| Show DON C ROBBINS TALKS OF BOOM it appears that utah i to have another oil boom this time cane it isi is wayne county which will be the thel scent of operations and from all ap ue arances there will be a great amount of work done there during the present year it has all along been the opinion of oil experts that th the ustah basin was at one time oneff one of the greatest oil basins basin sinthe in the united states if not in the world when the formations in the basin were broken up by volcanic and other agencies it has been determined the fluell found its way to lower formations for years oilmen oil men have been trying to determine where this formation could be capped within striking distance of the surface the success ss attained in exploiting the virgin river field and the rapidity with which that field was taken up led oil men to branch out in other directions to find oil territory recently the attention of these have been turned to fremont valley in wayne county the valley is formed by the san rafael swell which bends upon itself and shoots off in the direction of the henry mountains upon the one side and an ironbound reef which parallels the colorado river upon the other the formation here is several hundred feet lower than the uintah basin and forma forms a syncline basin with sandi sand of the character which absorbs oil within eight mileson miles of the colorado the oil sands come to the surface and it is here that the greatest oil seeps have been encountered that have yet been discovered in the west experts who ho have been on the ground are s oil of the opinion that here will be developed the greatest oh A field in the country already locators are flocking into the field during the he past month there have been fu fully lly twenty five thousand acres of land located there is a big bj g company of new fork york men who have just completed locating a large number of claims fornia men arc are now on the ground taking up territory and an bation from des moines la ia ia is like wise be curing land on which to operate don C robbins aho returned from the field last friday says that there 0 a great deal of excitement in the field helfand Hel dand and that people mostly from outside outside points are flocking in and spreading out over the country bobbins robbins was very reticent as to his work in the district but itis gathered from parties that he is connected with a number of new york people who propose to start up operations within a few months |
