Show it y notes on the oil industry 1 JC it K E X burns and M C davis company have installed an oil drilling rig on ground at woodside emery county this state ephriam ralph of duluth minn who is interested in petroleum production was in the city last week interviewing our oilmen oil men son on monday he left for the oil fields of eastern lutah utah the article on utah oil and gas fields by prof marcus E jones which appeared in the last issue of the review was highly complimented ted and appreciated by those interested in the oil industry of eastern utah camera kemmerer wyo the consoli dated drill is still working in cretaceous sandstone and making good progress each day there have been no important developments Top op ments in oil matters in the local field dur adno 3 ing the past week I 1 news register evanston wyo the american consolidated company are spending i vast sums of money in this neighborhood we we learn that their expenses in this country X for the month of march were over five thou sand dollars and about for april asand according to advices advises from panguitch I 1 this state extensive shale deposits rich in their oil contents have been discovered near escalante calante the rock is said to be so satur abed abed with petroleum that no difficulty is experienced perien ced in retorting it by homemade home made methods III I 1 A coast exchange says all the large i ferriea on san francisco bay are now using I 1 I 1 oil the trials have proven satisfactory in addition to being a cleaner fuel stuff it is less troublesome firemen are no longer em on the ferries it has materially hurt t the ithe soft coal market 5 4 F A virtue of the utah wyoming oil I 1 r company who has returned home from a I 1 i lengthy 1 I stay at the companas comp anys oil well in i uinta pinta county wyo states that excellent i progress ress is being made in drilling operations the ithe company already has oil in paying quan I 1 1 city but is now sin sinking kingto to the third sand E I 1 C W shores who is heavily interested in the oil industry of eastern utah accompanied by thomas F brondeau Bron neau an oil expert of note and G B harmon an experienced weli well ariller driller have been making an examination of late of oil fields near sunnyside sunny side under the a guidance of hon joe sharp of that place t v C N sherman the well known oil oper ator and contractor has returned from his J eastern visit where he made arrangements to g represent r te represent present the bovaird seifard Sey fard manufacture W ing company of bradford and pittsburg pa mr sherman will open offices in salt lake I 1 and evanston his company is an extensive ii of oil drilling machinery and supplies 4 ai fil spokesman review L P wolf sec secretary re of the north pacific oil development I 1 company a spokane corporation operating in the wyoming oil fields in speaking of the recent work of the company said yesterday we are now operating on acres of choice oil land in weston and cook counties wyoming the company has four complete drilling outfits installed on its land A F mcdonald and samuel judd two prominent st george citizens and business men who were in salt lake last week brought in with them the news of important oil discoveries near virgin ci city alty in washington county in which they are heavily interested the oil exists in shale samples of which are on exhibition at the office of prank frank on west second south an analysis of the product by W J rickell of st george showing 10 per cent gasoline 40 per cent kerosene 45 per cent lubricating oil and 5 per cent tar albert brown of colorado manager of the western branch of the oil well supply company any of pittsburg pa accompanied by E D mccolly of pittsburg a representative of the company were in the city last week and favored the mining review with a pleasant call both gen gentlemen clemen had been in attendance on the price oil convention and were much interested in its proceedings proceeding 3 mr brown states that his florence house is making heavy shipments of drills and oil well supplies to grand junction and debeque colorado he carries an immense stock of rigs and supplies and states that he can fill all orders almost at a moments notice press evanston wyo at a late hour sunday night laet unknown parties made a raid on the enclosure around the oil well of the union pacific railroad company at spring valley wrenched the cap off the casid casing 9 and purloined some fifty or sixty gallons of the precious stuff it has been known th the e well contained many feet of oil but when the parties referred to arrived they found the oil actually Y flowing from the well and it is said the flow still continues and is steadily increasing the oil is still of the same high grade shown by analysis of the first samples made at the time of the discovery E L goodrich of bluff city utah man ager and one of the directors of the san juan oil company operating fifty miles west of Bluff bluffis has as been in salt lake the last few days in the interest of this company of which col A C ellis of this city is president andyjohn and john S bransford secretary mr goodrich states that the companas comp anys property was equipped last fall with a star drilling rig and that a 25 barrel well was struck at a depth of feet the product being a oil of a value ranging from 88 to 15 a barrel preparations pa rations are now being made to sink to the second oil bearing sand which it is confidently fi believed will be more productive than the first in addition to which other wells will be put down this summer to do this a block of ngock will be placed on the market at an early date with such encouraging success and being free from debt the I 1 company expects to make a great showing r before the setting in of cold weather again |