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Show p n,H About Oil At Price and In This Immediate Vicinity By MARK P. BRAFFET None are so blind as those who will not see. Nearly'thirty AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 12, Humber 41 Vol years ago Marcus E. Jones, a reputable and observing geologist, made a study of the earth structure through Eastern Utah for the purpose of informing the Denver and Rio Grande with refer-enc- e Geologists and Laymen to the extent of coal deposits adjacent to the line of that railGather A t Well road. He did not have to see opened seams of coal in order to satisfy his mind as to whether these passed through mountains. lie GREEN RIVER, March 23. Attenidentified geologic periods and soon learned to speak the language tion of geologists and engineers gathof the rocks. Once in giving testimony upon the subject he ered at Moab to witness the test of the declared that the coal geology' of Eastern Utah could be intelligent- Midwest-Uta- h Southern well on the Pullend Creek' a of was deflected from rear a structure the Cane ly comprehended through fieldglass man car. His inference and observations seemed fantastic at the for the time being to the Marland time and little attention was accorded to his viewB. In fact Jones well, three miles southeast of here, VIEWS AT SCOFIELD was not regarded seriously and fuel companies had about as much where on Sunduy a strong showing of confidence in tips on geology as they had on visions of theology. oil was struck at a depth of approxihundred feet. This After a few years the accuracy of the deductions of Jones mately twenty-fou- r was demonstrated by other men and today around thirty mines morning representatives of the Midhaving millions of dollars invested attest his unerring reasoning. west, the General Petroleum, the In popular parlance he knew his stuff. Of the ten to twenty Standard of California, the Texas, the thousand inhabitants of Eastern Utah eligible to obtain one hun- Jtah Southern, the Associated of dred and sixty acres each of coal land about one person of each California and Snowden ft McSween-e- y motored over, the Grand county four thousand actually believed in geological inference as a safe citizen each to accorded from Moab to investigate the and exercised coal arrens then the guide right under the law. importance of the showing found in the Marland well. At once it became NATURES OPEN BOOK EASILY READ. that the Marland had no apparent The retrospective view reveals the fact that with natures of either kidding" itself or open book before us we were too stupid to observe, and with the public or of concealing anything Jones geological inferences we would have nothing to do. In- from members of the oil profession. telligent consideration of perfectly obvious facts would have made Immediately upon the arrival of Genhundreds of residents of Carbon county fat with wealth. The fat from Denver, ' has chiefly passed into the rapacious maws of Eastern corpora- eral Manager Rolls Colo., on the noon train ojierationa tions whose stockholders enjoy the dividends while we with the were resumed at the well. A tapeline obdurate eyes were permitted to witness great opportunities van- waa run into the hole and the exact ish. Another page in the book of nature has been turned and again depth proved to be 2401.5 feet. Severgeologists declare that between the Uintah mountains and the San al balers of liquid containing considRafael Swell exists one of the greatest oil fields in the whole world. erable oil and some water were dumpBillions of dollars will be taken from this field if the inferences of ed, after which was resumed. these men are correct. Thousands of locations have been made In a few minutesdrilling the bit was driven under the benign act of congress, known as the leasing act and the approximately aix inches into the first oil symptom discovered at Moab has made scores of the be- sand. Cuttings of the oilmaking formlievers of geologists comfortably wealthy. It is remarkable that ation showed it to be a soft white the great majority of people take no interest in such matters until sand. the boat of opportunity hoists its plank and leaves them. The Baling was then resumed, when misgivings of the populace is only to be accounted for upon the Rolls decided that the showing of gas theory that the geologist is a fake prophet and the knowledge and oil was so strong that it was unthat prophets in general are after the profit. Benighted, indeed, wise to drill farther until a gate valve is the individual who confuses science with superstition and per- was secured and adjusted. With Sumits this golden gamble to pass his pessimistic door. perintendent Stafay from the Sturm SLEEPING ON MOST PERFECT DOME. Drilling company, which has the contract for the test, Rolls left for Cisco . If oil structures exist throughout Eastern Utah as the ablest to see what equipment waa on hand at geologists who have studied the scientific aspects of this locality the warehouse there. He and Stafay unqualifiedly assert to be the fact, then every intelligent resident to return here tomorrow with the of this large area has an opportunity to become rich. Geological plan needed valve gate when drilling wil comadvice is obtainable and is within the reach of alL Infant into the objective Moen-kop- L resumed be panies possessing areas of land which reputable experts declare Officials of the Marland fee worthy of the drill test should receive every encouragement anc encouraged over the showing struck their shares should be bought where the prices are reasonable am at a depth of two thousand four hunthe money realized from, the sale of treasury stock is devoted to dred and one feet, although thequan drilling. People of Price and vicinity if you are sleeping on the aferemrtolMreaAa toptrf a perfect oil structure as pome very able geologists say: yoiS tityof is belie ve( he sand was entered. 'arCahfl' they 'are saying it with their own greenbacks, do not re- that the amount of oilIt encountered opportunities for ) roves that the faulted anticline is .a peat the mistake you made in disregarding the be to well too are oil disregarded as coal. The supported prospects touch with a trap for oil and that when the objecinto Get too or highly speculative. unimportant of thrills tive Moenkopi is entered, commercial reputable geologist and you will have a wonderful bunch production may be found. Geologists if you will play the game with ordinary intellignce. ' are of the opinion that the bit has ' . THESE MUTE CLIFFS NEVER LIE. pierced the Shinarump, overlying the in locnkopi and of the Permian age, alwith oil, springs The cliffs of the Uintahs are saturated highly problematical. various places throughout Eastern Utah corroborate the oil infer- though thisis is on an upthrnwn drilled The well flowbeen well has natural a door gas ences, while at your very 'aultfeet north of thousand a block that the ing for two years. One eminent geologist has indeclared east-wefissure that an displaces the the witnesses earth here is throbbing with oil. lie has faith hundred to from 'urination thirteen whole but not tell the story, the mute cliffs never lie. They may hundred feet. fourteen sensible a in all taking they reveal enough that we arewhich justified at present are attracting the By walking to thp sandstone escarpinterest in the things about us ment south of the well the viitor ran attention of keen men from' Louisiana to Seattle. Do not place your money without the advice of a geologist of gaze uion as magnificent a panoramae oil company of desert wilderness as is the privi-egrepute. His judgment will be your best guide. Ansuch of one to see anywhere. The not support having floating shares among the gullible and of the LaSal range, glaeial peaks should be avoided. fallen (HORSLEY) Week Ending March 26, 1926 DAM WATER FOR THIS YEAR V By June first of this year the big Scofield reservoir will have been completed and the farmers under the system of the Price River Water Conservation district will be served from J uly on, ' A. W. Horsley, president of the district organization, last Tuesday told. The Sun. The contractors of the dam work and the new railroad to replace the old line in Pleasant Valley north of Scofield have been laboring steadily all winter, notwithstanding much interference from the weather. One layer of, rock of the dam ia ven feet high across the eanyon, while twenty thousand yards of this material ia now in and with an equal amount or more yet to be done. There ia no concrete core, the material being the same as the Strawberry. This last waa built and recommended by government engineers. There is at Scofield dam a .six by outlet tunfive hundred and fifty-fonel reinforced in concrete. The gates for the control of water are all in and these are sixty-fefrom top to bot- -' tom and of cement. There is also being constructed at' this time to hold the water back of the dam proper a dike that is to insure this season the " storage of fifteen thousand This for conserving the spring runoff. The capacity of the reservoir, President Horsley states, is to be sixty-fiv- e thousand In depth it is from thirty to forty feet in the eenter nearer forty. And, two and a half by five miles wide, backing up to almost the town limits of Scofield. The frost is now almost out of the ground eo there will be no delay in rushing the work right along and to very eariy completion. Reynolds-Elcompany of Springville is . doing a most splendid job. As previoudy Btat-i- h this newspaper the eoat is to be " Shows Dun Construction and Reservoir Site Six Miles North of Scofield twenty-se- 1 ot acre-feet.- Former Denver and Rio Grande Western Tracks Below and New. Ones on Hillside. acre-fee- t. y. st - cns Forty Thonsand Yards Fill On the Kimball Property At Edge of Scofield Town. M. BEVERIDGE PARCELS POST DELIVERY FOR THE AFTERNOONS Early Day Miners of bon Goes to Reward. One of the At the last meeting of the Price Chandler of Commerce Tuesday there was expressed much appreciation of the granting by Postmaster J. F. of aflprnoon delivery of parcel jost. Forenoon deliveries previous-- y only were made, says Secretary This matter was brought Johnson. up last week and a committee apjwint-e- d to bring about this action. The committee, which consisted of A. D. Sutton as chairman, Walter N. Wiest and A. Call, accomplished their purposes in three days time. The awarding of the prize to ' the membership drive committee which had obtained the most membership and also funds was mstponed until next week, as several lad not thoroughly covered their territory and were not ready to rejsirt. All told of satisfactory progress. . A number of other important community matters were discussed there being an unusually large attendance. Mac-nig- ht s Car- Michael Beveridge, uruuiid 64 years of age ami for close to forty of these a coal miner in the Carbon district, juisriod away at his home iii Hiawatha last Saturday. He had worked during the time for about every company here. In the eurly days he was with the old Pleasant Valley Coal and later went to the Utah Fuel. About nine years ago while working for the United States Fuel he retired, llis trouble was chronic myncarditis miners consumption. Interment wus in the Price remetery. in Fifeshire The deceased June 5, 18(1, the son of (Scotland) Hannah and Hodge Beveridge. He worked as a clieckninn at Hiawatha several years previous to his demise, jHe js Mrvivwl , a widuw Margaret and by w?veruI stpwart tlie canip l(Wr at wl)(j (;hildron mide nil the latter south, grown. Michael Beveridge wus honest, honorable und loyal to a degree to those whom be served, an independent falli-- , er and good husband and will bn -hundreds f Iflr friends locally, who mourn at llis puss white iu a garb of new snow, to demonstrate the value of the stand as a lung line of silken tent tops sary PROGRESS AT GREEN RIVER IS lands, so the entire chance is taken by pyramided against a blue sky. A vast CLOSELY WATCHED the company which must bear the expanse of gray desert and cut by the whole loss in event of failure. Own- irown waters of the Green river Of Price men interested in oil II. E. ers of property may not only serve stretches off into misty obscurity. Welsh of the Price River Petroleum their own best interests by executing Tutting red and buff sandstone ledges company, M. P. Braffet, 0. K. Clay drilling leases, but at the same time glower down upon the sunbaked and R.,1. Braffet motored to Green To the north a great wall winds by so doing may occasion the developRiver on Tuesday last and inspected ment of an oil field of great public in serpentine fashion like some giganthe showing at the Marland bore down benefit. Some refuse to ex- tic fortification reared by nature as a persons there. These gentlemen corroborate ecute such leases even of lands quite protection against invasion. And as the telegraphic rejHirtR as to the ap- valueless, thus compelling operators to one stands on this lofty vantage point parent importance of the new develop- take their chances on a limited acre- poking ujxin strange and gorgeously ments and state that the uncxiwrted age which discourages successful fin- colored formation it does not require oil appears to he of high quality, alancing. any great stretch of imagination to though at present it is quite limited in is rertain that every man has the picture sentinels patrolling lofty ram It quantity. Further drilling in the sand right to handle his own projierty as parts in sparkling coats of mail, to see which has apiarently received no con- lip wishes and no one can compel him fabulous lizardlike monsters ever siderable iciictralion may develop a to be either wise or public spirited. It creeping across the horizon and phanwell of commercial value. would have been the right of the coal tom cities topped by a minarets and The discovery of even a small flow companies owning their lands in Car- architectural vagaries seen only in our . , , , of oil at shallow depth and in annds bon county to have refused leases for troubled dreams. likely to be cut in the drilling oper- school house Bites and thus to have . The theory that nil companies like I haven't lasted them yet, but I in ations new being ordered in several the development of intelli- horse tra8i-r- would rather dissemble hampered nut ufrtiid to ask you to eat. And Eastern Utah locations has very great in the liHthmnm is new tuotlifcte on their holdings. Such small than to act ojwnly was dealt another gence to use on your teeth. Here's medi- probative value. The Green River test iniiidrilncss would he a parallel to that blow today by the highly courteous cine to tnke before you start off to affords the most satisfactory evidence of some of our citizens who have dis- treatment acrorded visitors at the well school. Don't forget to wash your that financing is justified for drilling couraged drilling operations in the vihands that's a fresh bar of soap crew Marland member the of by every and maybe duat your face wilh paw such structures as we have in the viof Price. from tisildrcsKcrs on up to the general cinity der. No, it wont hurt the skin. most oil is and that cinity of Price, This lint of things I've seen ndver- the drillers may only get dust manager. Visitors were at liberty to True, tised slop and give it to your faih- likely to lie encountered in paying ers. The schools, too, sometimes pro- see any part of the rig. Questions were er. He'll bring them home tonight. above sands the far in lying quantities duce a duster. That seems to be what promptly and comprehensively answ Home of them old, Mime of them the Pennsylvania and in which oil was is wrifng with the mean spirits who ered. new lint what a civilised thing! 4 To buy on faith and use on faith 4 found at Moab. consider a hole two or three thousam Green River should be famous as a and never lie betrayed! Progress down at Green River will feet deep a thing unworthy to have on winter resort. The clear and winelike Head the advertisementa. Their 4 is as clear aa a mirror. You be watched with keen interest honesty and their desert holdings. Such quality of the air, the brilliant ran believe in them as surely as you 4 4 believe in yourself. You cun follow 4 jieople arc the making of a all jiervading sunlight make it one of LIBERAL SPIRIT OUGHT TO BE their dfrecliona with utmost faith. 4 4 West. in the town the healthful earth where is most (lend the only places with the 4 Yon can use their proilin-lSHOWN AT PRICE 4 confidence you'll want io use them 4 penetrated about six feet and chiefly Few districts can boast any better again. Theira are facta proved and fruit than is grown on the fertile soi Oil companies in general allow a used for graves. 4 accepted. Use their news. of this valley. When guided by advertisements 4 4 royalty of 12V4 per rent to the owners Those wishing to investigate the ag Social and educational guidance for you can buy with faith. of lands in exchange for leases perthis of mitting drilling and extraction. Such girls by a dean of girls is incorporate! ricultural and oil resources need not hesitate because of lack are universally considered to be fair in tho public school systems of Brook comforts. of Mass. neces Complete line blank books. The Sun. line, Cambridge and Haverhill, in new fields where tests are low-and- s. was-hor- "'? "I IS REORGANIZED Good Ball Promised Carbon Coming Season. Fans the -- unpro-gressi- ve s dis-tric- tfry'flbndakyTT 000-wit- hf New Orleans La., financial housflk Over to the south of Price, where most of the water from this reservoir will be used, farmers are busy with their spring- work now that they .are. assured of no irrigation failures. will be raised More and better this season than before the Mammoth went out some years ago. As to lands hereabouts there is a considerable inquiry from the outside. In the adjoining column are printed three views of the Scofield work. The pictures were tukeu March 1st. Willis C. Madsen is shown iu the foreground of one. -- - . et W At the Kceond meeting during this month of the baseball fans hereabouts at the court licuet last Sunday afternoon Sheriff Ruy Doming, the clean sports enthusiast, was again chosen president of the Eastern Utah league with L. E. Durrani, chief clerk for the Utuh Fuel company at Castle Gate, vice. II. V. Leonard of Trice ia the secretary ami treasurer. Four trims will make up the organization, Castle Gate, Hiawatha, Price and Sunnysid-Helcr, the last years champion, was granted two weeks in which to decide . REWARDS COMING TO FLAYERS OF CARBON HIGH Carbon high football players and its bnsketball men to the number of fifteen are this week to receive rewards from the student body. Five of the former are to get sweaters and one of the latter. The others the C block of the school. Eero Rauhala, who has played in every game of football that Carbon has contested, will receive a sweater with three stripe. Charles Kirkputrick from Sunnyside, Richard Davis of Stores, Lie Grande Mathis of Irire and John Deimnan of Sunnyside will get those with two service stripes. John Janies of Price will lie given the only one for bnsketbull. Thu men who will receive football letters are Paul lfowunl, Glen Davidson, Eugene Prcs-Mt- t, raser, Byron lfixon, Albert Dean Nielson, Marrel Jeanselnie, Ver-lo- n Ruff, Joe Elardo and Nick Thomas, The basketball letters LeGrande Mathis, Eugene Prcssctt, Bcu Redd, Gb-Davidson. Ray Dennison, Charles Kirkpatrick, Lee Box and Paul Howard. Trank and baseball awards will be made Rome time in May. whether or nut it would come in this year. It was decided to allow each team two iuquirlcd players instead of one which was agreed upon at a meeting last week. The playing season is to consist of eighteen gumes, Sundays and on holidays. The season will run from May i)th to September 5th. The first hnlf schedule will end on July 5th and the winners of the two halves will meet in a rhnmpionsliip series providing one is not victorious in both, as waa the case Inst year. Each must furnish an umpire with the home arbitrator acting as chief. The Spulding cork center ball was adopted as the official league one for all games. Iliawatba has nut been a member for twelve niontha and Castle (late is entering after long idleness. |