| Show OIL IL Rf REVIVAL I AL I IG IN INGRAND G GRAND D Tl Several New Rigs to lie be Set Up Near Cisco Station on tile the Kio Hio io Grande WESTERN CONSOLIDATED WELLS Preparations Being to Sink Them To the th Depth of nt at Least 2500 oo feet Experienced f Men In Charge The Tho growing being taken In 11 Inthe tho the oil of or Utah Is III manifesting It itself self relf In other places than tho the Salt Snit Lake valley Experienced oil operators anti experts e ore are not confining their Inest Investigations to tho the territory stretching along tho the shores of or the tho Great Snit Salt Lake lako to alone but hut are arc reaching r out Into as nl well attention Is 19 being paid to the lr en River mer fIelds In the tho eastern part ot of the state and there thero Is every reason to believe that the country countr will tome tolne forward with some seine Important de do developments during lurIng the present year ear earIt It syrie learned today tod from a gentle ronn clinIc who Is In position to know that preparations are well under way for tor a resumption of ot work on tho the Western Consolidated Oil com cocu properties In Grand Orand county count Those e who have havo kept In touch with tho the movements of oil men inca will remember that this company which Is comprised mostly of Salt Lake citizens succeed succeeded ed Cd J In iii Interesting a II syndIcate of east eastern ern Cm oil men last year r and In consider consideration alien of ot giving the gentlemen n a certain Interest t In the time wells the latter agreed to proceed to tic Install a n rig and com coin commence mence drilling d nf On One of the tha principals In the tile syndicate Is I Perry D I Jones who lias hia gained considerable blo experience ence In tho tico oil Ii line hue In the tho Indiana fields Holds Under tinder his direction n II well was put putdown putdown down clown to the depth ot of 1300 feet teet tho ho top hole holo measuring 12 Inches across Mr lr Jones Intention was to 10 go to tho the deep AH as rapidly ns os possible and Ind provided equipment powerful to drop tho the drills through the most ob obstinate formation to time tho depth of teat feet but Jut at tho 1300 toot foot point a n serious mishap occurred in the losing of tho tico drill bench hend A J determined effort was igiS 18 made to pick it up tip again nearly n a 1 months time was waa spent In III trying to re to reo tor r c ver or It but bilt the effort proved unsuccessful Another nother well wet wail start started ed sunk to the tho depth of at 1000 feet teet and It Is this ono one that thatis Is IB to be he continued downward Mr Jones JoneA haw hais great faith lu hi tho the country has ban concluded to give gIe hc It n a 1 severe test In addition to working nt ot tho the well men mentioned mentioned a i 1 Ig R vil be set lIet UP shortly and tho the machinery has hils already arrived at nt Cisco a n station on the time Hlo Western We tern In Grand Grund county near which place the waIls welli are Bro located In the tho well abandoned on account of the accident mentioned Indications of ot n a t most encouraging nature presented I themselves at nt least to thor thoI thoroughly convince Mr that with further depth the chances for tor finding oil In commercial quantities was ex ox exceedingly good so BO he 1111 does not propose to stop until he lie knows what the tho ground contains OI to the tho dei derth th of ot anyway 2500 feet teet F T I Merritt nn an Indiana operator and expert tho the News Is Informed has arrived on the ground groom again and will ivill have at nt least one standard rig rl In opera operation lion tion within tho the next few tew weeks Tho The presence of ot oil and antI oil bearing I rock shale In lii Emery Imery and Grand counties has hns been known for tor a II long longtime longtime longtime time but little attention nt waa wn paid to this th Industry up to a few tow years yearn ago ngo There are numerous springs In which oil comes to the surface and find ledges ledgeR of rock reck are so thoroughly saturated with oil all as ns to Ignite anti burn freely Mr Merritt In tn giving his opinion of ot the Oreen Ireen River nIer oil basin after mak making ing lag n II study of ot Itt Its It geological stated recently that thet oil would be en encountered encountered countered In large quantities at Bt a II depth of or about out feet Over Oer a largo large por portion portion tion of ot the tho Green Oreen River basin are found hydrocarbons hydro anti and other strong evi evidences dences of the presence of ot petroleum The upper formation lie Ice ex cx explains plains extends down to he the bed betl of ot the basin which Is of tho the Cretaceous and nOlI Devonian period Fossil fish shells etc ett are found In quantities showing this to have hav been nt at some Iome remote period time the bed of the son sen claimed by oil au IU authorities to be on one of ot the strongest In of ot the tho presence sen e of oil Through gh Moses Davis Is of ot Provo 1100 one of ot the tho directors the Western Consolidated has hns acquired several see sec sections of or oil lands on OR the tho Promontory point In county which h may be bo tho the scene of ot active nellve operations o within tile the present nt year ORr Among mong tho the Salt Lake men Interested In the company compon are Judge H U 1 B S Tun Tan Tunner nor net who ho Is the tho president anti and Matt Malt Thomas rhomas the tite well known attorney |
