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Show DOROTHY DflffiSnW-ADDSjGIIOiiS DflffiSnW-ADDSjGIIOiiS Company Acquires Acreage in St. Georg-e Oil Field; Prepares to Drill. Announcement was mado yesterday at the offices of Lho Dorothy Kvanston Wyoming Oil company, with extensive holdings in the Cumberland and Briefer oil fields of Wyoming, that the acreage had been augmented by tlie acquisition of a desirable and favorably located tract in the St. George oil field of Utah. New blood and a wider range of power has been given the Dorothy Kvanston company through its securing an association asso-ciation of interests with those of J. M. IotLa, a veteran and experienced oil operator op-erator of San Jose, Cab, who has extensive ex-tensive holdings in the St. George field and who has decided to make his home in Salt Take and combine his interests with those of the Dorothy Kvanston. resident Thomtis L. Smith of this company com-pany said yoaterdav that drilling on t tie Bridgor field holdings would be started .iust as soon as the weather would permit per-mit and that active preparations were under way for the semiring of equipment for the Cumberland field. Tn the Wyoming fields there is much activity in the territory immediately contiguous con-tiguous to the Dorothy Kvanston holdings. in the Brldger dome region the Wyoming Consolidated has its well down about 2000 feet, with strong ' indications that not more than 500 feet additional will be required to bring In the well. In the St. George country the Virgin Dome Oil company Is now drilling on the dome adjoining ad-joining the tract held by the Dorothy Kvanston company, the Virgin Dome's drill being down 100 feet, with work progressing pro-gressing rapidly. Mr. Lotta, who has twenty years of experience in the Santa Maria and Kern county oil fields of California, regards both tbe Wyoming and southern Utah holdings of the Dorothy Kvanston company com-pany as being located in the most promising prom-ising portions of territory that has been favorably passed upon by petroleum geologists geo-logists of high standing. |