Show A VOLUME CONSOLIDATION 46 MOAB SOON (ILL EMI GRAND DETERMINE Of THE COUNTY GRAND TIMES VALLEY UTAH THURSDAY AND JANUARY THE 29 INDEPENDENT NUMBER 1920 LARGEST Notes Oil EW OIL O OIL LOCK COUNTRY 11 The OPERATQRS 8 IN TO MOAB composed Big Six Oil company of local people is getting in readiness for drillng operations on its holdings in Moab and Salt valleys Kendrick Levi the field manager of the company has been able to Standard a secure rig at Colo orty Grand Junction citizensstopped looked and listened and then no masked footpad with sandbag went ahead and formed a pool of $50 each with which they have leased ten acres of land adjoining the oil well lorence which of the Allies company Western should arrive within a few weeks This of Moab the Junction states Grand rig will be used to drill the company's The land leased by the Grand first well its lease on adjoining Hie Junction people belongs to C A Robertson A Star rig Western Allies well has of in Moab ten be Moab When also been ordered from the factory at days ago John A Sprott got an option j Akron Ohio but since the manufac ten on the and acres at $2000 ly by turers cannot ofsnip until tmrty intention days the money is in the bank pending the after receipt order it is the delivery of the lease According to and: to to secure the Standard rig for the Robertson the Mr Junction people Moab well and use the Star for a well have asked for a ten-day to option on on the company's in Salt valley on holdings the ten in his in additional oi land The Standard rig is capable of tract and this will acres probably be given drilling to a depth of 3500 feet Profitting them lease calls for The immediate from the experience with the drilling operations be With many of the largest oil operatorsof the country in Moab Western Allies well of which he was on drilling and with negotiationsunder way involvinghundreds of thousands contractor Mr Levi will have Kendrick Levi received a telegram of ample casing the he of on ground when dollars the local oil fields have been the center of interest for Tuesday to the effect that a Standard and sixteen-inch commences work a The rush rig is on the road to Salt valley the industryin the United States during the past week now hole will be he started No trouble of where it will be used to sink a well operatorsto the fields has continued wihout interruptionsince states will be encountered with the on the leased from Nat and the report of the strike in the Allies well first reached quicksand and water as the casing Kendrickground Levi and associates The will be will is those seeking the outside and every incoming stage loaded with All heavy which A necessary equipment for completing the Western Allies permit ofextremely telegram came from A Mease a driving it down-with the bit there well ell the Maxwell lease and installing pumps 'to ascertain the known geologist of Wyoming acreage While a number of deals have been consummated on of Mr Levi who is field manager of is associated E T G of to and oil will days and with whom and has been general leasing holdings the large interests produced arrive within two or three the Big Six no mount will his connection sever R Thompson W H McGinnis red from present indicationsat least twenty separate companies will week it isexpected that the well will be producing with the Western Allies ithin a as company Chris Nielson These Metzler and men in be drilling the fields within ninety days to officials of the company who have been in Moab during soon as he completes the present Well all of prominent Wyoming whom are That the Moab fields will be developed from one end to the The well will be cleaned out the water cased off the and establishes a new camp for the ie week oilmen completed their arrangements Western Allies on the Snyder lease for and a which will leasing the ground about a month other and that the operations will extend throughout the county inds drilled into pump installed He will then devote his entire time The rig is a Standard and is assured Already and ago and especially to the Salt valley structure is or five days after the equipment arrives attention to the operations of the It being 'shipped from California presi-ent Big Six several rigs are en route to the fields and many operators have company and has his cews should arrive in about two weeks Mi Drilling Contractor Kendrick Levi and D Bergera vice already lined up of they will carry out their Den-er to Los Angeles to large bonds that of the Allies returned Sunday from who went sums money as Western company The Big Six company is probably Mease the equipment wired Mr Levi contracts Colo where they ordered all of the and lorence the only local that plans to that all arrangementshad been r in A carload shipment operate its own concern Among the large oil operators who have been represented finishing the well and drilling another holdings and the to and that drilling operations subsidiary of the Moab during the week are the Ohio Oil company a including 1500 feet of 5 casing being rushed through company state that sufficient 'will start in a few weeks The company Oil of of pipe funds are Co of Standard the Midwest Oil of for already on hand has lease 46 in the the company company one quantity screened and perforated pipe 1500 feet a on claims the first well to the sands Oil carry That Salt in the Wyoming fields the Continental valley structure the largest operators feet of sucker rods together with a pump and production will be secured in the first umping 1500 the Utah Oil Refining another subsidiaryof the Standard storage tanks The well seems assured as'the hole will be umping attachments and two 250-gallon L Peachman received a telegram company and many 500 feet from the Western also affiliated with the Standard Oil company hipment also includes some extra tools for drilling the company's located only yesterday from Charles Youle to the well in the Wyoming Texas OHahoma and California Allies The rig will be other smaller operators company as soon effect that shipped econd well which will be put down immediately on the a will as the Moab well is the of 'Casper Wyoming general field to the ground fields John Mcadyen in way across the north part of towri The carload of equipment which spud in a second hole under its and is on extensive river which Mr Peachman associates of probably the largest the Ohio Oil company and who is Dst nearly $10000 being rushed through and is being traced Salt valley holdings where the indications manager Sufficient have leasedto Youle riday and remained the United States arrived are said to be operator in which is assurance that it will arrive within two exceptional for funds for operations have been raised rom both ends He was accompanied by the Ohio s chief bringing in a producing weli he throughout the week All preparations have been made to get the ma-erial Mr Youle stated and and the r three days oil geologist of the members of his company will arrive geologist C J Hares said to be the leading in from the railroadas soon as it reaches Thompsons A lease on approximately 700 acres ip two or three days to make arrangements country and who was formerly at the head of the United States After the water is cased off and the well cleaned out the of land for commencing work The was negotiated Monday when remained here uritU yesterday and were geological survey They It is figured further into the that as soon R C Clark acting ror himself and a tract consists of 480 acres all of the patented ground of the under negotiationsfor practically oil will of associates gave a drilling penetrated several feet the overflow from number - - s the sands are It is propositions were not accepted to Eugene McCarthy and The oil sand drilled into by the W'es-tem valleyunderstood that-their he hole for perhaps 24 hours later settling down to a profitable proposition A Allies company samples of which of ground and that they wul return next W Blackmore prominent ‘sheepmen by the the at bar-els owners least 100 umping proposition That the well will produce and oil operators of Casper Wyo The have been obtained is a fine-grained was represented by its general of week The Midwest Oil company of oil the Western lease consists of locationssurrounding sand which will doubtless prove to be per day is the firm belief of the officials S S Keoghen both big operators of Wilson and H and a most prolific producer manager N Jlies company and this belief is held by many other oil experts the J H Clark patented land between inthick the fields The Utah Refining company s manager J lat and Moab The lessors opinion of Charles Youle a the Wyoming Poverty dw have visited the well and have examined the structuredriller and operator of long its geologist R Calvert were also here to Standard rig on Wyoming and W contract have a E Bromwell together with M P Ber-era the ground within ninety days and experience who arrived Thursday Mr President Nat Levi of the company for ground Youle states that he is confid' nt that rank Grosso Jos Litizzette and other stockholders arrived have deposited a substantial forfeit of the The fact that these big company s representatives were here sand will yield a profitable production Levi while at several thousand dollars to guarantee unday from Salt Lake City and Helper Mr sand been identified competition for drilling propositions their The has not week arid were in keen to good faith' Both Messrs for a City placed orders for two more rigs which it is proposed and Blackmore informed a being somewhat dissimilar to indicates that the local fields offe? great possibilities for the producers istall bri the company's holdings Times-Independent Wyoming fields and it will such that a big reporter that they be any and that the geological conditions are at and the Levi in of is to the Snyder lease rig called sand honor be started on once would move a on immediately and of A second well being opened up ir and pioneer operator field is practicallycertain Driller Kendrick Levi is are highly commence workthe They field to Moab and camp is now being establishedthere of the field stated that operator who Moab It be every came Moab so much can ompleting arrangements to move the rig from the Maxwell well so that with impressed and that all of they intend to large looked into the situation was highly a ast is completed and the Snyder well will be sum on the development expend kJ A" Elmer received a telegram this them endeavored to as of their holdings holdings The great rush that has soon as the hole his to attend a directors' secure morning asking of nder way in a short time what They declared that the showing under way to the local fields is only an illustration meeting of the Planet Oil company been While at Salt Lake City President'Levi had a chemical test in thethe Western is Allies well even before if the shows big production which is which has holdings in the Moab-Salt local well It tested at 48 water cased off and the oil can be expected and districts of lade of a sample of the oil from the local wellvalley Crescent by who have been the ground for the those on supply determined Justified the sinking considered certain this county It is is to to 80 cent gasoline This understood that laume which equivalent from 70 of a per number of wells in various this 1 to company intends commence past two weeks perhaps the highest quality of crude oil produced anywhere in parts of the structure and it is their drilling well in the Moab field according io visiting operations at once several A 50 or 100-barrel pe United States The remarkable high gravity of the product intention they state to thoroughly good propositions having been made operators will bring about the greatestoil rush ever known in out the land on which they have it by drilling A' G as focused the attenionof oilmen all over the country on this field prove contractors' Bur of witii-in 10000'people lease the west and Moab will develop into a city operators are closely ritl well geologist and William nd the town has been full of big operators all week Many leases a affiliatedThese six well would assure the construction with the Ohio Oil company Story Jr known months A a prominent Satl Lake and it is certain that extensiveoperations it is understood the and scores of pve been consummated are heavily interested in of a pipe line to the railroad within three months rill follow the pioneering done by Nat Levi and son Kendrick and will to field immediately Planet company be on the road the s rigs he The M ob Realty company today-sold S:' Western Allies company State J I Wes-rn a lease on a considerable Senator George Lewis and acreage A number of propositionshave been made to take over the of patented and validated lands tr W Drake examiner of the insurance LAST ORDER OR BIG Allies holdihgs which would guarantee the company a(hand-bme Carl Westesenand Hany Lighte department of Colorado both of Denver The the royalty of Uplift Oil & Refinin'-company night Together but these offers have been accepted were arrivals riday all of of the bmpany intends to none Montrose ColoThe with practically INDIAN MACHINERY ON WAY proceed with its development work as origin-ly land OR leased for $100 other state officials of Denver they EQUIPPED' was planned All of the Western Allies holdingswill be developed and the land by government covered in the ive are interested States Oil S rapidly as possible and those people who have leased to the locations at $10 per acre The of D J Developmentcompany which loneer operators have the assurance that their ground will be $5000 Messrs of is consideration was Penley Moab president This that C C Wolfle of Salt Lake City general state their company has a considerable acreage at Copper The company is fully financed to complete the Westen and Lighte once manager of the Buena Vista With a complete line of heavy dimension expects to drill on the holding of the bvelopment of its property pending the installation of a pipe line company in the (Continued on last page) company which hasmillcharge material on hand and with all near future Big arrived m Indian mine and Stock in Allies has jumped from 25 the Western company the by Harry theV R yesterday accompanied necessary' equipment at Moab Ints per share to $10 that price and none is for sale formerly (ML Morgan metallurgist Lumber I O MOAB WESTERN Bush company is making It is ALLIES STOCK install a QUALITY likely that the Western Allies company will employe! at Big Indian and who goes to handle all of the derrick hall refinery at oil is of such high that to his old position They The gravity a very back loeal oil fielda once this construction work in the to the mill morning by J Expensive refinery could easily produce enough gasoline for all IN COUNTRY UNEQUALLED JUMPS ROM 25C TO $10 Btaken V on Sleeky cs Buah of the company fcal needs tjie Big Indian mill should be the plans for the various type I That hands The drilling of further wells in the valley will be much less operating before many more weeks is of derricks used and states that he the the statement made by officials of the apensive than the first well in view of the economy that will be the oil from the of the discov-ory That produced Since will be able report to erect one complete The last bssible Buena Vista company for Allies well in Moab is of oil in the field The boilers will be equipped for burning crude Western Moab on fuel of machinery the remodeled in three days Mr Bueh P two or wonderful in quality and is and it is figured that a well can be put down for half the cost mill is road and left yesterday for Grand Junction and by become circulated throughout the now' on the This I crude oil in any other the first hole day equipment is the have been should arrive any will replenish the United States opinion country many opinions Salt Lake City been where he of shipped in the the should have of the given regarding quantity visiting oilmen from his being to and the delay has interfered stock his the well June who as yet undetermined until various fields of the country OPERATOR PLANS TAKES OVER HOTEL with the plans of the the company However put in a large enough line to supply during the week water can be cased off have been here the mill is nearing comp'c all of the needs of the local field Some of these opinions have minimized now wll The oil is extremely high in naph-' for and it is the of the tion stated tha is paraffin importance Hall and while it a Mr Bush and J have perfected ACTIVITIES IN PROPERTY EBRUARY I by j SAN JUAN test run spring oil it and several oil men who a base contains but little paraffin partnership whereby they rush a and President Nat Levi of the came here with the first HERE will BROKER Allies Oil spent several days in an unsuccessful PROMINENT open up their brickyard within Western company the last of the effort to a short time Already they have in Salt holdings while Lake secure E L DeCamp of New York City a of has leased for half Jim Pappas Price who of Los Angeles orders a million brisk chemical analysis H Richardson week had a were quoted by Salt Lake papers J the no doubt that they wl lominet independent oil operator has Thompsons hotel and pool hall as saying that they did not believe prominent bond broker ana and there is for made of the oil and it tested at Calif a the for a season's run - oft fen in strike was of much conseseveral have orders Moab several days this week 48 Baume which is equivalent to capitalist was in Moab from the Mesa Land & Stock company 70 and 80 per cent These are the last of the week Mr Richardson million brick - within a week justWork IJeCamp is at the head of a com-fny the first of the week between quence statements days arrival gaso that as was an by the fact numis on the yard will commence line discounted a contemplating some very that has will take of the will charge permit Mr secured extensive hold-Rs Mr Pappas and soon as the weather ber of the largest oil operators investments in this section The oil according to the prominent and he is investigation Hall the ebruary in the who is an experienced brick man San Juan oil fields He property on now who have been United States have been operators come hereof tothemake a first-hand of the plant and he pfes that He here here for a week looking the situation region was very iswill have charge a large quantity of equipbecoming familiar with the business during the week will bring oil and and it is Crude over negotiating for likely now getting histo working force lined 3 already be®11 shipped to the exceptional prices favorably impressed He states that the hotel will be operated It commencing work Ki and that lease and drilling that result of his visit he will up preparatory from the various fields now sells contracts as a extensive operations in a modern manner and that hei il That is evident that these men are not It is at from $2 to $5 per barrel make a strong bid offor the purchaseis at once the soon start there intended will the in to give the here heaviest rush in building endeavor utmost the oil will higher merely passing time and of the bonds which That of the old Moab bring a entire issue kn nout a number wells belief that the Mesa Land ever witnessed in eastern Utahhl will there ten years ago drill furthgood service He plans many price than the product from any they are strongly of the being floated by the start is that the local field offers a within a month or two into the the sands install and on property among other field in the country company pumps certain Plans are opinion of all who J wonderful opporunity for invest--ment now being aermine the quantity of oil the field consensus of which will be an addition to theintopool if the field perfected for four or five big business El If Even produce hall a have seen it a satisfactory ahow-g which will be converted the offers producer of since strike Many blocks and it is believed that tofcie is pipe to be a small Another example share made a line should prove concrete firstclass cafe to the all of Main street can be install-LVmpiediate!y the opinion oilmen have of the lomade purchase ends has this be offset by the have been season oper-ated would James Clegg has Dr Alex G Ralston who latter figure In ftddMto the stock at the but vicinitywill be built up cal field is the fact that Western rn-nt Bluff for the hotel for the vajoe of the product as a past two years sell and some time making to there will doubtless be scores of W holders have declinedthe f°r the would be equivalent to a Allies Oil company stock has commencingof will devote hia entire time and attention market well in otMr fields there is no stock on dwelling erected during the season k oy 100 jumbed from 25 cents to $10 per Mr DeCamp's to his Moab hotel properties ALLIES WESTERN WELL encountering SEEKING IELDS ACREAGE BIG I ields Pumping asing Arrive to in ew Drilled Days Many Equipment New Well Snyder Part North Will Rigs Developed Thorough Companies Many County Way Lease Town r -Western 5 ac-ircling requireur de-posited se-sure equipmentr i at-cehded officials -inch ' Snyderase immediately ' com-any-will-drill ' 4- ' -sands negotiating ' Saltake McCarthy- ' in-the the-discovert impressed f i 50-barrel attorney ' ' representing patented HP n-acre de-bloped I preparations -were - -has -i' -- consignment unequalled " i ' -intention be-ready discovery secured ' ' : extensive 1 -in ' ' ' improvements u - ‘ ' ' 50-bar-well ' i company -barrel &Stock already |