Show ACTIVITY IN SAN JUAN FIELD herald cortez colo that the san juan juani oil fields below bluff city utah means very much to cortez and the montezuma valley must be admitted by every one but few people however living in cortez appreciate to any extent the scope of these fields and the amount of work going on there but few realize the volume of business passing through cortez bound for these fields it is not an unusual sight to see a half dozen freight teams tied up at cortez for the night and yet in order to fully appreciate yie the amount of this traffic passing over this road one must come from the fields to 1 cortez one teamster just in from there reports having passed eighty teams or a total of f over two hundred head of horses all bound towards the fields the majority of these teams are loaded with merchandise while some are loaded with oil well supplies while still others are farmers from the montezuma valley loaded with hay and oats which finds an immediate market at remarkably high prices the san juan oil fields have not only opened up a g good market for a great deal of the farmers products and furnished employment to a great many teams in the freighting business but is having its bearing upon the railroad situation which gift soon bring about good results |