Show i MiT drw EASTERN UTAH ahl OIL NEWS R 11 M pop Is in boston in the interest est of his oil holdings good reports come froin from the tile oil city company operating down beur Wood elJe over a feet of ca casing has been placed in tho the well of the oil city oil company near drilling Is again under way 1 manager hay bay of the westwater oil and anti asphaltum company of grand county has determined to sinka shallow oil well upon the property mcwhorter hastings are expected ed ife at ot at any anytime now to resume work at their well which was abandoned last fall because of tho the weather conditions the westwater oil and company Is negotiating for and the leal deal la Is nearly closed whereby a drilling rig will be put on the tile ground in the book claite ono one of the new now york companies has a drilling rig in colorado and will act set it upon its holdings in grand county the exact site of the tile well ell has not yet been determined T A ketchum etchum It la Is now at his well above Sunny sunnyside side gf getting things in for work this summer and fall A considerable quantity of piping is on tho way irom from the tho east and will b bo i used 1150 in cailing tho tile parlette mines hipped shipped out a car load of te last week it being billed te to the ref luing works at chicago the average output is to tn be kept tor for the present at about two cars a month frank lang woe waa here from green river last saturday he says there Is considerably consider 1111 abla a talk of oil rigs coming in there this and anti several parties have been figuring with him to transport machinery by wagon fer for them but so far it has lilts all been jawbone manager barron of tho tile american asphalt company has gone back to st louis from vernal after an inspection spec tion of the mines in ulilah county and anti making preparation preparations for shipments to rifle colo from the ba bandana n claim on the tie cowboy group there Is eun ilent ent in sight on this one claim to ship steadily for many tanny years to como come J T A beverly is under contract with the oil company to sink to a I 1 depth of three thousand feet and if it oil Is not tapped by that time he will undoubtedly bo be authorized to keep on sinking success in the girat well means tho sinking of several more in other portions of the exton exten she aie holdings progress in the sink lug of the first vs oil will bo be watched with the keenest Inte interest rost for it Is realized that the tile uintah people really mean busi business r william oneill and R 8 scollett coll elt who are interested int rested in the of tho the raven park basin ha hae e gone on trip to that section where it Is reported that thata J F Wal walters tois operating for a california company has struck oil ail in bolei which are scaled as fast ns comes into in to make of at them paying pump wells it is claimed that the adli district t has already been demonstrated to be an oil regi in of considerable importance the company claims now to have in the wells already down the tile basis for a paying industry then heu the railroad rail rull rood road reaches the dolda i ri A k new asphaltum company coin pony known osithe intermountain will bo be in operation near westwater this summer the tile new now company has a vast deposit of asphaltum actual measurement bowing howing oer tons insight in sight this is cry rich in bitumen tests showing eh oving 93 99 per cent against tho barber asphalt 62 percent per cent of bitumen 1 deside this tho the utah product contains seventeen barrels in excess of high galde fill toll pr per ro ton tons which hob liah been alongside of tho the high grade galena engine oil 1 ith favorable tao fao rable results the new company will ivIll install a ton plant and ship its product direct to laj fast east the oil asphaltum lands lunds orth ot of Westi westwater vater station on the rio lUo grande Orando nio ate apt to bo be the scene of great aoth ity during the pre present sent season the tile naph altum hero here Is of the lilg higholt hoist grade yet discovered in the tile world and astin exhaustless quantities it has recently attracted the attention of investors ve who oro arc entering upon a campaign of it is a wonder that the streets of salt SaIt lake Lako are being A paved with the california Call product when utah has a much superior article within itt ahl will all be changed in the near future sev sey orni oral companies compan lea aro now being formed to exploit the deposits pumping was discontinued in well no 2 of the debeque colo oil and development company last week and the company has It elded to permit barrott barrett LIL wood the contractor sto to continue tho the holo liole down to the tile foot und sand tho the showing of oil in this well has boon been so satisfactory aa a result of the pumping that it was concluded that by combining the oil from the present sand and the bund sand that will be reached at feet it pay well Is sure to bo be the tile result As soon us as the drilling 1 Is finished which may require about two w eks the bands will be shot and the pump put to work again president baxter of the st leui louis gil oil bonite company states that work Is to be pushed during the tile coming summer as never neier before at the several properties under hia his charge throughout eastern utah Uta owing howing to tho many contracts for material now ahead of tho company the management ie Is considering the advisability ol 01 putting g on 1 n traction outfit to haul ore from the black dragon mines south of white river to faulta colo u distan taune of about fifty miles when ask asli whether the shipments from the BI bluck dragon would affect in any woy way wo operations ot at fort Du duchesne chestle where the wagon haul is over oer one hundred miles to price bir baxter stated that the continue there tho samo sarno as in the haq pas as the demand was creater creator than the blip bp ply ond and the output from front both points 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