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Show I Mi fill UTAH'S mum TALKS Grows Eloquent Over flic Possi- bili ties 0 f Co u n t vy i 11 Regi on Around SI. George. ONLY PLACE ON EARTH TO LIVE, HE DECLARES There Is Cotton. Fruit. Vegetables. Vege-tables. Mineral and Oil in Plenty. "The only place on earth is the Dixie Land of Utah. "Washington county coun-ty especially, Virgin in particular. It is a western Pennsylvania with its iron, its coal and its ore and then it has the climate of California. This is what Dixie land in L'tnh is. This is tho country that within a very few years will be the inccca of thousands." The man who delivered this eulogy upon southwestern Utah was 11. F. Sutton., Sut-ton., editor of the Virgin Valley Enterprise Enter-prise of Virgin City, Utah, who is in Salt Lake for a brief visit, and he rave it to Tho Tribune. Continuing, Mr. Sutton said: "People have been prone to laugh at Utah's Dixie Laud. It has been tho one place where all have been iu the liabit of pointing their fingers and saying say-ing that there is the last place upon i.jiVth BiiL 1 bis will soon cliantre. Tn Mm J'jiet, it has changed, and people now WEf. from many places have had eyes on Kg Utah's Dixie land. And why shouldn't Kg they? For there is evcryihing there Kb that could be desired, Kg "Wi; are still raising cotton and Kg fruits; the grapes grown in our county KS van not be beaten anywhevo. and then U ihe mineral iields in our region are Kk simply astonishing, and our "oil field HI js going to be the wonder of tho coun- Bji Oil in 'Abundance, w "Xow talking about oil. and I lived Mm h the oil region of Pennsylvania for Wffi vars, the oil fields in Washington K "ounty will astonish the country after KK h while It has been demonstrated bv K& the shallow wells that have been drilled Kf i "r region that there is oil in plenty Kjr uid it has also been demonstrated that Kg when the lower oil sands are pene- t traled that there will be an ocean of Kk oil found. In other words, this sand Kg should produce wells that will run from WM '3 to 1 000 barrels per day. KF' "At Virgin these lower sands are KV about I3UU feet below the surface. Bv When the panic of two years ago struck Kb the country (here was a number of MM- v.'clls being drilled, but tho Dnancial Iv flurry stopped the work. Since that If' time there have been three companies WW who have endeavored to reach these mm lower sands, but two of them have been HR particularly unfortunate In the 11. TI. K3jf ( lark well when down 9.50 feet the drill Mm got stuck and no amount of fishing Eflr could move it. In the Boiinenian well K a like condition occurreil when down K Wearing Second Sands. K "The Virgin Vallcv company, made K up largely of Washington and Jrouj ML coiintv people, a ro now down lloO feet. W the deepest in the formation of any in I yp" the field. The drill in this well is run- i ning twenty-four hours a day. the ma- j 1 cliiuerv in "nse is modern and it is a j 1 question of only about four weeks when ' ihe big sands which arc forty feet j M in th;cl;ness. are penetrated, that a gusher is certain and then will be a l -tamped'1 into the country, jjf "The Inter State company, which sett se-tt cured control of the old McKcnzie well 5 and have passed through the first sands, m are now down about 700 feet- t m "The Clenu-Colusa well is also at W work, the drill there haviuir gone down j I yer 1 100 feet. I "The original company, which sank b the first well and struck oil, is still pumping at the rate of 10 to bar- ' r ids per day. Tt is a winner and has ' been furnishing oil for fuel to the I ' 'jtlier companies. Y'is, Dixie Land is , all ritrht. Keep vour eve on Dixie j Laud. " ' |
