Show first oil rig at sinbad ahe returning freighters from the sin bad oil felds report the derrick and machi lery of the san rafael oil corn pany reaching their destination destini tion last wed nesda all in first cla shape an ef ort had been made to d g a well lor wa ter but resulted hunsuc ess fully oving to the encountering ot sand nearer the surface than was anticipated be tore is struck it aull be necessity necess iry to drill tor it which will be the first work the michio ery will be put to the re cent rainstorms have filled up the bolei in the vicinity 0 the veil so it will not be necessary to haul it very far some of the freighters watered at the big 1 spring one mile ind a hilt above the point where the derrick is be lag set up first ming the beav black oil from the top of the water the working force dinager A J D av is has with him is well sheltered in tents and the commissary department is look ed after by an ebony skinned son of the south the plant was being set up ahert the last freighter left for Cist ledale which was on thursday and since that time no communication has been received from the cirna last week acres of 1 land sold in california for and some of the californians claim the land is ten miles off the oil belt gee chizz what will oil land be worth about here when the first well of flo ving oil is struck emery county is threatened with an oil boom and the progress published there is authority for the statement that the rio grande western railroad is fig the intention of on options with building a branch in there this is the branch that iron county is expecting to form a link between the coal beds of em er and counties and the iron de posits of this count we are patiently waiting cedar city record el verde rio promises to be the first to place machinery on the oil ground near green river utah the eastern directors have already negotiated for a rig ind expect to start west a full equip ment for aall boring within a te v days the company s eastern stockholders are a number of wealthy philadelphians ogden standard the deseret news says experts in oil lands and 1 wells do not hesitate to say that unless all s agns gns fail the vicinity of green river should soon be dotted with gushers major E A littlefield of ogden has established an agency in aalt lake to handle green river oil instead of forming a company and selling the stock therein he proposes to d spose of the land itsell in such par els as pur chasers may enlist to buy major little field asserts that this is more fair to the purchaser for the leason that the value of i piece of land is more tangible than is that of a piece of paper up to the first day of august 1015 1 loc aion notices hid been filed ath county record r andersen during thia year this is equal to of oil land tiled upon since aug 1 about location notices have been sent in for record ace arding to the united states geol logical survey the production of petroleum in the united states in 1400 was 63 2 barrels valued it these figures have never been ex ceded in the history of the oil industry indu str of the total amount ohio produced bar aels west virgian barrels pennsylvania 13 barrels indiana barrels california barrels and ne v york 1 barrels the production of texas for 1900 was 9 barrels the value of the crude oil produced it the welb is estimated at over ao 70 for the air |