Show Thursday PAGE OIL THE TWO of STRUCK IS sult showing the of encountering oil on the of a McElmo good Life structure- in Moab Septembers UTAH MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT Twenty ' in the southwestern corner of Oil state by the Midwest Co Years Week Ago Uns While reports are rounds going the that flowing well has been drilled in these appear to be premature though a showing amounting to several barrels Midwest Company Meets With John H Shafer was a Salt Lake a day has been encountered at visitor 1740 feet This showing is however Success in Wildcat Operations seriously ill extremely favorable as it is coming Joseph Bohney was Just Across Utah from the red beds about 400 feet over with typhoid fever the Pennsylvania formation in which Line Near Cortez Mr and Mrs R Lee Kirk returned production is expected "The well is located on the NE'4 of from a visit to Michigan The search for oil through eastern Sec 28 36 N 18 W approximately 14 Phil Crout returned this week from So far as this store is concerned Utah has been greatly stimulated the miles west of Cortez in Montezuma Grand Junction being accompanied by past 10 the week by the report that a producing county miles east of Utah his three children well has been brought in by boundary and 25 miles north of the buy a the The district school opened at Moab men of Moab can now Midwest Oil company at its test New Mexico line It is on what has children well in Tuesday with 134 McElmo canyon just across been designated as the McElmo structure the been Utah line near Cortez Colo the the from creek The postoffice at Moab had build namethe of t the has not given district the of the Taylor Although which runs through The moved to company rear out series statement as to the quantity dome is one of the which extend ing any flow of the it is into the that stated that production over to San Juan district building activity has been in secured and when southeastern Utah and into northern at There was much and the various the in Miner's basin sands are drilled a gusher New Mexico The operation was at operated exten for mines " being by is looked were There is a heavy pressure started by the MidWest Ref Co and sively of gas subsequently turned over to the Midwest Oil Co retuffiiKi the The Midwest has been at work on which controls most of Dr Snyder from a trip higher than you paid price at no the for a McElmo well over a to Monticello and announced that he year the acreage on the structure held for Drilling operation "The districtis a part of what was would remain at several upon Moab for good clothing in former years wrinkleever the or numerous occasions by troubles with formerly the Ute Indian reservation days heel er toee-or imUte with the water line as well as a number of The government made a settlement that nine and uaee A and wife Hamblin dye akin with the W were down serious fishing jobs Indians and acquired the the to aheorb poeo- Mr Hamblin had about the The following from Cortez lands Operations are being carried from Dewey tKc kutbd Wt AU his placer dosed a deal for the saleof of joumai-neraia MWj1h tens alla ot Iho re tne developments amI riaoalnn on under nnri&r a iwsuawmsm government aAaMAn4iM prospecting the mmoL there so far Dolores ground at the mouth Don't forget that we are as have been given permit The state of Colorado accepted cwnpbte line ol river from out to the of general public: other lands in lieu acreage m incorporation "Matters at the oil well have proceeded the reservation at the time of settlement The question of the far and has enough that no we can acreage for lease on of Moab term ought to be considered ourselves as living in an oil the structure but to the northeast it the commented There were editor Hosiery late considerable ground upon which many why incorporation country The encounter of oil has reasons at the well here and gas Midwest has leases are being sought While the would benefit 11 residents have fit and the to this is in ArmorknitPlate settled question as whether Midwest expecting production right into them The editor visited Castleton during oil structure contained oil or had been the the Moab at upper Pennsylvania formation they're ing the week and found much activity the oil never stretched of fractured and formation from which the Mid-continent escaped The in the making) building going on shrunk oil is and fields there Much was ana here the produce at 2000 to 2200 under terrific they're with Hsnne predicting dyed and Casteton people were These famous Shirts offered at prices below has been forced feet the big producing horizon is special dye besides pressure that their town would soon be one of in the at Oil not- a being fast which through overlaying a greater depth seams best in the positively the county no higher than you pay for inferior strata where it was encountered last springs exist around the base of the bum rot or weaken doesn't brands week causing some considerable inare absolutely the best structure and some gas has been esThe nation was cast into mourning the fabric Ythat terqst to be manifested by the company caping from the apex for years by the news from Buffalo N had that money can purchase Knitted from fine tough been in the hole is Denver reports say President William McKinley ailk long-fibre Cotton C in the shot by yam "W Critchfield of Casper Wyoming Pennsylvania and that an anarchist at that place or wool in all sixes and a is Stocked ground as the being held back while where he had been to visit the national was soon on the news but this is Try Armor Plate for style His recovery was look were the men connected with the Mid more leases are picked up exnosition wide assortment comfortwearing west who spent several days watching unlikely ed for as early reports indicated that - 3i quality his operations Geologists have "Just north of the McElmo structure wound was not especially serious in our is hearing in times past another called the Dove Creek Jasper N Hayes better known as oil in this that there either was no dome which is similar in many died this week at the "Uncle" Hayes Harrison and upon which Guy K structure or it was the greatest in A Elmer Mr Hayes of residence of J the If that nation opinion was correct Denver has the principal acreage been in for a of years had number is for this Negotiations there a future great are pending with charge of the Courthouse station Make Thia Store Your lower of that will transform empire Montezuma several Colorado and California companies and to on the road Thompsons it into a of for test to be forest derricks a joint put down had also done considerable prospecting T "Drilling has been resumed at the just as soon as the Midwest well is had the in that section He reached well has as the firist oil sand is completed Leasing been active several in of 63 that and was the oldest son of feet entire section for some time age below where the oil and gas was "Grandma" Brack who at the age of of the Oil released News results and Midwest has also negotiated a 87 had survived all her children lease on 4800 acres from the Navajo Mr years progressip will come through the home Hayes an office Denver as the company is Thdians on theis reservation of that soldier and a was bachelor The funeral clearly entitled to the first information name which located where New Sunday and it was Mexico Utah and Arizona boundaries was announced for concerning their enterprise here the old soldiers of the that A The company is spending the money meet large number of applications announced the blue and the gray for and plenty of it to prove up this field prospecting permits have valley both pall-bearers and at is for it to say what news shall been filed in the Durango land office would act as be and given out fact a number have been granted by a which their men the SE" CLUB government" properly recognize ENTRE very "There will be no trouble in operating all this is a Last Thursday night the ‘‘Entre winter as climate A Hamblin an old-time resident Se" club went on a hike Everyone 'with but 'little severe weather and ofW has time been a visitor in had a The club especially down in very good McElmo canyon the Grand county the past in the going on this well is valley during week Mr intends more hikes where located Water the and it is hoped evenings be the had can pumped up through pipes Hamblin formerly a ranch near will not get too cold for Tonight the them until holidays and after than can the mouth of the Dolores river and at the be club has its monthly business hauled as was the ease before the time he resided at Moab one He will be held at now meeting which pumping plant was installed In far his home in Sanpete of Miss Veva Brown makes the county home off Montana operations do not cease OB ARMER tainty the farmer may have his inn- this index compiled by the bureau because of winter OUTLOOK "Many strangers are already here uitJckilo ull&v m® 100 is taken as quivaient to 1913 DECLARED TO BE GOOD country will wnitn and pick looking over this field getting up in response to his erage price levels wise as to conditions prosperity observes Sugar-man's Taking these declining percentages The number Many good judges believe that the returning is increasing daily and will continue Indicator in conjunction with the known will start next boom period as soon According to U S Bureau of Labor of farm to do so Strong companies are ready products in general it hand as the farmer can put his on Statistics farm difficult to see what stands in the wij to enter into the game here and products have some profits As the supply of wheat since beginning of 1920 of higher for the "him already have secured locations and crop about earnings crop is estimated to be 40000000 bushels 245 to 114 on the average from the index of the soil" on leases We should have a very active whom the returnto less than a year winter W S compared with a declinein house Broderick of the Republic ago with coming high normalcy depends more thin anyoM To have Telephone Service a continuous wire fastened Oil Co prices looming up as a practicalcerfurnishings goods of 372 to 250 In else operating in Wyoming to glass insulators is a necessity and other oil sections is here being piloted' bv Senator Morrison and is 11 securing leases in the Goodman Point Some person or persons have made themselves obnoxious section paying ft libera! cash bonus by 'stealing wire poles and insulators from our lines between and royalty This is but the beginning Cisco and Castleton and Cisco and Moab of this work in and a short time this whole section will be covered by will will lead that leases given to companies are pay the above reward for information that able to put to their arrest and conviction down wells and will do so for the initial "As well discovered the by Midwest it would seem to us that the only thing that could be done is with one well after it completed N J CORBIN Manager MOAB UTAH would be to cap it arid sink others in order to get sufficient quantity of oil to pipe line warrant a or refinery One well is not enough "We learn that the Stites drilling machine of Yellow Jacket went down the to Midwest holdings today and will sink several fifty foot holes to validate the leases on them According to law this does for the first six six months the next months must show a hole five hundred feet And as a closing item for your delectation will that rigs from the Elk we state also Oil Basin and Keystone com-‘ to Cortez panies are on their way Cheer up!" M'ELMO IN the WELL The Time Has Come 4 f BilwMf x You Satisfying Socks Don't "Bag" Ankles Suit tailored your measure M Bom -were a -our The Plate Armor announce Manhattan Store Shirt T ( expected Unofficial already I I remarked respects I Clothes I I ex-confederate Headquarters Martin Cooper company & I future - j IT- $50 Reward i short-age is declined j j i " EiiijjSwbb HUH ' We THE MIDLAND TELEPHONE CO Moab 1 The News following from Wyoming published at Denver gives further information regarding the strike made at the McElmo well: "Interest in Colorado' wildcat operations which had subsided to a large extent through the failure to bring in any producing fields during the past three years has been revived as a re ' Oil The Property or to Several Residence Properties Choice Corner Business Lot on Main Street Register Promptly Increased acilities Enlarged aculty Largest Student Body of in History School Schoolof School of ' Arts and Sciences Education and Engineer- Mines ing School of Medicine School of School of Commerce and nance Extension Division Send for Catalogue nJ half paand tin hamidart and in th "and cry numtg eponge o UNIVERSITY SaX Lake O UTAH CHy fresh all over at the beginning! pipe! -and forget every smoke experience you ever had that spilled the beans ! h r a jimmy °r pipe packed brimful with Prince Albert will trim degree of any smokejoy you ever registered! 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