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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1920. Oil Drilling Activity in State 1 f Is Reported by Mine Inspector Review of Petroleum Prospecting Work Done in v- Utah Drawn Up in 'Answer to Queries Received by Department. - I FURNITURE jGIFTS ARE GIFTS WORTH WHILE-S- EE THESE PRICES THEY SAVE YOU MONEY WISH JUST PAY A LITTLE DOWN THE BALANCE NEXT YEAR--NO INTEREST. Wonderful yalues ENTIRE STOCK GOING AT COST GENUINE SOUTHERN CEDAR DONT MISS THIS FINISH HAND-RUBBE- D OPPORTUNITY $37.50 Chest Now $27.50 Chest Now $1 $42.50 Chest Now $50,00 Chest Now $62.50 Chest Now $70.00 Chest Now You may have these chests at these cost prices on your own easy terms-- it. you wish interest. . J CARPET Very good , quality; several different designs to choose from. . closely woven and For quick sale all childrens rockers greatly reduced. See these prices pretty -- Rockers $3.00 Rockers$3.65 Rockers $3.85 Rockers $7.20 All Finished in Golden Oak. v patterns. Do not miss this We have put it on sale at the extra low price of goo dtapestry Brussels carpet for only $2.80 The Yard r , Bugs of all kinds and sizes greatly, reduced the best of Christmas gifts 9x12 Wool and Fiber, only 9x12 Brussels, only - Here we augurst something tha$ the who imokeM should hmva have these smoking itsnds in fumed oak, mahogany and brass also ths brass smoking service. umn Fumed Oak-O- nly., Writing Peeks in any ityle make suitable gifts that serve a double purpose. They are decorative as well gs useful Our stock embraces quaint secretaries In oak, birdseye end mahogany finish, with handy receptacles and drawer for papers, eta. The prices of these are reduced to within themeani of all Brasa we All Reduced e Gp f - 'Skating Cabinet DINNER SETS Set, $9.85 $32.50 To) 45 TO 51 EAST BROADWAY have succeeded in obtaining another shipment. It is mods of wicker, finished in baronlcal brown; has handle, so it can lie carried easily. Also larger receptacle for sewing goods, andxtr large shelf for extras. Bella for $111.60. Now, this rk paly Ttminqfy 1 The Yard.- This rocker just like iho picturby the ' famous Karpen factory. Sells for (35. Upholstered in tapestry, . Extra well made. Special price on this rocker this week OZZZ only e-made n ,ylOiOO - The Price on All Others Slashed. L The desire for beautiful dining furniture U strictly femi-th- e m wt7 not promt her," neaping Mother or Wife, of coarse, with one of onr new period suite in mahogany or walnut! Theyre wonder vnluee for the price, and make a gift that will dally remind her of a happy Xmas thought. tS have suites in fumed or oak AT O&EATLY REgolds DUCED TRICES. We- - Wicker Library Lamp, with cretonne lining.. Cut Gian Library, Lumps, ooJy e ft ft QIC ylW.UnJ fft yaiviU y PEDESTALS All finishes Mahogany, fault-lyin- g. bn too,-00- $7.50r$8, $9 Up jT CARPET' COMPANY FREELY-- NO tbat-oomo ph. Fumed and Golden Oak FURNITURE AND USE, YOUR CREDIT st Copper Plans Enter Phosphate Field true thoughtfulness. We have a large number in two and three-piec- e suites, "manufactured by tha famous Karpen factory. 'Upholstered in mulberry, green and maroon, as well as tapestry. A visit to our fourth floor, where all these suites are on display, will eoovinee you of their beauty. VTiat purveyors of eheer and eori- nese lamps arel Theyre annually the cbeicq of thousands as suitable gifts, and this year we offer them at extra low price. room in A ne To present the family with a beautiful tapestry suite shows $17.50, $18, $19 Up at. 100-Piec- .$38.00 -- I Tod-til- Jctposhy Stabs1 We hay just one style of 8ewlng Cabinet this year." It hai proved most popular in the past, and ce ..$17.85 Bargains in Smaller Bugs Also Mahogany finish, only. 42-Pie- A Bug makes twelve north of Salt Lake City, produced considerable gaa The deepest well was 1400 feet deep, hut did not pass through the .unconsolidated lake beds. Tbs gas In most of the wells cams from the depth of 600 to 700 feet below the aurfacs and was piped to Halt Lake City, where It was used for fthout nineteen man tha until tha wells failed to yield sufficient gas to pay the costs of operation. A deep well has been drilled on the south shore of the lake near Grants station on tit Western Paclfio railroad. Oil was' reported to have been encountered at a depth of 1900 feet Many shadow well have been drilled tor water on the east and south sides of th lake, but so tar , as known, these wells have found po oil or gas. Drilling In th Lake Bonneville beds for oil or gas Is attended with great Green River Formation Drilled. uncertainties and Is purely wtldcaulng, Green River Prospecting for oil near became the nature and thickness ot ths Given river has extended over twenty lake beds and tho underlying bedrock are J sears, and Interest has several times not known. , Wn revived by the increasing demand for petroleum and by the discovery of Recent Activity Reported. .V; other oil seeps. Two wells, Levi No. 2 Sines those reports were mads by tha .and Collins, have penetrated Lupton's fol- - , U Elmo and entered the underlying La United States - geological survey, the. lowing results- have been attained by rePlata sandstone. The Levi well, In sec- cent Uen I Mr. A to drilling, according tion 39. township 22 south, range 17 east, considerable drilling work ass drilled to a depth of l$u feet and has'Although dona since the above report was been the Collins a ell, in section 2, township 21 made in 1912, so as has been refar yet south, range 17 east, to a depth of 2100 ther Is only one section ot ths feet No oil or gat was reported from ported oil Is being produced at tho the Ltvt well, hut gas was reported In Stats where time. On North creek, about , the Collins well at I5U feet In the Dakota present of the town of Virgin,' in a north mils , sandstone and at 97S feet, gaa and salt county, shallow wells about' water at 140 feet and dry gaa at 194(1 Washington 500 have feet produced small quantities feet. Rainbow colors on the water acoil. The Dfxie Oil company has been companied each flow of gas. Most of the of operator and a smah reother wells In this area were drilled Into the principal Intermittently, the McElmo. but a few stopped In the finery has beenIn operated the same county bewest, oterlying Mancos shale, from which most Farther tween St. ths and Hurricans, George the was of derived. gas company and other The results of drilling up to 1912 gave Virgin Dorns Oil been Some have for' drilling companies little encouragement for further explorathe tion because three out of seven wells time. Th latest advices are that well had reached a depth of 220 proved to be dry holea. Three enroun-- i deepest commor. in had secured oil not but feet, lered traces of oil and small quantities of gat end .one struck 'pockets of gas clal quantities, "Near Moab ther was considerable oil without oil. The Green river field conIn 1919 and a number of oem- tains no incline, or domes favorable for excitement panics were organised for drilling - Th Urge accumulation of oil or gas. was done by th BUT fcix work bjn Rafael swell Several wells have principal been diUlcd for oil or gas southeast of OH company, three miles southeast of put the Han Rafael swell and northeast of tli town of hloab, and a well was over which at last reports was Hanksville, near ths Junction of Fremont down fUK oil was feet borne deep, encountered,, and Dirty Devil rivers in townships 26 in commercial quantities. end 27 south, ranges 12 and 14 east, In hut notUintah "In county, the lilntab OH' fb Kmerv and Wayne counties. A well 08 company put down on well Exploration fact deep was drilled Just south of the four and a quarter mile north ot Flattops.' tn section IS or 1 (unsur-veved- ), bbout has readied a depth ot aptownship 28 south, range 13 Moffat, which 1100 feet, and about four cast, which possibly paaeed through proximately southeast of Moffat another well Laupton s McElmo formation and pene- mile with was a standard rig which started trated about 35 or 40 feet Into th La last reports was still drilling. Flat sandstone, but found no oll or at "One atof the most noteworthy Fgas. The Des Moines OH company' well near th oenter of seotioq 2B, township tempts to find oil in Utah has been tn 28 south, range 14 east. In November. Juab county. Just east of Juab station Los Angeles & Halt Lake rail1912, had been sunk to a depth of 2140 on th road. This drilling ha been carried on feet, but did not obtain oil or gaa by the Hah Petroleum- - company, Fted J. Wheeler, manager. Tha first well Showings Reported Depth. was started In the fall of. 1903 and It Is estimated that the upper (00 feet reached a depth of 2400 feet. A second o well was drilled to a of this well was In the Navajo and depth of 3000 feet From 300 to 135 feet and a third well, about seven miles southformation. the drill penetrated the Wingate. Fresh east of Juab station, reached a depth of water was encountered In several horl-so- 2400 feet. A fourth well was drilled: to from 310 feet dowmTh Mount a depth of 2629 feet. A fifth well is now Vernon Oil company's well, ten or t'welvs being drilled which has reached a depth miles southwest of the Des Moines well. of 3000 feet and is still being drilled. In the northeast quarter of section 9. Oil tn commercial quantity has not been r. township 27 south, range 12 east, prob- secured, but the indication in th wells were sufficient to encourage further drillably started in the Navajo and penetrated to n depth of 2715 feet OH Is re- ing . ' ported to have been found In this well ) "Since the new leasing laws went Into at 2175 feet. 3530 and 2655 feet below the effect there have been a 'large number surface, all of which strataa may he of companies that havs taken leases and In the Pennsylvania, but It Is possible ther promises to be a great deal of ac' tha first show of oil at 2175 feet was tivity in th state. In younger rocks. accord- (Since th oil leasing bill went lnw efof a fect considerable activity ha resulted and IS to Lupton, are near ths axis anticline drilling permits have been secured by broad, nearly flat east-wewhich connects ths Has Rafael swells on several large cempanteA Interest In acthe west with another reported anti- tivity in the Circle Cliffs field in th vt- cline occupying a position near tbs Junc- Cinity of Catnesvllle la great because of tion of Grand and Green rivers on ths ite Isolation from ths railroad. All equipeast. ment. including a standard rig. has to be bouthweetern T'tah The rocks exposed hauled from the nearest railroad .point, tn the Virgin river field rqpge In age Marvavale, through Escalante to the field, from Carboniferous to Eocene and o far a distance of approximately ' 120 miles, as known contain oil only In ths lower over rough roads. Drilling is being planned red beds of probably Permian ase. by several companies In San Juan county Oil seeps near Virgin, on Virgin river and on the Han Rafael swell. 1" In southwestern county, Washington t'tah, have probably been known for Tennessee . many years, but no prospecting by drilling was undertaken ther until recently. to flood plain of he first well. In th North creek, about two mile north of summer of Virgin, was drilled In th IT . .. 1907 to a depth of (10 feet and struck tered the fertiliser field with the com565 In feet. th Permian rocks at ell mencement of manufacture of acid phosphate at Its newly constructed plant at r Well Produces OiL Atlanta, says the Boston News Bureau. This well yielded all at the rata of ten The first wheel turned a few weeks sgo and operations will be tuned up to th barrels a day and stimulated the drilling which the management deems warof six other wells, non of which pro- extent The comconditions. duced oil In paying quantities, but II Is ranted bynotrad has present intention of entering oil wee found tn all pany reported r finished th fertiliser but will industry, Interest In the Virgin river sell Its the walls. output to mixers. field has again been revived, but, alIn two another contracts for though some drilling la reported, at the th sal of Itsfortnight products will have expired date of writing, beptember, 1911, there and the Tennessee company will assume has been no commercial production. - Th th marketing of both Its copper producoil ha a specific gravity of 0 9225 or 23 tion and acid. The copper has sulphuric Baume, contains some paraffin and a been handled for the few years by past large percentage of asphalt, and Is es- th American HmelUnnr A Refining comsentially a fust oil Richardson believes pany. which took It over from the United that the source of th oil Is tn ths under- Metals Helling company. The refining lying Carboniferous limeston. that ths contract with th Gtmgenheims, however, rocks occur as lonses rather years more to run. than as persistent beds, and that otl ac- has about three acid eontrat, representsulphuric cumulated In this field only tn lenticular ingThe the main part of the Tennessee s busibeds and not in folds, because th rocks ness. has been for ten years with lodged are International Agricultural corporation Great Halt Lake and Sevier Lake ba- the at Interval cause of and been has sins At many places In th Great Balt stormy disputes between theth two InterLake basins, eonalder-nh- l est. The contract Lake and 11.31 was A ton, pries drilling for oil and gas has was modified somewhat which, howsver, done, but so far as ths writer knows, during th wartime period of high prices. oil has not been encountered In commerTh International company for th next cial quantities. g will taka Its sulphurlo acid three year Jusb valley flsverol holes have been from the Tennessee comdrilled In Juab valley near Juab, In Juab requirements pany under a new contract catling for a otl of been no has but production county, much higher price. This will leave a subreported. Th rock exposed in th val- stantial tonnage of acid for the Tennessee ley are probably Lake Bonneville beds. company's own us In Its manufacture of Rocks of Forena sge dip westward from acid phosphate and the balance for open th Gunnison plateau beneath valley market requirements. floor, but the writer has no hnon ledge of This year the output of sulrhnrte add the iocalf structure of th roclys In th from the Tennessee company should run Vicinity of the wells. to 825 000 tons. The new acid dose Hanpct 6 valley A hols was drilled In has a rated capacity of the north end of Hanpct valley, pear phat tonsplant nsr annum on n single shift Mt Ileaannt, but no Information Is avail, Ewrly this year the eompany bought a aid regarding th results. Th beds that phosphate grade In Florida, but will se crop out on both sides of th valley are cur Its phospi hat rock requirements, Tertiary. least, from other pro- temporarily at diners. It 111 not at this time build Its Salt Lake Area Drilled. own plant for the mining and hamll.ng of believes to b a Shores of Great Halt lake More or what the management rock. of lesg Interest and some excitement baa vary large deposit for ninny year attended th drilling for NEW YORK MONEY, oil and gas along the ahorse of Great HEW TO (IK. I lee, tg prim m.rr.ntll halt lake. Oil ha not been encountered In paying quantities, but considerable paper rmohrnifeil havr I frfU ; raM l prrHn(' by wells about twelve gs whs prodm-eft lOc tnliVa, ft M miles north of Halt lake (in. 1 hi drillft JUIgtim cahta. ft 27, ing has prohuhlv hten stimulated t v arl ftl ci tjJi inn I R1 on Him hy the gas bubbling from, hot. ft 4V enhic ft 4T water spriiiK regarding hy report f 1 ) V t c showing of oil In water wells and 1 ( rvH ft dint Urna- - Ufittuml of solid oecurrem on Montrl, Kpw 'York siring, d,end hy ths pr ot h south those i ss poxlls ftivnuut fjrar beset hi is In ths west side of 1rmnop Wlhtvft fnrtb-- t ft t Utft ft 4 V, ft Mac, left, ftcuu Ivi 9 lory rang- - on the north shore of the luk at opportunity to get CXs)riiing W. SPECIAL UPHOLSTERED RIBER ROCKERS BRUSSELS VELVET CARPET This velvet carpet has long nap, to.,' saturate the unbroken rock, but the oil Impregnation seems to be local and to ocour at no definite horizon In the sand. Several wells were drilled no deeper than the Baby sand, but meet of them went as far as the Qoodrldge sand and a few penetrated to a depth of H25 feet. Woodruff believes that, as all the wells with more than a good showing of oil are Id the syncline, the area of basin structure contains most of the oil. In this field during 1919 one dry hole was completed and one well formerly classed ss a producer was .abandoned, The five other a ells In the field reported as capable of producing were closed through, the lok of marketing fgciiitles. t ' M a depth of 2189 feet near the Southern Pacific railroad track at Lemay, about eighty imlea west of Ogden, but found no oil or gas. Th drill penetrated, according to reW feet of clay carrying gypsum, port, fosslllferoua limestone and brown sandstone. Another well along the same railroad aas drilled to a depth of So feet, at Strong Knob, at the north end of the fifty-tw- o Lakeside mountains, about miles nest of Ogden, and obtained some gas, but no oil. were drilled Several shallow well south of the Rosel bills on the west side of the Promontory range to test the extent of asphalt bed, but no wells deep enough to test the oil or gas possibilities of this region was repotted. A well about one mil southwest of Farming,-to- n was drilled to a depth of 2000 feet unconsolidated lake beds, but found no Vas. Several wells, drilled after A well was drilled to I Just Pay a little down and a little each month. We. do not charge SPECIAL JCHILDS ROCKER $4.50 $5.00 $5.50 $9.00 IF YOU Beautiful Cedar Chests In These Owing to th fact that many Inquiries have been received by the mine Inspection department regarding the oil possibilities of Utah, the following review of oil and gas prospecting hat .been pro- pared from .reports of the United States geological survey by Carl A. Allen, chief state mine inspector; San Juan field Oil occurs In ths San Juan field fn rock of tipper Pennsylvania ege (Goodridga formation) which contains five reported sands at about the following depths below ths top of the Goodrldge formation; Baby, 29 feet; Ooodridge, 74 feet; Third, 190 feet; Mendenhall, 231 feet; Little Loop, 361 feel. Oil seeps are reported to occur at several localities in ths Ooodridge for- matlon along the San Juan river west- ward from Goodrtdg to the boundary INTEREST low-gra- - lr 1 JMnrka-!wmn- 1 |
