Show BIG COMPANIES ARE ACQUIRING LAND LANDIN IN UINTA At Least Five Geological Parties Are at Work on Various Structures tures i I 3 J. J H. H Wootton pre president of the Hill Hili HillCreek HillCreek I Creek Oil and company and George Georee I II It geologist and director of the company com corn I pany have returned from th the tha Hill Hili Creek i country after having with Dr Karl Earl I Dougless Doug Doug- ou less selected the site eite for the first well to be bo drilled on the Hill Hili Creek dome Arrangements have ha been made for the Improvement of the road rOd between Price to Hill nih Creek and as a. soon lIoon as this Is done doneit it It ii stated that a rig rill will be hauled to the company's property where drilling Is expected expect expect- ed Id to io b be under way I within about a month Mr Hr Wootton and Mr Short confirm re reports reo ic- ports previously published of constantly Increasing activity In the basin with witha a number of the largest producing com com- r in the country acquiring l leases on J lands In promising territory 1 air Mr 11 Short said ald that he knows of five geological parties making a reconnaissance of nf of structures In the basin and that between atson Watson and Vernal ernal three rigs are drilling and on the Moffat dome two rigs are at work under the direction of Preston Cannon CannonI of Fit Lat It Lake It was declared lared by Mr Hr Short that Indications Indi ca lons pointing to the possibility of oil being boIng be bo- ling Ing developed ed on the lUll hut Creek structure are unusually promising Both the formation forma forma- Zion tion and structure are favorable to the belief belief be be- I lief that oil will win be he says say In till Hill Creek a canyon cut by erosion there lis Is an outcrop of saturated sand And which Is IsI I about fifty feet fed thick taking into account the thin layers of shalo shale found In the bed Oil seeps are found in numerous places also BISO SalT Samples pies of Or the sand brought back by Mr Ir Short are heavily Impregnated with oil resi resi- due In places where the beat of th the sun un un has been unusually intense Intene this heavy oil oozes o out Oit t. t he says The structure along the axis Is of the anticline anti anU cline dine running In a southwest northeast di direction direction dl- dl is at itt least twenty miles millS long and about eighteen miles wide air Mr Short re re- re ports port The upper strata of nf the structure belong to the lower Green River formation I while at depth will be encountered the thea Waatch Wa Wa- a satch atch Mr air Short Is Quite quill certain pumping wells l can be developed by drilling r I the upper upper up up- ee il tt ni i per strata t back a mile or s so from the Hill Creek escarpment and that large producers will bo developed In the Wasatch forma forma- I tion Ion By drilling In the creek bottom Mr Short believes that these sands I can be thoroughly exploited 1 by sinking from to of 1200 ol feet t. t Those Interested In the district hold that th thy sands sand In which will be exploited at depth In the Hill Hili Creek dome dame outcrop about forty miles mile to the tho west In Whisky Creek where the trado company has Its productive oil flow and miles to the south at Sunny- Sunny side aide |