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Show I WYOMING OIL FIELDS. Harry Joseph Returns After Making Survey of Lauds. Harry Joseph returned to Salt Lake City Monday morning from Spring Valley. Val-ley. Uintah county. Wyo., whither he went Saturday to make a survey of the ground held by the Standard Reserve OH company of Chicago in connection with tho efforts of the company to secure a patent for the land. Tim company controls con-trols 11,000 acres, and within an area of 320 acres It has developed three large producing pro-ducing o'l wells It appears that the company failed to Secure a patent on tho land as soon as It was found to contain oil deposits, and as a result another outfit of capitalists are alleged to be trespassing upon tho property. prop-erty. Tho alleged Intruders arc reported to have erected an apparatus near the biggest well developed by the. Chicago 1 1 ii" rn with a view .if tapping the u,,w For this reason. It appears that the Stand. mi Reserve Is now seeking to secure se-cure a patent to the ground and exclude the alleged Intruders. Mr. Joseph States that the Merges t well developed has a flow of fifty barrels of oil a day. and has a depth o'f more than 12.000 feet. The company proposes, ho says, to lay a pipe line from the oil wells to Leroy, Wyo.. a distance of six miles |