Show 4 oil review oil review L W ely is exper exporting ting oil lands in the wyoming belt near piedmont for a big california syndicate the uintah oil company witla with hollings holdings 6 in wasatch county has installed its dr drilling iiii ng plant and hopes to develop the first flowing oil well in the state the news register of evanston wyo gives a halftone half tone illustration of the plant of the wyoming illuminating 11 oil company which is the first rig to be installed in the wyoming oil fields L E who is prospecting for oil in the wyoming fields near evanston was in the city the first of the week the company mr represents is doing some energetic work in the sinking of a well in the locality mentioned the bear river oil company is now putting up a rig on its spring valley wyoming oil lands and the plant will be in operation by monday next J 0 gladden of 15 west second south city is the utah representative of the company san frqncisco mining and engineering rev review bew work is proceeding steadily at the arroyo seco through very hard ground which necessarily necess makes progress slow each added foot of depth however gives stronger indications and ana the management of the company is better satisfied with the outlook softer ground may be encountered at any moment news register evanston wyo A big oil company was formed wednesday in cheyenne under the state laws to operate in the uinta county fields with the business office offic e at evanston the concern is capitalized at oom r rt am west entrance to the great aspen tunnel on the union pacific s new cutoff cut off near evanston wyo from the roof of which there is a constant dripping of oil which is forced up from the oil basins below through the crevices crevices in in the formation and is known as the uinta county natural gas oil and pipe line company Wyo wyoming mino M men are at the back of the company the board of trustees being composed of the following 0 D dark clark W M brown F M foote W J cashin M A brown L N putnam J E chapman J S atherly Atherl yand and al W foote there was considerable oil excitement on the boise stock mining exchange owing to favorable I 1 reports from the oil well of the idaho oil company ltd on ac account of the dav favorable rable reports the president of the company has called a meeting of the directors for friday evening july 19 to advance the price of stock boise idaho capital news castle gate progress R H kello and a party of surveyors while locating oil lands in the hills near sunnyside Sunny side were attacked by a large number of bears one night last week the men had retired and the wild beasts pounced upon the tents and tore the canvas to pieces amos E peterson was badly hurt in the fight with the bears later the bears attacked a herd of sheep killing 50 milton mcwhorter an oil expert of high standing and who is with the mcwhorter oil refining company of bakersfield gala cala informs the review that he has taken an option to purchase 1000 acres of oil lands on the northwest shore of the great salt lake laa with an agreement to put down a well to a depth of 1500 feet within twelve months unless oil is struck at a lesser depth mr mcwhorter has just finished locating acres of oil lands at and in the immediate vicinity of sun carbon county this state and it is the intention to begin drilling there within the next three months irvine L greene of lowell mass who has been devoting considerable time of late in investigating and acquiring asphaltum coal and oil lands in eastern utah left for home this afternoon mr greene is identified with a large syndicate which owns 45 acres of asphaltum oil and coal lands forty miles north of westwater this state the property to be turned over within the very near future to the puritan mining and manufacturing company of lowell of which D J murphy is president and john W mcevoy secretary and treasurer both of that place and of which rock pope of salt lake is superintendent it being the intention of the company to put in an asphaltum refinery on the grand river within the next sixty days according to mr greene at least tons of elastic asphaltum is exposed in the workings of the company which eventually will develop its coal and oil holdings C F holland under whose able management a we well I 1 is s being sunk on the property of ahe eUintah th uintah oil company near colton wash was in the city last week conferring with the officials of his association mr holland states that good progress t is being made in drilling and that the hole is being pushed to the deep at a rate of thirty five feet a day and that it is believed that within a few weeks that both of the principal oil stratas of that section will have been tapped the formation mr holland says it an interview with a salt lake paper is almost identical with that of florence colo cru crustaceous tadeous shale overlaying the dakota sandstone the oil is a very superior lubricant that needs no ref refining ining at all and is worth from 6 to 8 per barrel it is a far better oil for lubricating atino purposes than that now sold in the market for 1 to a gallon it has a base and no where in this western country he says has its equal been encountered the lower oil stratum on the companas comp anys grounds is estimated to to be 1000 to 1200 feet dee deep ap but a good producing 1 stratum will be encountered or feet nearer the surface no gushers bushers will be fondd there as the oil which makes its way I 1 to the surface in any district necessarily releases the gas mas that would otherwise su supply aply the pressure however horev er if all goes well mr holland will be pumping fine oil before this time next month councilman A J davis of this city manager of the san rafael oil company which has extensive holdings in the sinbad and green river oil fields reports the arrival of the companas comp anys drilling machinery at price and that on monday of this week the plant was hauled to the point where the initial drill drilling inc of that section will commence A wreck in the yards at arkon ohio caused some delay and this iv i the reason given why operations are so long overdue the outfit ordered by mr davis consists of a complete drilling tig including derrick ready framed well castings and tubing fishing tackle etc while the explosives for the shooting of the well as the stratas of oil sands are encountered have been provided while in the east mr davis engaged the services of four experienced perien ced drillers drillars dr illers and they are now in the field ready to commence drilling by the latter part of this week barring accidents accidents an encouraging cou raging feature attendant upon the com banys operations so far has been the ready sale of treasury stock although the company is in such financial condition that present plans could be carried I 1 to a successful consummation without the sale of a single share and the officials of the company are not at all anxious anxious to part with any of its stock at the present time so sanguine are they that within a short time after actual drilling has commenced a paying well will be found this confidence in actual development and investment is an exhibition of the same spirit that made the oil fields of the atlantic states the pacific later on the great gushers bushers of texas but a few months ago and which now will demonstrate the value and extent of petroleum measures inthe in the very hear future |