Show LITTLE GUSHERS the tile milton company has secured the necessary timbers for its derrick in denver the rig Is being put up near desert switch Mij Alo Whorter and hastings of california owners of oil lands near sunnyside Sunny side expect to have a i standard drilling rig on their property pio perty in about a week W E ralph of duluth has gone east to order u standard drilling rig for oil lands near woodside which are owned by him and some duluth capitalists ts J foster rhodes hodes JR a prominent real estate man of chicago reached snit salt lake a few days ago from the east mr rhodes will mill spend some time in utah looking over the oil fields A J aylsworth representing boston capitalists owning three sections of land around green icher has been looking over the country the past ten tau days he Is said to be moat most f favorably avor impressed the southern oil and bonning company of ephraim Is building a retort for extracting oil f from rom the shale of which there oro are great quantities in sanpete te county the should be in operation by june mth charles ames of california has been looking over the eastern utah oil holds fields for the past week he is interested te tor csUtI rested with the california utah crowd nt at green liver and is well pleased with the country john goske and alex Schou Scho of duluth minn who are I 1 interested in the green river oil fields arrived ic ir zion the other day they OX expect po ct great things from their hold inga ing around green 1 W I 1 roberts Ilo berte of salt lake city has a letter from frum milton wharton of san francisco manager of a company of 7 7 F oakland capitalists who are interested in oil lands in the tile RI elver er fields in which ho lie says he v will III arrhe arrin e in salt lake on friday hesayo he says hia his oil rig hoa has been shipped and that a well will be sunk stink at fridays salt lake telegram bays says S D coulbourne nn an oil expert has just returned from tho the creek in the green river oil fields whore where ho he has been examining the tho property of the petroleum Petro lourn oil company mr coulbourne Coulbo Coul bourna urno hoe has selected a site for a well uell which will bo be sunk in the tile neur future A abig rig has been ordered AD A B butler who has las been in salt still lake city for a few duya days left tor tho the benqt last week meek mr butler Is a heavy oil operator in california and it Is reported that he lie liar an au eye on or more moro territory in the gian oil fields when askco about it previous to hia his departure he lie neither affirm affirmed od nor denied den ion n led the statement he will visit salt lake upon his return in the near future f u the elo rio orande grande oil company with hold lugs in sanpete county and principal place of business at scofield eld utah has filed articles of incorporation the capital la Is shares at a ten ton cents T F kelter la Is president W W potter i ice tee president T L ja cobon secretary and treasurer tren siner ier who with W B R newby and J 11 turnbull make the directory C W shores and T A ketchum of the grand view company camo came in from tho the oil afif ids yesterday saya fridays tribune thi gentlemen were vere over the tile ground to the site where the company proposes to sink a well thoy report ft a great amount of snow in the hill hills rendering I 1 almost to build the road needed to transport the oil rig they have hue waiting matting to be shipped to the ground mr ketch Hetch n nin in stated that cheno whenever or it Is possible to complete the road irad to the ground that the work ork will be pushed so that drilling can be started and a well eunk sunk early in the summer T A ketchum of tho the grand view was here the other day on en route from to denver having been to the coast with a mem member berof of his family for the lattera health returning Kel he tarried a few days in the wyoming country and jiing ing them a song of the eastern utah fields u with ith the re suit that a number of operators there aro arc to meet him here next afek and make nn an examination of tho the country hereabouts here mr ketchum Is confident that when the two sections are compared the odda odds will be in to faor of utah the wyoming operators are generally men of large money and are willing to take a chance many of them have made money lo 10 Call california for und anti elsewhere in oil there was a general feeling of satisfaction expressed among oil men yesterday when it waa was learned that mr would eoon soon be in utah with a now standard oil drilling rig the waa was brought by a letter from mr mcwhorter to W 1 I roberts of the oil exchange which said that ha liet and mr hastings had determined to re return turn to utah friday next and that they purchased a rig at san francisco which would start on ita its eastern journey to may chelet the let ter also says that the rig would bo be put u up p near su n and the d drill rill bo be p put tit to work at once mr mcwhorter and his associates own several sections of oil land in the green riner oil fields which they propose to dc develop elop no ANG company ha has ben formed for ined all of the gentlemen being from oakland On kland cala cain tribune of mr ketchums Ket chuma wyoming trip saturdays salt lako lake tribune says IT A ketchum Keto hum who la Is a brother of colonel ketchum the well known knon oil operator of evanston wyo visited tho the spring valley in the hollad d hat flat country in uintah county before wm will ing to utah he say says that milt rigs are at work drilling in the tile district and that in the a low flow of eight barrels a day had ben found speaking 9 baking of tho the strike in ho the HI 13 rio verde verde of hillard hut flat ho he the statement taint tile strike wn made in a is hole outside of the well cherti the file drilling IH iii now bring Wing lone done this hole id is some thirty bards arde below the th well mell proper pro rd and rand rear a strong seep he ile coll could not state just the gium berof barnla per ier day the well ell wai producing but suited tant a consider considerably ablo sti of oil was running amm the tile well continuing mr ht stated that on saturday last r P company of of oil men broi bro ight tight oil oll drilling rips to spring sarf ng valley and at once selected where ni many man is file would be lit tit conw TIM company com pany Is headed by it it butyl eells el I 1 IQ fi 1 well v ell known oil op olm of dakers lipid lle 1 d calie all of those bells ola will bf be eliuk in the vicinity of spring valley station 11 |