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Show COMMERCIAL CLUB TO EXAMINE OIL FIELDS The Commercial club has decided to promote and assist the oil industry of; the state, provided, that an engineer of national repute, who will be hired to report on the various fields of Utah, reports satisfactorily on this resource of the state that is being developed. Such was the decision of the oil committee com-mittee of the Commercial club at a meeting held last nitjht at which was present oil men froni various parts of the state. I F. V. Bodfish, president and general manager of the American Exploration company, offered to pay half the expenses ex-penses for an examination of the San Juan section of the country. President ' Joy H. Johnson of the club accepted i the offer and said the club would raise the olher half of the expense if the! committee deemed it advisable. This ' was also extended to the other districts j of Utah and C. M. Lang, representing the oil fields-in Emery county accepted the proposition for Emery county. A number of others who are developing the oil industry of the state will probably prob-ably sign up shortly to assist in the i work. Several thousands of dollars i will be spent in thoroughly investigating investigat-ing the possibilities in Utah and the report re-port that will be made will be issued by the Commercial club. The oil men of the state have been asked to make a report of their district by Wednesday at the latest, and to " notify J. H. Richards, 314 Dooley building build-ing relative to having a report made on their field. The Commercial club will raise half the expenses if the various districts of the state will raise the other half. A meeting of the oil men and the com mittee will be had at a luncheon at the Commercial club at 12:30 o'clock Thursday Thurs-day next. At the meeting last night the San Juan oil field was represenaed by W. P. ' Dancer. F. V. Bodfish and F. F. Jack-son. Jack-son. The Emery county field bv H. A, ! Pitts, C. M. Lang, and J. F. Turner. ' while A. V. Taylor and Joseph H. Richards, Rich-ards, told of their various investigation? of the Utah fields. Chairman Burton on the motion of C. W. Fifield appointed J. H. Richards, C. W. Fifield and . E. H. Peterson as a committee to get further details as to the feasibility of employing an engineer They will make a report to the committee com-mittee at the Thursday meeting. It developed during the m;eting that Emery county has the second greatest oil exposure in the world, Russia having . the greatest. In the San Juan o unty seventeen rigs are operating in the field, three are out of commission on account of break downs, and seven have been unloaded at the railroads and are on the way into the field. The field has 11 producing wells and could produce 3,000 barrels a day. One rig is operating in the Emery fiel I and a rig is on the way to the field in Wayne countv and three rigs will go into Grand county shortly. Deseret News. |