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Show TRUTH OIL DEVELOPMENT. done this season as the company wishes to prove the ground. The only proThe past week has been a quiet one posed Moffat road from Denver passes the field which may to in oil circles and yet an oil strike has through be one of the most valuable inprove the been recorded in the Spring Valley country. fields, Wyoming, that may have a great a a effect on the industry of that portion W. I. Roberts the manager of the of the oil belt. This strike was made California-Uta- li Oil company left Tuesin section 22, about a mile away from day for the coaBt. A meeting of the The property ,is company will be held their the U. P, well. in the near owned by the Atlantic & Pacific Oil tuture and some" steps'- taken .to get on some proposition to comCompany, which company is said to be together the well at Green River. plete a branch of the Home Oil company of a a California. As in all the other strikes The Cincinnati-Uta- h rig has reached in the Spring Valley district the oil Price and is now being teamed to the sand lies just beneath an oil bearing Sin bad basin where it will be set up. shale. Of the other two wells in' this Manager Kennedy is on the ground field, the Jager still seems to be the overseeing the work. most important and the well still cona a oil. of its forth to tinues quota The Indiana-Uta- h give rig is now at In the Fossil field, Wyoming, two rigs Thompson Springs and will start for the well site of the company in a few are drilling for oil and the days. is now pulling casing prepara a to shutting off the last flow of It is reported that the R. M. Pope atory water. In the Green River field three are running two rigs over in rigs are at work. These are the New people York, Utah, McWhorter an dthe Burns. the Book cliffB of the Green River Several others are now being put on fields. They are sinking shallow wells. the ground and the out cornels waited a a for with what patience the oil men The Oil City companys well is now can command. Thus far the progress down between 1300 and 1400 feet. made has been in depth of holes made and nothing startling can be recorded Manager Burns is in the city after except that the week sees each well having spent several days at the works. nearer completion. 11 that section. n We are close to a half have our customers at our very doors dozen flowing oil wells and had we as one might say. Everyone connected wanted it, could have been watching with tlieconcerni8 satisfied with what done. a flow from our own before this. But has Ibeen received a letter from the manwe had to pipe in some water for our ager of the work, which I read to the use first. Some people get water in directors meeting yesterday, tellipg their oil wells; we get nothing but oil them what had been done and when we expected to bring the well in. They and have to pipe in our water. We are were highly pleased with the results-I- t down 1,008 feet and are going through is quite likely that we will sell of the treasury stock because the a lot of blue clay which tops the oil time when we need outside help has sand. In the other properties near us practically passed. It is quite likely this sand runs from' 350 toSOO fttft that we wilUdeclare. a sfcQgk dividend thick ness at about the same depth we among the directors, giving each, a are in, and we estimate when we bring share of that remaining according to our well in that it will flow for the holdings. We are at all the world next forty years. It isnt a speculation and highly peace with the at results. we gratified with us; its an investment. have achieved since we started Mr. Moore has worked hard We went into this scheme on our to on its feet; I have business the put own money. We do not owe a dollar done some little work; the others have and everyone connected with the busi- taken a deep interest and all of us exness is feeling good. pect to reap a golden reward in the We did not organize for the purpose very near future. We are not conof selling stock either; just to develop cerned at all about the. outlook, properties, and make some money. Money was what we were after and money is what we are going to have. We made our stock for the reason that we knew when we had expended a certain amount no more would be needed to develop the holdings; that we would get oil and that from the time'" we "first1 struck it we would have plenty of capital to cona a II ft The Grand View people at last re" tinue. W. I. Roberts received a letter from J. W. Moore, our general agent, ports have not as yet got down to California-Colorad- o manager Whitson of the drilling. brought this proposition to our notice. Oil company that oil had been a a We looked it over, saw the lands were struck on the companys ground near McWhorter and Hastings after an in the heart of the best oil dis- DEEP WELL MACHINERY. Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The amount of bad luck, uncommon even right in the trict country, six miles from one For prospecting for Oil, Coal, MlneraL letter states that the oil was struck at in these intermountain fields, are now road and fourteen or water, for deep or shallow work. miles from another Ten styles of portable machines. 400 feet and that a flow of 75 barrels drilling, making about twenty feet and where Standard Derrick Outfits for a depth of had other been right people 8,000 feet. Rotating Hydraulic Process- per day had been made. Tins' land is per day. a a making successes, so we invested. We for soft formation, guaranteed to bore a contiguous to the Green River field hole 10 feet per hour. Several assessment rigs have been incorporated for 500,000 shares of SI and may be said to be a continuation ordered during the week and will be each, gave 125,000 shares for the propBY THE MANUFACTURED of that oil field. The well has been put to instant work when they arrive so could and start even' be erty everyone capped and nothing farther will on the grounds. F. C. MANUFACTURING COMPANY went right ahead. Some treasury a a (CHICAGO SUBURBS.) HARVEY, ILL. stock we sold for ten cents per share; H Oil in the Little Paraffine well at some for 25 cents; more for the latter Fossil still continues to increase. The figure than the former. We bought a well is down between 125 and 150 feet. standard No. 1 rig and began drilling. INTERMOUNTAIN AttENCY j The result you know already. We are Utah a a Mining Machinery & Supply Co: The Debuque company has ceased going to bring the well in right away. Just as soon as this work is completed 8 S. WEST TEMPLE STREET operations for the season. we shall start the rig at work on anSALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. other well and at the same time put a UTAH'CROWN OIL CO. new rig on an additional one. When we bring those in, and there is no Castle Gate Winter Quarters doubt about it, we will have three been have of talking Plenty people Creek Clear Sunnyaide and on the product we IN EFFECT APR. I. 1902. about oil, said A. A. Rudy, the well wells flowing, Nut, be to 9 to able Slock, Anthracite cent Lump, expect pay a known South Temple street merchant dividend on our capitalization per All Sizes. $500,-00of DEPART. Now that sounds a great deal to Truth yesterday, but very few of D. H. SHARP, Agent For Ogden, Cache Valley, Omaha, Now with the company like counting chickens before they are have them it. St. Kansas 73 So. Main St. City, Chicago, Denver, doesnt it? Well, with us it Telephone 429. hatched, 7.00 a m I am We different. Louis and intermediate points its of, president is merely stating what is to For Ogden, Butte, Helena, Portland, havent said much either. But I made happen, a few short weeks going San Francisco and intermediate before it 9:45 a m points... a directors meeting Thurs- does happen. to a pmrrmimmmmmmTTmmminnnmp: report For Ogden, Omaha, Chicago, Denver, D we first started boring our When one It made Kansas City, St. Louis and San which every happy. ....12.60 p m day in the which lies Francisco strata, well, very was to the effect that we would have a close For Ogden, Denver, Kansas City, the surface to comparitively m 6.00 p Omaha, St. Louis and Chicago well either tomorrow or the first of speaking, we got 81 barrels of as good S. C. EWING. Prep. For Ogden, Butte, Helena, Portland, circumcan be as found But oil there. of San Francisco and intermediate next week, depending upon Salt Lake City Street Cars from 3 10:50 p m points A well flowing barrels, not course the principal oil strata lies stances. and Fir Tlntic, Mercur, Provo, Nehpi a all Trains Pass the Door. lower down. 7.55 a m Manti reckon some on, as people gallons, The oil we get down there is a fuel miimmmuuimiAmmumiiiiiiiumiai For Provo, Nephi, Milford, and 7.05 p m barrels the hundred, every day of oil; the best known. Three and a half intermediate points by For Garfield Beach, Tooele and Terbarrels are equivalent to a ton of coal. 7.45 a m the year. minus coal ARRIVE. Where is the property? Down in The oil sells for SI Bells ton to from in $9.50 $14.50) per From Ogden, Portland, Spokane, . 8.85 m Kern county, California. In a location a can see So California. a what Francisco. San and Helena you Butte, 9.10 am surrounded by flowing wells. It is demand for oil there must be, esFrom Ogden From Ogden. Chicago, Su Louis, Kann Oil company, pecially now that the railroads are called the sas City, Omaha, Denver and ban P m and we Francisco using it for fuel instead of coal. Two incorporated under the laws of railroads From Preston, Logan, Brigham, San down there are using 175,000 Francisco, Ogden and intermediate 9:50 m Arizona, for certain legal reasons, and barrels of oil a month. After the p points filed in Utah, so as to have a good first cost of the well is paid the price From Ogden, Butte, Portland and 8.10 pm San Francisco...? ;....... here. I am the presi- of production is only a few cents a From Calientes, Milford, Nephi, Provo 9.85 a m legal standing F. C. Dern is vice president, G. barrel, so the profits are immense. and intermediate' points. dent, m We are surrounded with excellent .... 6.00 p and Mercur Nephi. From Tintlc, and G. A. Hill is as I have stated. Our. prospects From Garfield Beach, Tooele and 5.90 m E. Airis is secretary wells, p Terminus treasurer. Mrs. 8. E. Lawlor, Mrs. M. are as bright as any one could wish Daily except Sundays. N. W. Clayton, Dr. O. W. them to be. We dont owe a dollar. D. E. BURLEY A. Craig, T. M. SCHUMACHER, of our stockholders live here G- P-T. . Act. Traf . Mgr. Huff, I; A. Clayton and W. J. Lawrence Everyone There has been no friction in Utah. D. S. SPENCER, A. G. P. & T. A. are the other directors. since we started. Our title kind of any City Ticket Office 201 Main 8t. j "We have 140 acres of thebest land is clear. Our excellent We -- Utah-Wyo-mi- no-mor- e .in-busines- ng non-assessab- le, , 10-ln- ch mi ; 224-22- TIME TABLE. 0. I Hotel i ' , per-barrel- Utah-Crow- -- - - lo-atl- 'is Telephone No. 250. - Cullen |