Show SOUTHERN SOUTHE RN UTAH b OIL IL FIELDS river oil virgin development corn ready for operations y special correspondence virgin washington co utah june 19 the last shipment of drilling machinery for f or the virgin river oil development pany pan y arrived here on may and atta work is now in progress in assembling as embling the machinery and erecting the derrick it is expected that within twenty days active drilling will be in progress the virgin river oil development company was organized by rhyolite nevada capitalists some two months ago to develop their oil land holdings in the vicinity of virgin the promoters of the company are some of the most successful mining and busi business n ess men of rhyolite among rmon t them being judge ray edw stickney manager first national bank fred remick and P holohan the latter has charge of and is now superintend ing the erection of the rig on the ground fred remick president of the company has recently been looking over the ground and is very enthusiastic over the prospects in the new field for more than forty years the people of this district have known of the existence of oil seeps in the vicinity of virgin but up to a few years ago no steps were taken to develop oil with the advent of the clarl claa railroad through southern utah this district was brought into hito close touch with the outside world and the omnipresent prospector was not slow in discovering and recognizing zing t the possibilities of southeastern washington county as a coal and oil producer since the first of the present year hundreds of practical men from california and pennsylvania have visited the new field and all are of the opinion that a new calingo calif is about to be developed numerous samples retorted from the lime shale show the oil to be a remarkably high grade base illuminating refining oil the development of high grade oil in quantity in southern utah will be a great boon to mining railroading and other industries dus tries in the interior its commercial value here will be much greater than on the will te be coast as the residue after refining used to replace coal as fuel mining ml ang men from all over the country are securing ground here in anticipation of a boom in the near future W J MACGREGOR REGOR |