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Show truth 12 . an and was very much pleased with the The Short rig at Fossil is in com- and every indication points to OIL AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS. work. This country. mission, drilling having been under early completion of the well in the 4 k4 first be the doubtless will Those who are under the impression way. for some days. R. M. Pope writes from New' York field. k4 that the oil industry in Utah is dead i4 Jt that he has about accomplished the Judge McConnell of the Rauen may be surprised to learn that for a of his trip east. He says that in object Work is progressing very quietly from a returned has company Mining In the fact is indeed it the of field. Several asphaltum refinery for the Puri-tacorpse very lively Vernal. 'The judge says that the Debeque to visit company near Westw'ater is asthat it shows every indication of vig- this season will eclipse all others in companies are drilling shallow wells. sured and that it will be on thegrouiui orous life. Within the past few days the v4 t4 of gilsonite by the comoutput shortly after midsummer. This coma considerable block of land amountM. Delvaux, a noted oil man from pany owns a large area of asphaltum pany. secing to between twelve and fifteen k4 4 Antwerp, Belgium, was a Salt Lake ground in the district which has provtions has passed to the ownership of g well at Fossil visitor this week. He was down at en itself to be the finest article of its eastern parties. This land all lies The over 1400 feet the Dairy Fork rig with Driller Scott kind, and the company proposes to of a has gained depth between Thompsons Springs and Litput it on the market at once. tle Grande in Grand county. It has not been given out that this land has 4 t4 been purchased for the purpose of The new Intermountain Asphalt awaiting the developments of other company will join the family of comholders, but It to be developed at DAILYTRAINS THROUGH 3 panies near Westwater with a re once. This purchase following so finery before the close of the sumAND closely upon the heels of the sa'e of mer. The company is composed of twenty sections in the same qu titer Salt Lake business men who are deEASTof the field slums that while Ulan to push the production of retermined people are in a measure sleeping' on fined asphalt in order to be on the their laurels, outride parties 'cent VIA THE. market along with the Puritan comin the future and have the pany. It only needs an assured prostrongest confidence in the ultimate duction to make a certain market for outcome. From present appearances Utah asphalt. there will be at least six rigs put in AND o commission in Grand county, Utah, MINING MATTERS. before the end of July. The rigs already in commission in the Green river fields are doing good work and Manager J. E. Beveridge of the $38.75 TO IQSEIFOUS and RETCKS. 1(1.50 TO CU1CJC0 iD BETCRS. Dixie copper smelter, belonging to bid fair to be heard from before many the Utah & Eastern company, and loweeks passes by. Fossil, Wyoming, $38.75 TO ST. FUJI 150 BETIRS. cated near St. George, is making a is also a busy quarter with one drill short stay in Salt Lake. The smelter nearing the point when the big oil JUNE 4 and 5tli and JUNE 9th and 10th. is now' producing about six tons of 90 Over will at be sand; penetrated. and the is all bustle Similar Redactions to intermediate and per cent fine bullion a day. Lee Gloek-neSprirg Valley has resigned as superintendent of work is progressing steadily. This various other points. the plant and has gone to Cripple field is growing larger and new wells RAILWAY BETWEEN MISSOURI RIVER THE ONLY DOUBLE-TRACCreek. He has been succeeded by are coming in constantly. The inter... AND CHICACO. THE BEST OF EVERYTHING." Fred est of oil men from all over the counButler, formerly of the Con. For Tickets and Reservations apply to Mercur force. try is slowly and surely being ui&vn to the intermountain fields. C. A. WALKER, General Agent, C. & N. W. Railway, i4 k4 4 J Superintendent Joseph Farren of 205 Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Good progress is being made at the the Glasgow' and Western Explora tion companys property in Nevada, Bums well near Desert Switch, Utah. w'as a Salt Lake visitor within the The casing is down to the full depth of the hole and drilling is in progress. past week. Its copper smelter at of has The management the company ,Golconda is scheduled to soon start up to handle a large body of ore averlearned a lesson which, while expenaging about 15 per cent coper that is sive, is effective, and so will not trust THE SHORTEST AND FASTEST LINE to luck in the future. The well is bealready blocked out. Numerous shipments from the property have here low the 2000rfoot mark, with the best UTAH POINTS ALL in PRINCIPAL tofore given even better results. TO of the season before the drillers which to bring in the well. 4 v4 .4 4 Charles Lammersdorf, the original Driller Beverly is at work on the ow'ner of the Sevier mines and mill on Gold Mountain, has returned to Uintah companys w'ell near Colton. This means that from now on depth Salt Lake from a trip to Germany, his will be gained in no uncertain mannative country. The Sevier property was sold for $100,000, of w'hich Mr. ner. This is one well which will be completed. Lammersdorf has already received Beverly does things that way. $30,000, and the balance will with4 out doubt, he said, according to the terms of the sale. Work on the White Star well in will Fork be resumed k4 ,4 canyon Dairy.. shortly. The w'ork is to be under Judge Theo. Botkin has returned the charge of Driller Scott. It is unfrom a ten days stay at the Old derstood that the size of the hole is to property near Milford, where be enlarged and the machinery ima good force of men are sinking a proved so that any depth required double compartment shaft. may be attained. 4 4t k4 4 E. F. Freudenthal arrived in Salt Manager Ray of the Westwater Lake a few days ago from the scene WBSSaS THE ONLY LINE TO ssSEBBB company is' negotiating for an oil of the locations recently made by drilling rig which will be placed on himself and Senator A. B. Lewis in the land of the company before the the Knoxville district, Nevada. From end of June. It is Mr. Rays intena series of 12 assays values were obtion to develop the ground for oil as tained that ranged from $250 to $9.48. well as to open up the deposits of and averaged $58 to the ton in gold. asphaltum. These samples were broken from 4 large rocks found along the surface Nothing, definite can be learned of of the vein some of w'hich weighed the work of the New' .York & Utah several tons. To ascertain the exact rig in Clarks valley, Utah, beyond the width of the vein wrork will soon be DAILY TRAINS EACH WAY fact that work has been resumed. commenced. As to whether this propBETWEEN Jit erty consisting of fourteen claims SALT will LAKE AND form the basis of a new company Work will be resumed in the neighOGDEN or be landed among the holdings of borhood of Sunny side, Utah, in the the Royal company has not been annear. future, tl is thought, however, that the McWhorter & Hastings well nounced, but it is considered quite will be idle this season. probable that the latter will occur. D. ff. BURLEY , Qm, Pm, md Tut, Aar. jit Jit 4 4 The United States company at Driller Smithers is pushing things T. M. BOHUMAOHER. D. . 9PENOBR, on the Beatrice well at Fossil. This Mam. Aonma Amur. Q. P. 4 T, A Bingham has completed a readjustwell Is heat that of theUtah-Wy- o ment of its tramway between the mlng, which Is idle for' the present. mines and the Rio Grande terminus. f n Idaho-Wyomin- -3 . -2 2-EX- CURSIONS fc:-ioih'- 3 th r K : I Ca-taw'b- a NORTHWEST. . j Trno . . |