Show FOLLOWING THE LEAD Texas Syndicate to Divide With Oil City Company the Honors From occupying a position second to the Wyoming fields the Green River oil fields are apt to take first place before the spring has very far advanced There Mil now lir Iml llttln mif > illnn q that there will bu a crowd of Texas oi H mc n In the Greon River fields and that before midsummer nearly 100 drills will bu dropping into as many wells From a rumor which wan Just faintly heard several sev-eral weeks afro It has now become a certainty cer-tainty that tho agent of a southern syn dicate Is securing all the valuable land at tainable and already many blocks of sections mayo been passed Over to It upon which drilling will he started In the near future In The meantime the Oil City OI companys rig Is pounding away at a rate which Is bringing tho third sand nercfp tlbly nearer at thc end of each shift New strings of casing have been put Into tine wc11 and there Is now a dry hole to drll In and as a consequence from fifteen to thirty t feel la lie Ing mado per day According Ac-cording to the t most experienced experts Drlllor Phillips has his drill In the oldci carboniferous geological ago and the drill Is noarliiE the oil stratum which ap pears near time surface In San Juan county coun-ty and which Col Ellis has proved to be oilboarinsr beyond all question Oil men would not be surprised to hear eta strike nt the well at any time and there Is no one of them but would be ready with lila congratulations to a company which has done so much to keep l allvn the Interest In the field making It possible to drav Eastern capital to the district The well Is now beyond tho 200 foot mark am the company hat capital enough at Its buck to nnsh devclnrinients lo IL nminlii Hlon Contrary to the frentral innpnesudon the company Is composed largely of Utah inon and It looks at the present time as It to them will ijo the credit of bringing In tho first wellIn Utah Tho management I manage-ment states that It Iran supplied all the machinery needed to bring In a well and I that Intro would lie no delay In the work until the donlrod dopth had boon trained Oil Flakes The Idaho Consolidated Is I at work at Fossil As near as can bo learned this Is the only rig nt work In the field Tlie WcKlwaler Oil and Asphalttim company com-pany is preparing to begin work on their laud at once Manager BoGS of the Oil City Oil company com-pany leaven for the well In the morning Manager Mooro hag returned from the well In Fairy Pork canyon Ho Is very much encouraged by the outlook W O Young an Evnnslon Wyo oilman oil-man Is In the clt > He Is cnRagod In forming an oil company In which there will be a larKO number of Suit Lake men lo operate aouili of Iivanalon this spring J A Beverly who has been In the city for a weak has gone East to purchase a rU with which to drill the Initial we 11 for the Ulntah Oil company upon Its lam north of Castlcdalc When askod about tho matter Just before leaving Mr Bev orly siild Yes I have closed an agree mont with time company and will at least r ntt their first I el Jimt as soon as tho weather will permit work will bo Marled and pushed from the beginning until the ICOO feet for which I 1 have contracted has been attained Ho 1 said that an far as he could Judge tho company had a soot proposition The formation la not hrnkci uj > and tumbled which wnu greatly In Its favor Too many throes ho found the formation was lipped up and the oil tipnec out As this Is I aoL the CHPO at the Uln tutu companys ground ho expects 10 bring In a well Time Ulntah company ia to be congratulated In Securing the old driller to handle Its field work |