OCR Text |
Show HAT RUSH TO Mil 11L FIELDS Assistant Postmaster Kessler Tells of Conditions From Personal Observation. A. P. Kessler, assistant postmaster, returned re-turned to his desk Monday, ufter an ab-sonce ab-sonce of n week roaming over tho oil fields and visiting the fruitful gardens of southern Utah and northern Arizona. Mr. Kessler, In speaking of his trip, said: I "I visited tho country on horseback, and from Lund station on the Salt Lake Route until I returned, I rode not less than 300. miles. I visited tho oil well near Virgin City, Hint was sunk by Patrick Pat-rick Hollaluln. This Is tho first producing well that was sunk ,ln that region. Mr. Hollalmn and associates arc sinking another an-other well half a mllo distant that will be flowing In threo weeks. Two others In the vicinity will have struck tho oil vein In live weeks "The Interstate Oil company, Incorporated Incorpor-ated for $3,000,000, owns land for ten miles In Arizona and a like distance in Utah. Tho ownership consists of making mak-ing a location, which gives them possession pos-session until a year from the first of next January. 1 own a block of stock in this company. The land, located by this company com-pany lies over the oil belt. "I met seven well-boring machines on their way to the Virgin oil fields In coming com-ing from the Virgin to tho railroad. These plants will be set up and In operation In a very short time. Thero Is great excitement ex-citement down there now, but nothing like what It will bo when a few more (lowing wells are sunk. Oil will run by gravity from Virgin City to Moapa, Nev a distance dis-tance of seventy miles. This" will make it easy to get to market. "New Harmony, twenty-three miles west of Cedar City, Is destined to become famous as the headquarters of the greatest great-est hard coal mines In the West. Tho amount of hard coal there is Incalculable. Arrangements arc being made to ship this coal to Hawaii. "People are going Into the oil fields from Nevada, California, Kansas and Pennsylvania One oil well driver from Kansas, soon as he saw the ground, sent for his plant, and will drlvo wells on commission, he taking all te risk. "I got four sections of land, which I purchased from David Splllsbury and H. M. Wallace, They are the original locators loca-tors of the best oil lands down there. "One drawback to the oil Industry is they can't get teams to handle the machinery. ma-chinery. One thing against them, when I was there, was the bad condition of the roads. In Cedar City, last Thursday morning, there was thirteen inches of snow. There are four well-boring out-fltH out-fltH on the cars at Lund that cannot be removed before next Thursday. Other plants are on the way. There Is going to be great activity In tluj Virgin oil llelds this fall and winter. Experts aro In accord In saying that there is no risk to run In sinking for oil In that region." |