Show OIL NOTES J mart olsen came in from rom the san rafael oil well on sunday and reported most of 0 the tools fished front the nel el dins dalis expected to resume sinking on monday ww county commissioner D S gillespe gilles Gill esre ports the future of his sect oa on green river looking very nery bright the big well drilling llant of the california utah oil company was about ready to begin adril tog ing when nhen he left there sunday an I 1 afana manager er don bobbins robbins and the men behind him in thib this enterprise are is en thusia concerning tho the alti u ite its sue cess aa as is possible to be green kiver river is visited visit d almost dally daily by oil men and the con census us of their opinions is that that district is the coming oil center of the country rhe steamboat enterprise ic ac cording to commissioner om missioner gilles lends a in air to the ton little is kno ot of the future plans of the steam boat company but that a great tran tation and passenger business is bontem plated no on 3 acin doubts abts the channel is being cleared and tor for thil this purpose it is said 20 has been set aside last sunda a salt lake tribune con tamed an excellent write up of ut utah ah s oil fields and the possibilities certain to accrue from th than m among many other things the paper said aid oil in utah is no longer a theoretical icil problem but is an established and lecog nixed fact and hundreds of people and almost unlimited capital have been it tracked by the new field not only has oil been found in pai plying ing quantities in the intermountain stated but ut chemical anal sea of the oil show hat that it is the highest class 0 of il lumina ting and lubricating oil found anywhere iny where in the united states and its commercial value alue is bend beyond question in central and southeastern utah the drills are dail daily penetrating the depths of 0 mother earth and she is commencing to beld up her oily substance f ahe he excitement la is akin to that of the early das days of the discovery of oil in its penu pena silvania ev ivania when fabulous bulous fi fortunes were viere made when the pauper 0 of today n aa as the millionaire of to tomorrow morron and when hen near ly every everybody body vas as in some way may I 1 in oil values oil talk has been reduced to technical terms and prospectors in the fields refer to flash rash fire test gravity and percentage with as much familiar ity as the old miner discusses dips spurs and angles in many cases old prospectors wh who D have spent ears in search of the metallic products of the west have turned their attention to oil and the infection anfel tiou has even extended to the sheepherder and the cow bov bo indi visuals in the oil belts who have hereto fore considered loo acres of land to be a large realty holding have staked out oil claims aggregating thousands of acres eastern manufacturers are receiving large orders for well supplies and call cali forma has also supplied a large amount ol 01 machinery in ina a edition to the wells ells that are in actual development opera eions many more rigs are in the hands 3 of transportation lines with purchasers anxiously aai awaiting ting their arrival on the held field the local supply of lumber is in sufficient to meet the demand tor for der rick construction and many carload lots have aade been purchased direct from the wholesale hole sale dealers on the northwestern north coast all ON over er the ne v fields are found in vectors from the atlantic and pacific states with a sprinkling of interest per eating in this section all the way may from texas european capital is not altogether overlooking this promising field and in the grand rush that is being made to ob tain desirable land english capitalists have annad d the field speaking aking of the green river valley oil fields the tribune said the whole hole valley is made by erosion from front wind and NN water ater and the demov removal 11 of the tertiary and superficial deposits down to the cretaceous leaving a valley nalley thirty miles wide by seventy or eighty miles long iona the fhe surface of low plateaus and nd deeper v alle a traversing trav ersing thib this great valley from southeasterly to northwesterly are tao distinct uplifts there are vast areas of the sur face where the lo 10 i v er members of the ter hary are left in thin sheets or caps to plateaus from to feet high while the surrounding alleys alles washes creek bottoms and river valleys lie wholly in the upper cretaceous the erosions ex pose the blue of the cretaceous at all points where sufficient cent erosion has oc burred to remo remove e the tertiary formations the oil foul d in seepages in these anti ant dines belongs to the family and is therefore much more valuable than the oil obtained in the tertiary tor for lations of california and texas |