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Show AFTER OIL AND O AS. The Color. ido ami I tab (HI and Oas Company Com-pany Will Start a 1 '. In. h Hole-Hero Hole-Hero In a Few laya. P. S. Roy of Denver, is at the Walker. Mr. Hoy is heavily interested in gas and oil in Colorado, Texas and Utah, When Seen by a reporter of Tin; Times in regard to what his company was going to do with their leases here, he said: "I have just returned from a trip to the Wood river country, Idaho, where I have been looking alter some mining interests. Our company, the Colorado and Utah Natural Nat-ural Gas aud Oil company, has just om-pleted om-pleted a derrick at Ogden, which is within tivc blocks of tho Union depot. The ma chlnery is all on the ground, and work on a ten-inch Hole will be commenced at once." "What are you going lo do with your lease at Salt Lake:'" wus naked by the re-porter." re-porter." "That's what I am here to find out. We have quite a number of leases near the city limits, and the promise of a great many more, and I am here to close them up, and to get everything iu shape to start the drill. We intend to atari here with a 14-inch drill, and drill, if necessary, 8000 feet, or at least 'till we strike something." Mr. Roy aud Frank C. Slaughter, who are at the Kuutsford, are both here in the interest in-terest of the same company and it will be but a short time before work is commenced. Mr Roy is one of the original organie . -it three different gas and oil companies, one of which is drilling a well near Denver. Another An-other has struck u fifty-barrel oil well near Hrownville, Brown county, Texas. He tins some of the very best men in Denver interested inter-ested with him, and from the way his com. pany goes at it, they evidently mean biii-i-uess. . . |