Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-08 | Page 12 | Oil Expert Boosting For San Juan Field

OIL EXPERT BOOSTING FOR SAN JUAN FIELD The Los Angeles lCxpress on April 1 had the following to say: "That Utah is destined to emulate, if not excel. Pennsylvania as a producer of high-grade potroleum is the declaration of Charles D. Diekenshcets of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, an cjl operator and expert who arrived ar-rived he-s this morning after an cx-mided cx-mided trip through the oil fields of the Kouthwest. Particularly In the San Juan country, says DIckensheets. there is a yawl very similar to the famous brnle grit i)! sands In the rich region extending from Luke Eric to West Virginia. " 'There they have a 10-gravity oil which Is used chiefly for the production produc-tion of gasoline,' said Dickensheets. 'Rut rhoEC wells have been in .use for forty-five forty-five years and it 'will be hut a short time until they are exhausted. And I am firmly of the belief that In looking around for a field to take their place the San Juan and adjoining country In Utah will be selected. I have studied conditions thre with the utmost care and I find a 50-gravlty oil, which will run from 65 to 70 per cent gasoline. " 'Indeed. Utah in my judgment will approach Pennsylvania, not only In oil production, hut In tho development of iron and steel manufacture for. which Pennsylvania Is now noted. Thorcv are in Ptah almost inexhaustible, deponits of oxl and Iron, separated by a few hun-tftv-i miles. With the growth of population popu-lation and the development of transportation transporta-tion facllltlcH Utah will take Its place among the first manufacturing states of. the country, and it may bo called the "Pennsylvania of the West." I think, however, how-ever, that we out here will call Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania the "Utah of the East." "Dickcnshccxs will be hero for several oa.VH at tho expiration of which time ho will leave for the north on the way to Utah. Tic has been Identified for nianv years with the oil Industry In Texas and here and is reputed to be an expert of nbi'lty and judgment "