| Show UINTA FIELDS LOOKING GOOD three salt lahe city CRY COMP companies anies spending money in their development vfrnal utah july 26 20 willi william oell who re recently Vently in company with joseph josph young of salt lake visited the oil fields la ix the vicinity of Rac ecly just across the th state uno line where both gentlemen are interested Is very enthusiastic over the prospects in that section the meeker oil Oli company and tho the Call form oil company have consolidated con soll tor for the pur porse of developing the properties of both with J H walters in charge et of tho the consolidation cone ollda to tx wells well sare are being dri driven at present presents in both oc of which oil has been encounter encountered eil in the fairn foi m of ineas in the overly log rig I 1 title aile la in the first well oil was found itt bt ft a depth of feet test and again at a 8 depth of 1166 feet in the ghe second well oil was struck at fant the oil all so far encountered Is believe to be merely seeps from a groat k eer voir below the company do doo ot ut expect to tap this reser voir until the dakota sandstone sands tonn Is reached in which all the best ilium illum ingoing oils ot of colorado and wyoming are found in these fields the dakota sand gaone Is so deep and in many places I 1 broken that drilling Is ex expense pensie e while in many places it Is impracticable ble in aliz white river country hie la is not the ase ease the oil formation being ning bearer nearer to the tile surface ti taic gehl has an dome unbroken and perfect in forat for and la its like an luer ted saucer ex experts pe arts ogura g u re that the highest point of this ne no Is immediately beneath the have ila ch basin where the consolidated company is operating owing to inexperienced perien perlen ced drillers drillars dr illers tho the company has experienced some sortie delays by what aro are known as kinks in the wells mun men experienced IE lp the fields of or penns ivania and california have bave been secured however ho and work will be pushed several new companies hare have I 1 been recently organized organ ned in denser den er to opiate in the field and contracts for a number ot of welle wells have been let several more inore rigs are expected to be in operation at an early date mr walters who Is an all experienced oil 1 man Is N ery cont confident Ident of success and Is backing his judgment with his money experts pronounce theroun the coun try on both sides of the state line as distinctively un an oil country at whisky creek are the big oil beeps i on the dewey N where here a well feet dep deop shows lubricating oil ot of the finest quality in paying quantities and which la Is in use among the carmels of rio blanco county munty to the west of the field some six miles are the gilsonite depo deposit sitF the biggest of their kind known and the country is surrounded surround od with mountains of oil shale of which fire will about 10 40 per cent cont this shale when subjected to heat beat throw s t off considerable oil experts ligure t that the tile same conditions that exist lo 10 the upper tipper formations exist in ili tho the lower formations to make the tile fine oil the oil in the raven park basin hag has no aspli asphalt alt or 11 in tile 11 cirit well drilled during cold A anther the puru flino showed allowed lu ill tho the drillings in torm forin of a soft jolly which also showed the existence of vaseline ellue taken altogether the field which stretches from froin vernal on a the west to kunkely on u the en east enst st ie is ery promising and great things aro are expected the proposed pro moffat is bound to tup till the field as it lies directly across the proposed route the tile quality alit of oil thus far found ut at park Is pronounced A by tin tilt Stani lurd oil coin puny to be tho tile boat beat quality quil lity of illuminating oil ever token I 1 tr 0 the tile ground PH private vate testa show it I 1 after en e ap oration of the tile lighter oils ug us naptha beli benzine benzi ue gasoline et tta t be it quality of 0 lubricating ri cating oil dhere uro tire three suit quit lake I ake companies now in t ald ItO uno co young clayton 0 and alid A W mccine co these ure at present working wi but claytob L co eglett W bitte a rig riy lu in oje operation OLra ration tIou in iu the livar future |
