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Show TRUTH 8 Salt Lake City, C. M. Kilbourn, president; W. I. Roberts, secretary. Carbon Oil company, $250,000, Salt Lake City, W. P. Lynn, president; George W.estervelt, secretary. Chicago Oil company, $30,000, Salt Lake City, Frank T. Burmester, president; H. Barnett, secretary. El Verde Rio Oil company, $1,500,000, Ogden, J. A. Cuttery, president; S. S. Smith, secretary. Fossil Oil company, $1000, Ogden, Jesse J. Driver, president; Horace B. Stratford, secretary. Garn Oil company, $50,000, Salt Lake City, William C. Hall, president; Lee Dunlng, secretary; properties on Green river. Green River Oil company, $250,000, Salt Lake City, James H. Moyle, president; F. C. Bassett, secretary. Golden Scepter Oil company, $5000, Price, E. C. Lee, president Marin County Oil company, $250,000, Salt Lake City, Joseph Llppman, president; A. C. Ellis, Jr., secretary. Ogden Fossil Oil and Land company, $10,000, Ogden, J. C- - Armstrong, president; George J. Kelly, secretary. Price Oil company, $60,000, Price, L. Lowenstein, president; Morris Sommer, 000, Oil Development in Utah. i I i 1 f 't i ; ' i i . t I In five years from now the oil in- Ephraim, has been conducting experiments the distillation of oil from dustry in Utah will he larger than its shale. Soin far the experiments have been mining, said an oil man the other day, very successful. In the process of diswho has made a study of the situation tillation the moisture comes off first, and prospects. The people are just be- then illuminating gas, then the higher oils, and finally paraffine. ginning to wake up to the fact that oil right at their doors are the richest fields in the world. People from PennA special dispatch from Cheyenne sylvania who have had .experience in the business and who have exam- says: Travelers en route to the Uinta ined the fields in Utah and Wyoming are astonished at the apathy and in- county oil fields are passing through credulity displayed by local men. If here in considerable numbers. On one the same oil fields existed in California, of last nights trains was a party of Ohio or Pennsylvania, the people there six oil men from the Texas fields who would be wild with excitement and were en route to Fossil to obtain inthere would be a fierce scramble in the terests, also sveral Omaha men who way of locating and developing the will Invest in the Spring Valley field. fields. The ground has been pretty A party of Englishmen through well prospected and it has been es- Tuesday en route home passed Lanfrom the tablished beyond the preadventure of der district where they obtained propa doubt that oil exists. All the condi- erty near the Murphy wells. Several tions essential to the existence of oil men have left for the Fossil in vast quantities and covering a vast Cheyenne Standard. country. area of territory are present in Utah, Wyoming and in some parts of Idaho, but that is not all. The companies that have done development work have metThe Salt Lake Oil and Gas company with oil in such quantities as demon- has filed articles of incorporation. Its strates that the article is there. The conditions are exactly similar to those capital stock is $250,000, in 1,000,000 in the oil regions of Pennsylvania and shares, with a par value of 25 cents per California, which have already pro- share. Officers: J. A. Kuykendall, duced vast wehlth. In California the president; Louis W. Ely, for years to B. S. treasurer and secreindustry is yet young and even in Cal- tary. TheseRives, come it will increase, but with D. J. gentlemen, ifornia, experts say, the field is neither Williams and J. H. Rives, are the diso large nor so rich as that of Utah. rectors. The company owns a tract of In Pennsylvania there are strong indi- petroleum and mining land near Green cations that the production has reached River, Utah. its maximum and in some regions the wells are giving out. Pennsylvanians are looking for new fields and are turnThe drilling outfit and machinery orthey ing their attention to Utah, where have already recognized the extent and dered by the Calif ornia-Uta- h Oil comvalue of the ground. Capital is looking for the fields .of its pany development this way and the interest with which near Green River has arrived at that the operations are being watched, parof moving the apticularly in southern Utah and Wyo- station. toThethework where drilling will site within paratus and is increasing daily, ming, a few months we are likely to see such be commenced was begun 'with a rushexcitement and such development in the and in a few days the drilling operaOil tions will begin. industry as will astonish thea world. experts predict that within few years will be laid from this region a pipe-lin- e to the Pacific coast and that is no pipe An oil exchange has been opened in dream, either. Within the past two Ogden. been weeks oil in such quantities has struck in three properties, as to estab-lis- h r to a certainty that the stuff is n H. M. Dukes, the Calithere and all the indications are that first The is in it paying quantities. fornia oil man, who has been sojournconsiderable flow was encountered in the property of the White 3tar Oil com- ing in Utah for some time investigatpany In Dairy Fork, Utah county. At ing the oil fields and the oil situation a depth of about 500 feet a flow of twen- generally believes that oil exists right ty barrels a day was tapped. It was here on the verge of the city. After accompanied by gas and water and all making an exhaustive examination of the conditions which have never yet the North Salt Lake region he made failed to be the precursors of Immense application to the City Council for a quantities of the best kind of oil were perpetual lease on the sewer farm for the purpose of boring for oil and gas. present. The same conditions exist in the prop- Ample local capital, Mr. Dukes says, is erties of the San Rafael company in behind the enterprise, and he is preEmery county, in which development pared to expend thousands of dollars work is being prosecuted with vigor. in exploring the ground in the belief One well is down 1300 feet. At various that oil exists under the gas which has depths all the way down oil in increas- already been found in the lands suring quantities has appeared, the latest, rounding the lake. Mr. Dukes offers to some ten days ago, being a flow of thir- give the city a royalty of 10 per cent on ty barrels a day. The company is bor- the gross output of the wells if oil Is ing right along and any day may strike found. The members of the Council the real thing. At most it is only a are inclined to further Mr. Dukess scheme and are considering his propquestion of a few weeks. In Wyoming the Fossil Consolidated osition for a lease. Mr. Dukes has alOil company is in the lead. As in the ready secured options on a tract of White Star and the San Rafael ground, land northwest of the citys land. small quantities of the fluid has appeared as the boring progressed. A depth of 600 feet. has been attained Following Is a complete list of the oil about 100 feet in sandstone bearing oil. the flow gradually Increasing until now companies that have been organized in It is about twenty-fiv- e barrels a day, In number. These corthirty-si- x a remarkable showing for the first oil Utah, been organized withhave all porations sand. in the present year, except the Juab The Wyoming Paraffine companys Oil and Coal which was well is down 225 feet. The property is formed in 1894. company, name The of the comnear Fossil and it is reported that the pany, its capitalization, location flow encountered at 150 feet is increas- main office and the names of the of the presiing. dents and are secretaries given: A new rig is being placed on the Annual Oil company, $20,000, Salt company ground of the Lake City, W. M. Spencer, president; near Fossil The Baku Oil company, which was Edward E. Bush, secretary. Incorporated last week, has 10,920 acres Bald Mountain Oil company, $62,500, of oil lands, 640 acres in Utah county, 3840 acrs in Carlton county and 6440 Ephaim, J. M. Hansen, president; M. acres in Utah county, all most likely F. Murray, secretary; properties in Sanregions. The company expects to be- pete county. Callfornla-Uta- h gin development work at an early date, Oil $24,000, and is now in negotiations for machin- 3alt Lake City, C. M. company, Kilbourn, presiery. dent; W. I. Roberts, secretary. The Bald Mountain company, whose California-VernOil company, $24- ,properties are in Sanpete county, near .i vice-preside- .1 i i . I -- . j well-know- ' - . !o: . V t - ii- is .ii .ft i; i'i IF. !! . '( - & .. . 4 I f 4 Idaho-Wyomi- if S r ; . f i:. - ng al nt; secretary. San Juan Oil company, $100,000, Salt Lake City, E. A. Well, president; J. S. Bransford, secretary. Salt Lake Oil company, $200,000, Salt Lake City, J. O. Wood, president; J. Barnett, secretary. Red Ridge Oil company, $50,000, Salt Lake City, E. V. Higgins, president; S. L. Hague, secretary; properties near Thistle, in Utah county, and in Juab county. San Rafael Oil and Mining company, $125,000, Price; Arthur J. Lee, president; W. H. Clark, secretary; holdings in Emery county. Spanlsh Fork Oil company, $5000, Salt Lake City, J. A. Grose, president; F. E. Arnold, secretary. Goldberg Oil and Mining company. Price, Herman Hill, president L. O. Hoffman, secretary. Utah Oil and Paraffine company, Salt Lake City, W. B. Folsorri, president; H. Barnett, secretary. Baku Oil company, $100,000 in l,00o.-00- 0 shares. A. Scott Chapman, president, Jonh T. Lynch, secretary. Properties in Utah and Carbon counties Utah Shale company, $50,000, Salt Lake City; W. II. Hackney, president; S. Li. Hague, recretary; properties near Tucket, Utah county. Western Oil company, capital stock $50,000 in 10 cent shares; William Hatfield, president; A. J. Davis, secretary. Salt Lake Oil and Gas company, capital $250,000, in shares of 25 cents each. J. A. Kuykendall, president; B. S. Rives, secretary and treasurer. Property, Green River, Utah. $70,000, $25,-00- 0, F. W. Muhlenbruch and Scott Hamilton enjoyed a very successful duckshooting expedition in Boxelder county. The former returned with 130 and the latter with eighty fine ducks, teal, canvas backs, mallards and other varieties, which they proceeded to distribute among their friends. They say there are millions of ducks in that part of the country. 33- - to 50 per cent ? REDUCTION ON Winter Dress Goods. and Development Salt Lake City, C. K. McCornick, president; J. C. Gladden, Waist Length, secretary. Twin Creeks Oil company, $10,000, OgSkirt Length, den, John D. Carnahan, president; E. C. S. Bralnard, secretary. Dress Length, Utah Lubricating Oil company, Misses and Childrens Salt Lake City, Joseph R. Walker, Dress Lengths; president; Charles A. Walker, secretary; properties on Green river. atUtah Union Oil and Development J. Lake J. Salt $50,000, company, City, to Trenam, president; Edward W. Clarke, per cent ft manager; S. L. Hague, secretary; properties at Soldier Summit, Tucker and i Less than Regular Prices f Mill Fork Siding, in Wasatch and Utah counties. Uintah Oil company, $1,000,000, Salt Lake City, C. B. Stewart, president; F. M. Eakle, secretary. Theres Money Utah Oil and Refining company, Salt Lake City. J. A. Meredith, in president; W. H. Hennefer, secretary. Utah and Colorado Oil company. GEO. E. BLAIR, $500,000, Salt Lake City, Delevan A. 411 Auerbach Block. Holmes, president; H. O. Shepard, Spring Valley Oil company, $150,000, $50,-00- 0, -- 331 $10,-00- 0, Utah Crystal Oil company, $25,000, Salt Lake City, N. B. Campbell, president; A. H. Meredith, secretary. White Star Oil company, $250,000, Salt Lake City, A. H. Tarbet, president; W. C. Crawford, secretary; holdings In Dairy Fork canyon, near Mill Fork Wyoming-Uta- h Oil company, $500,000, Ogden, A. Van Patter, president; Frank 50 wv v wv w DL White Star Oil Company. Pioneer Company, Learn About it. Make Money on its Stock. CALIFORNIA-UTA- H Francis, secretary. Juab Oil and Coal Salt Lake City, $100,000, G. D.company. presi-den- t; Haven, E. B. Wilder, ties in Juab county. secretary; properLand and Oil company, Salt Lake City, D. J. Williams, Will Buy, Sell or Lease Oil Lands, president; Lewis Telle Cannon, secreWill sell 150 Sections located at tary; holdings In Emery county. Green River, Utah. Best Oil Land OH on the market. OPEN TO IN AA?S1IjUbrlcatln8' company, Salt Lake City, Heber M. Wells, SPECTION. president; Charles S. Burton, secretary. an Benito Oil company, oAifAAAlS' $300,000, Salt Lake City, M. A. 327 D. F. Walker Building, Breeden, president; Charles W. Olson, dent. SALT LAKE CIT?, UTAH. OIL COMPANY $100,-00- 0, $100,-00- 0, vlce-pres- U |