Salt Lake Herald | 1902-07-21 | Page 6 | The Salt Lake Oil Company

THE SALT OIL COMPANY Appears to Cut Some Ice in the Cal California California California Fields Of the operations of a the Salt Lake Oil company in California the Los Angeles Times says The Salt Lake Oil company man management management has changed its mind This shift will cost the southwestern exten eaten extension extension sion ion of the local oil field a refinery or at least will delay the erection of such sucha a plant pl nt there indefinitely I Having proven that a n light grade of oil aU is to be found a few miles mUes to the southwest the Salt Lake company be began began b gan making preparations for the in installing Installing stalling of ot a plant on its property Then came caine the news that a pipe line was to be built from tram Whittier to the local field and yesterday tanager Manager Fred Phillips announced that the re refinery refinery refinery finery scheme would be shelved until the air clears Drilling Is to be resumed at once however an order having been given yesterday for the deepening of well No 3 Oil of eighteen gravity Is the present production but It will be bo sent in for tor a product showing two degrees better We find that the deeper We ve go the lighter the oil gets said Manager Phillips yesterday If It we succeed in making well No 3 a good producer others will be sent down and we will probably pr bably put two rigs at work What the field really needs Is a refinery but the outlook is not as encouraging as asit asit asIt it might be At present there is no market for oil aU and very little Is be being being being ing produced but we could easily sup supply supply supply ply a large demand from the wells wella al already already already ready drilled