| Show oil OF uti UTAH contractor baugher Dau gher who Is driving the second well for the san rafael company was wits here liere tuesday on his way back to tho the property in the sinbad country it if the gas which was encountered a few days ago and which forced the tho suspension it tf operations there has blown off by the time he lie got back to the well the work of going on down will will be started again mechanics liens for amounts xang tang ing from 10 to making a total of hai e been filed by harris ris T lewis owis and eight others on the property pro petty of tho whito white star oil company situated in utah county to secure claims for labor clait claimed ned to have been performed for the whito white star oil company E A colllns collins and robert forbes of bedford 0 members of the J sloan johnson company which has located a n large number of petroleum and ne phal turn claims in spanish fork canyon visited provo last week on their way home from a business trip to california Ifor rila tho the gentlemen informed county recorder payne who an interest terest fri in the mining claims of the company in rtuh that it was rt mason inson ably sure that vigorous development work would bo be begun by the company in the near future delavan A holmes Is no longer pre president filant of the colorado utah oil company he was bounced at R meeting of the stockholders at salt lake city the other day the ofil loo of president was not filled judge c bradley was as urged to accept the place but refused and tho matter was left in that way tho the board of directors dirc actors will fill the vacancy later tho of developing eloping tho the property of the cOMP company RIlY which Is located in colorado just beyond vernal ind and ov fr r the utah line will now be pushed 1 along the lines originally laid down by tho directors salt SaIt lakes mining thinks another thirty days and tho the eastern ea estern portion of utah will bo be in tho throes of a genuine oil boom and ant the he excitement wilt will be based upon tion in the locality named of several producing oil wells already tahe ti situation Is roost most encouraging and the indications aro are that it will not bo be long before tho oil industry will be a prominent anent feature in connection with the magnificent rf resources sources of the state As it ie 18 encouraging disclosures have been mado made of lato inte in oil drilling operations erat ernt ions ninny new rigs aro going in and oil lai lal is aro are changing hands at a rapid ra rate dr clarnnce Clarn barrett reports creditable progress being made by the par affine oil mcany in tho the development of tie tle grounds in utah comity instead ct of installing machinery for tho the extraction of tho the oil from tho shalo shale by tho the doctors invention ven tion they thoy are am sinking a shaft through the shalo to cut abo oil bearing sand when it Is expect expected od the oil pressure will fill 11 tho tile emiitt alth i ith purn para flue oil will b ba pumped and ban filed for market the shaft 1 is now down do ii nearly fifty tifty alf ty feet at tho the bottom of which occula an oil which Is twice as its talk aind as its dark dr bar ret sa as blackstrap molasses and which lie has worked and produced pure wax which he has hits on exhibition while tho ell oil arl Is strong even in ii tho tho foot of ofa hii corlE contains alris the oil I 1 ft 1 wi ya 1 ILI 4 tz bearing wax there ie Is no evidence of gas discernible discernable discern able A new policy la Is nebout to be adopted by the thermion r ion pacific land company in the handling end aud disposal of its lands in colorado wyoming utah kansas and nebraska the character and resources of each ore are to be determined ter mined niter after which ft a commissioner commie eloner will provably prop ably bo be appointed to handle each separate class the sudden decision dej la Is owing to tr j the discoveries of oil on much of the lands C 31 kilbourn and W 1 I roberta roberts of the california utah oil company returned to zion loot last week from a via visit to the company cut ip near green river president killbourn rn when seen eald said 1 I am much pleamon with our holdings and bellevo believe that the green river fiel aleus Is will prove extremely large our well Is now down feet and sinking Is progressing at the rate of twenty five feet a day wo we expect to strike oil almost anytime any time I 1 have visited many oil fields and think that the indication near green omen ith bier er Is unexcelled while the oil Is of better quality than tho the Cal california lornia product president ident kilbourn hilbourn is of the opinion that his ills green elver river property will before very long bo be the scone scene of most interesting developments TI the lo 10 contractors who are sinking a well forthe for alie col colorado lom de utah oil company in the rio 1110 blanco county colorado which wh ach company is officered principally by residents of salt lake submit an encouraging report of tho the showings from tho the work performed the well was sunk stink to a depth of feet when on account of winter weather in ork was suspended A fifteen foot strata of oil ol 01 was struck at a it depth of feet which yielded a high grade oil and it la Is belle believed ed had the well been shot it woul aou I 1 have produced elx six or tr eight barrels of oil all a day at a depth of feet a twenty foot strata of oil sand was encountered and still another strata of similar thickness at 4 10 feet when the work was stopped it was said that the drill had just passed through a shalo shale strata a formation that Is always found immediately above oil sands the duality quality of oil found on the upper tipper level Is spoken of as being the best the contractors ever ver a sow saw and thoy they confidently expect to strike a good flow at a greater ile depth 1 th should such stich a well not be ali found ind the contractor contract org contend that the property has proved itself of value valtie as numerous shallow wells reaching the foot level would prove prof ionio on account of the mill amill a expense dense and the superiority of the d |
