Show I To Drill in Salt Lake for Oil Site for Well Near Fair Grounds Business Section Is on Dome V I. I I 1 plans of or a recently formed V SHOULD S company be carried out as as- successfully successfully suc sue I a as Its officials anticipate antici antici- pate the residents of or tho the western 1 portion of or the tile city of or Salt Lake will wake some morning next month to discover that an n oil on derrick is Js' being erected in lii their midst An engineer and g who assisted assisted as as- slated In the formation of or the tile com corn company pan pany an and who has operated In all the southern fields nelds including Kansas Ok Ok- lahoma Texas and declares that this derrick will be tho the forerunner forerun- forerun ncr ner or of a forest of or such structures within tho the city limits of or Salt Lake Lako and that It will equal in extent a similar forest in Los Angeles Ho He also declares that much of or the business section of or the city covers a awen awell awell well wen defined dome and that 1 If a drill drill were to pl pierce the formation at the tho intersection of or Second South an and Main streets right in the heart of or the business busness bus busi ness district districtS oil would be struck I In addition he declares that the tho Immense basin in which the Great Salt SaU lake and the city of or Salt Lake are lo located located lo- lo will win prove to be one of or the time greatest great great- oat est natural gas and an oil fields in the world The company was as incorporated a n. few days ago as the Wasatch Extraction company compau The president ViS is C. C C C. Hedum of or Salt Lake and Cor merly an extensive mine operator operator-at at SIlver Sliver Sli SIl- SIl ver er City Ida an and who now Is In California California Cali Can fornia completing arrangements f. f for r standard rigs rigs' The treasurer secretary Is William manager manager of the Utah Ice Storage company compan a l Denver concern concernS while tho the vice president dent dc t and manager is A. A D. D Pearce en engineer engineer en en- and geologist The company has acquired two to tracts of or land lanel one of or acres located less lessI than two miles from the tho Guggenheim I Copper works an and the other comprising ing about ninety acres known as the theOld theold theold old McCune estate an and situated just across the time Jordan river where it is spanned spanne by the North orth Temple street bridge and nd only a block or two from the main entrance of the tho state fair fall I grounds The smaller tract and which is within with with- in Id the city city- limits according to the tho officials oUI- oUI dais cals of the company compan will be developed first They state that it is their Intention in intention In- In to sink as many wells veIls as necessary essary to a depth of about feet toV to V V obtain a commercial flow of ot gas and that timer they already have hav purchasers o of 01 gas providing f l the amount developed d Is la sufficient nf for their requirements ir This drIllIng It II Is s stated ted will b bh be done nb by means 0 of a small rIg rl but b should h the the anticipated flow of at gas b be struck standard rl rigs g will be put ut to work drilling for or oil to an any depth necessary to prove iro whether oil can bf bl obtained in pa In quantities It Us Is declared that no doubt exists as to striking gas c-as In iii yiew view of or the this fact that gas is coming from er e every water well on ni the ih small farms s in the Immediate imme Imme- diate vicinity and constantly is bub- bub Wins tf tp the tIme surface of or the time water vater In Jordan river while streamers of 01 oil on which also occasionally rise with th the gas an and quickly quick evaporate prove provo the presence in the immediate vicinity 01 ol a basin of petroleum C. C F. F Druce a small farmer armer whose hose home lion Is Just south of or Redwood Hedwood road about four our months a ago o sunk a sm small ll well to a depth of or us feet and struck gas KaM as at three points He lie covered cred the well with an an Inverted sheet Iron tank about five feet in diameter and three feet In height Prom From this thiN tank a pipe leads to a ga bas Sas range in the kitchen and the time supply and force arc are moro mon than sufficient for tho the four burners and which re kept lit constantly Mr r. r Druce states that If It the gas Is turned oft off for even half an hour the force torce oC of the gas coming comins from tho the well ell lt la hI suf- suf to raise the tank from the gro ground u ad On the cage acreage beyond the Guggenheim helm heim Copper works is a sealed salt dome on which officials of the com corn compan company pan pany expect to develop clop an oil gusher usher That there is present an nn immense amount of ot gas is shown by the fact that from numerous little water holes gas laR constantly is bubbling up while from the bottom of ot a a. re reservoir a a. afew few taw feet In depth it can be he brought to the surface b by means of or a a tick In such quantities that it can be lighted by by- means of matches V Northward from this point and In tho vicinity of or Farmington two other companies com corn companies panics will begin drilling during during- the present we week I while a third Is Js expected expect expect- ed to begin operations before the end of or the month All AU these companies will first endeavor or to develop de gas supplies an and then proceed with deep drilling for oil olL r |