Show DRILLING IN GREEN RIVER FIELD advocate price utah according to an oil man just in from the prospective green river oil fields in the southeastern part of the state a field bisected by the denver and rio grande one well boring rig was recently unloaded at a point in the field about fifteen miles west of thompsons Thomp sons and it will be set up and begin boring for oil not far from the railroad track as soon as the weather veather will permit it is a rig capable of penetrating the green river for formation mahon fifteen hundred to two thousand feet already extensive locations in the new field have been made and at least three companies have been zd to develop th ground within a radius of twenty five miles from green river newhouse interests are said to be in there with a la large rge acreage J E bradshaw an oil man said to be backed by new york capital has been on the ground and thinks well of it in some of the deep old water vater channels cutting the formation at least five oil sands have been exposed oil seepages see pages are found in inmany many places at widely divergent points the oil sandstones may be broken off and will burn almost as lively as it if it had been soaked in kerosene the oil is of high quality with paraffin basel base very much resembling that found in the spring valley wyo and san juan fields in fact this is thought to be a co continuation n of this chain of oil pools as it is on a direct line between those two already proven fields there is ample water down in the green river field the railroad is close at hand the seepages see pages and the formation are inviting and I 1 predict a rush in there within ninety days as I 1 belleve believe it has a greater future than san juan on account of its admirable railroad facilities and other attractive features remarked this man direct from the field |