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Show WILL TRY TO FIND OIL NEAR KAYSVILLE Pioneer Oil Company Buys Rig and Is Prepared to Eegin Drilling at Early Date. L. L. Boaz, geologist and former member of the United States peological survey, said yesterday that the newly organized Pioneer Oil company, of which he is managing director, would begin drilling at an early date in a location lo-cation between Ivaysville and Farming-ton. Farming-ton. The rig has already been purchased, said Mr. Boaz, but it will require about sixty days to get the plant in shape for active drilling ope rations. Mr. Boaz has made a careful study of the Salt Lake valley and believes 'that it only requires drilling to find oil in commercial quantities. He is so enthusiastic en-thusiastic that he said the company had no stock whatever to place on the market, mar-ket, sufficient funds having already been secured to warrant the carrying forward of the work. |