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Show i m h ' 10 SOT FIELD Indication Is Standard Oil Is Beginning Developments Develop-ments in Uintah. That Standard Oil interests arc. pro-paring pro-paring to inaugurate a campaign of de-vclopnipiit de-vclopnipiit iu the Kangejy fii4d is Uie .belief of residents of the Uintah basin, according to word brought in from Vernal Ver-nal yesterday by Dr. P. S. Coke, managing manag-ing director of the Cedar Butte Oil company. A considerable force of men is employed em-ployed in constructing it new road into the field and a big Standard drilling rig is being moyeil in, but little real information in-formation as to what interests are bo-hind bo-hind the. work is available. The theory the-ory that the Standard is the moving spirit in the enterprise is arrived at because be-cause no expense is being spared an 1 because the wrappings in which tools and other equipment arc enclosed indicate indi-cate that they came from Taft, Cal. According to information available, drilling operations aro to be begun in the Kangeiy field at a point about twenty-eight miles from Dragon, and it is necessary to build a new road to get into the district. Tho .big rig is said to he capable of going to a depth of 50H0 feet if necessary, and it is understood under-stood that a hole is to be put down to the deeper sands as soon, as the equipment can be moved on to the groimd. . Dee) drilling also is to bo undertaken right away iu the Moffatt field, Dr. Coke reports. The Uintah Oil & Exploration Ex-ploration company, made up of Colorado Colo-rado men and headed by K. J. Walter, a prominent mining engineer of Denver. Den-ver. The company now has a big ro- tary rip at Price and has arrangpd for freighting it into the field. The ri is capable of going to a depth of 4000 feet, but the management ot the company com-pany expects that the producing sands will be tapped somewhere between and 2500 feet below the surface. In the White River eountrv the Ut'j Oil company, made up of St. Louis capitalists, cap-italists, is "actively arranging for the erection of a big oil shale reduction plant, estimated to cost approximately $300,000. Big shipments ot brick already al-ready are on the ground and additional brick and materials are being .brought in as rapidly as possible. The Ute plant will employ the Wallace process, a process about which little is known in the intermountain region, but which is reported to have been given a try-out try-out with satisfactory results by the bureau of mines at Washington. The Vte well at Bonanza is down more than 200 feet and it is expected that tho producing oil sands will bo encountered soon. A heavy flow of gas was tapped at a depth ot about 19o0 feet and the work was delayed temporarily. tempor-arily. t)r. Coke announces tliat the plans for the plant to treat the oil sands of the Cedar Butte company have been prepared and that bids for materials probably will be asked for within the next week or two. 'Frank Jones, a local lo-cal mill man of wide experience, has been retained by the Cedar Butte to supervise the construction of the plant. Because of the increase in prices uf materials and labor it is estimated that the extraction plant and the refinery will cost approxim;ftely $oOfOHfi, instead of $30,000, the original estimate. The plant will have a capacity for treating 300 tons of oil sands daily. A force of men is at work on the property, which is situated near White-rocks, White-rocks, bringing the water to the mill site and doing other development work. A second tunnel has been started and a third is to be driven with a view to proving up the oil sand deposit, much the same as miners prove up ore bodies. One tunnel has been driven through the sands for a distance of more thau ff'ity feet, near the center of the reef. The tunnel now being driven is being sent in at the south eud of the outcrop and the third tunnel will be driven at the north end of the cropping, proving ' the deposit for a distance of about lOiiO ' feet. 1 |