Show v OIL SPRINGS IN UINTAH BASIN STORY STO Iff WYO MAN Ss SAYS ya NOWHERE IN UNITED alit SO 80 MANY SURFACE indications there aro are oil springs in one plot in tho the northern edgo edge of tho ula tah basin according to a prominent wyoming oming oil man who recently returned from going over utah holds and he Is still hopeful for the future of the industry here particularly lu in the ulilah section under the following caption tho inland oil index haa hae a lone long mainly recounting stories that have already appeared on the utah oil situation catches jackrabbits and sago sage boas hous like ingle root paper catches flins flies says the scout about oil fields in utah prospects are goo tor for big production faith of utah as oil prospecting state undecided but hopeful the following extracts are taken from the index article a R lite wire utah tall Is not a dead ono one bously politically or in any other way one or two dry holes dont condemn an entire state let me toll twi you thia nowhere in the united Stat slater ci not jovn in california are thereso there a many surface indications of oil why there in one place la in the northern part of tho the vintah basin where in an area of 1 f a or iship and a half there are oil springs one of these springs catches jackrabbits and sage hens as caches lies flies put that in your paper if you dare this dare dalre was flung at tho the index in the course of a talk on the 1 prospects for oil in utah with a representative of one ot at tho the WO I 1 important producing oil companies corn panics I 1 who had just returned to casper from a survey of at conditions in that state for his company there has been so much knocking on an utah that we asked him to write his seasonal reas reasons onal for the faith falth within him tor for cation this he lie hp has accordingly done and the same Is presented herewith because of his position his name Is withheld his article follows in its entirety editor some luck favorable on page 5 column 1 OM SPRINGS IN BASIN SAIS WYOMING MAN continued from page 1 w at tho the beginning of 1922 fate is as an oil producing state is undecided but hopeful while the operations erat ions of several of the major companies p an es notably the ohio and carter have not proven successful that does not condemn the prospects of tho entire state those structures froin which the triassic sands have been eroded off like circle cliffs seem to be pretty well condemned those where the triassic Tr sands can bo drilled into such as Cal neville last chance and farnham look favorable and the most promising part of the state is the uintah basin where the presence of thick oil and many oil sands and oil bil springs has recently concentrated the bt tendon of the bigger and more active companies state divided into three parts from an oil ott mans viewpoint utah like gaul Is divided into three parts the northern and western part of the state is mostly desert sand and wash interspersed with sharp rugged ranges east 0 of t the wasatch plateau and south of the denver and rio grande railroad and extending around the south side aide of the colclo plateau into southwestern utah is the head bead of the grandman grand canyon region great grett bare red cliffs drifting sand and deep iLan canyons with a few groupe groups of snow topped mountains north of the denver and rio grande and oust of the wasatch range is the uintah basill uintah basin favorable area at present this last area is getting most of the attention and it Is therefore worth a brief description the basin Is a roughly oval area about miles mile jong long and 80 wide sus surrounded on all sides by bv or high plateaus and sloping down to the green white Du duchesnau Duche chesna aaa and strawberry rivera rivers which form roughly the axia axes of the ellipse part of the basin Is a barren waste much of it Is covered with pinions and cedar forests and cut by rough a great deal of it ie is splendidly agricultural land the entire basin Is underlain by the oil that anyo been so much discussed and this thir in itself argues well for the future oil production of the region to be continued |