Show A NEW corporation oquirrh oil company organized Organize cl with john T pope as vicenre vice pre aident and director it is claimed that the oil over about dragon in which vernal peo 1 pie ae are interested contains al properties A company foi the promotion bof of the sal sale of the oil 11 which is said to ila ilae have e qualities that will cuie rheumatism and alkin dis eases cases of all kinds has been acen In corpor abed the company la is capitalized foi and is organized under the lairs as of this state the officers ol oi this company the aie W II 11 ilon president and manager john T pope vice president aia aviti harry nelson secretary and treas uror the directors are C A nich L r farr and john T pope the salt lake herald in a recent comment on the product sas s the existence of the oil was N as knon to white men newial 3 ears ago but its medicinal properties wen not disclosed until the fall of 1908 the well was inas first bilven by a pros seeking com merical oil it was descos discos bied after the well had beso drien that tile the product could le be to better advantage b mean of a tunnel and it is now seemed through a pipe in the tunnel that taps the oil deposit persons familiar with the fegion la a which the oil exists bellee the oil was wab cnown to the indians a and 11 1 used by them as a medicine long ears ago tills belief Is sup sill ported by the fact that many inter esting relics including utensils es cs sels implements old fashioned fire arms etc have bein found in the immediate neighborhood it is not believed beli oed eNed of burbe courbe that the indiana indian a made any attempt to extract the oil in quantity but it is not unica uni eason soll able to suppose that they secured small supplies of it through the exudation of it the ot the locks indeed local loal tradition indicates that the did thus |