Calvert'svisit oil inMore money has hands te rests and higher prices paid since Calvert's report than before Therethe only of is in fore indication collapse shown Mr Calvert himself :'A further statement in Calvert's report: no attempt to case off water etc": This statement shows a wilful attempt was on the part of Mr Calvert to the idea that the Com' PRICE: ' ' the BT SHOWN Indian t 1 EHTERPBSE en-titled 1 ' ( 1 '-q- "SUDDEir -article ""i " article under the heading "EXPERTS ago you published an OIL BOOM'S END" upon which we fee! that we are to a casual comment in The your columns was a quotation from one W R Calvert whom you characterised asa-Salt Lake geologist This article purporting to come from a man of high repute has caused wide-spread entire a belief throughoutthe country that the oil business at Moab is a bunco game and that the Western Allies Company who drilled in the well circulatedfalse reports of 'the condition of the well for purely speculative purposes We were not inclined kt first to make a reply to this article of Mr Calvert's as we knew his attitude in regard to the Moab oil field before the well was over brought in but since the article his been drawn upon by the foulestand most unwarranted statements press for the statements which refleet against the honor and integrity of the people of Moab and deride the possiblediscovery of oil in the state of Utah we are compelled it to resent Understand we do not in the least object to Mr Calvert or anyone else prominent or otherwise giving his opinion of the geological condition of the Moab field but we do resentthe' imputation of Mr Calvert's article that we are fakers for speculative purposes and the implication that no attempt has been made by us to determine the flow of oil in -Bergera i v w-ill jiitiimiOB Mi I ! already : ‘ f S'' reports INDUSTRY t : ' ( 1 RESENT rtf ' operating decided Entered - r : ' A operations rf reported ' 1 Oil for 1 Six contract let 1 The Big ! Men ' ML Thompson - Oil Utah Telephone company Easternwith J ' LAWS INCREASE of claimed assets of NEW Prio' the more than 108 000 is applying to for ntihlic utilities commission of Utah SCHOOL ATTENDANCE to permission extend its line from Price to Green River Utah There it will connect with the Green River: will Telephone which effect of the Valley comapny The new state school tele enable patrons of the and company toJunc-jage raising the compulsory school aWs Grand phone through Moab limit from' 'sixteen to eighteen lion to all points east is in shown figures compiled by obtained years J "ranchises have been Norton assistant state superinand it of from Carbon Emery counties jlcndent public instruction The is asserted in the petition" midyear report of enrollment in the high schoolsfor the present year slat totals mofe than 13358 an increase of HIDE nmr Ilin AND rim UR nniintllU COMPANY "The ' j I ( UNDER NEW f MANAGEMENU The high school enrollment for Grand county at the beginning of the Colorado Hide and ur com-1 61 Colo which 'year 1920 is given at 47 asthe against panv of Grand Junction only dis-last Grand county is branch at Monticello in 1919 established a that shows a fall-five December and who have been ac- trict offin intheits state high in the school enrollment purchase of hides and furs! rK (rOm Our personal headgear thank you has chnged teanajJemenL isin the decidedly not presidential Beach has succeeded W' ring' We nevk keen on field were very ? agent and he these Punch and Judy shows in satisfactory manner' cal business also a stated his com-J Beach that made for Mr APPEAL from) CROSS NURSES pany would not purchase hides' anyone unless these hides werecerti-' tied by the State Hide Inspector as Red- Cress nurses are needed in in the by law to Mr families Valley and According many' R J Thomson chairman of Beach 'is no likelihoodof the price of Mrs pelts the hides and dropping in county Red Cross chapter is be' out to the prices:will however sending appeals women price ur of Grand tenth and he county to volunteer their much less after March All advises that all furs be shipped before devices during the to epidemic that date those who desire render their communicate services as nurses should Mr Beach has just returned he from! waul Thomson at once Castle Valley He stated that with Mrs able to negotiated the river road be-1 who will outlinethe work to bo taken that place with a wal up tween Moab andtons of rocks had lobe gon Several removed from the road in places vThe ' fa r - ! -RED re-quired ' -sheep I I -- -x- ' I I |