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Show OilfifflfOIL PROSPECTS BRIGHT Expert's Report on Field in Utah Now Being Eagerly Read. FAVORABLE SHOWING Geological Conditions Are Indicative of Most Valuable Valu-able Deposits. V.) if w of the recent oil des elopments in the. Uintah hashi the report roadc some ime a,eo cn the scnon by .1. IX Owen, formerly chief lieUi r.an for :i bi.e California Califor-nia s 'miioAte. is a popular document now anions Salt liKers who nro interested in eastern I'tah fields. The investigations ar.d the report, made at the instance of California capitalists, follows: Notwithstanding the care with which all parts of the I'nited Stales liAve been prospected, and the oft-h oft-h e & rd e x p ix-s s '. o :i that no other i m -vortnnt oil fields will be discovered, I have the pleasure of be ins able to iaie that from surface indications it i my belief that vpon knowledge oh-lained oh-lained Py my own observations a.nd ;hat of others who have been over this sronnd, the I'intah basin in i"tah s tho la re est arid greatest oil field in the west. Uintah Field Described. 1; can be best described by an ob-l.:-- synclinal basin. Piled with the del rliai accunmhr. ions of aes. Th.e :re:r.e cater edees of this basin are :"o:med by the c-aarizites of carlvnif-t carlvnif-t rv.;s ace. and from that tiive to th.e lo--ir.iT of the Roc :ie period there ap-p-.a-.-s to have been a eor.timious sed-iMicn'.ation. sed-iMicn'.ation. wlacii resulted in th.e oe-pOMt oe-pOMt of approximately 2,00 feet of sediments. : lit tie fa alt ills- has occurred in the- basin itseif. hut around th.e outer f.iies the strata is tilted to an ir.ch-n:jLion ir.ch-n:jLion of 7 deuces to t. decrees, and it apnertrs as if the U.rnln.c up of the oi;ter e-.ies of t he basin a t a recent wihod h.ad drawn the s;ra;a from the center outward, which c.Ttised crocks or fissures to form parallel to the up-; up-; nrned e.ices of the ha sin. but near lis center. These cracks are numerous numer-ous and of crMisaivrah;- si'.e. and i:-..tny miles in lengt h, and are rilled w .til hydro-carbon pro-ducts. Hydro-carbon Deposits. The sr. -called cilsonite veins filled many of t hem: ot iters are rilled with h h r o - c a r : - o n they call e 1 a : e n : e . All -taese hydro-carbons are the resultant residue of oxidired or evaporated petroleum pe-troleum oils. In previous reports J h;n e r-af erred to : he recurrences of o ' :i t.v- CJ;een river sli.iies u-'o-er.e) and have mentioned the fact that v. 1 . e r e these s : i a i e s h, a v e been h i z 1 ; 1 y j aitered. I ho oA nis;.lled from them was forced into the dykes v fissures in the viemitv. The fact that riiese i shales oor. tamed Inrcer piantit:es of oil than could r.a e encinate-j in ! them, .an easily be accounted for by a.-suminc; That this excess of oil wns obtained from th.e immense depesits of sec., mentis ani co.i.1 measures be- More than 1"'.V'0 fret of cretaceous s'rata Pes neneatii th.se shales, an 1 all are rich in farbomifrous materials: materi-als: n:ore than Twenty coal eins aro Jvr.own to e:st in th.em. res'aies shale '.( is of ;r-;.it thkk;ies. Oil Deposits Discussed. 1 i:fd -ct fr.trr into a;iv H.sculon ,,r o-iti'.n of tae oil in these r,- ks ; :: :s su:r.--;.nt to say that .; fer-t co:i;::iro:s se.;i:uentat!on oucht to " a i'h. :eu t to create ,m o!l deposit 1 f l m -a . e r, s ta 1 u f . and wh"ii we had t v( ry .-nr..::T;on necessary to pr:-i'i-'e su ri-s.:l:s. it is not nnr'-aso-.iib.e look for ni In s ;. h a field. T'a-s are oa.y a :v of tPe reasons whlcn have oon moe-i me or the value of the oil fields in the Uintah bas'.n. In :he Mesa Verde sau is. w hieh form the most conspicuous y..v of th.e inner jura of the basin, oil or asphal-mm asphal-mm L.is collected to ,-ach an extort as to eoaiphuely saturate th.e strata to an ui. Known extent, but in one particular par-ticular district U" feet of such saturated sat-urated sands are exposed at th.e siir-fac.-!. an i where a later .ueoloci. al series of sands (I'intah) rests upMi the Mesa Verde, these la iter depos.:s are saturated with asphahum of from ;i Tt"1 t et, ma.x'ni; an eosure ot l h.roiarhh s.i tu? a tod sands of as ; a vdchres.-- as ISi-O feel, and whe:,' i'.iso sands have been recently uncovered the asphaltum exudes from When we take into consideration The fact that the condition above described de-scribed extends on both side of the basin to a creator or lesser decree for a distance of nearly :h0 miles and that in the center of the basin li.e cilsonite dykes occur, it will be seen that the asphaltum deposits are practically inexhaustible. It is only a ra i ional conclusion to assert that these sands beneath the covering of a thousand feet or more wall he productive oil sands, and with ISeO feel of t horonchly sa t ura ; cd sands. ! t will be almost Impossible to est imate the result of driilinc- w ells into them. I believe, and have little hesitation hesita-tion in assertinc-. that when this field is developed it will surpass any thine; which has been found, and that when California wells are loiij drv this field will still' be productive. Nothinc ap-nr-ach.inc mis sand, asphaltum or cilsonite cil-sonite dykes lavs been found anywhere, any-where, 'l'ere are millions of cubic yards of t his material available on and near the surface of the cronnd. It can easily be refined for shipment to market, and is the largest deposit known. |