| Show J f r EW OIL AT AI VIRGIN CITY Owners of First Producer Bring in Another at Greate Great e Depth At a depth of ot iO feet the second oil well wen on the estate of ot the Virgin River Oil Development company campan In the Virgin river district l has hag just been brought brou ht in inand Inand inand and It is ill a n dandy andy dand Secretary J 5 E Busch stated yesterday that the word from camp was to the tha effect that while the flow had not yet been accurately a geer er Superintendent Pat Hollahan claimed that it would easily equal forty barrels a day lay The new or No 2 well is 1St feet teet deeper than the No 1 I IvelI well velI which was all the first producer in the Virgin field and which is now pumping barrels a day da This oil is be ing used to supply the compan s own engines enInes and those of ot other operators o in the same field fjeld So little news has been n coming coining from th the Virgin field of ot late that the Impression aba sion hiss has gained currency that nothing at atall atall atall all was doing down there But this is ev cv i Id a mistake as evidenced in tIle the fact that Mr company has lias just brought in its second well and that it is much better than No 1 I It was wae wa reported only a few days ago a that a party of ot California oil oU and rail rall way men were headed for the Virgin n field and that the matter of ot transportation was wasa wasa a a subject that was to be thoroughly gone into That was taken to mean that the fields importance was receiving tion and that it was no longer a question as to whether the section was going to te tomake make good but rather what would have to be done in order to make a market for tot the product when it was available From L the aspect of things at this tills moment it seems as all though there was going to be lively times down in Dixie before long and the probability that this forecast is h right is emphasized emphasised in the news that conIes comes from California to the effect that oil ell production on the coast is millions million of ot barrels per annum behind the demand When the Virgin and Juab fields both beth L get busy as they will do in the this near fu In ture according to the horoscope Salt Lake will have something besides metal mining to think about |
