Show IS CONSIDERED TO T BE COMING OIL STATE t Eastern Easter Trade Journal Joural De Dc Devotes Dc votes otes Space t to Conditions Conditions' in San Juan County Tiie Tte Oil on and GM Gas Journal Joural of Tulsa Tulu Okla Oka regarded as u an authority In the the Mid Continent ld field feld and other great eat oil oilfields oilfields 01 fields elds recognizes Utah Ut as aa a potential oil ol producing state In a lengthy arice-ap- arice ring pee In the March c 19 issue isue The Te article features feature the te San Sn Juan section in southeast Utah where thousands thousand of ot acres were located by seeing far seeing fa-seeing oil 01 op op- op- op Operators are on the te verge of sinking new wells well In this section while In other parts part of the state notably Washington Wahington county count and Uinta basin arrangements are gold under way to prospect for the te liquid The Tb Utah Uta article in Oil 01 and ad Gas Ga Jour Jour nat nal states that A great geat deal dea of ot Interest was centered on the San Sail Sa Juan Jua country a a. desolate vast area ae where oil 01 was as found In small quantities ten years yeas ago o. al Operators Operator were forced fore to cease cee operations opera opera- tiona tons when President Taft withdrew this acreage for exploitation Some oilmen are asserting that the Inaccessibility of the th San Juan territory forestalls any aT substantial Investment but the fact re remains ye- ye r- r mains that scouts of the te Shel Dutch Shell Midwest Magnolia and other big bla com corn panics were close to San Sa Juan uan when the te president gave his O. O K to th r land leasing bill What e success ce they e ehU hU had In getting government area acreage e Is unknown Colonel n. n I 14 1 De Be Camp an operator In Texas Wyoming and ana Mexico stole etole a a march on all al the big bl ones ones' one by taking full ful advantage of his h aeronautic experience In the late war He lie had bad his men on the ground signed dd the a month land r l leasing before il bill the Jl president The San SanJuan Juan Jun country countr te is in the southeast c of the state and on the Arizona Arisona Azna border Colonel De Be Camp Cap had h an aviator avator ala sta- When word r was telegraphed to ho sky t pilot nth that the president had dd a af affixed a- a er fixed his signature to the te great geat bill bil everything was in readiness The plane lane was pushed out of its It small email smal shed ebed an and at ata t t ta a a. powerful speed the te aviator covered th the distance x ver over the desolate country In Inhabited inhabited In- In habited only by Indians and count wild wid animals animals ani aol mals in exactly two hours Locations were posted over the most moat promising and shallow land In the territory In the vicinity of these locations are seventeen wells wels that were drilled ten years ago and operations suspended after t a ml small malI production was found in the first frt sand 1 o oThe The San Juan uan country count has hs been dormant dormant dor dor- mant for years awaiting agricultural and mineral minel development of or the richest richest- sort Brt The reported oil 01 structure embraces embraces' four townships of acres ace to a town town- tow ship San Juan Is located In Grand county According to geologists the prospective pros pros- oil 01 territory is an area 15 to 2 23 miles mies wide and 75 miles mies long It I is approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately EO SO miles south of Moab oab and 20 miles mUes west of Bluff The he deepest well In the te San Juan country count Is feet although a high gas gaa ga pressure Indicates there tere Is a lower sand nd |