Show mt mg y ile of notes on the oil industry S 0 price advocate manager J E ray of the westwater west water company is negotiating for an oil drilling rig which will be placed on the land of the company before the end of june it is mr rays intention to develop the ground for oil as well as to open up the deposits of asphaltum press evanston wyo R S spence and others are sinking a test well about ten miles below randolph near to the famous ranch of gus sprouse ahot is reported to have struck a good flow of oil there several years ago while boring for water mr spence feels confident of success and we hope to be able to report a good flow in the near future we will watch this experiment with a great deal of interest as mr spence is one of progressive our citizens has done a great deal to advertise this oil section and has large landed interests in the best part of the field which are attracting attention from all parts of the country price advocate superintendent J R sharp of the utah fuel companas comp anys mines at sunnyside Sunny side was in price last tuesday confident as ever that eastern utah is soon to have an oil boom of thel the substantial kind he tells the advocate e that the grand vi people T A ketchum ketchu in manager have ev dered eleven hundred feet of or casing for their well and will begin work again un upon the arrival of this material ile he u was companies companied compa compan nied led to price by T A virtue ae an oll ol 01 operator from the wyoming fields the lat ter is likely to become interested hereabouts hereabout and being backed by unlimited capital is in position to do some work that will count once he becomes interested press vanston evanston E wyo A B butler president of the american consolidated oil company who visited our oil fields r recently antly stated that he would place three more rigs rig here bere very soon two to be erected on section 14 where this concern already has a paying well and one on section 33 mr butler said they would not drill their well on 14 deeper as it was already a paying proposition and good enough for them this well was brought in at a depth of feet and aad was drilled in 27 days mr air butler was returning from eupora and the east where he secured a contract to furnish two million barrels of oil per year with the many producing wells this concern controls in the various fields throughout the west together with those they anticipate developing in the uinta county fields will place them in a position to very easily fulfill this enormous contract castle dale progress the most active of the oil companies now working in the eastern utah field is the new york utah company which has just completed its first well in darks clarks valley and is moving its outfit some few hundred yards south to commence the second well the first well is 1600 feet deep and is plugged and all that the public is told of the companas comp anys affairs is that they are satisfied with conditions and prospects and not only intend to sink a second well but also six or eight more the first well is eased cased and the experience gained in sinking it such as relates to the strata encountered etc will be valuable in immediate and future operation the under rimming method will be employed in future casing manager hillstrom informs us that some of the oswego N Y capitalists who are financing the scheme will be out here next month among whom will be walter M jermyn there is no lack of capital to push the work but at the same time conservatism is a policy of the company |