| Show UTAH TO SHINE AS OIL STATE practically all of the great oil companies of this country if reports are to be relied upon are now making plans to invade shenew the new oil fields of utah their field scouts geologists colonists and business representatives in ever increasing number have been reported in the ranks of those present from the day oil was reported struck in the midwest utah southern well nine miles southwest of moab on the eighth day of december last and now it is whispered about the dutch shell company is making preparations to enter the field though its preliminary investigations and activities have not been radioed to the public if the utah southern well meets expectations it is said the dutch shell combinations combination sponsors have promised that this gigantic concern w will ill spend millions in utah during the next few years practically all of the other big oil concerns have been quoted along similar lines during the past month or two and there is no question but what most if not all of them have things shaped up to go ahead and the mining review believes they are going to drill every likely structure in the sout southern hern T utah field no matter how the Sha shafer ferNo no 1 well pans out whether it comes in as a or as a the midwest utah southern company itself has been financed for a broad wide open campaign of drilling operations during the present year its no 2 well a few miles from no 1 will likely have been studded in bythe by the time these lines reach the public gaze and much other development work will be under way in a territory covering thousands of square miles in extent dont get the impression that the shafer well is the only one in utah that has struck 0 oil 1 1 petroleum in quantity sufficient to be termed commercial nier cial in a number of places throughout the southern tier of counties has been reached to say nothing of the promising showings that have been made in boxelder Box elder weber and cache counties on the north everybody has absorbed the idea that the shafer well is destined to make a big bi 1 high grade oil producer at its present depth dept lithe the bottom of this well is believed to have barely reached the first oil saturated sand oil geologists who have made intensive study of the southern field some of them over a period of years are positive in their opinions that other and probably richer oil sand stratums stra tums underlie the horizon in which the original shafer well discovery was made these deeper sands are going to be prospected intensively this year according to statements emanating from the field representatives of the larger companies in other words it has already been decided that utah has a large potential oil field and that it is time to rip it open and the movement now is under way |
