Show notes on the oil industry hon ben B en T lloyd has secured control ol of i acres of land in the farmington oil 1 fields and is negotiating with capital for its exploration J P mccarthy of san francisco who is interested in the oil industry of california arrived in salt halt lake last week and is investigating vesti gating into the merits of the farmington oil fields pennsylvania parties have been making an investigation of late into the merits ol of the farmington oil fields a few miles north of salt lake they were piloted over this promising oil field by fred senior and H L driver S L butler president of the summit placer company operating a wax plant near soldier summit utah came in from the east last week and in company with T P rig ney consulting engineer visited the com banys valuable holdings alexander hillstrom the well known oil operator has secured a bond on acres of land in cache county utah and it is learned that it is his intention to incorporate a strong company for the purpose ol of doing some extensive work in oil exploitation on the tract ogden state journal county superintendent of schools wilson who is interested in the oil developments at promontory 4 point has returned from a visit to the scene of action he says the hole is down ninety fe beef eirand and passing through sand which show shaw I 1 signs of oil ogden capital is putting doft doia this well the union gas pipe line company salt lake controlling valuable ground in the farmington oil field has sent out the material for its big derrick and a standard drilling rig will soon be installed the sl si chosen for the first well is two miles of the guffey galey workings and a short distance north of centerville Cent erville A J wallace the expert oil driller in the employ of the union gas pipe line company of salt lake has arrived from pennsylvania A site for the first well on the companas comp anys holdings in the farmington field has been selected a drilling outfit has been ordered and active operations in exploratory work will be pushed from now on W D a prominent business man of ogden and who is vice president of the ogden oil asphalt company owning 1500 acres of oft oil and asphalt lands on the promontory of great salt lake was in the city last week mr states that excellent progress is being made by his company ill 1 drilling for oil and that the outlook for success i is most encouraging at a depth ol of forty feet the drill reached oil bearing sand and at f feet et when n a stop was n made 94 account of a small break in the machinery a heavy oil began oozing over the top of the pipe the flow amounting to several barrels daily aily this oil when submitted for analysis contained 60 per cent oil with an asphalt abase base work has now been resumed and it lis is anticipated that a lake of almost pure toil oil will be encountered around the foot mark this is a most inviting field for investigation vesti gation in the line of oil and asphaltum the he country for miles is covered with hn an asphaltum Eph altum deposit 2 with many vents through through which the oil seeps and spreads out over ad adjoining territory it is believed that development at this point will culminate within a few months in important disclosures which will prove interesting to the mining and commercial world press evanston wyo W A gray field manager for the atlantic pacific oil company returned to evanston thursday morning r from the kansas fields he says it is the intention of his company to resume operations on their valuable holdings near I 1 spring valley at once and to push development work very extensively the coming sum amer mer this company is heavily interested in the uinta county oil fields having already tready several producing wells and are seriously considering a proposition of investing on in additional lands to the amount of oooo I 1 this speaks well for our infant oil industry the commercial club com committee cittee consisting fling fl of S V shelp john Q critchlow A J davis W H gray F A C A walker george H wood C D T J 1 anderson C K rowland and morris somner 11 made a visit of inspection to the farm 4 jon ton oil field on tuesday of this week nd while there called at the point where guffey galey are sinking the initial well xi AI the lake shore the bit at the time ot of the visit of the committee was in black asand sand and before the party left several 1 lengths lengths of pipe were put in indicating that il be ae dr illers were making rapid progress |