Show DENVER MEN Will VILL VILLI I DRill IN WAYNE VAYNE Join Utah Citizens in Concern to Develop Promising Oil Lands f 0 Details of ot the te forming by Denver and southern Utah Uth citizens of f the thC ColOrado Utah with the Mines Ines Oil on company wih purpose in Il view of developing oil 01 and coal lands in Wayne county c are re related related related by the Richfield Reaper The new nev company is incorporated for shares share par value 2 each Its Is of officials officials are arc A C Burton lurton president J H I Curfew vice president G C Weber Teber secretary Dr W E E Stone treasurer Is X C Peterson assistant treasurer these with wih Alonzo Billings and D N Hickman forming the di directorate directorate directorate The company has secured title tte to acres of ail oB 01 land ami in Wayne ayne county count and anci they are making active preparations preparations to begin the wor vor of ot development Of the te shares of the capital capita stock stok shares are owned lo 10 locally cally eally and shares by b A AC A Ac C caly Burton G C Weber R P M 31 L Stone F G a White and C Dr W E E Stone of ot Denver The remainder of the stock wil will wilI be reserved for development pur purposes poses Jaser The initial meeting for the te forma formation Lion tion ton of the company was held at Loa Loav Loay v y hen the Denver men were there a ago and later a meeting was 1 led ed in Denver where the articles of incorporation were drawn up and signed igne These have h ve now been filed fied wih the secretary of ot state and the company Is ready for business business Local Men en Start Movement This is 1 the culmination of a lot of o work on the part of John H I Curfew of ot Loa Lea La who ho knew of the possibilities of the country lying below Loa and whose abiding faith has ha led him him to hang on and keep boosting Through ot 1 1 lis Is efforts the Denver Denyer men were made acquainted with wih the possibilities of tl tt the e Wayne county oil 01 fields Mr r Burton is an oil 01 expert with wih plenty of experience and he Is sanguine that the county will wil develop some som gushers which will wil force farce foree a railroad into that country countr Dr W E E Stone is a geologist and from his observations is well wel satisfied that the geological e conditions are right for a big oil 01 country countr Of the other men interested Alonzo Billings is from Burtner Utah and D p X Hickman is a Wayne county man Judge Chidester J 1 H ErIck ErIckson son and G 0 T Bean are local stock stockholders stockholder stockholders holders holder and thus Utah Uth is well wel represented represented represented In the corporation A great many Denver business man are inter interested interEsted ested Ested In the tle district district and there tere prom promises proD promises to be considerable ol of O a rush to the new fields Local men on the tle all the available ground are locating al surrounding country and ard considerable excitement prevails in Wayne Wae over the prospective oil 01 developments development Hn nn Great G nt Coal ConI Fields While oil 01 land occupies the center of ofte tte te tte stage In the present talk of Wayne county it must be remembered that Wayne Vayne arne county has the greatest unde nude undeveloped eloped coal fields In the state stat There are places In Wayne ayne county where great veins of coal crop out on the and farmers obtain their fuel there VIere without much exertion A rail railroad rn railroad road would mean much tp tv Wayne Yane I resources and this is expected i it t result resul from fro the oil oU developments In addition ad ton to oil of coal and timber t tere ere is a strip of Wayne Wane county count con containing containing taming hundreds of ot thousands of acres cf ef the best fruit frit land in the west west TI Is 15 the least developed and least In portion porton of Utah tah Is bond bOld to torne tome rne to the front in the next few years At present the long distance dist ce over mer the from front the nearest railroad point gives the county a severe handi hand handicap handicap i iap cap ap but with oil 01 developments and a railroad from Green River Wayne county will wUI surely make a noise like real wealth before long I |