Show jones highly impressed with big six well every condition existing at the midwest utah southern well indicates a big producer will be brought in when drilling into the pay sand just touched at 2028 feet has been accomplished according to B 0 jones of denver who returned friday from a trip down to the well lie was accompanied by E M carlson D carruther and J L doogan all officials of the utah company and dr charles V bacon of new york a petroleum engineer mr jones is vice president of the utah southern and a heavy owner in the colorado river royalties syndicate utah is to be the center of a remarkable drilling campaign mr jones declared without doubt cane creek or big six structure is but one of a line of structures that line along a major fold reaching from moab through the elk mountain structure to gypsum creek in arizona where it apparently fades anav all of these structures on there are large have splendid possibilities transportation facilities will be I 1 greatly improved as experience is pained in navigating the river eald mr jones A fleet of freight scow a such as that operated by the moab garage company will furnish ample haulage capacity A jitney fur passengers will greatly facilitate the travel of engineering parties and visitors the new launch recently placed in operation by the moab garage makes ho from moah to the well in approximately two houra and the beurn trip upstream in about four hours W II 11 lovesy of the utah oil refining company returned yesterday from an extended trip over the four structures on tho colorado nver he was accompanied by john L shafer and george W johnson lovesy and shafer went down to the lockhart no 3 ture in a boat and were met there by air johnson with a pack train mr lovesy is exceptionally pleased with the looks of the structures on which his company has extensive holdings he states that without a doubt transportation to all four structures will be by river LATE developments in the OIL FIELDS driller arrives to start work on big six john A Tanne lull driller for the embar oil company arrived in moab last night from the bluff field to preliminary arrangements for the resumption of drilling at once on the big six company well three miles west of moab the embar company has contracted with the big six company to complete the well on a royalty basis and mr tannahill Tann chill will have charge of operations it will take several weeks to get rigged up mr tannehill will commence at once getting equipment on the ground and overhauling the rig hoping to have the bit pounding away by february I 1 union oil of calif represented here the union oil company of california one of the large independent operating concerns of the west will probably commence drilling operations in the moab district by spring recently this company perfected its title to a considerable acreage on the lisbon dome south of la sal and it liro poses to spud in a test hole on this structure shortly the pennsylvanian sands being the objective the company is also examining holdings nearer moab having two representatives W G gallagher and clarence E manion both of denver in this vicinity making ecological mr gallagher imade a trip to the flat top structure west of the big six dome early in the week yesterday gallacher and manion left for monticello to outfit for a trip to the indian creek section to find the oil land is biot so simple it is a simple matter to step into the U S land office at salt lake city select a tract of 2560 ares of vacant land and apply for ah oil and gas prospectors permit on the acreage under the terms of the leasing law but when it comes to finding the land establishing corners and posting notices that is not so simple such is the emphatic opinion of H C alien of the firm of crapps alien engineers who returned monday from a trip down the colorado river below the midwest well where he had gone to establish corners on leases filed on by clients in running out the survey lines on one permit mr alien had to walk seventeen milea across canyons up cliffs and down cliffy to put out two corner monuments mr alien was accompanied down the river by H E snyder they made the journey in a row boat taking along a small outboard out board motor to assist them on the upstream up stream ojill the motor played out on them some distance below the midwest well and they were compelled to hike to camp and phone to moab for assistance the moab garages barge picked them i up western states der to start operations the western states development company which last year drilled a well near crescent to a depth of feet announces that it will resume operations on this hole january 15 it expects production at from 2000 to feet this company also has some holdings on what is known as the gibson dome directly south of the midwest utah southern well on the big six dome surveyor H D heise has already made the feces sary preliminary surveys for camp site and road construction the company will use river transports 1 tion and from the shore a road three mules in length will be built to connect up the camp and drill site the company states that work will start on this test in january texas company plans 1 early drilling campaign the texas production company which last week acquired control of the river bed leases held by the colonder Colo nver company announces that drilling operations in the bed of the river on the big six dome will start at an early date judge F W freeman vice president of the company was in salt lake monday and stated that his company was so favorably impressed with the possibilities of the moab field that it was willing to ask the large amount of capital needed to drill in the field below moab where transportation and other difficulties entail more than ordinary expenses J L doogan field superintendent of the utah southern company made a trip to the bluff oil fields this week where ha made arrangements to resume work on canyon well no 1 on which operations have been suspended since before the holidays 1 salt lakers control large acreage here J R walker and son W R walker prominent salt lake citizens were visitors in moab tuesday and made the trip up the colorado river to cisco to inspect a large acreage of land in the vicinity of richardson they control they and associates socia tes have ten permits for a total of about acres in professor valley and upper salt valley they were taken to the land by R L wm bourn i denny will enter utah OH game andrew J denny tor years drilling superintendent of the ohio oil company and who is well known at moab has left the employ of the standard oil to enter the oil game in utah for himself as a result of the recent developments at moab mr denny was on his way to new zealand to take charge of drilling operations for the standard when he heard that the midwest utah southern well had blown in he immediately forgot about new zealand and decided to do contract drilling in utah in speaking of the oil situation in utah mr denny stated saturday the people of utah are not awake to the importance of the developments at the well near moab in denver there is more excite mient among oil men than in salt laap of course there is a reason for this the disappointment of utahna over the failure of oil development was so keen several years ago that ganv of them cannot believe it possible for utah to have a real w ell tell me where else in the united states on putting the first hole a ten inch to 2028 feet they would have gotten a well the size of the one at mr denny several years ago married miss lilly hall a former moab young lady salt lakers still skeptical As to moab oil strike the salt lake tribune expresses considerable amazement at the skepticism of salt lakers in regard to the oil discovery at moab the tribune ver since oil exploration work started in the state has stressed the importance of a producing field from the standpoint of the devel 1 of the state and it has al ways featured oil news in its col dumns when the gusher on the big six dome came in recently the tribune sent its oil editor to moab to get the firsthand first hand facts and the local oil developments have occupied a prominent place in tribune columns i the past manth in spite of the cm i given to the oil situation the doubting are still numerous in the state capital which prompted the to comment as follows in its sunday issue one of the most important signs foreshadowing shadowing fore the degree of importance attached to the moab development by real oil men men who have worked up to high positions from the drilling platform is the fact that several of the most experienced men in the game have given up good positions with large corporations to enter the oil business for themselves what better sign could the mere layman wish as an indication of what conservative oil men think of chances of becoming a real oil producer no other deduction is possible than that when practical men of years of experience in every department of the oil business from drilling to gel cal reconnaissance who have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in fruitless effort to develop petroleum in the state who know the hazards of the game that when men of this class stake their all on the possibilities of the states becoming an important producer then indeed the chances must be good oil mien are inclined to smile at the skepticism of salt lakers who buttonhole those that have returned from a pilgrimage to the moab oil well and ask now tell me is it I 1 true that they have a well down or did you see any real oil or was oil actually running out of the hole of course this ini credulity in the face cf the extremely accurate and conservative accounts emanatian ema from those directing work can only be account r bv the facto that it is hard to of utah as an oil producer after sears of disappointment an many false reports of great pushers particularly H C alien engineer and H E snyder returned monday from a weeks trip down the ner where they surveyed a number of oil permits downs mccloskey of grand junction was a visitor in moab monday being here on matters connected with i oi lland holdings in grand county I 1 |