Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-01-01 | Page 33 | Good Grade of Oil is Struck near Lake

GRADE Of OIL IS STRUCK T NEAR lAKE of Petroleum Are Arc t Encountered While Drilling Drilling Drilling Drill Drill- ing for Asphalt 0 O. u u. Smithers an experienced ed oil oL l' l lIeI was In City Guy yesterday nd ind while aw awaiting instructions h the Zion Asphalt lt co company pany of ot o alt Lake City stated that his visit vas as for the purpose of reporting to theion the s. s fon ion As Asphalt halt company that that in lU drilling for or asphalt ho he had discovered a good grade of oil on the lake shores shareS near Kom Ro- Ro ell o in m western Boxelder county corn com Ins ng nS' up through the salt water He Ho also 31 that in m drilling he passed through 1 t layer larer of hard white stone and later truck green sandstone at feet where Dockets of oil were encountered and and tome orne ome of It forced Its way up the pipe to he e top coming out in large bubbles howing a good grade of oil Smithers stated that he had a contract to a well 1200 feet deep and expects to tart operations the first of the tho year on he e deep well It is said that some somo jl i ll wells ella will be drilled during the com corn hg g S season ason in the vicinity of Rozell I. I reports continue to be received orn om the several districts in Utah where e operations have been under way Or some time These Include reports s Farnham dome near Price where all a t ell ll is being drilled b by the Utah I I hg g g company compan from Hill Creek In Uinta Jinta It where the company TO k 1 drilling on the holdings of the tha Hill Ij treek eek Oil and Refining company compan and the Midwest and Utah Refining are pr preparing for extensive b ions from the Duchesne district hee the Uinta Oil and Exploration com- com and the Utah Southern Oil company inre operating from the Big Six well near Z the Virgin Dome company's well county the Eagle Crescent-Eagle well near Crescent and the tho producers Oil com company pan well In Sanpete a l- l lf of f these reports tell of the ring of ot oil and gas showings with good respects of the development of a com com- supply of oil I Confirming reports reports' of Increasing y In San Juan county a recent issue o of ofle le e San Juan Record says sas County Bert Galloway accompanied an old Texas friend through the the- Bluff Blut oil fields This fend lend end was no other than R. R E. E Cornes Comes eminent geologist of ot Ft Worth Tex d a a large operator in the Texas oil elds tOver a week was consumed in looking Lver er r the field getting oil from the differt differ differ- t t wells and procuring data relative toe to toIe e former drillings and the results ob- ob Ie ned Ined This history together with the LIned logical conditions found has so well T pressed the geologist that he deter- deter ined to thoroughly develop the field fiela Uld he be able to acquire sufficient nd to warrant the expenditure which ill be required before returns may be ba Mr Comes Cornes stated to the Record that eg had determined that the only present plan to make the field a profit profit- ble le Ie producer is to put a large refinery i the ground one that will wUl not only gasoline but will manufacture all aU l the f-the he products by-products down to the oil cake opening the field this way he thinks swill will be possible to hasten development r nd d increase the output of the field until ter tel It would be profitable t td install pipe pipe- lines ries nes to the railroad ad In the meantime J J e refineries could supply this country frith ga gas and oil and other lubricants and haul the surplus higher priced products to the railroad and market by ticks KIf If the plans of the gentleman and his I work out sufficient land being I qui red to warrant the launching of the his company would put on a bigI big I be ne e of trucks to handle the immense vol- vol volline II line Ime e of freight which will have to be to and from the field c