Show I Oil BOOM fOR VIRGIN fiELD Three Wells Now Approaching Strata That Is Going to toMake toMake toMake Make a Noise Dont think because we got a rather rathel hard setback when the panic hit the country a couple of ot years yeara ago ao that the Virgin river oil field has been aban abandoned abandoned abandoned or that It is no good said H T Sutton Button of the Virgin Valley Enterprise now visiting In Salt Lake yesterday Work is now under way that will in inthe inthe the near future convince the world that the field is a big and a rich one on Mr Sutton Button states that the Virgin Val ValHey Hey Oil company a corporation composed almost entirely of ot Washington and Iron county people is working day and night with a fine tine rig and experienced drillers on a well southeast of Virgin City A depth of ot 1150 feet has now been ben reached and the expectation Is that the second oil bearing sand strata which Is all of forty feet teet thick as aa against about four o r and a ahalt half halt feet teet for tor the strata in which the present wells exist will be encountered at 1400 to 1600 feet deep If It the ground continues as good to work in as that now being passed through the objective point ought to be reached during the next six weeks or such a matter and then in the opinion of Mr Sutton the real oil boom for tor the southern country wI wl started Another well owned and being sunk by bythe bYthe bythe the company about seven miles southwest of ot Virgin at Goulds ranch is down about the tha same SIlme depth as the Virgin Valley well and results are counted upon at that point as well Another Important piece of work Is go goIng goIng goIng Ing on at the original McKenzie well north and a little east of ot Virgin The Interstate Oil company which has been prospecting other ground in the field has acquired this McKenzIe well which Wits was sunk to the first sands and opened up oil for the purpose of or continuing it on down to the second sand C E Wil Wll Wilcox Wilcox cox an nn experienced oil man and one of the party to sink the first well In the district is in charge of operations at the theold theold old well and promises to bring in a big well In that portion of the field when the deep sand is reached There Is nothing at all the matter with the strikes that have been previously made in the field said Mr Ir Sutton only that they were made in the first oil bearing strata which is not thick enough to make big producing wells Were rere the wells brought in closer clo r to the railroad they would be profitable as It Is but the deeper and more highly productive sands must be reached before the field can be shown sufficiently productive to interest the big capitalists and have a railroad built Into the country countr I have hae had much experience In the oil fields of this and I want to say that the Virgin field in my judgment Is I going to prove a duplication of the Pennsylvania oil basin only that it Is much larger We e shall have good news for feel the certain country before this year is 18 over I 1 I I I |