Show urah COAL OIL many indications of petroleum have been found in the rocky mountains in ia colorado wyoming and utah and some gome wells have been runk flunk in the hope hone of securing the oil la in sufficient quantities for commercial comme roial use up to the present these have bare not been at tended by the wished for Bucce success ssi but now there cornea comes a brighter ray of promise from that direction than has been seen been before it IB 18 announced anjou coed that coal oil la in found in large quantities in ID sanjuan san juan county A shaft abaft is being sunk sod and the reat results tito of the labor will be communicated through the to in due time some borne particulars appear in a loiter letter from a bluff city correspondent pon dent there are abundant reasons for believing that petroleum it in vast quantities in this part of the be continent scientists class the mountain ranges as in ia the oil reelon 91 9 too the formation being of that character and it is quite probable that utah will yet occupy a prominent place as anon an oil producer when this time congo comes tb bo vast importance of securing petroleum in quantities for commercial use uee may be estimated from the f fact act that scores of 0 millions of gallons are now produced annually in the pennsylvania or oil fields where but forty years yeara ago the first firms refined petroleum made in this country was offered for sale I 1 lo 10 n pittsburg Fil leburg four years later august 28 1859 the first oil well was completed by E L drake in the valley of oil creek now the worlds supply mainly comes from the united states seste the wells of galiot galicia ROm Bou mania DIs canada aud elsewhere till fill ing an interior place the discovery of new and important resources in utah no longer surprise as there have been so many that almost anything may be expected san ban juan county while good for grazing fruit raising and farming to a limited extent yet has been regarded rexa rued as the part of utah or of the least value so ao much of it is turned up on edue 1 I there is the strongest probability however that its broken acres will prove gig as valuable as do the landa of other countie cou otie citie it may be through petroleum as one of its products at any rate there Is something worth going alter there and in due time lime san juan is sure to give further evidence oi 01 the fact that utah is the greatest undeveloped country on the asce of the earth |