Show OIL NOTES A large area of oil lands in eastern utah was relocated located re on the first of the year after shutting down for repairs the new york utah oil company com liany is about ready to resume operations A drilling rig has been put in for one of the companies operating in dairy fork canyon utah county utah and work is to be pushed from now on in drilling operations the american con oil company operating in spring valley wyo is again drilling and the well is now down over 1020 feet the indications are reported to be very favorable vo rable the mt pleasant oil gas company of which william zabriskie is president owning oil lands in cedar hills west of that place is getting ready for active development work press evanston wyo the carter well at spring valley has proven itself to be the best in the field oil shipments from this well must soon take place or the well will have to be capped as the is all full of the fluid price advocate R M pope has been in salt lake city spending the holidays he will start drilling on his land in the book cliffs in a short time the machinery of the utah colorado oil company is due at the ground the rig already there has been running for some time press evanston wyo there is at the present time po no work going on in the fossil field the idaho rig has become idle idl e 0 owing w to tb the intense cold which rendered drilling impossible with the coming of spring however there will be many new rigs in the field at the burns well near deseret switch in eastern utah the work of sinking is again under way the company has its supplies all in the well has already reached a depth 0 of f 1120 feet and it is the intention to attain a depth of 2000 or feet if necessary castle dade progress the prospecting rig which ogden parties contracted to ship to the sinbad field is snowbound snow bound in the fossil wyoming field As the section of land in which these parties are interested has been prospected eted it is expected that instead of a prospecting rig being set up a standard rig will now be substituted castle dale da le progress there was quite a skirmish among oil prospectors and locators on monday and tuesday preparatory to leaving for the old fields V L acord and G E killain were the first to get out of town closely followed by ira R browning and J W seely jr paul judd and tom brandon john leamaster and henning olsen and peter P mickel and D P thomas by the end of this week there will be close to acres of oil land located and relocated county A dispatch from baker city ore says oil has been struck in malheur malteur county eight miles from vale the county seat in two wells the owners gave out the news yesterday five holes were drilled all for assessment purposes only but on two claims that of the union company and of the zenith oil company a fine grade of oil was encountered the oil was struck on the union companas comp anys ground at feet and on the property of the zenith company at ibo feet the field is a large one and the discovery is a highly important one the vernal utah correspondent of the daily herald says william oneil manager of the monarch oil company a salt lake concern who are interested in the utah colorado oil fields near rangely langely Ran gely came c a m e in from the fields last night and brings the information that lively times are brewing for that section several rigs are now at work and several more are now on the road in A dozen companies have been organized to exploit the field the chief promoter is J H walter of california who has the utmost faith in the field the wells that are already down over 1000 feet fill during the night with a fine quality of oil that seeps in from the shale and is used during the day as fuel in the engines mr oneil is very sanguine over the outlook |