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Show NOTE PROGRESS BY UTAH-CALIFORNIA Ralph F.prniiiS'il of Lewi M on. Utah, and M. A. Lewis 01 Logan, who returned yesterday yes-terday from un extended visit to the holdings of the Utah-California Oil Products Prod-ucts companv in Ventura and Los Angeles counties. California, are convinced that tho progress made in the last three months augur well for the future. Messrs. Bernhisel and Lewis, both stockholders, made, the trip to investigate for themselves and ascertain the truth of the reports as to the general conditions condi-tions in the Southern California oil fields. Mr. Lewis said that after visiting the, Ventura. Sunset, Fillmore and Sa.lt Lake-Sherman Lake-Sherman fields of the L'lah-CaJit'ornia company, he was more than pleased with the evidences of progress made, considering consid-ering that the representations have been understated. He noted that the. company was now marketing a high-grade oil from the Salt Lake-Sherman field and at the Fillmore field had passed through one oil-bearing strata and at a depth of about SOO feet, was- in the blue shale that overlies the second strata, of oil sand. Mr. Bemhisel said that the oil from the Salt Lake-Sherman well was of a specific gravity of 29.03, the highest produced pro-duced in that section of California, the grade being so high as to make the revenue rev-enue from the byproducts of greater va.lue than the crude oil itself. For this reason the company contemplates the establishment establish-ment of a refinery at an early date and will within thirty days put in a rotary drill to push its drilling In the Sunset f.eld, it is said. |