Show I Oi Oil loom Boom in Utah Is Here HereBy I By Ira C. C Tichenor T there arc are those who will wil declare that the statement that the long predicted oil oi boom in il Utah finally has hns arrived is misleading Literally speaking it Is not a fact but those who are interested in the oil oi Industry and are In a position to know all ni about existing conditions are ro willing to admit that nt at nt least east tho the makings ot of an oil 01 boom are here and tn that If It the general public were co of or the true situation the boom might miGht blossom over night published In Thursdays Thursday's Telegram concerning con Tho The report exclusively Immense and perfect oil structure In InQ the discovery ery of ot an 01 Q county together with wih tho the fact fac that several largo large producing producing pro pro- Interested In the district merely Is Isa Isa companies have hn e become distrIct a a forerunner forerunner of or announce announcements soon Boon to to tobe be be made concerning theS the S Interest bel taken In this thi state b by great Seal oil 01 companies and their plans for for d development l operations p. It Is It ItIs Is known wn among oilmen o- o of o Salt Sal Lake that at the present I It and time Hmo there ore oro in Utah making Salt Sal Lake their headquarters t traveling traveling- over tho the state visiting IUn prospective oil 01 fields representatives senta companies companes tives of or several of or tho the largest oil 01 producing and refining In the tho world These Thee concerns Include two of ot the leading oil 01 companies of or Europe rope as well wel as those Included In what what usually Is termed tho the Standard sr up It I Is I leown known that options have havo been taken on ont t many bany ny thousands of ot acres of or promising oil oi lands and Ind the indications are ae that there Is something of ot a n battle batto royal roal In progress between te the European and American Interests for the tho control of or holdings In Iii Utah Such a battle battlo batto has been In progress for some somo time In Inot ot other r sections of ot the world and It has ha be been en n waged to such suh an nn an ext extents extent nt even n In this country that It I Is I attracting the attention of ot g- g government officials E A matter of or Interest In connection with wIh the contest Is I that In I addition t to tho the acquisition of ot lands covering oil 01 structures the various arlous companies both foreign and domestic are obtaining holdIngs hold hold- hol- hol lags Ings gS of ot oil 01 sand nd and oil 01 shale deposit depos Th This fact tends tends to c confirm tho tile predictions frequently m made mJe Je In this column that tat eventual eventually tho oil 01 sand land and oil 01 shale Industries of ot Utah would woul sooner or later b be bE included In tho the leading industries of oC the state and have nn art 0 Im tm- Important Im- Im bens bearing upon the oil on Industry as a whole x The exposed oil 01 sand deposits of ot Utah with wih one exception are the r ea test In the world Conservative est estimates ates place pine the amount of or oil 01 In these sands at more than nil all al of ot the eu til 01 developed by drilling In the entire country since the inception of ef t tIc tIc- f- f fell ell cli cl industry Interest st Is added to this condition b by tho the fact that as previously previously pre pre- announced d. d a young Utah Inventor Inventor Frank Frank Nevin of ot Salt Lake has Lkc has discovered an Inexpensive and nd rapid method of or separating the oil 01 from Crom the sands In connection with wih tho the oil 01 shale Industry another young youn Utah Uth m. m man man man-E. nE E. E T Ti T ErIckson a graduate chemist chemist of ot the tho University of or Uta Utah haa f-haa has invented a process for tor tho the distillation of or oil 01 shale which I Ii wild aid to have ho e attracted tho the attention of or government officials Mr r. r was wan summoned summoned to Washington during durinG the lat latter r part par or of ortho orthe tho the war ar and was employed in the government jo laboratory v For lor l'or months after aCer the war he was employed in the wo work k ot of shale distillation In behalf behal of oC the government Taking the te various arlous facts enumerated Into consideration the statement that tho the oil al boom In Utah Is here would seem t. t to to b be justifiable f |