Show L uk Bringing in the gusher In th the the- oil property ot of the tho Big Six Oil company coni corn com pany paly near neat Moab recalls the h e fa fact that both both- bothin in the r region glon where the gusher gUiher h ha has u been H en brought In iri iria a anti and i also In the Rangley district t. t across the Colorado Colora u cast cast- castor or of Vernal in the UInta basin that Inthe Inthe in inthe the wells that have been sunk In Inthe Inthe inthe the localities named hav have all an struck pockets of oC oil at times and several everal of ot them have havo been great gas gas gushers I I Up In Davis county a number of years ealS ago several wells were drilled d for oil on and in some some instances Instances' the fluid wa was found but not In sufficient dent quantity for commercial purposes pur pm- poses while e natural gas was di dis- dis coVered and arid was piped Into Salt Lake Cit City and used for domestic purposes es It will be recalled that t an easten eastern east east- ern en firm that had made good Inthe Inthe in inthe the drilling of wells for tor oil came to toUt Ut Utah h from rg Pa Ia a. a That firm was Galley GuCe Guffey They erected a derrick and proceeded to drill They had very every Indication that oil would be found from the therun therun therun run of oC the log Their drilling operations operations oper oper- were In Davis county When the drill drillot ot of th the company had penetrated pene pene- tra d the earth a distance of a little over 2000 feet the company ceased to go furt further er WORK ABANDONED The casing was pulled the tle tier der derrick rick ta tal taken cn down and stored d the machinery cared for tor and then the members members' of the company company left for their homes fn In the Pennsylvania city stating however that they would return They never came b back cl to resume resume work workS Years after aCter their departure th the story y of oC wh why they did n not t resume work was told me b by an old mining I He lie said that when the drill h had d reached a point 2210 feet that the drill pen penetrated a lo log about two fe feet t in diameter sl slowing showing be beyond beyond be- be yond ond question that in the long ago there had been a landslide there and that the country had been covered coy cov ered s so th that t It Would be usel useless ss to drill further This is why why prospectors prospectors pros pros- for oil abandoned the Davis co county un ty veld Down in the Dixie land and about fifteen years ears ago agoo there was wis an oil boom boorn and oil operators from cali- cali f panic a ame lE over over and and did lid a great deal of prospecting They found round oil ol in quantity but the distance from the railroad was as too far tp to transport it There is a well 1 no now pumping oil n near ar St. St G George orge and there Is ir a small lefin refinery ry there which is working wr OIL IN SAN JU JUAN N 1 Down in the San San SanJuan Juan country inthe inthe in ip the region around ro nd Bluff and down the San Juan river lIver oil has bas been found and In quantity but similar conditions regarding transportation as ag s' s In the St. St Geor George cl region prevent pre prevented pre pre- ir vent vented d d development Frank Hines former superintendent of the Salt Lake City water vater system and fa father father father fa- fa ther of General Genera Frank Hines of oC the army n made ade a survey of ot this this' region a number of years ago and he found oil His report on the result of his survey was a a most ex exhaustive exhaustive exhaustive ex- ex one The well vell that h has s just been heen br brought In n near ar r Moab Is Is' the gr greatest great great- at- at est st that has ever ever been drilled in the tha state The discovery will vill no no doubt result in an oil boom The find is declared to be of incalculable benefit benefit bene ben fit to the state as it is believed d' d that it will wUl bring in many outsiders outsiders ers who will wil take a a chance in the e d development What hat the find means cannot be told The latest available figures es reg regarding id nii the petr petroleum l um industry In Inthe the United States States- as furnished by bythe bythe bythe the United States geological survey shows that for th the year ear 1921 the petr petroleum s t year year amounted amount d to 4 7 barrels with wUn a value alue alu of while the theY the energy W Y Was s the equi al equivalent nt of billions of British thermal units |