Show UTAH SOUTHERN OIL IN NEW combination the utah southern oil company has been added to a group of companies organized the past year which have some earmarks of being offshoots off shoots of the royal dutch shell interests the company was incorporated in utah last may with an authorized capital of shares par and a group of salt lake city people were named as ancor pora tors all owning one share each except george T hansen who was credited with being the owner of shares it acquired a prospecting permit in G garfield arfield county and two ii emery county utah little was heard of the new company until a month ago when it made a contract with the ute petroleum company for the joint testing of the duchesne structure in northeastern utah new officers have succeeded the incorporators with the exception of hansen these include frank franz vice dent F B weeks former assistant director of TJ S geological survey secretary and treasurer and max W ball formerly with the royal dutch interests L F rains of salt lake city and C F jennings general purchasing agent of the utah copper company directors the company has leases on the circle cliffs san rafael swell and woodside Wood sid e structures in utah and dove creek and dolores structures in southwestern colorado the acreage on the duchesne structure was originally acquired in the interests of the matador petroleum co subsidiary of the royal dutch of which max ball was head ball resigned became president of the ute petroleum which took over some of the matador holdings liol dings and part of which have nov passed to the utah southern salt lake advices advises say sam the utah southern is considering the purchase of a producing property in salt creek and another in cat creek and is examining conditions with a view salt lake it is understood to erecting b a refinery at city that practically all the companes comp anys acreage was originally investigated vesti gated by geologists in th the e employ of the royal dutch other companies holding a large acreage 0 or r other interests organized within the past year and about which little is known and most of which contains directors or officers identified with the other companies are western pipe line co which has projected a pipe line beewen salt creek and casper utah petroleum co with acreage in utah matador petroleum subsidiary of royal dutch and P plateau lateau oil corporation with extensive acreage in western K kansas ansas wyoming oil news |