Show UTAH OILS prof arc bircus E jones A M atoa oa 0 a very interest c article on the rutih oil and gas fields in the current number of the salt like mining re kiev from chich the folio ving extract is mide the various forms of gaa oil and alph lit are hy because they are composed chiefly of the two ele ments hydrogen hd rogen and carbons in various combinations these combinations which are lighter than r at ordinary temper agures are rises there are many kinds of theoa gases but the ill go under the ot natural g is the oil 1 generillo ge j i back oil much 11 e molasses and con bains very many compound bome of j which are solid when se panted the oil the pure Is themselves are grad ed according to their gravity such as benzine naptha kerosene after they are separated by d et illation the solids are i and the canoua is phalas there is more or less of this separation obide by natural in the rocks themselves especially when they are greatly cut bv eros on or broken by fissures this is true of the utah hydrocarbons in some places e have the pure asphalts such as gil son te in which the 1 ahter elements even hive been driven off as well as the oils and gases in other places we have the sime elements more or less mixed with such as etc in other places we have the crude oil all the elements still in it it is generally conceded b up to date geologists that hydrocarbons are the product of the slow d st illation ina de composition of vegetable ff litter under heavy pressure out of coi tact with the air and in the presence of salt water it was formerly thought that it wis through the decomposition of animal matter jut this vie v has been exploded bebau e there are compari few am mal remains ins compared with amount of hydrocarbons it is also argued that hydrocarbons are produced by chemical changes in lime stone this view is adored somewhat by certain regions in there cual and little mowie in the claas such as and gilsonite beds of the duchesne region but it is not favored by the great limestone beds of the wasatch when hydrocarbons ire produced they will rise to the top of water ind collect at the water level the oil and asphalt will float and the cassea will gradually separate ind rise above till checked b the overlying rocks As the product in creases the pressure w 11 become greiter gre iter the water will be forced back and every crick and cranny will be fi led with oil or gas at last the pressure often becomes 1 dounda to the quare inch then the hydrocarbons either break their way out by mil ing great cracks in the con tain ng till they escine into porous sinde tones and other loose rock adjoin log them or they aloa up the ground above them and u in the air no rocks are heavy enough to retain the hydrocarbons forever th they alvas worm their way out the most common way is to tallu v the bedd ng till the find some place where the pianos are erosion or strita aie 1 dom flat generally they are tilted more or less and sometimes even por ular when the litter true or great fissures are found the gas escapes at 01 and the 1 ahter oils soon evaporate leaving the asphalt behind as in the gil bonite deposits at other times the strati are tilted up like a roof called antica ne and the gas naturally collects in great quantities in the peak of the anticline and the oil belo v is the cise with all the great gas deposits of the world wherever there ia nn anti dine there is also a corresponding syn i dine which is the reverse of an anti or 19 an anticline ot hen there is a orma a basin which is more or leas filled with salt water and oil according to the abundance oi oil producing strata and the depth of the basin and the aties for the es cape of oil around tho edges the anti dines in utah are few and lo 10 v byn dines and monoclines are common and afford opportunities for the existence ot oil all the agns gns and 1 in rutih belongs to the cretaceous or tertiary the tertiary is divided into three the cleio cene miocene and eocene and each penol has oil or asphalt deposits the cretaceous tor our purpose can be separated into three the upper which i at least I 1 feet thick and is composed of many alternating beds of sandstones shale and clays with oil deposits in various places but most common near the top and with great coal bedd in the middle and lower parts 1 tho middle cretaceous with at least 1000 beet of day s of various colors and the loader or dakota is campara dively thin and has clay beds by sandstone and coal there is considerable oil underneath the creti cebus are thick beds of Jurras sic days ling over great beds of sandstones be longing to the there ire two great h dro carbon re gions in utah the salt lake and the basin regions the navajo basin region embraces about all 0 utah eist of the wasatch ind south of tho and includes the entire region efrom castle gate to grand junction and south to arizona the strata rest on a bed of lindstone stone which crops out in the san of castle gate an 1 also at thistle on the west just over the anas 13 a thick bed of jurassic claas then cornea the dakota division of the cretaceous which is completely covered up west ot the divide b berti but birnes oil above this is i greit bed of the middle cretaceous dais then cornea the atones and clas of the upper cretaceous with their lo 10 ver part full of great coal veins the middle also haa coal veins and the up per part has oil strata west 0 the di vide from clear creek down to thistle the cretaceous ig covered b eocene and miocene tertiary beds carrying considerable oil asphalt and this cross section given in the diagram ill tatt region belonging to to the cretaceous which runs north and south castle gate all but the lovest cretaceous is worn off leaving only the lowest 1 horizon except that part which is north of the book cliffs in the last diagram is given a north and south a section of that region from the to the san rafael swell the formation is almost identical iJen with he bistle gate thistle section except bat it begins in the south with a very shallow occupying all the re gion from price to grand junction south of the book cl effs east of green biver there is a fold in the middle of his bae n which runs north and south and makes a local anticline but as this iso the south it 13 not expected to cirr much oil or gas directly un der the elge of the book cliffa the strata ribe jn a gentle anticline which also continues to colorado and should carry much 1 it there 13 any anywhere this refers to tho dako a part of the cretaceous the great 1 bearing part above is so cut by the streams aad can von ot green river that no great amount of oil is to be expected till the beds pitch under the river some miles above the mouth ot the cannon this is some miles belo v the mouth 0 the minnie maud creek from this point north is a gleat synclinal depression which ex tends unbroken to the in the middle this ts overlaid by the tertiary beds 0 the eocene and fiocone wh ch carry er much g isolite which flaa producer by extensive bo e bearing oil belo v because ot its great extent thia region is tha most to oil in rutih south ot the san ratael swell tho oil bearing strata are so cut b can that no 1 is to be expected except n local basins ot which there aie sev eral especially on the upper river there la also much greater probability that the averi ing ro k hai e been cracked enough to let out the oil into the great sand beds of the this 13 also quite able 0 the region from to grand junction along the southern margin of the synclinal basin bordering the sin litael swell where the edge of the basin crops out nr d oil seeps occur in minnie maud region from patmos head north and east are many places oil seeps occur high up on the cl afa the strata ara full ot oil below A birge delegation from emery coun ty will attend the oil convention at price next thursday and friday the derrick and engine or the now york utah oil is expected to reach utah early next week it will be the first drilling plant to be installed carbon count at point a few north of the emery county lino the united states investor says that the ban ratael oil company intend to ha 13 oil wells in operation by jan 1 the property has passed the stage and will soon be on such a aisis as to produce a bood income the value 0 the oil it sas is based on the amount ot maraffino pa found in it which is 78 per con F ls in it tho itself being worth per barrel vv ahe california utah oil company is confronted with a jenoua problem la continuing the sinking of its well which is now down 1000 feet tho casing t the bottom of the well is only 5 inches in diameter on tho inside and on ac count of the great pressure of gas and the presence of water tool of such dimensions iro not heavy enough to mike any progress in drilling it 13 thought that the difficult can bo soiled by increasing the height 0 tho derrick so 13 to handle longer drill bars if not the dimension 0 the well will have too made larger |