Show UTAH IS RICH IN PETROLEUM FROM ONE END OP OF STATE TO OTHER ben H jackson oil geologist and general manager of the great western oil co was in the city a few days ago from his present headquarters at preston idaho mr jackson is a typical enthusiastic wildcatter in the oil game craine who believes that the only way to make money in oil is to drill for it and keep at it if one location does not pan out he belides in tackling another and in keeping at it until success is attained so that the company of which lie he is the managing head is primarily a prospecting company and one which he expects will make its mark in the oil fields of this region as time slips along and withal lie he has convinced himself as the results of much field work that utah has just as great possibilities in the discovery and development of potent oil fields as had wyoming montana or california during the years since the close of the world war and my release from service ser vicey said mr jackson while in salt L lake ake 1 I have become most familiar with the oil fields of wyoming 6 montana and california and in addition I 1 have studied conditions in idaho and utah there is oil all through this state from its northern to its southern limits and I 1 want to include the cou country embracing lucli muan of southeastern idaho your old time prospector has been responsible for many discoveries that have resulted in making most of the big metal mines of the western country he was followed by the bir big 6 operating b companies who finished his exploratory work the same princ principle aiple applies to the development of oil fields someone has to do the wildcatting wild which is the same thing as prospecting for metal when this work is intelligently adone done and money is honestly expended the backer odthe of le wildcatter wild catter gets a legitimate run for his money if a well is developed us usually bally the backer makes money and lots of it and so the business continues until fields are proven new 1 I have spent much time in stud studying shudyin yin conditions in the surrounding oil fields and I 1 have traversed utah from one end of the state to the other I 1 find every reason to believe wyoming ir from utah and lines dividing that the imaginary z idaho have nothing to do with the termination of oi di ing formations last celest fall I 1 started to drill a well near smithfield shall develop oil there this I 1 believe we cache county if well is not brought in on oil that particular par nicular location year a points there is lo 10 lots ts of good other likely shall drill at we orth north of there also and there is prospective oil country n in other northern counties promise in of territory te great bearing will be heard idaho which yet of utah and south southern ern in southern utah and possibilities fron from there are great p possibilities worth while will or two that a discovery descove ry I 1 iam aini telling you bei opened up fields being ne new W ng quickly quickly result resu 1 t in bio big 6 |