| Show OIL MEN INVADING UINTA BASIN with five different oil companas comp anys representatives working 6 in the field some of them for the past three weeks and others more recently entered busy securing leases from the landholders land holders an oil excitement prevails throughout the ashley valley says the vernal express the U S land office has been so overcrowded with work it was necessary to employ another stenographer at the county recorders offices many leases have been filed and the entire force is kept busy helping those desiring information concerning the records at least one deep test will be made just as soon as colonel co lonel A E humphreys oil magnate of denver can get the drilling equipment on the ground it is ex expected pecked this test will be made by september of this year Every everything thi n g is promising for ashley valley to become the next great oil field of the entire west and the tests are awaited with the keenest interest alike to layman and geologists to prove their conjecture and scientific research correct quiet excitement prevails in i n all communities and the stories of oils and oil domes as told by the layman are indeed amusing especially when retold by those to whom the confidential news has been imparted |
