Show bid THINGS DOING AT BLUFF recently discovered oil fields of southeastern utah just now att attracting bacting prospector and capitalist alike from the november aul D R G red fled book the recent discoveries of oil in the new bluff stav utah fields are attract inar in the a bentig OY 0 1 I 1 ekx and prospectors all 0 I 1 e che e united states and the y a ar r ari rivin v ng on the aa ra wound from a aw Sar ar 0 the country the pre present 4 dev development ament almost guarante guarantee the manenty of the field but s s jn me e will necessarily elapse be before fa e the real potent of the district can be definitely kno biown n i oil vaa encountered in merchantable quan quantities and of excellent ju quality allty on march 4 1903 by E L goodridge at a point about thirty five miles from bluff previous L 10 that time as far back as 1882 oil vas known to exist along the san juan river showing in the form of rel well ell by experts it has never been shot but stands just as the drill opened it with one hundred and fifty fector feet of oil in the pipe the oil shot about eighty feet out of the pipe when tapped goodridge started the no 2 well some four and one half miles north of the first well on the debt abt bank of lime creek and at a depth of one hundred and beeney feet cut the firt fir t sand in this well v ell which aich is about forty feet thick at this point no 2 was put down to the second band a depth of one hundred and binet eight feet and oil was i as struck oil wi september 7 1908 while aai awaiting ting the cheeming eming foi fol well nell no 2 the rig was moved about one and three quarters quarter miles up lime r 4 7 1 1 0 1 V i vr Z 4 e Q 4 rhe first oil well at bluff utah oil seeps for a distance of thirty five miles down the river from the good adge well the first to be put down donn goodridge and asso associates clates of salt lake city put a small rig in the field in 1892 and opened a fifty barrel well at that time he ile then spent a good deal of time riding over the surrounding country seeking a location for a well that would give indication of a larget target how flow last ear 0 lie Le decided upon a d au twenty to ninety feet in elevation above the san juan river and about thirty five miles below bluff and lias has lud had the gratification of finding oil as is stated this c ell no 1 I struck oil at a enthof ep to t hundred and twenty creek on the east fork and well mell no 3 started oil was encountered in the fir first t and in the no 3 well at a depth of one hundred and twenty wenty feet on august A colorado springs company has bought claims in the field and are drilling with the intention of going at least six hundred feet crude oil froni the fust well nell furnire 4 fuel for the drilling outfit A second drill owned by these parties partied passed through durango september on the denver denvor and held field rio grande railroad for the new another drilling outfit belonging to B D hirshberger and associates left deloies deloi es overland on september 7 A and in jj in t e F ligat colored a t his point as streek feet et below the surface of if thi the ant amu R in the lime ci cicek eek basin 1 asin the rise ea t and west exceeds one tho thousand band feet ct in elevation above the ground acre abere oil was va truck struck this great basin has been by crosla and d kiture has thus thu q saved one and d or more feet of drilling to the operator Pc this well has been ear pro ro bouncy 1 tc ix an eight hundred bar chiago Chic go capitalists nave op bons on conid considerable erable acreage in the field and hae purchased a number 1 of claims ou outright t i th the intention drill trilling inK at once their of s starline ncr to the field and the ay I 1 outfit is on geologist now they have hane an expert ground t to 0 select a location the on juan oil the san corn com dr drilling illing for pany of salt suit la lake ke city has been or with fifty thoi thousand sand dollars capital to develop their holdings the james rig as delivered at bluet city september ran and associates are f from roni spokane wash other rigs have been boi beI and shipped by gordon cordon L gray of chicago one rig miller and associates of boulder bould er t to ao 10 rigs worth and associates of N new ew york city one rig western vestern durango company one rig rg Gal galloway loay and associates of No norwood rood colo one rig there are also two to studebaker autos now running between bete cn dolores and bluff ruby and associates of ogden have shipped the rig that ba has i been at farmington N at for some time A texas association wocia tion have one keystone rig grant and associates of chicago have expended over thirty thousand dollars in invests va eions and options and claim to have shipped three or four i ggs the oil has been reported on by henry rieves ellis assayer u and chemist of salt lake city a statement of which is here presented specific gravity of the oil of it sp or naphtha to 70 aso 50 13 0 ast light burning as 00 0 7 78 ht aej t 1 r anz 4 00 50 buo 0 au 2 0 3 heavy uli 50 43 0 0 coke and liss lm 4 41 I 1 the strata from north to south lie as far as can be determined in per elect horizontal position the field is especially favored over any other field ever discovered first in the canyons which permit of shallow drilling second in the high quality of the oil and third in the number ot oil strata known to exist the limit of the other fields being two sands while there are six sands known to exist in this field in a recent letter A C ellis of salt lake city says 1 I have put two oil rigs along the san juan river and have sunk three wells and have expended about fifteen thousand dollars and as you know goodridge myself and some few others interested with us have had the good fortune to find oil of the finest possible quality an and d in goodly quantity and have in no instance made any failure and I 1 believe with goodridge that the possibilities for the greatest oil field on this continent quality ty and quantity considered will be found along the san juan river in utah and I 1 have done my best to make it hanif manifest e st |