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Show i FROM THE NAVY INTO! FEB Bflflfl Admiral Evans Is President of WBm Big California Oil Wj Organization. Wffi ALREADY HAS ONE H HUNDRED BIG WELLS BHB Will Spend Another Million HH Dollars Drilling on the Un-MSm Un-MSm touched Spots. I It lias frcciucntly been a matter of comment that the education pained by the young- men at tho naval or military academics of tho United States splendidly splen-didly fit them for practically nny walk of life, whether It leads them Into the scientific or Industrial avenues of human hu-man endeavor. One very striking ilius- Itration of the capability of the army engineer en-gineer is his successful work with the Panama. cannl. Admiral Roblcy D. Evans, one of the most widely known of the officers of the American navy, who was a guest of Salt. Lake City on Friday, is too well known as a fighter and organizer In the navy to need Introduction, In-troduction, and his fame along these activities ac-tivities has somewhat ovi'.rshiidowed his many activities along other lines. From tho earliest days of his connection connec-tion with the navy. Admiral Kvaus has been one of the oil experts of the govern-nient. govern-nient. having reported on the various fields of the world in line with his regular regu-lar duties about the globe. And having retired from the navy, and assumed the duties of the ordinary American citizen, he naturally has turned to oil as the thing to which he Is best fitted bv niunv years of experience as a recognized oil expert. It is as an oil export, therefore, that ho has allied himself with a gigantic gi-gantic organization of California, capital, known as tho California Consolidated Accompany the admiral on his trip cast is Robert l.eo Dunn, secretary of this company, and who is tho managing director of the Lincoln Endowment fund. Mr. Dunn was seen by Tho Tribune yesterday yes-terday and asked for some of the details de-tails of this company. It is the owner of a vast estate in California, the properties prop-erties being known as the Premier, Mascot Mas-cot and Yellowstone, tho latter, being In tho Bakcrsflold district: the properties prop-erties comprise in part the Spcllccy and Thompson oil holdings of .that state-On state-On tho properties there arc now 100 producing pro-ducing wells, wells that have been out-nutting out-nutting their oil for several years. There is room for at least COO wells on the properties, and the company shortly will Install extensive equipment and go after oil on a much more extensive scale than has characterized Its hcavv operations in the past. Within the. near future tho company will spend SI, 000,000 on drilling drill-ing In untouched territory. I Admiral Evans is president of the company Robert S. McCrcary of New York Is vice president. Others interested inter-ested are Theodore I Oilman, for many years controller of the state of New York; M. P. Snyder, three times mayor of Los Angeles: R X. Fish and J. V. Mitchell, both bankers of Log Angeles. Mr. Dunn stated yesterday that the admiral had .iust completed an Inspection Inspec-tion of tho fields in -which his properties lie. and that he was thoroughly satisfied satis-fied with conditions. One does not have to talk long to Admiral Evans to find out that he Is a deep student of oil-He oil-He can blind the novice inside of a minute min-ute with statistics comparing the respective re-spective merits of oil and coal for fuel "or every sort of equipment, from a battleship bat-tleship to it traction engine. Oil as a fuel in the navy, for instance, has the advantage of being more economical than coal. It emits no smoke to announce your approach to the enemy long before the noso of your csscl pokes its way :hovc the horizon, while its use eliminates elimi-nates l lie formation of clinkers in t lie furnaces and the necessity of repairing buckled plates or the loss of heat and power in the process of repair, lie knows that oil is the ideal fuel, and that the wells of California will provide fuel for Jong years to come. He likewise knows that thci is oil in Utah, although al-though ho personally has not investigated investi-gated the new oil properties of the state. |
