| Show carter land man to leave for south colonel W I 1 E clay genial vernal district land man mail tor for the carter corter oil co announces that he lie vill lake take up tip it similar post around mid august with the tile southern at ilu I 1 sion ision of his firm at t shreveport la the title as colonel la is strictly honorary upon him film by his super lorf subordinates competitors and friends as a mark of his cibil abil ily ty to it sign up tip on an oil lease tor for 10 cents an ili acre T though hugh a native of kentucky lie is 4 not a kentucky colonel by bv order of the chief executive of that state but this is an oversight which many of his friends in utah feel should bo be iem i e died it is ls a fact that col clay was graduated from the army as a master sergeant after going through basic training three times in the engineers cor corps s and ending up on most of t the unromantic spots in the pacific where the hand of man never set foot yet his broad southern accent and idiomatic speech have conspired to spread his fame thru out the state of utah the dean of utah landmon Is a native of henderson henderson county ky bom born there july 4 1910 he lie started in the oil and gas business when he was only a high school student henderson county was in the middle of growing oil and gas explorations and my buddy and I 1 at high school would go out among the farmers and buy a lease on their farm for 1 col clay says much of this work helped the colonel pay his way helred crough I 1 center college at danville from which he graduated in 1932 1032 V V 1 1 4 21 ak s AA az W E clay with a degree in arts and science carter oil co a subsidiary of the tile standard oil company compan of f new jersey entered the illinois 0 basin oil play in 1930 the following year the firm had hall spead its activities from illinois and indiana fil diana into kentucky the colonel says that we were a highly mobile outfit in those d dilys and I 1 alternated between digs the e southern division of the company with headquarters at jackson miss and the h illinois 1 n basin however in 1943 at the request q aest of mr roosevelt I 1 entered the armed services of my country ills his triple trip through basic training was a result not 0 of the colonels inability to tell his left foot from his right he can but the rapidly expanding train ing program of the corps they were always finding new things th the colonel was qualified ifield to do lie ile ended up in the pei pe engineering branch of the corps and saw service at blak disk new guinea leyte mindoro and ango at the latter port he was able to determine that contrary to the song popular during the philippine insurrection the monkeys at ago DO 00 have tails the colonel returned to jackson miss after the end of the last unpleasantness as a lease buyer for carter ill it may 1947 he arrived in S salt alt lake city as district landman tor for the firm rm replacing earl al henderson enderson II who la is now a lease broker there carter was initiating its big exploration e effort f fort then in the vintah basin and it was colonel clay who filed for lands at federal and elate state land offices bid the acreage at the uintah ouray indian agency at fort duchesne vintah county and signed up ranchers and other fee owners to oil and gas leases the colonel also participated in the big williston basin car ter bought nearly a million acres of leases on fee lands paying 10 cents an acre it was land which was unproved and barrel headed without title search or check they paid on the barrel bead for a signature because the development of the producing and exploration branches of the oil industry was slower and because of so much federal public domain utah has seen little or no barrel heading by landeen land men tribune |
