Show Thursday THE EIGHT PAGE direct January 19 1999 UTAH MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT OIL O : i i ill rlC ourt as REVIEW V 11uhL their guilt IN of They will evidence OPERATIONS DURING 1921 probably plead guilty is the belief of officials Montrose HEfflX O According to Detective B C Lape Te 1) Heist Mining Engineer agency who (by J formerly witli the Burns Salt Dike City) on the Hecox plotted mur been working 1L that the Oil on had (n spite OJ of the fact the head hunters Hub Lika Vi' v" worm der spue mu Its case period of deprss-' Paradox passed through a 1'iendLshnoxsof Crime in All to completely annihilate the the past year prospecting A nopul ition take Um spoils ami Benbeutandit 8jOn during Admitted by GtTieticmefiess Old for oil in Utah made satisiaetoryproDean to Mexico Grant Lee that this Considering Young Meo Who Made Myers and Jim Gazaway making gross first year in active drilling was op-j-ct that effect plan was to pi to The Utah's ull Confession ns motion pictuie outfit into Para(rations with the el forts distributed A a be the at-1 wide the results dox this would greatest a area compare as 0Ver initial efforts (Continuedfrom first page) everywith the in possible Then when favorably traction the house they came into the body had gotten into other states and which later in Monucello ''lilaii diiwhen lock the win doors and as oil producers not national prominence were to dose and of the inof crime was pulledoff and & drilling operations make a complete massacre review w however for weeks Then two trade children then tle several counties of Utah for the with John Miller nocent men women and he a made victims loot their homes year j2l follows: saddle and harness rob their trading a horse for $20 Old The drillmute Mexico They had their ()X bilk anti also and go to ELI)ER COUNTY: and received laid the rocks all out along rim thjs debt Miller owed unty ja being prosecuted second $20 bill on the a of the of ivt'w xUuaivv the shores Great Salt him Itnun tut mil'lland was $50 bybills bycirculating unheard1 of daring of along extreme t hi hi ui 820 and truumt u kt nt various parties the youthful thesethat p"(s 'we8t bandits who had the west the Promontory Point detectiveswere able to the end terrorized II zl IV Vi m 11:1 locate the guilty although from Great is the relief in the west end pier out the lake and firefly generally known jjqofoot it over the lias been WHS that band ol outlaws rig iastalet a drilling spudding in A Gazaway was suswhom t" suspect letters of up and appreciation (urjn (the month of October and it jeetcil from the start was no broken pouring into the county officials he was not q'he Zion Asphalt Company of Utah fault of hi that directlyare ti the wmk done actual and good has contracted to drill 100 wells t? the shooting which iinnlieutedin fui the of Asphalt Company of Utah cutting off of th(‘ head and subsequent Oil a ANT' BRAND INSPECTOR robbery now known as the Great Salt Lake search the detectives 'for TWO COUNTIES and Asphalt Company started drilling liorini' heir four lat-The in isoWell No during October The caches the Sat found three or the hills of the of San three wells produe- to lilted tiffs La Juan ter company hiive commissioners oil and of durmg the past amniunicreek hmalitv with strn'es who are in Salt Lake City on wg a it heavy unty)tiHjness hna Bmii demonstrated Inin fill ut r'lt ill! that irllll supplies ami rump equip-! M tiou appealed it guns th"! this evii'leniiy that oi is verv desirable for flotation iiKuils sidwiiil' urn Mnn nifun H'h Siatt' (ivpa Line 111 til to that ganft' organized 10 piuu-t protect ivitscll a marks and purposes gang was that rganixm u urg( off at the gang has pulled The Nebeker interests depth of intiniated insm-ctor salary be assign-' distilling rust'i' about 400 feet have a showing of gas as i! ii'vit- tuei an(j an other crimes as msuDHig raffle (ran(l and Juan counties! ' und hat Dcrhans nf him oil 1 limr Mtc M'len OUP4 er trai ic in live-i ana 's this field has westwest-3 nlltJ During Elie past year orgiinizn-e to terril'v the fhP whole wh(H‘ l()ck rm pointed out tn The eommissioners MJcuiAiwru nninlnrt ussibly by bankT:bheriesJ loss to stock-' attracted considerable attention ano ((nsideruble fcr kjs rUU-MUV UU1V iVPu No etc f‘nnrii an extensive dridinir campaign is conholdups under present conditions inns lilt'll UIIUV1 - punviiv bv tho state turn plated for the The sherifl k vrif han t'nknn coming year at z ty 4xx" mv vx 'on Valtivoft rhe hnvp neon Pl rm' GGTTA'f'V COUNTY: "1a Uacnc aunmauiy W twnui "v ('opartnicnt in the mailer CACHE r nParau"X andJ ley Oil Association operating in Sec I the people of jicdroiK M at a 25 R S L M at breathing much easier as TT 13 N 1W who are encountered result of the bandits depth of about 1650 feet captureof the strong gas flow and oil showing who have terrorized heminto a liy Elmo Stories of the west estimated at from three to five barrels The detectives went Scott day oil is end and per The found below dressed as roughnecksand Great Scouts the lake wash of ancient Lake Bonne-' associated with the people they were Watson vi lie in sands and is suspecting shooting playing poker Carboniferous and cleverly said to be of quality high hunting anything so good dancing at line of Silcott © Western Newspaper Union that all suspicionwas distracted gasoline content Tests of the gas are identity CAPTAIN from thorn as to their real SAM BRADY AND HIS reported to class it as "wet" nextj and thus able to COUNTY: The Utah they' were get CARBONCompany spudded in on Oil AMOUS LEAP the the to details Refining the month of The Millers have lived on La Sal arnham Dome during of member of Copt Sam Brady was the end creek for ten years while the Meyers'1 August At the year a lighting family which imide history lived have there hut two years depth of about IfiOO feet had been the on the Pennsylvania bonier during of most with and the strong gas pressure The murder was one Revolution in Indian wars lifter the which may be see horrible and heartlessever peroetrat-etl some oil ofshowings the in this Captain Brady's' greatest exploil took results when the Per-I section and Hie levity witli lie hail been captured mian sands the objective is reached which the boy murderers treat it is place in Ohio aiid carried to the sun-Towns Company appalling Indians The Leonard Petroleum The murder was carefully planned headquarters for all the a Pennsylvania corporation leased days substantial before it took pha-e Greed to Ohio tribes where the savages preacreage paying get the bonus in addition to a drilling agree money several thousanddollars pared to burn him at the stake stripped post ment which Lemuel Hecox the watchman bound to He was fires On the at the isolated mine for DUCHESNE COUNTY: wore in tdm mid slow kindled around belt 6 miles southwest V about his person nd which he Dome die so much that ofDuchesne Indians hated him He-cox the the Utah e often displayed was the cause town of Duchesne they wished io torture him as long as Oil Co has set the 15 inch courted death by carryingthe Southern powerful mail if ami Brady was woolly section possible casing at the depth of about 180 feet money in suchwith wild he his fetters bandits and si rained tit is rapid being made on teeming and progress Then the well loosened slightly The fiendishpess of the murderers were effort he in with h lilial snapped the Iasi On the Castledale cutting off the head of the dead COUNTY: EMERY 4 ‘man and miles bearing it "Way five bond leaped across (lie barrier of structure 3 miles east of Castledale the Castledale Oil Co at a depth tb secret it is also beyond reason and tlame tind seizing pitched squaw the glee with of about GOO feet which the "head hunters" tier into the fire suspended work for the has carried'it up through the canon winter 'This company Before the Indians could recover installed rig on thesame of the isolated region is almost tincre-ditable from Dome their surprise the it scout escaped but drilling is not yet Rochester had gained such headway that Goodridgeoil field prior to the petroleum hundred feet under way And still the youthful criminals from village and the plunged into the The' was impossible to check it or saveanj withdrawal in 1909 and as this COUNTY: WASHINGTON laugh and joke about it all The Huntington structure was tested Harrisburg thing from the building Cra woods hotly pursued by hundreds of withdrawal vacated upon the Virgin Dome Oil Co on the by the Oil during was Ohio Company - Dove inally lie to bill of '2483 San the of the oil and gas leasing Dome reports a depth correspondence Juan Record aricle of the savages came the past test of The following telling This was a passage year gas showings Cuyahoga river near the presentsi te the Cretaceous the work on these placers has been resum feet with some oil and discovery of the head of Hecox age erron member ed oil field the Mo-: the Virgin City in of in the In Montrose paper: Kent Portage comity of Mancos shale was found HORSE THIE Oil this place the and the Company drilled one new "The head of Lemuel llceox murdered river flowed to be coal-bearing Dakota During 1921 numerous placer claims have 001 At well HELD AT DURANGO 22 feet S reconstructed the refinery and The well Cashin mine watchman steep rocky sandstone dry was in this field were surveyed by U '"'"m was was oil TfArvl All Kia pare pumping from four tir£Lle weBs 'IThis by The scout or patented About SheriffL Dorsey of from side to side abandoned at a depth of 3100 feet before mineral' surveyorsfiled - - 15 across is a shallow field the productive sands in this Jan A telegn the on UallVYV iiciu Monticello Inn Montrose county last Wednesday no other place McElmo formation was 400 claims were coun- Io MnnrifAl n was trapped There was upper less 11than i'AA 600 mtfeetuivuupmt the ounuo Ak - of from surby It L) B the henig as been received Sheriff on the Miller farm near river where reached tv during 1921' under the terms for miles up and down the face The capacity of the refinery is Paradox Colo after he followed the he could The Salt Wash structure is being oil and gas leasing bill Hvde that Al Parker who is waul ford It The Indians were the about 150 barrels per day in gan w second directions given to him over bv Leonard Petroleum On thb San Juan county in connection bn him and his only tested SAN PETE COUNTY: Enh In tnul the closing the theft nf a telephone by John horse arid two Miller one of leap Company Rapid progress is being raini Dome the Utah Central Oil Co across the C R the confessed slayers of escape was to try to in this well E S L Christensen Ilecox' made and at a present Sec T 17 SR 3 M reDOVE CREEK STORE AND one belonging'!® nnrl Lrt of about 1800 feet approximately on of 480 feet KTrxti TA The sheriff made thp gruesome depth depth n ntnorc ports a ARE BURNED POSTOICE of the head and 1000 feet separates them from their another fact Brady could hear' the savages veiling Oliver of Bluff City is being'held co on oec zt the killing in the woods only a rne rrociucers un concerning made short distance objective the Moenkopi oil sands Durango Colo was T 16 S R 3 E S L M reports a The destruction of the Dove Creek rost known The head showed plainly that Deputy Sheriff Heber away as he ran back' toward them to To fullfill the requirements of prospecting depth of 925 feet The well was spudded postoffice and store by fire last Saturday left for the following the shooting the murderers get start he issued under the prisoner a good Then turning permits in during May 1921 At 199 feet had night is a great calamity to the cruelly beaten the man's head sped for the brink and puttingall his terms of the leasing bill the Utah of oil Parker was in this section all slight showing and little town and there was a feet surrounding country with bar Oil in the mountains an iron battering the skull falling into a final spurt be Development Company a Chicago trapping Blue strength at 365 this gas a stronger showing It is reported thatonlytwo br three left a few days to wells in a pulp evidently trying to erase two concerneach started heavy bags ago for Arizona sprang for the3 opposite cliff His appeared while at 719 feet a of mail the of the bullet 500 feet were saved A fdur-horse port of the marks holes but field deep the Utah missing horse and null Jump was a little short and he struck black oil was produced of parcel post had just without effect as the bullet Oil Refining Company drilled a similar wagon after his feet the itw below the edge oh this structure in that all of which were made a few isdava lank of about Oil discovered evening allotted to ha' plainly discernable One was at well to depth was come was validation a Parker In nans lost the back of the head in each stopped tn amazement several years ago in the Poulson well The store carried about a $6000 nnrture and The 800 feet been seen with the mules by a CowM pne oil feet of which nothing but llien ns the scout scrambled up over struck at 540 and stock saved "side 'was the the when was was The head recognized as Probably section receiving flre the well abandoned when a heavy flow barbed wire that niled out in to Ilecox by those they opened the past some was who knew theTil im during most theattention year of water San' Rafael encountered at about front The insurance had just expired TWO TOWNSHIPS SURVEYED The head was wrapped in an old oundeu mm in the leg delay-gin Swell with the was was GOO feet and jumper and was ghastly sight Ing his tl and tn n new papers were to have beenit is short time were following active operations The Carter in the next few days the As Register Gould B Blakely of Sat head was on his heels again lake Oil COUNTY: In diamond ork or court purposes He came to Company is making good progress UTAH the loss will be total Considerable Salt all Sheriff however Tako land office announced photographed from angles by and is Gugtaveson down over 2500 feet canyon near Thistlethe and Hit gc u Stooping beneath the that feeling is rife in the community urday governmentsurveys resumed drilling Gusta-veson Dorsey and then turned over to the lily he breathed Henry A Schweikhart the Old Oil COU®t of is in fl 111 nd broad puds water 'No well Itas it thought that the fire urn fAw-nckina abo authoritiesat Bedrock to be buried by 2 Emery' Oil Company the San Rafael reports two reed the sav-vain nvirl 'AllYlfiV' 'through noil w while first Tess of Vrx in XT the side of the rest of the remains Oil at incendiary origin The occasion Corporation and the Reserve Oil showings of nil the than was on the of for of Unappropriated shores of Utah and the favorable work been completed The missing money was also located have been drilling 100 second showing of was most Company may' bls trull this kind the by these townships bloody oil and at as building was entirely embraced where the boys said it was hidden the lake jThey found in this field during the year gas about 600 feet Well land W filed believingthat alone and the postmaster and the The sum of $500 was found in a tobae-1 to the water'sedge and upon under the public Considerablework of a geological No was abandoned bn account of a of the co can buried on the Miller ranch he had drowned rather than be cap in this field seriouscave-in store and in fact all on ana atter April n tvr nature was performed the citizens sixty-five of the days prior to that ds The head was buried On the Coalville town were attending quarter of during the past year by prominent oil COUNTY: SUMMIT Qul at the mile has school house about the land may be filed upon by seff from the farm house occupied bv been Empire half a dance Soon afterward Brady reached ort concerns and the entire area the structure the Western mile of the a distant and just out of fied soldiers and sailors who one slayers and his folks It I'itt In safety He under terms bad many more filed on by applicants Petroleum1 Co-J (WEPCO) drilled sev-ral sight of the the bill postoffice The fires in in the against Germany surface hl of the feet war was about two feet ofunder before death leasing hundred when work suspended thrilling adventures was the the stoves were completly out when land is described as township 20SO" This unearthing head links for the winter 1795 but his COUNTY: On the Circle The company on Clirlatmas day GARIELD left the It township 25 sou confession of the two murderers Cliffs structure the Ohio Oil Company expects to complete this test during the occupants was about 9:30 range 21 east and across' the Cuyahoga wan the making it a clear case against them leap drilled to a when the fire was first discovered and range 7 west depth of 3212 feet 1922 S-' v n the substantiating confession and rreatest feat of all at which point they abandoned the Hill UINTAH COUNTY: The Creek test Oil and Refining Company is having The Crescent a testjirilled (Si GRAND COUNTY: on the Creek Dome Eagle Oil Company isdeveloping Several hundred feet1 in depth- have of placer claims in the vicinity been obtained ''and the drillers have of Crescent ‘a the line station on main reported one showing of oil colors of the Rio mil-vo-'d Denver and Grande of The United States The claims were initiated in Utah in on the Jacob Evans spudded 1919 and during 1920 validation work claim in this field and the' Midwest portable rig with a was performed all Refining Company have A deep test was started with a heavier on the ground for a test on Section rig during 1921 with the intention of 32 T 14 S R 20 E S L M Oil drilling to the Permian sands On the Moffat structure the Uinta colors and gas THOMPSONS were reported by the UTAH Oil and Exploration Co is working on drillers during December is two wells Well No down about At Moab four companies consolidated Well No 2 1200 feet in one test well companies 800 feet and of Three miles south Roosevelt the interested in the tost are the Embar Hansen well in was-started October Oil Company the Standard Oil Company to test shallow sand believed to lie Pork of a Bvcf Mutton rankfurters Utah the Big Six Oil ComPremium at and the Allies A about 400 feet below surface Western A Strictly Clean and irst panv Class Hoose Catering to the Pork Sausage feet is reported with COUNTY: On the Ne-quoia depth of 1800 WAYNE Best Trade Only oil and gas structure the T C Conley well showings at intervals after has reached a depth of over 1000 feet -1 passing 800 feet This test has the Utah-Arizona Oil been watched with At Cisco Comnanv-started test during the as it will a prove a considerable CLEAN AND UP-TO-DATE " month of November' territory " the SAN JUAN COUNTY: The Monumental 'On the Caineville Dome Ohio Oil Company of Tulsa Oklahoma Oil Company at a depth of 2700 feet in spudded cn the Ilulkito has considerable trouble in a cavey Jf DR W WILLIAMS Proprietor December This formation This well is within a few structure during hundred feet of its objective the Moenkopi structure is located on the south side of the San in the Indian sands Hardware- Men's Outing Clothes- Choice Candies Juan river Piute Proprietors the E reservation On same structure John of As valid oil discoveries were made indlay Ohio installeda rig drilled number of placer claims in the during theyear and several on a V UTAH MURDER i I 1 Values Winter Goods Splendid 4-kn a I ' ' j 1 : I In j i return i i T a ‘ a j j All u i ' s V z i ( i i a ' and Sweaters I 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 i r I t i i 1 L- 1 ' I T I V f i thetint I f fl Mackinaws 1 j r Reduction At - 1 I I ! I I 1-f 1 1- I ' : Cash I - t I I - ' ' ' I i for 20 j u u ( a i I -tilt T I ' 1 t 4-1 e I t-tu'V -Iit l 4 t : assortment- e v v v j h t ' i 1 1 t ' I i J i attractive prices - I 1 1 t I - - v large a I t ni-unifr k Caps Boys - -v---- I V and Men 1 1 if-rrilv 1 1 I I a I I Just i Received I ! Boots Cowboy Genuine New ' i Pair I 1 a attained indicative i ! adjoining a and Come ' them X MARTIN COOPER a a I & CO - I ' a I a untilthey j I a a i appeared ALLEGED a between ' I unearthed -banks ' ' ' ' I ' -v --- --M i ! 3 1 1 Jfl 3 1 1-flllSIII chancef excavation - I 1 L i- t afternoon " h ' t i I holes'wcre t a ' belonging I -him ' executed a 1 a J i -Company 1 1 r 1 n a -feet i ' proprietors 1 wu-the " j- ' a a I 22-foot ' 1 j ' - I -Hill aproim ARMY Breeches Riding ' The Oil-Company Thompson the-mater-ial At Bargain Prices Hotel : 1 Under " Choice : : Meats -The New Management : -the BRICK CHEESE - - interest EVERYTHING ‘ f - THE QUALITY SHOP Mr and Mrs Charles Stewart - - en-nerty |