Show t IT A AM Prospects p PC S for f r Finding hd Oil 1 J ear Salt S t I Lake City r rP I W P JL L Finn III si HILE RILE talking ng with vuth a California min mining man main W has taken a flyer in oil on in iA bis bin own owa state I expressed my belief that we would have a great oil field here f the next Dext year yew 1 He said Paid he lea had spoken to a mining man whom 1 knew well and that this party hall had h i told him bim it would be Impossible to find oil la in ih t 11 j valley on account 4 of the faults I 1 replied tint that th it oil had never uever been Y food except along a line of faults and after a mo mot t s thought he be said he thought hought t I 1 was correct Three years yeans ago aco I began the study of this valley In ID reference to its iu gas and oil bearing sands 1 t then made the statement t that the gas that t was wa showing rag In lu this thia valley vaney found its vent through the tW Wasatch fault and that I believed it came oame from great reat depth At that time I made a diagram explanatory of my m idea of th the cs p phenomena showing the fault and ad where stratums stratum of sand reaching close clo e to the fault would be impregnated with the gas u why wh the gas following the place of least leut resistance would go out along these t sands saud and sad gravels and would be large or small 11 according to the amount of ot the sands Banda and their distance or proximity to the fault I noted the sand and sandstones stones above Fort reaching out and disappearing peering north of ot Beck Becks Hot Springs and under these theM the which show in Parleys canyon slid d along north of the Warm Springs where through t the action of the Wasatch fault they din dis disappear appear under ander the alluvium of the valley IGNITED GAS ENVELOPES A MOUND I found the same conditions existing at st Brigham City where ere the gas mounds are ans very ery large urge aad and pro and where today gas gu can eu be heard rumbling wader under er these mounds While there a couple of months ago ap and while examining the place where here X here the tile new news gas ga s well had h b ad been found Mr file the owner who was showing us the ground was wan lamenting that there were no indications of Suddenly there was wac a rumbling fig like Uke a miniature earthquake and ad the ground was shaken haken for a distance latance of thirty or forty feet in diameter It ia Is needless to say any we all very quickly got cot go t off oft the mound After Otter the noise BOise subsided we noticed a few cracks along the surface and aad d Mr Knudsen stepped up to see ass if the gas ge e was there striking a match close elo e to the tile crack enelL I 1 was wu at the time within about abort ten tea feet of lilt Jita thinking thin I would be perfectly safe rife even yen If th there the should be gas gasA as A ia fa the crack As B soon lOOn as u the match was u struck and before any ani X of us had time to move the pie whole mound w covered with flame lame and aad for far ten Wil or fifteen Alteen min minutes mm lB utes if burned it the Same lame extending from two to M Af teen tema feet in the air The ne he ground pound at Promontory where wh the asphalt seepages are an also alIo shows aho every evely indication of faulting ad aay my opinion is U that this seepage comes from tram a tare large body bod of asphaltum below which is II forced f up I 1 through small fissures until util it encounters the die sand sandI and ud water where we it is cooled and partially p hardened Taking T into Jato to consideration the showing of oils and I oil chalet found around Soldier Summit Summt and aDd extend extending lag ing down ia lo the valley on dB this this side Bide the Ute gas ps tome I at Castilla Castilia Springs as well wen as its Ha its hot sulphur waters the gas gs mounds and seepages of gas all ail along this f valley especially at Woods Wood Cross Centerville Farm I Ington and d Brigham City with seeps of asphaltum at st stand Corinne and nd Promontory ant and ad oil in small quantities quantities ties encountered in the artesian wells ls at Rudy ranch raach and the ranch ru close clone cl to the stack k kI yards ards on the Jordan river and in io the well wf ll at Silvers I I bouse house on Fifth Bast East street Salt Lake City For the i volcanic e theory we have the Wasatch fault which would give gins ready access to the oils oU said and aD gas ps And for tOI forthe forthe the organic theory there is Lake Lak e Bonneville whose old shore hon lines liDea are so IiO plainly marked along aloag our OUI mountain aides When this take lake was drained would I not n the fish and other life lite filling its waters wate naturally seek the last Jut place to dry in m other words the lowest spot in iii this W valley v 1 Taking all an existing lq conditions tt into consideration I have no hesitancy in Jl saving that here will win be developed one of the great oil fields Ie of the world f Many of the people e here hen were wen discouraged d by the previous attempt to the gas gaa inthis Inthis this field I lad find that gas PI and oil were known to exit exist close to Beaumont Texas from the fleet first settle settlement settlement ment of Tex Texas and spasmodic attempts at development at Sour Lake had been made since 1862 while no wen well was brought in until 1902 so there is no DO need Deed to e e about this field as it is 18 only going through the same 6 experience that has been met in other fields before the first erst well wen was wae brought in iu For instance the tile Lucas Lucu well which brought Beau Benu Beaumont Beaumont mont Into prominence was wa one year and a half in course coune of construction during which time they met with a great ret many more disappointments than the people have encountered nt red here While referring to then them will say that they the the Guffey Galey people have brought in more new fields than probably b any AY other firm Arm jn in the United States FAVORABLE EVID EVIDENCES IN ABUNDANCE II In studying this question I find And that t whatever the differences ell of opinion of too those Who believe in the I organic or m inorganic origin ori n of oil oUt they all aU agree ee in I what Mr Eugene Costa Coste of sd Toronto f da CIu calls call the sign sip manual of an oil fleW field I believe bel that t any per person person I son going om over these tit fields Nelda will agree rea with me that they are oil and ud gas JU bearing after aft reading the tel fol following lowing quotations from fr oa his paper read nad at the Feb Felt February nary man meeting this year yar of the die American Institute Itu of Mining Engineers VA NI NII I i OlIn In all the oil oi and gas fields or petroleum deposits the products are under a strong s pressure which is not artesian ian or hydrostatic which increases with depth sad and which cannot be he anything inc else alas but buta a volcanic pressure pr In some of the en oil and ard gas ps flews fields heated waters oils oila and gases are met with i I All the oil il and gas fields bear imprinted largely through sh the products associated with the oil and gas pa pathe gasi i the fuel referred to above as the distinct character mile t of emanations I I The oil and ins gas fields Nelda are located along ale the JM fault faulted faulted faulted ed and fissured zones of the crust of the earth paral parallel raI raIlei lel lei to the great and dislocations I Oil gas ca and are ace never indigenous to the strata aUMa in which W they are found they art are ar secondary products impregnating and aDd cutting porous rocks reea of all ail spa exactly as volcanic products p could do ASSOCIATED A TED PRODUCTS ABE AU AR s FOUND Oil and gas are stored products in great abundance abundance dance in ta certain n localities while neighboring J calt localities ties often oft are entirely barren and many Da of o tie the strata along which J ch they are found are so 80 impervious that the source of these ue hydrocarbons must murt be the th volcanic emetic source below which alone alma is abundant n t L Patrick Patriek J 7 Donahue is 18 ene ef the best beat mining engineers and na in Utah With the geological pol cal structure st of the t state hs h is wary mery familiar and an after r bavin haviD spent span ww time during daring the past put three years yearns in making i C investigations touching the possibilities of gas fas sold and oil on field near Dr halt Belt t Lake JAke and Jid after having spent a great deal dl of t time in ilL the tile held field he be has U ens tad to ge nit eat record with e prediction that prolific fields would result from development 1 along the line u of what is known by geologists ceo as the Wasatch fault In his article Mr r Donahue quotes liberally frost from a paper read rend hater before the American In Ia Institute Institute of Hining Engineers ef sf which he is a f member by Eugene muc Marts Goats of vi Toronto He Xe does so 80 for the ther reason r that it so clearly defines dea conditions found in the Utah field and atad because Jr fir Coste Cost is an eminent Dent Ul authority on Oil the ae subject of which he treats enough and alone possesses sufficient energy erg tn to f force toree a ard d accumulate such large quantities of the thes theand and associated products in so 80 many man spots through such Impervious strata Toe The oil and gas pa are always found fouad under UDder small smal mounds or salt islands lands i which are gentle recent qua uplifts on oa o uplifted domes dome This TI is 18 fully confirmed by C W Hayes in a recent toper r and aad by others The salt water and the tile oils under these mounds are in sow some so cases es hot The oil and gas under wader these mounds do not decor decur in any definite stratum but in spots sots of many strata and apt in very large huge quantities in these the e limited Baited areas areu i The saw same may IDY be said of the products associated tecI with wItIa the U set oil or gas PM under these mounds moUD vis viz Sal Sul Sulphur par hydrogen sulphide salt It gypsum D limestone and dolomites which form under these thee p mounds many irregular masses and pockets without any order of any kind JUDd Tire The above associated a products are nut not found in tB inthe inthe the tU wells drilled outside of the mounds monads any aD more ao V V than they often form very thick vertical lies 1 hundreds and ud thousands of feet in thickness If U these facts are kept carefully II fa ta mind no DO other oUter conclusion can be reacted t the j jOM one oae adopted by Ity Mr Hill that these i S I mounds associated with the oil and i Be oil U I II have hse originated by secondary sec replacement said and that I they may be of ot age ace Quoting from R it T Hill s paper A M M L VaL VoL 33 page pap m Phenomena accompanying tiff sill fi IB ills IIII f I the Beaumont field eld By studies and aad dIf of the tile coast toast prairie the following facts facto have harts bil I loped t i First The oil is closely losely associated with wW the mounds occurring on their slopes or summit r I Second The mounds are usually U or 01 l m in structure Third Most of the chemical phoneme Ja J z ef fit the hers group occurs in iD all these theBe mounds mound i ia la varying proportions n Fourth In some localities hot water wate ha has been hea struck below the oil Fifth In IB the original Lucas Lucaa the oil oU itself was hot The oil on seems eem to occur not in la any definite c siMs none stratum but In ia spots pots of ot many strata nil b r j struck truck before h I the b ha Men pressure as tP wrack qty q under ander sack dL k quantities Q OO as twit fre Oas 0 G a in fn J Is Isare I Iare r are to ip it bests bed bed of sand which smith predating g sputa spot 8 in to inta tofa ta tit or Of a aUte b Ia the Ute surface aa as a aLake mat Lake it is tom found at Saratoga and Sour hear tabb a at Rockland RocklandS Jl 4 At several r varying coe sL sLins ins ing the oil And from the same paper papa pegs page 2 I In the discussion of the geology of t the e coast cout e eI I have given some evidence of the ex of a strong fold or faulting beneath beMa the coast prairie And again from the tile same author page US III Oil may occur in stratified rocks of d any a age e fro the UIe oldest paleozoic pae as in iD Pennsylvania to the i latest teat tertiary as u in Texas Corsican hIde fields contain at least leat two d oil horizons The e uppermost has bas an as a m base bs e while the lower is 18 of a suture nature And from hoa the same paper pave pap 5 S and f b and 10 The oils waters and gases p under theae Ui are not Bot under hydrostatic pressure This Thi is amply tr demonstrated by the fact that the once oace luau f m mera sh era ers of SpindleTop are already gushing no Jao man lore and have now BOW to be pumped If It the pressure pr A there wae WM artesian iaD or hydrostatic they would be gushing yet the same ame aa as at fret first and if the oil had bend been ex ea exhausted hausted in some of them would be gushing water out of the supposed artesian water r column cotuma be he heA A V load hind J ad the tM oiL 0 It It is W now a dm in n that t in i ill all the e 01 gas Said hide the rock pre Ares s f the ga aa a s 8 a store star i energy en 17 i 0 as aa the gS b s escapes Gas itself 1 has baa to be pumped oday in n mapy any field to pressure re was too strong rong at ir 1 r t Surely r 0 this thi meant 1 to is not a rest resi it of artesian or M hydro Itro hydrostatic hydrostatic static water OIL AIL BE BEETS BEET rg ARE NUMEROUS The rile above OTe a view views view on 08 the origin of the OJ o phenomena ena Zeal not only of the mounds and salt alt islands landa i of the Tim Fetta 1 Louisiana district but of if all other till oil depos deposits deposit its it sw mt a simple aim interpret interpretation of tr the geological of ol oil which wI should be a guide gut l to important important tant taut in the practical development de of new on and g fields in the United States as they have already been such su a valuable lo guide pWe to me IDe in the th devel of large lame new gas fields in Canada These Thet e views view lead indeed to the following important con cond elusion d OH ud grad gas were supplied thing along some of ef the lines T of structural wl weakness ama or along some of the frat frac fractured mass of ot the th crust of ot the earth an anI aul 1 therefore the new MW fields AeIda are to be found only along alone these nines lOBS or hefts belts The serous numerous oil on and gas fields kno known a today hid indi indicate cate plainly a considerable number of those these oil oU belts but more mon remain to be discovered and new ones 08 are coming rapidly to a the tile front especially in ia the United States That this thic is the solution of the problem of the geological leal occurrence of oil and ad of oil oU develop developments G menu ments me aad exploration D es the writer has long been MeB con eon convinced convinced vinced lilt the considerations and for the reasons given WIll dIMe above It follows blows therefore that as far as practical results are concerned the important point Is to accurately trace these fissured zones or belts beltson beltson on pod good saps road and to drill in the i e localities thus thua indi indicated indicated I wUl will conclude this by a quotation from troa Mr Hills Buffs paver paper regarding what he had to say of conditions in to Texas POSSIBILITIES ARE ANT The nae only drawback to the prosperity of the state elate was wu the lack of aa aft economic fuel inferior interior coal cost costing costia lag ing an II as average aversa of 5 5 per ton toD at the time of the Beau moot moat t discovery uc f This TI prevented the successful s tol oper operation operation of any ore one of the thousands of ot minor indus industries tries trie upon which w other communities ordinarily de depended depended for prosperity rity la As by b a touch of magic macic this great gnat fuel fu i supply burst bunt forth |