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Show ILK FOB OIL i BEGINS Ifl 1DH ! . j : ! Geologists Said to Have Reported Re-ported Favorably on I Cassia County. j Vipont Mine's Campaign of j Developments Attracting i Wide Attention. I Special to The Tribune. HijTSE, Idaho, Sept. 11. Th st;indrl 1 Oil company 1 back of oil developments iri Cassia count;.', according to reports dlrenialing at Oaltley. The West IVarl nil and (las company 1 of 1'lttsburg, which took a lease on two ; Hections of stale school land on f'.oose ' creek last week, is said to be a suhskliary branch of the powerful Rockefeller corporation. cor-poration. i;eolot;;sts of the company are .caid to hOA'e eatahlished beyond a doult the )re;;er.ce of oil in Cassia county. The iieiief has been held by re:-1den1s for years that oil existed, Indications having been seen on the surface of springs and liquids. ; lirorse A. Day, mayor of Oakley and former state land commissioner, who has ; he- ti in the city this week (in business, Kaid Saturday that, while conditions are irnprovlnR. in Oakley and Cassia county, 1he citizens are not excited. Lease Many Acres. '"The Pittsburg company has taken leases for ten miles alony Goose cieek, and work is expected to lie-in on test wells within the next thirty days," said Mr. I'ay. "Goose creek borders the Twin Kalis-Oakley tract. "This is no wildcat proposition. The company is tlnancially tvhabie and will not be compelled to sell stock to start operations. op-erations. If It were not for strikes and unbalanced conditions, work would have been started sooner. They think, however, how-ever, that they will be in a position to start within thirty days. Machinery has !en ordered and Is on the way. "Oakley is not excited over the matter. We. hope oil will be struck, and there are ftid to be strong indications that it wdlt be. If It is, it means not only growth and development to our section, but to other parts of the state its well, for if there Is oil there, there, is, no doubt, oil in other places in Idaho. "For years wo have said that parts of our; ttKlv, rouj;h country were no t.;ood. thought that parts of southern Idaho were the last word in desolation. But ; now it begins to look as thouKh this is a ; ! ;.rand country after all. I'nderneath the rocks we are beinniny to thai wealth of : all kinds. j Vipont Mine Active. i "Another tiling down in Cassta county ; i that has given us increased faith in our ' I section Is the development bein shown j ut the Vipont mine, which was worked I years ago by Spaniards. Kasteru capitalists capital-ists took ui the property about a yeai ugo and spent thousands of dollars blocking block-ing it out to ascertain whether it was of I value. j ! "The matter is now beyond speculation. ; It has been definitely decided that it is I i, a real mine. Shipments of heavy machln-j machln-j , cry are being received, and a mill is to be Installed for concentrating the ore. I ' "Between sixty and eighty four-horse teams are at work there every day, and i 1 the payroll Is already from fSOO to ?1000 ; par day." |