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Show -- o- -' o mineral reserve has put a stop to further contention for land .it seems to in be the purpose of the railroad pany to aid all possible in legitimate development enterprises. Your correspondent visited the Spring Valley district yesterday and never saw the situation so bright. Fifty rigs will be working there by the first of June. com- o next month. While not wishing to go to the he length of guaranteeing a producer, intimated that he would be very much surprised if a well of that character w'ould be the result of the seasons campaign. Jt A. J. Scott of the One by one the oil men are leaving Drilling trust made a visit to the for the fields. Though the season is He Dairy Fork rig during the week. porin far many advanced, yet pretty reports that the indications for oil tions of the fields there are still great are flattering. In fact, he was very quantities of snow, which will retard enthusiastic over the appearance of the opening up of some of the properin the canyon, and says that ties until the middle of the month. athings producing well is, to his mind, a certhe case with This is notably the tainty. The rig has been laboring Westwater Oil & Asphaltum company. under many disadvantages, but he All preparations for beginning the says there is nothing but what can seasons campaign have been complet- be straightened out. Jt ed for some weeks, but reports from atthe field are such as to deter the The Grand View people will shortly tempt of bringing in heavy machinery make the attempt of opening operafor seme time to come. Work in the tions near Sunnyside. Before this can Fossil field is progressing very finely, be accomplished, a road will have to and it will only be the matter of a snow. few days until the three new rig3 be made through the Jt J which have been placed will be put No intimation has been given out in commission. The Idaho rig in the same field is still sinking its drill into lately as to what the New York & the earth, with the showing of oil in- Utah are going to do with their creasing all the time. At Debeque, rig inpeople The well they Clarks Colorado, drilling is still in progress started is still Valley. capped. on Debeque well No. 2, and other Jt Jit companies are making preparations to A sale of twrenty sections of land sink shallow wells as well. The Green River field is awakening from its win- in the Green River field is reported. ter rest and at least one new rig is The land wrent to eastern parties. It on the ground ready to be set up and cannot out be found just what they put in commission. While it is yet too to to now they have do are will with season land what the the say yet early bring forth, there is already enough it. It is supposed they will drill in sight to know that this season will on it. eclipse those which have gone before Jit jit in the way of developing the land. It is reported that a New York comjt Jt pany will shortly invade the Fossil J. A. Beverly has returned from a field with a new rig. visit to the Uintah 'companys land Jit Jt near Colton. While there he went o The Oil company will carefully over the ground and was begin drilling shallow wells in the very highly gratified over the outlook near future. The long expected rigs for a producing well. He stated that are due about the middle of the he had been all over the Wyoming month. fields, and that in none of them has he Jt jit seen the surface indications of oil more Word is expected daily from the promising. The rig he purchased in Colorado with which to drill the in- southeast which will definitely place itial well is already at Colton, and the time when operations will be un- Jt OIL DEVELOPMENT. Belgo-America- KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, or any point EAST or SOUTH See that your ticket reads nVWV' VIA vWV Missouri Pacific Railway Elegant Coaches, Quick Time, and Superb Track make this line the Peope's Favorite Koute-Thonly line reaching Hot Springs, Arkansas, the Carlsbad ot America. For maps, informs tion, etc., call on or address e C. A. TRIPP, C. F. . P. A. 105 W. SECOND SOUTH 8T. SALT LAKE CITY, - UTAH. O O WYOMING OIL NOTES. (Special Correspondence.) Evanston, Wyo., May 1. The Oil Well Supply company have established a warehouse at Spring Valley. cars of machinery are alTwenty-fiv- e ready on the road to that point to fill orders of companies intending to commence operations there this spring. Much disappointment is manifested by parties here on account of the warehouse going to that point, as it was originally intended to have a machine shop and warehouse here. Mr. W. H. Cronk, of Bakersfield, Cal., will act as salesman for the supply company. Jt The jt American Consolidated Oil company has commenced their new well on section 14, and are down 300 feet. They expect to get oil within 60 days at about 1,100 feet. Jt Jt Mr. R. S. Spence, reports the finding of a large body of oil bearing shale on liis property south of Fossil. A peculiar thing about the shale is that it produces an almost chemically pure benzine, running about a barrel to the ton. Jt jt The Union Pacific company are bailing their well on section 27 and Using the oil in the mines for lubricating purposes. It is said the company will ship no more oil to the mines, but use that from the well, it being good for all purposes, on machinery, in miners lamps, etc. Until recently the company had contend-.e- d that there was no oil In the well, but' now that the establishment of a ..SEE.. will be turned over within the few days, and he hopes to be drilling by the 15th or 20th of the present Utah-Colorad- A Delightful Place to Visit n A Profitable Place to Live Greatest Play Ground on Earth Famous Places which everyone wants to see. Invest in a ticket to CALIFOR. NIA and secure rich dividends in HEALTH, PLEASURE and WEALTH. Mountain, Valley, Rivers, Lakes nd Ocean Reached by the outhern Pacific Companys Lines. For descriptive and Illustrative literature call at No. 201 Main St.. Salt Lake City. D. E. GRAY, General Agent der way along the Lake. Jt A deal involving shores of j Salt a large tract of Green River oil land is on the tapis, and may be closed any day. Jt Jit The Short rigs at Fossil are nearly ready to bo placed in commission. - Jt Jt The Burns people are still working on the well near Desert Switch. But little information can be given about the well, as no change has been noted for some weeks pasL o . Jack Johnson a Good Fighter. Jack Johnson, the colored heavyweight, has had a career on the coast Pracnothing short of marvelous. an tically unknown, he beat Jack Jeffries and Hank Griffin before he received recognition as a fighter. After those fights lie went right down the line and beat every man he has been stacked up against. He decisively beat Childs, Russell, Gardner, Big Sam MeVey, a 210 pounder, and easily won from Billy Maddens champion. Denver Ed Martin. Having cleaned up all the colored fighters, and the supposedly best white light heavyweight fighters, Johnson is scouting around for other blacks and whites to conquer. The one man he would like to meet is Champion Jeffries, but that Is wholly out of reason, as Jeff ie oD with Corbett, and, furthermore, has oot repeatedly . stated that be would fight a colored man. top-notc- h . |