Show Oil Oft FIELD OPERATORS PLAN SPRING RUSH I Group of of Denver cl Men cn Send Scud National Nationally I ly Known l Geologist to Ire ah to Start Stait Campaigns as its Weather Moderates Io Reliable information coming direct from the from tho the Western v Mineral Survey reveals that hat the l larger part of or th the r eastern eastorn half haIr of of- litah tah w will 1 during early spring becom one of nf U e most active oil w well drilling regions S' S Sin in the Unit United States s. s It Is s hov kl known own that the majority of ot the th larger Independent cut ent t tand and corporate ll nil i fi imd l tors tc s now so active active i 11 Color Colorado da ha hade havie de decided to lo start ve YO kI fl oper operations oper- oper in this state as as soon ri as er conditions s are propitious This t crop of ot big operators ors will rm ry 1 ly Include the Union of or California 1 the Texas company th the Qu Quaker er 01 Oil and subsidiaries of or the great Standard Standard Stand Stand- ard Oil company many of venom arc ire rc now operating in Utah tah J J. F F. Sur a nationally known petroleum petroleum pe- pe J I geologist geologist taking rank among the great engineers cn of ti e world a along ong with Secretary Hoover have been in the in the Uintah basin making mint mak ing lug observations and reports for a targe large group of lf Denv Denver I J. J Geologist Sur h ha has q ed wildcat wildcat wild wild- cat oil fields in every oil producing state of the nation and has lIas been in instrumental fn- fn in getting production inmost i im In Inmost m most st of the them He has has has' been sent sent to Utah to ferret erret out the m most st likely structure Ton on l which to drill for tor crude Cruda and during the late fall and winter vinter he and his his staff stat h have ve literally I ed the entire eastern section Gt of the the state from U Uintah on the to Mexican Hat on OIl the soma It Is said that Geologist Sur Stir has haa found many promising closed t oi oil structures in this s state ate and ancl acting acting act lct ing solely on his expert li ic ail vice J iu I least four of or such structures are to tobe be drilled this fhi's coming s spring ring l lis It Itis itis is learned ned that two of oC the domes doine are most likely to be selected lIt the the Uintah b basin sin one one in in ti the e s SanJuan San n Juan district and the fourth at some point in the s southern part or ot the time state state possibly y around Virgin In his explorations of the Uh a basin bashi Geologist Sur ha has lIas discovered th that t it is a a. region of or va vast Sit deposits of or long neglected sour sources es- es of r. r wealth In this regard Geologist Sur Stir s states in his his' late latest t summary I II I the In the few mouths months that we we we l havo alp been on on oh geological inspections iu fit western Colorado and ancl eastern Utah and especially in iri and ancl around iut iu- iu t tah h basin w we have hrie seen el more possibilities possibilities pos pos- for the development development of natI natural natural nat nat- ural resources eS th than n in ill any ny r region gion n 11 I this country country y The reason ason for the neglect In i development of these resources resource's is be q because In ca cause tse of or orthe the time remoteness of time the e tres- tres re gion g- g ion ion ion- It is only within the the tho l last en st f fow n. n v 9 n Ie i years e r that mod modern rn roads llave have bee been been bu built t and rind into it Samples and deposits of the f fur fol following lowing metals ane and minerals hars been seen and studied by hy us its sonic of of- which iu in the near near r nea Cut future Cutre re will Co t de developed eloped and ancl shipped d' d on on n a a large scale i AIt A- A t tIt 4 It Is known mown that th that t tho only Sll- Sll sO te and and andt t. t Jl that I la ml mined milted lCd and shipped in hi in the tho wol i comes conies from this region relon One r railroad rail rail- p road r ad was built fortl for this Js purpose on only y to transport gilsonite j Some Sonic of oC the most mos regular tt and IC persistent deposits of ot coal in iii hits hits' this ts' ts co country mtr occur here heie le most most of or which il ilis is being mined and ancl used only for lor local consumption although the mines In the tho Price region ship to tilt nIl parts Harts or of the J A veritable veritable belt of ot coal coal surrounds the Uintah basin basins I tor for hundreds cis of miles One of the greatest deposits ff r h nigh high gh grade pl phosphate exists exists s. s nor norr nor i of or the town of of ot Vernal i t o Asphaltum S1 to tho the c extent of or null null- Jons of tons tons occurs inmany prace w ce n tI the e tertiary formations for 1 i g distance along the rim o of th the basin The streets of or many will eite-will v iH l. l eventually be lla paved red W by tree IC sam santel a asphaltum l. l deposits t that lat 0 Dt 1 t i- Jt I streets of or Vernal Vernah Most f DIP U asphaltum asphaltum that is us used used d' d in th the United Unit Unit- I ed cd St States tes today comes fro u t ti til 11 in nit inland It land of h So replant Asbestos Asb of first first- lash copper copper silver p placer gold Iea lead zInc zinc vanadium uranium huP binum bi- bi mini num and nd a a avast vast vast deposit of rev r. r H 1 have seen most of of- w heir J. J On Last Page u 1 Fr From m Page On OIL ou P FIELD OPI OPERATORS P PLAN AX BIG S SPRING nIG Rusi I developed loped with ial lal success ulo Potash af is bei being m Wl success success success suc suc- suc- suc cess between Moi J timid and nd Thompson Material for tor Portland Portland cement to supply our entire en- en tire country occurs along the south I e em ern n borders o of the Uintah mountains moan moun talus in Il the Pennsylvanian and Cre formations Water power sites for tor great op orations exist In man many place 1 rong P Jg nar narrow ow precipitous canyons in ideal situation s. s for economical ti tion n. n Along the Green river rival occur deposits de posits of ot channel gravel which average average aver er age age over sixty cents per cubic yard i in b. gold with some platinum content In lu Califor California ia some of the time presen present day deposits are being mined by Bucyrus dredgers which yield enormous enor m us returns from 20 cent per ya yari gravel dero deposits its of or minerals such as gypsum Funer's earth fire clay we have seen The Time reasons for diversified nature na na- ture o of these natural resources is easily explained Rock tor formations ranging from those of ot early do down don n to to those of or pre 1 occur across ClOsS this region Hundreds of thousands of or h hrich ha rich richest st of ot oil shale deposits exist in this border region of two most mOrt all of ot which have been tak taken up up under the time mineral act and many have bave golie gone to p patent tent Up to date no methods have been devised to extract extract ex et- et tract the oil toy iby which commercial ial success can be had Our govern govern- has ha's has has' for to-r some years years been experimenting exper- exper on this this problem and ana still have ch chemists trY trying ng to deusa de methods for future use lIse Men Ien ot or foresight who have obtained th pat patents will probably not profit du duing ing lag their lifetime but their be hens heirs a athe t II the the coming coining generation will am cm J great great wealth from froni tl them em This country in n the time phraseology or orthe ortho the tho prospector is hardly F Few w men nien of science liMe have s seen n t t. t The people people who live livo In III it are BO not miners promoters or prospectors With vult the advent of geologists this year in hi their search search for oil eastern Utah and western Colorado wul wiil hare bare barea ve vea a real chance hanco to show the tho wires wares that nature gave gayo It it with which to prosper prosper pros pros- per on on- ona a a scale heretofore unrealized unrealized- r IZ ed Western V es terA Mineral Survey |