Show FOB an JUN FIELD southern territory believed to contain untold wealth B P miller president of the aztec oil company of san franciaco chobe home is at bluff utah has written ritten to the publicity bureau of the salt lake commercial club con curning tho oil fields which his company is interested in developing in san juan county says the tribune of recent issue the letter contains some striding lang features of the developments of the largest county in the state the letter follows I 1 the remoteness of this county from railroads is its most striking feature in this day of rapid transportation por tation it 1 seems odd to spend four days of slow staging to mach ri atch ones destination the roads could be put into condition for automobile service without the expenditure of a great amount of money and the trip accomplished easily within two days the trip is well worth while if only to see this wonderful country it is an absolute abbo lute crime to see howsoney how money has been wasted by inefficient management in some somi cases enough money was as spent to drill a deep well and the company did not even reach the fira sand many companies reached the first and in some cases the second sand but the wells ells were left in such condition that it will be impossible to make anything of the well or tu carry it to a lower level I 1 chink think however that from now or we ve hill see a great improvement in this particular ti the pioneer stage of development is disappearing and real drilling is beginning in earnest I 1 know of at least six holes already started or about to be started that will be drilled to at least the sand or lower the southside South side company drilled into the goodrich sand ane other day and I 1 was there when it was baled they are twenty feet in the tile and the oil must stand at least a hundred feet in the hole it is 13 a great sight to see that fine oil come to the tile surface the jackson well has more than four hundred feet of oil in the casing that comes within one hundred feet of the surface I 1 dropped a n weight eight down at the end of a line and upon dancing it up and down a couple of times it so started the gas in the oil that for several minute the well gave olt ont the sound of a tea kettle steaming on the stove the prospects here are durej surely marvelous and it is hard to be patient to see the balance of the field well developed and what the deep holes will develop |