Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-21 | Page 25 | Westland Oil Gets Valuable Acreage in Southern Utah Field

Westland Oil Oi Gets Valuable Acreage in i Southern Souter Utah Uta Field Company Has Has' Fractions on Cane Creek Lockhar Lockhart Lock- Lock Lockhart hart har and Shafer Domes as Well Wel as Other Oter Holdings Controls Oil Oi Lands i in Wyoming and Colorado Holdings ot of the Westland Oil 01 company in southeastern Utah adds considerable to the te speculative In Interest Interest interest In- In I terest of ot this tills company which has holdings In both Wyoming and Colorado fields The company was organized some time ago by Orman Oran V. w. Ewing and his associates to take care of ot ten oil 01 properties owned or controlled In Wyoming Colorado and Utah Including acres proven in the Black Moun Moun- tam tain Wyo field by the drilling of the Utah Oil 01 Refining company with producing wells wels on adjoining ground l In southeastern Utah It I was re recently recently re- re announced the company had obtained some rights to the fractions frac frac- ra tons obtained on the Cane Creek and Lockhard structures that cuts all al three of these domes In addition additon the company controls the operating rights to the BlessIng Bless Bless- Blessing ing permit on the south end of ot the Cane Creek structure at Moab Mob that joins the tIle Midwest Refining and antI Utah Southern acreage On the San Juan river in San Juan county the company has operating rights to a government lease of 2560 acres on the structure the remainder of ot the dome being controlled by y the Midwest Refining and the Utah Oil 01 Refining Reining interests The company also controls acrea acreage e on the Elk R Ridge ge structure in sa San SanJuan Juan county In Colorado the In company connection con con- necton with wit the Con Continental Un Oil 01 01 I company controls the operating I rights to practically all al of the II I Douglas Creek structure in the Ri Rio S Brancho county field twenty miles mild mies I SI south of ot the Rangley Held where 1 the Texas Texa company recently encountered en en- en countered a a gas sand flowing owing cubic feet of ot gas a day dar Negotiations for acres on th the I Midwest anticline In the San Juan Juar 1 river country has been closed Besides the proven acreage In th the he I Black Mountain field of ot Wyoming the company also controls operatIng operating ing rights to acres of ot select lan lanon land landon landon I on the Gebo structure and also Inthe in inthe it 1 the Big Horn Hor basin on which I structure the Utah Oil 01 Refining Isnow is isnow it I now drilling a test At Alkali Akal th the 5 company compan controls the the entire entre tw two 3 structures It Is I claimed covered ered 1 by three permits The company compan 4 also owns the operating rights t to S the Red the Alkali i and has done considerable drilling I here and also on Alkali The company at the present tim time I has purchased more than S IS worth of equipment and has three thre 0 outfits In Th n Wyoming and will 11 prepare pre pro pare to protect property rights is Inthe in inthe 7 the fields of at that state in which in interests interests in are held