| Show VIRGIN FIELD AT fEVER HEAT New Oil in Southern Utah Creating Wide Spread Interest Now WHOLE COUNTRY LOCATED Natural ct May lie round In n Abundance V VV VV VV VV dance dai l Into r i V V V V V T Too KI Special Correspondence St George Utah July St Excite Excitement mont ment Is la at fever heat beat In iii this tOils over ovet the discovery of a t very vcr high grade of ot oil 01 near Virgin City 28 25 8 wiles from St George deorge As AI s stated In tho th dispatch dispatches es C ol nOt was struck on wi the tho UI Id Ill mat and ana the tho news new a was soon Hashed from Crom coast coasto to o coast Almost Immediately Imm began locating claims wherever there thero was any ground Practically the tha th Wh l valley lIlI In which mich Virgin City Is situated lies has been located In some ground mutt must bae been relocated a 1 number of times since tho ito total acres flied filed on Jn Is approximately whereas the tho valley proper con contains only about rides acres nCI II They The aro are aronow arenow now no staking claims west vest of ot the tile Great Hurricane Fault and have Invaded the valley alley valJe In which hiChi Washington Field Fjeld and town are located and Little Valley to the south of Hi St George It Jt IB Is believed there thero are nrc rich oil III il meas incas measures measure ures ure underlying the tho Whole region In lit and around St 0 George o the tile Washington Field Fl and nd away awn up to the Hun lean It Jt will be but a it matter of a n avery avery very short time until every avery available aero of ot ground In the county count Is taken up tip with locations location extending over ocr Into Arizona Yesterday tho the Associated Press wired County Recorder John T r Woodbury for tor tin an statement of the facts and ho be responded In iii a message of or about soo words worda Patrick Holohan n superintendent of ot the works at III Virgin was In St It George yesterday yest and relates that while deli drilling ling a 1 lieU ell a n few days duys since the tho drill ignited n it pocket ct of natural gas sas Ia Which exploded l and blow blew tho drill V upward wedging It between tile the walls wal of or the time well unit and the heavy rope ropo cable by which the tho drill la Is Ii manipulated Mr HolohAn had nil Immense Imm hammer made mado front the stem slem of a n stamp mill with which he lie Intends dislodging the tho drill by llY driving It back The hammer is an Iton Oton shaft about 10 16 teat feet long louiS and weighs about poundS |
