Show ira browning came in froan the sinbad oilfield wednesday evening and report ed the wel of the san ratael oil company bown about beet manager davis was then pulling the drill and bit preparatory to drilling a new well about 18 inches from the first hole the latter will be used exclusively tot water and to drain the new well the flow 0 water in the initial hole was over two barrels a minute and is a first class article for ill needa new that work has started on the big oil well proper it will be pushed with all possible speed in about two weeks we hope to be able to record a strike of flo ving oil or perhaps a gush er there was a great rush tor the oil dig ing on thursday evening and friday morning inspired by the report that the san ratael oil company had struck oil ira browning and sam robertson Ko bertson pulled out thursday evening etith three weeks rations and on friday morning A D dickson lars and ja cob sorensen followed suit they were preceded by pelt acord and jessie seely then judge F E woods henning olsen vie olsen and hudson departed in another outfit pursued by win J seel george kofford and others the objective point ol 01 some of the parties ft is the big sink holes in sinbad valley about 8 miles east 0 where the san ratael corn pany is sinking its well it is here that dave moore 0 summit county has a number of lode claims located and where a shaft feet deep has been sunk it is claimed oil drove the miners out of the bole the stuff struck in the hole ft ill defy any chemist or alsaver to define it properly tor it appears to be a conglomerate of copper chiefly associated wath othar minerals and all caked or saturated in oil the 1 II 11 44 oil location was filed in the county recorder s office this morning it bore the aimeb 0 several anent in circles in three states it was headed by dr W P president of the big woodmen mining of cappe creek colo prof G A kline A M E M manager of the hoston newmarket liming cobi boulder county colo dr A H tevis 0 denver A J tuckett ol 01 eu reka utah E tuckett of cokeville Co keville wyoming and others of salt lake cita I 1 there is anything in a name this claim ought to be a winter if the own ers decide to work it as a stock tion they could probably place i million shares at par value on the market in an southern state in less than a week ww oil location notices are still being filed ith the county recorder but not in such large numbers as formerly fyd don robbins is back from a trip through southwestern wyoming says the salt lake tribune in which he gave special attention to the oil belt and the quality of the oils being gathered there he said yesterday I 1 am more anan satisfied after the comparative atud of the utah and wyoming oil fields that our own oil fields here in utah are better in every way than those in wyoming analyses of oils from the states show that the utah oil is a super illuminant and a better lubricant in act my trip as greatly encouraged me as to our home fields in carbon emery and grand counties and the judgment of the california experts who have abeen looking over the utah fields confirm mv own attorney M davis and D J wil hams of provo have been locating pros oil lands in emery county for a number of months past the are now on organizing an oil company to develop the properties they have loc at ed provo democrat one acre of land in the beaumont texas oil district was sold not long ago that of course was an ex case but there have been bun anda of instances in both texas an california where land in the oil belt has brought from 1000 to or more per acre speculation in oil land la just as sate and better results thun speculating in most any other kind of mineral land buy oil land it you desire to speculate county surveyor cos wa over from huntington yesterday and in speaking of the oil fields said that 11 ears ago he surveyed and located for A welly representing eastern oil men oo 00 quarter sections in sinbad valley east of the mexican springs and quarter sec eions of land near green 1 some land m whitamore canyon and at the head of willow creek in carbon counti these men then the ex istance of oil here but tor some reason never developed the land arf A number of hot air tanks in salt lake city have again met to propose i consoli dation of all the oil interests in the green river district although some of the men interested are quite wealth nary a cent was offered for the exploitation of the thousands of acres these me hive acquired tor a mere song it was propos ed to assess all the owners of oil lands 10 or 20 cents an acre the fund to put down wells but some of the claim hogs feared that the location of these wells might not be on their individual property and tabooed the proposition hence nothing was doue fortunately emery couty is not depending upon the penny squeezers and bankers of salt lake to open up ta oil fields although it is to be regretted that so many claim hogs from that city have gobbled large an acreage of oil land here they will neither shoot nor give up the gun but are se recel waiting for some more daring and enterprising although less wealthy men to put down wells and by striking oil enhance he value of all oil and |