Show GOING AT VIRGEN CITY Bullfrog Clark and Associates Associates ates Buy Lands Land for Cash and Orga ize Companies EXAMINE FIELD CAREFULLY RIGS ORDERED AND VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN DECIDED ON ONH ONH H H Bullfrog Clark Bert L Smith the well known Nevada bank banker er with local minIng operators and southern Utah men have taken hold hoM of the Virgen Viren City oil field In a busi business business ness fashion and they propose to do business down there in a busIness wa way The They have organized two oil companies and the papers will be fIled toda today When I came here with Bert nert L Smith a few Cew weeks ago said Mr Clark yesterday esterday it was with a pur purpose purpose pose of having him and C D Porter go down with me Into the oU oil fields look the country over and see what the chances were to do legitimate busIness Mr Smith was called to Los Angeles on account of sickness In his family and Mr Porter and I had to go down without him We dId business just the same and Mr Smith has approved of our acts Examined Field Carefully We Ve went over the field very care carefully carefully fully without giving anyone any one an inti atlon that we Intended tm tc buy tny thing We visited I sited the well that tim 1 r recently brought In and then tool took In Inthe inthe the country to the east and the west We noted the formation its tion and the different oil se pa es through the lowlands found foun that the fIrst oil ever struck In the country was wasat as asat at a point three miles or so west of where the recent strIke was made in ina ina a well put down feet with a spring pole found that an old oil man by the name of F A Brown wh who had been prospecting th the field for Cor two je rs had located about one and ear miles east of the new well certain tain tam that he be was right After seeing all these things and weIghing the rop carefully we started out to the men who owned the land we had decided we wanted and we bought it Drilling Rigs Ordered Today we have organized two corn com companies one to operate acres on the Brown location the other to develop acres covering the original sprIng pole well discovery and running up to within a quarter of a mile of the re recently recently discovered well These proper properties properties ties have been bought and paid for in cash Drilling rigs have been ordered from Los Angeles and let me say We ordered from there only because we could not get them here and just as soon as possible we shall begin boring or of both properties We believe we have secured just as asgood asgood good land as there is in that region If we get oil in one well We shall cap it and proceed with tIle the driving of an another another other As soon as we h ve demon demonstrated demonstrated to our own satisfaction that the field is all right additional rigs will be installed and well velI after well ell wm will be put down We Ve are not going to be cramped for money and when the proper time comes we shall be prepared to put in pIpelines to carry carrr the oU oil to the railroad build refineries or do anything else that the field justi justifIes flea fIes and business enterprIse demands When we quit the field if such a thing should happen it will be only after we have thoroughly prospected It and found that It is no good We Ve are so far well satisfied with what we have done and we have every faIth that the tIte field Is goIng to be a big one and that fine grades of oil will be developed Big Men in Companies The corporation that will operate on the tract to the east of the latest well is to be known as the Southwestern Oil company compan It Is cap at in 1 shares Bert BertL L Smith the Reno banker Is presIdent president dent H H Clark vice ice president C D Porter secretary and treasurer the theother theother other directors being Peter Porter and I I H F Collett The other company is called time the Southern Utah on Oil company and Is capitalized the same as the South Southwestern Southwestern western H H Clark Is president Bert L Smith vice president C D Porter secretary and treasurer D J Smith and E L Ferree both of St StGeorge StGeorge George being the directors The offices of both companIes will be In Inthis inthis this city and both Clark and Smith promise to be frequent visitors here Fourteen pounds of crop pings from the Southern Utah ground were crushed and distilled and a pint of kerosene oil was obtained This fact and amid the character of oil that Clark and Porter were able to obtain from ground belonging to both companIes has convinced them that while there are possibly InferIor grades of oil down there as In mo most t fields there are r also unlimited quantities of wIll yield much high grade fuel and and that they propose to demonstrate with as much dispatch as possible |