Times Independent | 1929-06-20 | Page 1 | Helium Discovery is Not a New One

chester T harper denver oil scout and publisher of the truth about oil says that quite an amount of publicity recently given to the arge gas area of the sinbad district of montrose county colorado a district extending into utah Is a little overdrawn he says the inference from the various reports in circulation apparently based on washington D C dispatches Is that this gas has already been developed in that territory to a sufficient extent to justify the belief that a great quantity of Is there such Is not the case all these helium reports appear to be founded on one gas seepage that has been known tor years on the adams ranch about midway between gateway mesa county and sinbad rose county this Is a seepage of warm gas coming from a fissure in the rocks similar to one in the san rafael swell district of utah many miles to the west and no wells have been drilled in this sinbad territory that might have developed gas of any kind for several years this seepage gas may be of a helium character but in quantity it only suggests he presence of gas nothing more I 1