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Show -o OIL FIELDS IN UTAH. Resulting from a recent discovery an entirely new industry is likelv to be prosecuted with profit in Utah in the very near future. A rich find of oil has been made which may, in time, make of Salt Lake City a fec-ond fec-ond Pittsburg. The oil is of excellent excel-lent quality and the veins appear to be of wide extent. The original f'nd was made a mile and a half northwest of Virgin City, in Washington county, in the southeastern south-eastern part of the state. Until a few weeks ago the town, which is in the southeastern part of the county, had a population of about twenty-five families. fam-ilies. Now it is enjoying a veritable boom, there having been a rush of fortune seekers to the favored territory. terri-tory. So far as prospected, this oil tcrri tory has been found to extend at a width of twenty-five miles, from the northwest corner of Arizona through Washington, Iron, Kane, and Garfield counties, in Utah, a distance of 150 miles. This district is dotted with monuments marking locations of oil claims, where derricks have not actually act-ually been erected or wells sunk. The principal well sunk has reached a dci th of 1000 feet. At a depth of seventy-four feet when limestone was found, a trace of oil was discovered At 415 feet considerable oil and gas were encountered and when the drill reached a depth of 566 feet a full baihr of oil was brought up. At 610 feet nine and a half barrels of oil was procured, indicating a flow of 225 barrels a day. Following the rush to the fields companies have been formed and refineries re-fineries will be erected soon to reduce the cil to a marketable condition. It is evident that the oil exists in commercial com-mercial quantities. The first well struck was on ground 2000 feet high. Within eight miles the elevation is 4000 feet. At the lartcr elevation is a vein ten feet thick of the finest variety of canal coal. The tendency ten-dency of the district is to dip to the northeast 158 feet to the mile. A lime formation of from 500 to 700 feet in thickness underlies all, and, "according to the United States Geological Sur-vcr, Sur-vcr, this is of the carboniferous age. On this break live oil can be found 011 the surface rock 'for fifteen miles. The results iii Washington county have occasioned prospecting in other counties of the state, with frequent success. Fine veins have been found also in Wayne, Garfield and Millard counties. In Emery and Sanpete counties prospecting is now going on. Men experienced in the oil business, who have made a study of the situation, situa-tion, express confidence that only a beginning of the industry in Utah has been made and that the near future fut-ure will reveal the existence of oil in quantities not now generally believed. |