| Show PLEASED WITH SAN JUAN mining investor denver colo mr C E woodman surveyor and civil engineer of denver has recently returned to colorado from the san juan oil field where he has been employed the past seven weeks in surveying and other work incidental to his profession mr woodman is enthusiastic over the present showing and future prospect of the district confident that with development it is desti destined nied to make one of the most productive and important oil fields in the world his work has been of a nature to take him all over the field affording unusual opportunities for taking observation and acquiring accurate reliable information he states that the so far accomplished assures beyond question the existence of oil in volume and quality beyond computation innumerable and exhaustive hau stive tests by standard oil experts for a year past establishes the quality as of the very first grade this particular grade the very finest refined product of petroleum is what is known as oil and the supply for the year 1909 fell two million barrels short of the demand agents of the standard oil company have been constantly on the ground for a year offering encouragement and inducement to the locators of the oil lands to push the work of prospecting and development guaranteeing a ready cash market for all they can produce and giving assurance of the construction of a pipe line to a railroad connection and the construction of refineries as soon as the number of wells will produce a supply sufficient to insure their steady operation aside from its underlying stratas of oil yielding sands the region has alt all the characteristics acte of the desert during the summer months the temperature is intensely hod and sultry the supply of pure water is exceedingly limited and its sources few and far between because of these conditions mr woodman advises against going into the district until the fall months and approaching pro aching winter brings a moderated tem ture prospecting and development work is prosecuted during the summer months at greatly increased expense and with many almost insurmountable inconveniences and extreme discomforts comforts dis chief among which is the extreme heat and scant water supply however in spite of these discouraging drawbacks the road from dolores on the via cortez alcelmo canon and down the san juan river is lined with boring machinery etc being taken in by large pennsylvania and california companies for prospecting and developing the large holdings acquired during the vast past winter by their guests with undisguised enthusiasm yet des of any disposition to exaggerate with convincing conservation mr woodman describes conditions and indications comparing them with the vast california oil bearing tracts whose product has created innumerable millionaires and lined the pacific coast with palatial cities until the most unresponsive imagination is aroused but finally abandons all effort to picture the autu future e possibilities of the district if one half the prophesies are fulfilled the not distant future will see one of the most thrifty and progressive communities of this part of the union spring up in the vicinity of the four Cor corners nersi where colorado utah arizona and new mexico came together meanwhile the energetic adventurers so prominent 1 in the development of the western frontiers have their gaze riveted on the bluff city oil field and their ears strained for the starting of the stampede that is certain to set in at an early date |
