Show 9 i y denotes EN notes otes on the oil indest industry ra r K S it 4 it is it r ro it ro it r ro 9 r it 64 it 4 9 6 it 4 castle dale progress S B milner sec detary treasurer of the dexter tuscarora con gold mines company of tuscarora nev and seven other milners Mil ners have located 39 oil claims in this co county anty the new york utah oil company has a drilling plant en route from the east the company which was organized at oswego N Y has acres of oil lands in grand emery and carbon counties this state vernal express work has shut down at the rangley oil well for a f few ew days until a longer cable arrives which has been ordered the well is now down 1200 1206 feet the length of the cable they now have the indications still look very encouraging for oil three oil companies of beaumont texas have declared dividends for january of four cents a share each they are the higgins company the heywood and the manhattan it is believed that other companies in that locality will follow suit in the near future work is being pushed in the drilling of the well of the california utah oil company in the green river utah oil fields and encouraging progress is being made with indications of the best other rigs will soon be in operation 0 on n the companas comp anys holdings A big oil excitement is on at debeque colorado just over the utah line over the finding of oil in the well being sunk by rock M pope and others of vernal this state the well is said to be flowing at the rate of ten barrels of oil daily other wells will be put down in this promising oil section news register 1 1 evanston 1 wyo G C L goodman manager 11 for the evanston lumber company received a telegram yes berday from R E russell who is ia in california instructing him to at once order I 1 a complete lumber outfit for an oil r rig ig to be erected at spring valley kemmerer wyo camera work on the fossil consolidated companas comp compa anys nyls well is going rapidly forward contractor baisley is now working a day and night shift saif ton on the drill which is going down at the rate of 40 feet per day A company of local capitalists drove out to the well sunday and are much pleased with the developments st george advocate john H fullerton and J meeks of circleville Cir cleville were in st george attending to mining business the fore part of the week they were on their way home from a prospecting trip down to beaver dams and while here recorded a fe few w placer locations for petroleum lands in the vicinity of virgin city and located a few other prospects manti free press A stir of excitement was created last saturday amono among some of our mining enthusiasts over the discovery of more oil shale beds west of town and also in six mile canyon some locations have been made and ere long we shall know what is in these prospects the oil excitement now extends over the whole of the country and at ephraim the outlook Is particularly bright before leaving for the east a week or ten days ago manager A J davis manager of the san rafael oil company operating in emery county this state let the contract for the sinking of a third well bethe on the comp company anys s property to D L baugher this will be a ten inch well and the contract calls for 2500 feet of drilling while in the east cast mr davis will purchase two more drilling rigs this shows the confidence the company has in its emery county holdings kemmerer wyo camera on the ath dinst the idaho wyoming oil co with headquarters at boise unloaded at the fossil station a standard rig from pittsburg which is said to be the best one in this reo region r ion they expect to have it in operation within six weeks very near the fossil depot this company will start with a fourteen inch hole and go down feet if necessary this makes four rigs on the ground and there will be another by the opening of spring the fos sil basin will be thoroughly explored statesman boise idaho J W twiggs returned yesterday from fossil where he went to look after oil and townsite properties in in which he is interested he reports there are many new people there and more are constantly coming in the winter has been mild and there is no snow operations are being started up and great activity is expected in the spring the drilling plant put in by mccarrick virtue of salt lake was I 1 ready to start when mr twiggs left and it was expected it would be running by today the plant of the idaho wyoming company is on the ground it is the best plant yet brought into that part of the country price advocate the mermaid geyser oil company has been incorporated at castle dale with ath a capitalization of shares of a par value of ten cents a share carl wilberg is president john tJohn leamaster vice president P F E woods secretary H P ottoson treasurer and H T haines general manager alex hillstrom and V L acord are of the board of directors the company has ten thousand acres of ground below lockharts lockhartt Lock harts cabin on both sides of the san rafael river and upon which some of the best oil springs in emery county are arb found the promoters propose to begin active development work within a short time A telegram was received last week fro from m fossil wyo containing the gratifying r intelligence telli gence chatin that in drilling operations at the well of the utah wyoming wyoming oil company of this city a small flow of oil was encountered at a depth of only sixty feet it is anticipated that another oil bearing sand will be reached feet below this flow the oil of which it is learned is of excellent quality however it is not expected that a big well will be opened up until the dept of feet is reached ed mccarrick G L bemis and F A virtue of salt lake officials of the company are highly elated with the success attending the initial efforts in drilling operations price advocate the minnie maud oil and mining company with a capitalization of two hundred thousand shares par value 50 cents a share has been incorporated here with A J lee as president J T nichols vice president and E M peyton thomas fitzgerald and W H donaldson constituting the directorate lewis C singleton is the secretary and treasurer the company owns twenty four hundred acres of land in wasatch and carbon counties some of the holdings adjoining that of the price oil company which recently had an offer of forty thousand dollars spot cash for fourteen hundred acres of land eighty thousand shares of the minnie maud stock will be placed in the treasury for development purposes |