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Show 1 Utah Oil ProapecU ' ' i- COME da Utah may be speckled with oil J dfck$-fronrCreetnWverowtri(JThe; Arizona border line. Geologists who have studied the structure that covers the southeastern south-eastern portion of this state declare It possesses pos-sesses rreater possibilities for oil production than any other similar territory In the world. With the present peat overproduction of oil In the United States, the- big companies do not care to open new fields. These companies com-panies prefer to see the oil rest in the ground until such a time as there Is a demand for It, because' It costs less and Is much more expedient expe-dient to store oil In its natural reservoir than in steel tanks. ! The attention of this great structure In Utah, however, Is beginning to get notice. In Oklahoma and other big oil centers it Is freely declared by oil geologists representing big interests that Utah possesses the greatest prospecting area left In the United States. Geologists who have made an extensive study of the field nd it has taken months and even years to accomplish this, so great Is tie structure declare that had such a structure occurred In almost any eother part of the United States it would have been drilled from border to border by this time. The structure is far removed from railroads rail-roads and little news of the developments are received except when occasional geologists come from the district and tell what is go rig on. At the present time in southeastern Utah the Midwest Refining company, th Standard Oil's great Midwest subdisiary, Is drilling a series of tests and taking a road along with them as they o. The Utah Oil Refining has one test down In the first sands at Farnham dome and another down almost 1300 feet at Woodside,. not far away. At Thompsons the Crescent well Is In the first sand. Not far from that Is another standard rig being put down by private oil interests that is just touching the first sands and going down much more rapidly than the Crescent test .; '. "' : , . -" . The Texas company has taken ovfr a well sixty-two miles from Green River and .will finish it. At the present time Green River Is the scene of- great activity as thousands of tons of material is being shipped from that town to the field by teams. While no commercial wells Jjave been discovered dis-covered In Utah, Indications for the state becoming be-coming a great pil producing territory, as well as the greatest mining- center of the West. never commanded more attention. The development de-velopment of the great structure that extends, some engineers declare,.from Coalville southeast south-east to the southern border line, should take thousands of new families into that section. It took twenty years of "wildcatting" before the Salt Creek field of Wyoming was developed, devel-oped, and many companies went broke trying to get oil in a field that Is now considered one of the richest in the world. |