Show tig 1 $ u:! IL ESH CONSOLIDATION MOAB THE O GRAND ALLIES MIKE VALLEY GRAND UTAH COUNTY KING IS TIMES THURSDAY Views 7- COMPANY LOCAL DRILL TO ON 1 85 1 EE Liiisiiiiiis IW Ill ! II II IM1 1 I ws When Encountered X i?r Seeking Moab are IMMEDIATELY Big Six With Company Oil I -5- j Choice ilWrf Acreage Acreage and Moah in $200000 to Ground 'r'r " -- -rtr in The Big Six company now has suf-Moab another rig will be at work and ficient funds on hand to secure a ng valley within a few weeks to are under way company isoperating it and negotiations rig a OO Oina 28 machine This Vtfl co purchase - Star manning for Thi will be prepared nnanciany in st putting its extensive holdings in Moab and in will be thebrought once hole the on lease adjoining Salt Monday down valley1 was assured well the according to Western Allies when the Big Six Oil Company composed of the of local people was organized the officials company Ample be placed on the ground so This has and casing will incorporated company hole be can cased as drilling a large acreage of choice land negotiations m Moab that the Drilling operations will be proceeds as well as in Salt valley and the directionof Kendrick Leri under have been closed for purchasing the driller who put down the Western rig It is proposed to commence a well Levi is field Allies Mr manager development work as soon as the of the Big Six drill can be brought to Moab company has an option to incorporated for The companyalso rig The company is and it is probable at 10 cents each purchase a Standard $200000 with snaresbe this will be that machine disposed of to Sufficientstock will purposes brought to Salt valley for developing a fund for development secure the the company's holdings there object of the organization that the well It is believed Moab can being to thoroughly prove its ground be put sand in thirty in down to the Moab and Salt valley profiting from his days as the drilleririll The first well will be put down on past the lease adjoin experiencesof the be amply equipped company's five-acre is to ing the in The aim company Western Allies well No well at once and riday The bring in a producing which oil was brought in Big Six well will be located since its hole will be located adjoining No the Allies well 100 yards south pf the proven Western question but In addition to there is practically no Western Allies well that the Bip Six will bring in the second this five-acre lease which is on the in the valley The well land L owned by R Winbourn the hole producing will be large enough so that the company holds leases and government be valley land sands can penetrated with an locationson other Moab eight-inch bit Later the other holdings aggregating 560 The Big Six acres of the acres of companywill be thoroughly companyland also the ownsSalt1760 prospected choice on valley struc-i the and The Salt valley holdings of ture owns the oil well put down That '-X 4 that j the 1 :: Its for Ml -1 v - e - Develop v - Capitalizes Valley Salt 'X- -r'-AWJ ' "WEi HE X ' 1 iiaiiOT locking HOLDINGS ' StlSii Sands People of MOAB ! I r ' AT Hundreds to NUMBER 1920 Jt - 1 JilBS hLt 04s Tapped 22 Well - low INDEPENDENT THE JANUARY Oil Loal at AND MOAB VALLEY IN R-1 STRIKE rofitable ' 1 A I- 46 fi i VOLUME W '4:j La' ®itnes-Wprttint 'M a ASES ALREADY BRINGING HIGH JH t PRICES Allies western operation in rig I I U 1 I II 1 I I I II 11 "1 fl wmoif mi jiiiii - Wflf :U Last riday afternoon Moab valley was placed upon the list of the oil producing fields of the United States when the bit of the Western Allies bil & Gas company rig which has been drilling on the Maxwell lease situ-ted of Main street drilled into the oil sands at a depth of at the end eleven kindrd and seventy feeL of is The town Moab today rapidly becoming the center to which is at-1 ractedthe oil men of the country and every train brings seekers of oil land rhe Moab Garage company which operates the stage line Between Thomptons and Moab has provided extra auto stages for the incoming crowds effort is being made by Ideal hotel men to provide rooms and meals br the rapidly increasing crowds I the showing of oil is Although the oil sands have been barely tapped efficient to gratify the most optimistic hopes of the officials of the Western Lilies President Nat Levi of the company left for Salt Lake company and no after the well was brought in statement was obtainabe brom him before his departure However anples of the oil taken many from the well The oil is stated are being shown on the streets of the Town b be of very high gravity and is even of better quality than that taken from or just sou in or x nt uu me wens me san juan neias mono muau m parui is tne SON in case as san auan proaucu INTERIOR VIEW O RIG ON TH LET NAT LEVI AND I j Thn well brourrht in after drilling through one hundred and seventy-1 KENDRICK DISCOVERERS O IELD ke feet of saltwas gy psurti and fogsil bed A sand the j'' was encountered Big Six pssil bed which made considerable salt water together with a strong tne company are said to be and oil to a depth or about iwu leer ny last ing formed pro-moters many outside choice The company owns and oil At the time the Wyoming Consolidated company report was prematurelyspread' that oil had gas are endeavoring to acquire old This well is in the salt formation the Wyoming Consolidated well year been struck in the valley but this report was denied immediately by the leases with which to incorporate companies the and is to be that it in wide believed of the not circulated a An the leases near members so was erea The market on hmi company (Continued on last page) shut but this could be done until a hard sands to off the d and late sales Kort was made water not climbi hourly have sand into there formation encountered and when the oil well was drilled were been reported at: figures ranging was feet light-hundred of water standing in the Besides the driller Walter around 'COMMISSIONERS dollars This ON HOLD TO pailey and Chas Nelson the tool dresser there were presentat the rig from the acreage is situated a mile time the oil Nat Levi of Western Allies com-bany well of land President the Offers on small tracts was struck " and L local oil to Driller Bailey and Mr the well been Peachman According adjoining made at man have ' in at the only in sand drilled 10 DAYS SESSION Peachman was from three-hundred to one thousand two now feettown the depth of eleven hundred and seventy-five The formation hid changed dollars acre and no sales have been luring the last three feet of hole drilled but there was nothing to indicate made atan those prices Much of the Ihe close v proximity to the oil pooK Driller Bailey was engaged at his station land situated on the Moab and Salt the the tools into soft formalion It temper-screw when without notice dropped on valley structures is government poverty flat O CASING NOW ON road through the CARLOAD At nrst it impression of the driller that he had lost hw-tools land This land has been located for was RIGHTS Inrl in ffrlo dTllIinOP lllAlUp flOOH disCOVGCQ tll&t TO BE CHANGED leases ar? WAY TO MOAB TO SHUT O iromoTioolv katvnn nearly a ‘year and being" Ihe tools hanging on the end of the line and it did not require the sec? offered for this grade of land at from CAN BE SECURED WATER PUMP AND TANKS Of WAY Ind look towere bit The then dollars on the baler was five to ten recognize tiie signs of oil showing acre Severn U COMING ARMS ALSO through lent this to case according Mr Peachman tothe bottom of the well and in acreageshave been handled at Rjght here last-named figure " baler told the tale as it came up brimming with liquidgold D and Driller Kendrick I serious accident was just narrowly averted wnen one 01 mose present meu- ' It is the Bergera The board of eduntj commissioners opinion of many of the n 'oLevi of the Western Allies company met Thursday and riday and transacted J aovciutlll UL IIUU Hits Mil WVUU UU4U cuaavu - - plein Moab that much difficultywill WUCUIltr it wwwww only ft hto the tail race through rapid be experienced for the pur-pose which immediately ignited and wa in living are now at lorence Colo considerable business 'Present providing 1x fork that serious damage of purchasing a avoided for the rush carload of 514-inch and was incoming Chairman R J 'Thomson the wui the were well There has been many estimates of the amount of oil which of people Already Manager A G Ralston casing with which to case off Commissioner Heber Murphy Commissioner low bar local well P Bergera produce These estimates have ranged from thirty to two thousand of the local is calling according to M J G McBride of Cisco being fcls upon but a barrels the people of the hotel of tne illconservative figure is placed at from fifty to one hundred to list O' an official who town their company unable to attend on account of If the oil 1 oil per Moab If the latter estimate is anywhere near correct day available rooms with him and arrived Tuesday that nignt irom rrice nr in Viia even fmilv leld can in producing oil fields in he to provide addition to the expect to shortly drillingbecome one of the biggest Bergera states statesthat he isfor taxed lie United the oil sands had -a and District Road Engineer B ow-are owbeen pene-kated new sleeping the visitors casing a storage tanks! 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When was stopped quarters pump les Jr and Construction Engineer to a and according to reliable data supplied by E also being purchased and when depth of four feet When the peak of the rush is reached I has a off in the well will M Murtaughf representing the the water is shut M Wo' erton a geologist who probablyother more thorough knowledgeof frora sir? 11 ha manv cloTklcaa niarhLc lie oii-mad living man the sand will prove passed by the used to ascertain vne niv wiwi formation of this country than any crowd which' IN NAT LEVI PIO-' be K amount ox Bvaie roacivvniiiBiiiBiviij THE CENTER b be two of the formation oil cnav hundred feet in thickness Mr Wolverton's map rivers to tne new n'io ur production board andasKea arwigeinvnk win hock nkkk urBKAlva muad sixty miles shown at a point at the forks of the Grand and Green Oil IELDS Mr Bergera is of the opinion that be made to change the present locaK far drilled kuthwest of Moab has out by every formation thus new Buiiaings riannea been borne - the casing and other equipment which of the state road tion through Povertykto sand at the Western Allieswell and exposed on the river walls The population of Moab is nqw one' also be utilized as the oil for the building and w'in ne aninneo lat and to interview property owners mmecuateiv iruin tne It hunted approximately a thousand feet lower elevation measurethatnearly two lorence should thousand souls and with producing thc bank u ill occupy a place in the oil supply house at who would be affected by the proposed feet in thickness it is the and opinion of the local oil the men biggest when this well oil wells m the valley experienced oil The within a week to rights proposed option on reach Thompsons change as procuring structure producers in cased off and driven further into jhe sand one of proceed on the well of In the hove witnessed other oil the prop riy is held by local parties that work can lie men who way through their holdings be west will be brought in rushes state that inside of six months having been obtained from the owner witnin ten days event that the righs of way can the it is the lit is understood that the Western after which the oil sand will be drill-: the population of our heretofore quiet "Mrs Alma of Salt City to Mr arrel Lake According Bergcra the through Alma secured road location is Allies company mllies eJ into the It stated by village will be increased to twenty Another real estate deal which will intention of the Western which maintains an bottom with company additional upper valley will be materially changthe of the first buildbig to bring in two that present thousand One a improvement to Main or three ed hce at Price has ordered necessary Driller Bailey newhotel to mean ings rigs just as soon possible sand is planned is a three-storv street nccnrdino to a Price capitalists as fcsing to shut out the watei-also a showing of oil when the 'veil will aT unrl zarafli vxaCQlkla offrtl Will mnHd Assessor C R Christensen of San thousand-barrelor iL viBlmP pipe and openedup a thousand-barrel be constructed upon tne landhotel now ocv VI LI IV Lil 11 IM V1 Vll v a office buildings on the R J be the result It is not' his opinion cupicd by the Merchant's The to put down a hole in the near xuture ouan county mei wmi age tank This store and land material of which will be razed and the land is tne arrangements were made that the oil present building Thomson This uu-new rase wnicn company tentative the on the lower sands now rn pverv ground during the is in this built-upon the site of sale and is in the whereby Grand county assessor there will be structure dor there holds valley The company are two tested Contract every operations will resume The cas-g will will be well T he lot as to wnen taxpayers whose stock adjoining which is the pronow getting inrormation assess all the run down to the cap rock of the wi'l (Continued on last page) rigs be shipped Bid the oil beperty Moab State Bank additional can along boundary line be Already local companies are range water baled from the hole tween urana ana can juan counties San Juan county will later be pail of the Oil Indicates Location of Well one-half ields of West "X" amount of taxes colView of Lower End of Moab Valley Which Promises jo Develop Into One of the Leading lectcd on such Stock less the cost of and collecting assessing The commissioners ordered that a be paid to Ike Owens covering warrant the balance due him on a road ccntract in the Castleton district to Owens was also given a contract widen the Castleton dugway to 12 active - t -five andvery ' 1 1 im-nediately - J t approximately ‘ 1 X- ' ' Iwiw- r athe one-hundred n Zter''' eye-witnesses IBDW WHIN ' ' 1 f exceptionally 1 : w I Ar fi'v'' ' ' 1'Jill O1 1 IjjT n-rc--S - ' l'ilV'k' - -1 X 111 showingr -above 1 - - I I 4-rx ' th'he -an ' 1 ' ' - accommodations s -n w ILwBil sLSi'l ' I i : v v - - ' W ' -‘ i 1 I r ! - ' ' ' ' ? a 1 I I ' V J - - 4 v - x I V 1 Sj V 1 I I cl 1 1 I u 1 n r i shouldrive 1 weekid ' ' i ' 1 ‘ ' ' - ' ' ' ' feet ' ' clerk was instructed to write to District Engineer B owles Jr to the effect that the wide tire law and Ithe law to the with The - ? - - - drivingof wouldbe askedthat respect roads stock over hill-side in strictly enforced Grand county Officialsof the Moab Hospital company John Peterson and C A Robert son met with the board and the county defray some of the institution They ox the expenses that the county assist in of the hospital to the extent of $25 per month The matter uu visviiiviit iWUS laKuuwillunutr unu be the decision made nt next? of the meeting board An order was passed calling in all county warrants issued between July 1 and December 31 of last year - V- -0 ' - ? re-'quested themaintenance mil'' ' - - - -3 K t ? l - - 1 - 1 1 w - - Braffet P Borgoglio and E J formed a party or mee people who arrived Jn Moab with tho oil txcitement' M P Turner ' ' ' tL- t t r - 1 |