Show petroleum oil shale notes the san juan oil and refining company capitalized at has filed articles of incorporation incorporation with the county lerk jerk A C ellis jr is president the ohio oil co will open its field camp on the kevin structure on july 1st ast and it is expected that a heavy trilling campaign will take place J C kirkpatrick and hugh wolcott motored over to craig this week to see the great oil boom which they found to consist of about 50 transient men out of employment georgetown courier H K savage field engineer for the potter ralston interests returned thursday from a business trip to denver 1 he has two camps of chalers on clear creek and one on parachute creek doing assessment work on the S 0 S nd other groups de beque news ath the western empire petroleum has succeeded in shutting ff water at coalville Co alville and is making 6 hole the ohio at chalk I 1 ek is understood to have made little progress since the hole cleared several weeks ago because of water and cavey thel 1 tion efforts now are being made to get a f formation or mation iff f f cef monday A E humphreys of denver colo through 6 his adf g J H ratliff had filed oil leases secured in the in y valley section of utah this is the largest Z number of ja d gas leases filed at one time since the commencement of mil jil j il boom in the ashley valley the fees for recording each i is from to there are still a number more to ailed by mr humphreys b athe f the diamond drill which has been working on the holds js of the wyota oil gas company in the labarge id three quarters of a mile north of the newlon well is eidly penetrating the structure having reached a depth feet at last reports oil and gas indications have a d y b been een encountered and it is thought that the drill is jidy in the same sands that are producing oil in the newlon I 1 kemmerer gazette ath 1 full title to all the oil shale holdings of the ventura coi colorado orado company have been transferred from L 0 marshall to the company says the debeque news the property being purchased under contract the patents were applied for and issued in the name of mr marshall who now has transferred the title and receiver final payment the company is to make application for patent to four more claims claim s in a short time R S collett came in tuesday evening from camp collett there they are busy doing assessment work on the oil shale claims mr collett reports a crew of 65 men were at work this week and which will probably have to be increased to get gel the assessment work done by july 1st ast water is hauled to all the various camps mr collett leaves thursday for R rangley angley and will be met at watson saturday by his son sterling sterli ng collett and return to the camp he says that when the shale industry develops uintah county will bei be the richest and most prosperous county in utah vernal express george H mulvey accompanied by dennis mcelhiney interested te in the oil shale and secretary of the debeque oil shale company and henry ammerman treasurer of the cadillac motor company both of new york arrived in Vern alfrom new york recently mr mcelhiney and mr ammerman are arc looking over the oil of the uintah basin mr mulvey has two crews now doing assessment work and will start four more shortly he states that much more interest is being displayed in the oil than at any time yet and that much real development work along this line can be expected before very long J E amenda manager of the illipah petroleum corporation arrived from the oil field yesterday and reports work progressing steadily the drill making about five feet per day in hard blue lime the casing was set at 1148 feet and the hole has now reached a depth of 1171 feet during last week the drill passed through a formation of soft lime rock showing considerable oil and wet gas 6 as ely nev record recent tests made in australia with oil obtained from eucalyptus wood are reported to have demonstrated that fuel from this source has a high calorific value and is used as a motor fuel with great success in tests made with cars that could make 24 miles per gallon of b gasoline 36 miles per gallon of eucalyptus oil was obtained on a mixture of half of the wood product and half gasoline 28 miles per gallon was obtained and the mixture has the advantage over the pur wood product in making starting easier in cold weather wilson H thompson president of the standard aes w products company of san francisco and george mei N director were salt lake visitors last week on returning ning fro i a trip of inspection of their colorado holdings with their en of gincer J B jensen this company owns acres of shale land in the debeque district which they are now preparing to carry to patent it was this company which recently recently y contested homestead entries made on their land two years after the company purchased it this contest has recently been decided in favor of the company by the department at washington a thereby establishing a valuable precedent in the decision r of shale land titles |