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Show - h . i m id J Oil At Price and In This Immediate Vicinity By MARK P. BRAFFET so blind as those who will not see. Nearly thirty are imru Vjfrgn Marcus E. Jones, a reputable and observing geologist abet of study of the earth structure through Eastern Utah for j the Denver and Rio Grande wjth refer--f ypTpose of informing coal extent of adjacent to the line of that rad- the deposits O He.did not have to see opened seams of coal in order to sat-- t mind as to whether these passed through mountains. He wTh tbsull J5ed geologic periods, and soon learned to speak the language rocks. Once in giving testimony upon the he ated u ' rjed that the coal geology of Eastern Utah could besubject o intelligent a fieldglass from the rear end of a Pull-lpu- r. ly iffliri 'prehended through His inference and observations seemed fantastic at the nd little attention was accorded to his views. In fact Jones W. regarded seriously and fuel companies had about as much irftlTf lienee jn tips on geology as they had on visions of theology. indJ a ew years the accuracy of the deductions of Jones T F; demonstrated by other men and today around thirty mines millions of dollars invested attest his unerring reasoning. Vular parlance he knew his stuff. Of the ten to twenty Utah eligible to obtain one y jnd inhabitants of Eastern acres each of coal land about one person of each thousand actually believed in geological inference as a safe and exercised the coal right then accorded to each citizen Of oi ione . TS? -- ft ra Lit - hun-sixt- 'f i lfiWt Yolumt 12, AN INDEPENDENT Number 41 van-Mnoth- er IK j GREEN RIVER, March 21 Attention of geologist and engineers gathered at Meal) to n it ness the test of the Midwest-l'taSouthern well on the Cane Creek structure was deflected for the time lieing to the Marland well, three miles southeast of here, w here uu Sunday a strong showing of oil was struck at a depth of approxi-- j hundred feet. This rnalcly twenty-fou- r morning representatives of the Midwest, the General Petroleum, the Standard of California, the Texas, the Utah Southern, the Associated of McSwecn-e- y California and Snowden motored over the Grand county barrens from Moab to investigate the imjxjrlauce of the showing found in the Marlaud well. At once it became apparent that the Marl and had no intention of either 'kidding itself or the public or of concealing anything from members of the oil profession. Immediately upon the arrival of General Manager Rolls from Denver, Colo., on the noon train operations were resumed at the well. A tapeline was run into the hole and the exact depth proved to be 2401.5 feet. Several balers of liquid containing considerable oil and some water were dumped, after which drilling was resumed. In a few minutes the bit was driven approximately eix inches into the sand. Cuttings of the oilmaking formation showed it to he a soft white DAM t Drilling company, which has the confor the test, Rolls left for Cisco tract oil structures exist throughout Eastern Utah as the ablest what equipment wu on hand at to see who have studied the scientific aspects of this locality the warehouse ouAki there. He and Stafriy assert to be the fact, then every inteUigent resident iU tomorrow with ihe here return to Geological plan 3 his large area has an opportunity to become rich. valve needed gate when drilling will is obtainable and is within the reach of all. . Infant com- - lie resumed into the objective Moen-kop- i. i f possessing areas of land which reputable experts declare Officials of the Marland feel and lCX2lhy of the drill test should receive every encouragement over the showing struck shares should be bought where the prices are reasonable and encouraged two thousand four hunat of a depth f. money realized from the sale of treasury stock is devoted to dred and one feet, although the quanon the J Jing. People of Price and vicinity if you are sleeping of water seemed to increase as Suof a perfect oil structure as some very able geologists say you. tity waa entered. It is believed sand the and they are saying it with their own greenbacks, do not re-- that the amount of oil encountered nwtk . the mistake you made in disregarding the opportunities for proves that the faulted anticline is a 0jj prospects are too well supported to be disregarded as the objece xurri $ touch with a trap for oil and that whencommercial .portant or too highly speculative. Get intobunch ia entered, imittM. tive Moenkopi of thrills and you will have a wonderful ure wil 'yv isputable geologist production may be found. Geologists with intellignce. will the ordinary game you play Si are of the opinion that the bit has ester pws'Jdif Shows Dam Construction and Reservoir Site Six Miles North of Scofield Former Denver and Rio Cr&Pde Western Tracks Below and New Pnes op Hillside. acre-fee- t. ' ' L- - ' ' " '' v. " 'i sx: i ' ' '' y. ' Vs - 1 - 7 ' S. : "'y , ' r s 1 ' ' - pr r nr ' i . .Vq m- - aMwtaS' TVs, ... ; je THESE MUTE CLIFFS NEVER LIE. "fe tfa wfk'lvf The cliffs of the Uintahs are saturated with oil, springs inoil inferplaces throughout Eastern Utah corroborate thebeen flow'- that well has natural gas while at your very door a eban! that the for years. One eminent geologist has indeclared witnesses the fie faith SfclJth oil. has with is here throbbing t cliffs never lie. They may not tell the whole story, but py! r-tii- mute taking a sensible they reveal enough that we are all justified in are attracting the which at us present Interest in the things about Seattle. to Louisiana men from . . keen of Attention ! PBIn Do not place your money without the advice of a geologist oi iTBPUte. His judgment will be your best guide. An oil company din floating shares among the gullible and not having such support he at j -- s- IV iitioa to demonstrate the value of the is taken by bear the must which the company whole loss in event of failure. Owners of proierty may not only serve their own best interests by executing time drilling leases, but at the same the developoccasion by so doing may ment of an oil" field of great public benefit. Some persons refuse to execute such leases even of lands quite valueless, thus eoiuiwlling operator to take their ehnnres on a limited acre- jnOGRESS AT GREEN RIVER IS sary lands, so the entire chance CLOSELY WATCHED fe whflkX - ft- -; $.? Trice men interested in oil 1L E. of tbe Trice River Petroleum icts-- ywi. jiMlHpany, agerd? M. P. Braffet, 0. K. Clay aaB R. I. Braffet motored to Green JKhttr on Tuesday last and inspected rSw ihe showing at the Marland bore down chk 1 . Alwrc. These gentlemen corroborate eillt r. ths telegraphic reports as to the ap- 3?ent imjiortance of the new develop-- . 3nants and state that the unex)eeted : roil, appears to be of high quality, at present it is quite limited in quantity. Further drilling in tbe sand wld?li has apjiarently received no eun- ' iderahle iHiietration may develop a well of commercial value. The discovery of even a small flow At oil at shallow depth and in sands Tikely to be cut in the drilling oper- J iations now being ordered in several j. tern Utah locations has very great value. Tlie Green River teat probative j ,.;, affords the most satisfactory evidence J;., financing is justified for drilling ' wh structures as we have in the vi-, sdaity of Price, and that oil is most ATE likely to be encountered in paying quantities in the sands lying far above 'i ' the Pennsylvania and in which oil waa .. found at Moab. 'Progress down at Green River will ki watched with keen intereat. oniUi1' sop . . L - successful finage which discourages ancing. certain that every man has the handle his own property as to right he wishes and no one can eomjicl him to be either wise or public spirited. It would have been the right of the coal in Carcompanies owning their lands for leases refused have bon eounty to have to thus and sites sehoolhnuse of intellihampered the development Such gence on their holdings. would lie a parallel to that citizens who have disour of Home It is small-mindedne- ss of in the vicouraged drilling operations cinity of Price. dustTrue, the drillers may only get sometimes protoo, schools, The ers. duce a duster. That seems to be what who is wrong with the mean spirits thousand three or two hole consider a feet deep a thing unworthy to have oft their desert holdings. Such of a LIBERAL SPIRIT OUGHT TO BE people are the making earth only is the where town dead SHOWN AT PRICE 1 and chiefly feet six about penetrated companies in general allow a used for graves. i roj'alty of 12Vi Jier eent to the owners luids in exchange for leases Social and educational guidance for drilling and extraction. Such girls by a dean of girls is incorporated fair in the public school systems of Brookijw universally considered, to new fields tt where testa are necea- - line, Cambridge and Haverhill, Maas. vj - i: V f: I 1. NL, y i . per-aitti- IS : unpro-gresai- ve twenty-se- t. :f i By June first of this year the big Srotield reservoir ,wU have been completed and the farmers under the syMeui of tbe lbiee River Water dist riePVlll be served from July on, A. W. Horsley, president of the district organization, last Tuesday told Tbe Sum) The contractors of the dam work and the new railroad to replace the old liue in Pleasant Valley north of Scofield have been laboring steadily all winter, not withstanding much interference from the weather. One layer of rock of the dam ia ven feet high serosa the canyon, while twenty thousand yards of this material ia now in and with an equal amount or more yet to be doue. There ia no concrete core, the material being the same as the Strawberry. This last waa lmilt and recommended by government engineers. There ia at Scofield darn a six by outlet tunfive hundred and fifty-fonel reinforced in concrete. The gates for the control of water are all in and from top to botthese are sixty-fee- t tom and of cement. There ia also being constructed at this time to huld the water liaek of the dam proper a dike that ia to insure this season tbe storage of fifteen thousand arre-feeTliis for conserving the spring runoff. ? variry of the reservoir, President llorslcy states, la to lie sixty-fiv- e thousand In depth it is from in the center-ne- arer to feet thirty forty two aud a half by And, forty. five miles wide, hacking up to almost the town limits of Scofield. The frost ia now almost out of tbe ground so there will lie no delay in rushing the work right along and to very early completion. lieynobla-Kl- y company of Springvillc ia doing a most splendid job. Aa previously stated in this newspajier the cost ia to be $750,000 with the bonds taken by a New Orleans, I a., financial house. Over to the eoulh 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 fai hires. More and better crojis will lie raised this season than before the Mammoth went out some years ago. As to lands hereabouts there is a considerable inquiry from tbe outside. In the adjoining column arc printed three views of the Scofield work. The pictures were taken March 1st. Willis G. Madsen ia shown in Ihe foreground of one. ot CPgists i. i WATER FOR THIS YEAR Con--rvuti- oii peyni r 26, 1926 h j idkK-IEiialifiedl- Week Ending Muck Geologists and Laymen VIEWS AT SCOFIELD (HORSLEY) Gather At Well NATURES OPEN BOOK EASILY READ. iThe retrospective view reveals the fact that with nature's fbook before us we were too stupid to observe, and with inferences we would have nothing to do. In-jf geological consideration of perfectly obvious facts would have made jreds of residents of Carbon county fat with wealth. The fat f Chiefly passed into the rapacious maws of Eastern corpora-whos-e stockholders enjoy the dividends while we with the ate eyes were permitted to witness great opportunities page in the book of nature has been turned and again that between the Uintah mountains and the San declare gists jjy Swell exists one of the greatest oil fields in the whole world. frna of dollars will be taken from this field if the inferences of men are correct. Thousands of locations have been made the benign act of congress, known as the leasing act and the tiuu oil will symptom discovered at Moab has made scores of the be- ti. dP HlTB of geologists comfortably wealthy. It is remarkable that take no interest in such matters until sand. V'Sirat of aiority of people its plank and leaves them. The hoists lirffcHLTlioat I opportunity Baliitg was then resumed, when to be accounted for upon the Rolls is of only the populace livings decided the showing of gas and the knowledge and oil was sothat urht tatf that it was un 3ry that the geologist is a fake prophet strong indeed, wise to drill farther until ft prophets in general are after the profit. Benighted,and valve per-individual who confuses science with superstition dlfte was secured and adjusted. With tun af lc5s this golden gamble to pass his pessimistic door. Stafay from the Sturm nt NEWSPAPER pierced the Shinarump, overlying the Moenkopi and of the Permian age, Forty Thousand Yards Fill On the Rimball Property At Edge of Scofield Town. though Ins is highly problematical. The well is drilled on an upthrow n fault block a thousand feet north of PARCELS POST DELIVERY FOR fissure that displaces the an east-weTHE AFTERNOONS formation from thirteen hundred to One of the Early Day Miners of Carfourteen hundred feet. At the Inst meeting of the Price bon Goes to Reward. By walking to the sandstone escar-men- t Chamber of Commerce Tuesday there south of the well the visitor rail was expressed tpnqi appreciation of Michael Beveridge, around G4 years gaze usin as magnificent a panorama the granting laMVejtmaster J. F. of age anti for close to forty of these of deport wilderness as is the priviof alierniXi delivery of par- a coal miner in the Carlsm district, The see to one of anywhere. lege ed jjost. ForiVigpfl deliveries previous- iassd away at his home in Hiawatha peaks of the LaSal range, glacial ly only were made, says Secretary last Saturday. He had worked during white in a garb of new fallen snow, Johnson' 'This matter was brought the time for about every eoinjmay stand as a long line of silken tent tojs up last week and a committee apioint-e- d here. In the early he was with days to bring abutit this action. The com- the old Pleasant Valley Coal and later pyramided against a blue sky. A vast exanse of gray desert and cut by the mittee, which consisted of A. D. Hut- went to the Utah Fuel About nine brown waters of the Green river ton as chairman, Walter N. Wiest and years ago while working for the Unitstretches off into misty obscurity. A. Call, accomplished their purposes ed Stntes Fuel he retired. His trouble Jutting red ahd buff sandstone ledges in three days time. The awarding of was chronic myacardit is miners conglower down upon the sunbaked low- the prize to the membership drive sumption. Interment was in the Price lands. To the north a great wall winds committee which had obtained the cemetery. in serpentine fashion like some gigan- most memberships and also funds was The deceased was born in Fifcshire nature reared as fortification a postponed until next week, as several tic by June 5, 18C1, the son of protection against invasion. And as had not thoroughly covered their ter- (Scotland) 1 and lfannali I(e lodge Beveridge. one stands on this lofty vantage point ritory and were not ready to report. worked cheek as man at a Hiawatha looking upon strange and gorgeously All told of satisfactory progress. A colored formation it does not require number of other inqiortant community several years previous to his demise. He is survived by a widow, Margaret any great stretch of imagination to matters were discussed, there being an Stewart Beveridge, and by several picture sentinels patrolling lofty ram- unusually large attendance. who reside at the camp, over children coats to see of mail, parts in sparkling south, the luttcr nil grown. lizardlike monsters ever fabulous Michael Beveridge was honest, honcreeping across the horizon and phan orable and loyal to ft degree to those tom cities topped by a minarets and whom he served, an indcieiident fatli- in seen our architectural vagaries only ' and husband and will be , good troubled dreams. Here cream taken from a bottle missed by tbe hundreds of and breakfast food xot out of a box. greatly The theory that oil companies like haven't I'm taeted I them but who mourn st his passfriends yet, locally, dissemble would rather horse traders not afraid to auk you to rat. And 4 in the bathroom is new toothpaste 4 ing. than to act openly was dealt another to use on your teeth. Here'o uirdi- blow today by the highly courteous cine to take before you start off to treatment accorded visitors at the well school, llnn't fnrxet to wash your bands thats s fresh bar of snap by every member of the Marland crew and maybe dust your fare with jkiw- from tooldressers on up to the general drr. No, it won't hurt the skin. 4 Good Ball Promised Carbon Fans the - 4 Coming Season. manager. Visitors were st liberty to, Tfaiajist of things I've seen advertised stop and giTe it to your fath- see any part of the rig. Questions were er. He'll bring them home tonight. At the second meeting during this Home of them old, some of them 4 promptly and comprehensively answnew but what s cirilized thing! month of the baseball fans hereabouts ered. rthfuse last Sunday aftcr- Green River should be famous as a !at lhe ami nevebe betrayed I" The and clear winelike advertisements. noon resort. Sheriff Itead the Their winter Ray Deis ip. g, the clean is as clear as a mirror. " honesty the the brilliant and of air, quality can believe in them as surely as all pervading sunlight make it one of believe in yourself. You can their directions with utmost the most healthful places in the West. You can use their prodncta with the Few districts can boast any better Ltah Fuel companjr at Castle Gate, confidence you'll want to use them vice. IL V. Leonard of Priee is the fruit than is grown on the fertile soil again. Theirs are facta proved and and treasurer Four team of this valley. Tbel- - guided hbyr ZdrertsemenU Those wishing to investigate the agwill make up tbe organization, Castle yon can buy with faith. ricultural and oil resources of this disGate, Hiawatha, Priee and SannysilP) 1 trict need not hesitate because of lack W44WH 1161 164 Helper, the last years ehampion, was of comforts. two weeks in which to decide The Sun. books. blank granted line Complete M. BEVERIDGE st Mac-Knig- REWARDS COMING TO PLAYERS OF CARBON HIGH ht i;er IS REORGANIZED ; '? Carbon hijj football players and its basketball men to tbe 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 bas contested,9 will receive a sweater with three stripes. Charles Kirkpatrick from Sunnysidc, Richard Davis of Storrs, Le Grande Mathis of Price and John Dcminan of Kuncyside will get those with two service stripes. John James of Price will be given the only one for basketball. Tbe men who will receive football letters are Paul Glen Davidson, Eugene Ires-set- t, Byron Mixon, Albert Fraser, Dean Nielson, Marcel Jeansclme, Ver-lo- n Ruff, Joe Elardo and Nick Thomas. The basketball letters LeGrando Mathis, Eugene Pressett, Ben Redd, Glen Davidson, Ray Dennison, Charles Kirkpatrick, Lee Box and Paul Howard. Track and baseball awards will be made some time in May. J Toward, whether or not it would come in this year. It was decidctl to allow each team two imported players instead of one which was agreed ujwn at a meeting last week. The playing season is to consist of eighteen games, Sundays and on holidays. The season will run from May 9th to September 5th. The first half schedule will end on July 5th and the winners of the two halves will meet in a championship aeries providing one is not victorious in both, as was the ease last year. Each must furnish an umpire with the home arbitrator acting as chief. The Spalding cork eenter ball was adopted as the official league one for all games. Hiawatha has not been a member for twelve months and Css tit Gate ia entering after long idleness. |