Show THE SAN JUAN OIL FIELD thomas G brice and W W ruby two prominent citizens of ogden and who are identified with the san juan oil company whose holdings are located in san juan county utah were in salt lake recently for the purpose of conferring with col A C ellis also heavily interested in these oil fields on the proposition of consolidating the interests of the company with those of mr ellis the intermountain republican of salt lake in making mention of the visit of brice and ruby says the san juan oil company is backed by such well known ogden men as J C nye M S browning joseph carlson charles zelmer C J humphreys and fred J kiesel mr ruby and mr brice were occupied several months last summer in the san juan oil field in behalf of the company and they located acres of land in almost any part of which they are confident producing well can be obtained at relatively small cost col ellis has been working in the same field for several years he has one well capable of producing fifty barrels of oil a day at this time he has two rigs in the field he had one hole down feet when recently the drill was broken and operations were suspended for a time it is understood that they are just about being resumed now col ellis has had exhaustive tests made of the oil and has also had the country examined by competent experts and he is confident that it is one of the greatest oil fields in the world the long distance from railroad is apparently patently ly all that ha kept the san juan river running through the middle of it the southern half being in the navajo reservation and not subject to location there appears to be no question of the presence of oil of good quality in great quantities hundreds of gallons of seepage oil goes to waste every day in the river it is said the strata of oil sand being close to the surface mr ruby tells of having sunk a hole five feet deep cutting through a crust of oil sand during the night oil filled the hole and he was unable on account of the flow to sink it deeper the present object of the ogden people and of col ellis as well is to formulate a scheme by which sufficient development can be accomplished to warrant the building g of a pipe line from the field to the railroad while that will require considerable work they believe that with the showing already made it should not be difficult to enlist enouf capital to carry it through |