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Show SUNS RATES LCLIFSE OF SUN AND MOON TO BE SEEN SOON esev&iS. iSr.feE ESrMS tij donmL ltor th. wder ' n issue- lino No dUpl.y tint twenty-fi- r ad-X- - Sun, hB . (front (25) ono is not tht good kindPrieo, Utah. o7--T- Two eclipses will eome this month, a total eclipse of the moon on the S VofauM 14, Number 3 AK INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Week Ending June 15thn which will be visible throughout the United States, and a total sell of the sun, which will be seen iu parts of Europe and Asia. A third event of astronomical interest will be the close approach of the 1927 a eoinct ou the 21st. Pona-Win-ne- ck 10, tot IcGee and Holmes Have Done and Are How Doing urn met Onf rr By JOHN W. McGEE, Geologist. i view of the fact that today the petroleum industry ranks with agriculture and transportation in economic importance fields gives rise to sudden and spec-- r ie discovery of new oil that every community is interested natural is wealth, it ants to know as to its chances of finding oil or gas in its par-- r locality. Geologists come and work out structures which of oil or gas. rilled and abandoned as dry or in are runs progress operations hope high and a drilling when the well is abandoned, leav-i-e xjom follows only to burst public to wonder what it is all about, here is one fact that is not to be lost sight of and that is here is no geologist that can eliminate the element of chance, he science of geology is only an approximate one. While are general geological facts that stand out and are certain, e other hand there are local factors that many times cannot pdirod in advance of the information that the drill may give, well that is put down adds that much information and in every case it takes a number of them to discover a field. At time I note much discouragement and pessimism as to the e oil possibilities in this state, because of the failures in leastem Utah and the money that has been spent there with-h-e discovery of profitable fields. In my opinion this pessi-- i is not justified, for the aggregate number of wildcat' veils is small as compared to the vast area involved. In almost every case these wells have had favorable showings and gas, and the results have not by any means been neg- -, resulting in the discovery of oil fields in the San Juan and eorge regions, and the gas fields at Cisco and Vernal. At this the fields mentioned have not been of great economic because they were not of the gusher type and their situation as to transportation. The same is true of the When we take into consideration that you have to drill ess than a hundred wildcat wells in the Gulf Coast region to not a new pool, in California seventy and in than twenty to discover a new pool it seems to me that the e Its in Utah should be far from discouraging. Today the filled with the news of an alarming nature of over proion of oil and they blame it on the Seminole field of Oklahoma, tint wildcat well drilled in Seminole county was in 1906, it was sixteen years later before the first commercial pool was svered and twenty years afterwards before it became a markets of the world. , All the years of failure and raragement are not presagemented and the public is. only fed by the glamor of success.' Prophefcy is a dangerous thing, but I'am going to take nee and say that big oil pools will be found in Utah and this imonweaKh is eventually going to be one of the great oil r ers of the union. Utah has more surface evidences of oil t other state. For an aggregate of more than two hundred you can trace outcropping saturated sands that in many are more a hundred feet and in widely separated areas n Utah. There can be no question about the possibilities sands where closed and sealed up in proper structural PISSES MANY AWARDS HADE TO BOY SCOUTS THIS WEEK Awarding of two Eavle Scout two first-clabailees and a large number of merit badges, featured the Boy Seout court of honor conducted here last Monday by A. A. Anlindens, non-product- u H dersen i Mid-Contine- im-in- ce un-rab- le been a fint-elas- s Scout the necessary length of time. Ted Mathis and David Hammond of Price each received their fint-elaii- s badges. A number of uoyi from Hiawatha, Spring Glen, Castle Gate and Price received Beeond-clas- s and tenderfoot badges. Merit badge awards w'.ro mnd'i to William MacKnight, athletics, cycling, life saving, public health, safety fint, scholarship and leathemraft; William Stoker, bird study, cookiuir, cycling, life saving, pathfinding ard public health; James Anderson, conservation, painting, surveying, reptiles and woodcarving; Gerald .Mid -son, conservation, painting, reptiles, woodcraft and basket weaving; Billie bird study, Wiliama, agriculture, ramping, conservation, scholarship, first aid to animals, forestry, plumbing, signaling and reptiles; Don Madsen, athletics, carpentry, handicraft, life aaving and pioneering; George g, Watt, civics, cooking, first aid, safety first and swimming; Weldon Mathis, agriculture, first aid to animals, eooking, horaemansLip end music; James Miller, athletics, bird study, eooking, cycling, handicraft, life saving, pathfinding, pioneering, swimming, reptiles and leatheremft; Milton Jones, athletics, bird study, and swimeooking, leatherworking ming; Joseph Smith, pnblie health; path-findin- pa-ar- fac-in.t- he In the well we are drilling south of Price the lack of water in sands penetrated and the showing of gas are in my opinion of of favorable structural conditions. We expect to penetrate salt wash sand of the McElmo formation at about twenty-tw- o idled feet and there are a number of highly favorable horizons nr that , - , event this well is a dry hole it only proves or disproves i particular spot and would not in any way shake my faith in future oil possibilities of Utah. Do not get discouraged, for i Turpin Baid: The first fifty years are the hardest In the OPENED THE GREAT HUTCHINSON POOL to Amarillo, Tex., in 1918 and upon John McGees advice drilled the well that opened the great oil pool lutchinson county and put the Panhandle of Texas on the map one of the greatest oil fields in the world. The thing that hues did was not easy arid putting over the Panhandle field took seven years of hard work in the face of the ridicule of every big all company in the business, for of .their geologists said that the Panhandle could not produce oil, but a faithful few stuck and put their money in with him and from which they have made millions. The first lease Holmes took in Hutchinson county was the - 'Smith-Copperanch of six thou- and it is on this that sand acres, the the major portion of the oil in Ad-. . Panhandle is produced today. ranch joining the " on the west is the wonder city of .Borger that' celebrated its first .. birthday on the 8th of March this thous year with more than thirty and population and a mam street five miles long. - - - At the town of Borger the W. H. HOLMES Santa Fe railroad has the largest 'kwt in sev- a iSSJhiSSSSS depot in" the state of Texas, - en hundred and fifty feet long iuty feet wide, thirty-fiv- e miles of sidetracks and keeps three . W. H. Holmes went . rs - Smith-Coppe- nLMes the yards. Holmes is drilling rinSSfe;himadvice are old on the map. the Smith-Coppe- rs man who MAPPED rs the well at Price and bunch that put the THE PANHANDLE: Tv?e Amarillo fold structure, says a recent issue of the DaJ-A News, from which production is obtained in the inhamiio field, was mapped out by John W. McGee, geologist, IMS His map shows the extreme limits of. tb slfu foL5 8 from Channing, Hartley county, to Shamrock in the area in question lying in the northeast part or artletf Moore and Hutchinson counties, central part Gravel? ?, heeler counties, being approximately a hundred and JcGeeL on northwest and southeast, and thirty miles wi . ofanUo,intethe suxnlH nalve of Oklahoma and now a resident & Chesley JIe waa sedated with Galbreath He PeSffi nys :anl kter during the Bald Hill development idwlft Dennje gas pool in Iabette county, Kan., into the TO y. II. Holmes in Kansas prior to coming work there at Holmes request He made a geological 1 2? Jk of Provo, Scout executive of Timpinogus eouneiL Don Madsen and Milton Jones,' both of Price, an the new Eagle Scouts, the highest honor conferred in scouting. James Miller of Prise has fulfilled all the requirements for the same nnk, but has not nt jtfons. ss Tanks Yamsaki, eivies, conservation, eooking, public health, safety first and swimming, and Hugh Fuller, swimming. JOHN W. McGEE LOCAL RIFLE CLUB IB MAKING VERY GOOD PROGRESS The geologist whoso marvelous portrayal of the Amarillo fold In ths Panhandle of Texes is the fonndatloi upon urhiek has been developed the greatest gas and oil field in the world. PIONEER M Erasmus Frandscri, one of the early settlers of Price, passed away at a Salt Lake City hospital last Sunday after a short illness. He was born at Mt. Pleasant, January 10, 1807, and waa a son of the late Bishop George Frandsen and Karen Neilscn Fnnd-seBeing one of the early pioneers of this country, be took an active part in the building of roads, bridges and canala and redeeming the wastes that were then desert The greater part of his life he devoted to stock and sheep raising and to farming. On January 2, 1900, he was married to Lilly Ag- n. nes Bryner. Six children were born to them, four girls and two hoys, Mona, the oldest hoy died in infancy, Waldo is in the Swiss and German mission at this time, the four daughters, Mildred, Gertrude, Lena and Alien, were here for the funeral, together with their mother and many relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at the Price tabernacle last Wednesday under the direction of Bishop W. E, Stoker. The speakers were Ernest 8. Horsley and Bishop Stoker. The opening prayer was offered by Elder Henry Pace, and the benediction by President Henry G. Mathis. Prof. E. M. Williams conducted the musical numbera. Many beautiful floral offerings adorned the casket and a lalge eorto age followed the remain to the cemetery. KIRKPATRICK PAME8 HIB EXAMINATIONS FOR ANNAPOLU Word that he had successfully passed the entrance examinations for the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Md., was received last week by Charles Buster Kirkpatrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Kirkpatrick of 8nnnyaide. He ia to report on Jnne 20th. As president of hia class, young Kirkpatrick graduated from the Carbon eonntv high school in May 1926. He took a leading part in athletics at the school, and was of the football, basketball and track teams. the According to football critics he beat lineman ever developed here, and waa a member of the state champion ship team of 1924 that tied with the Latter-da- y Saint University. He played guard position in basketball and was a sprinter and hurdler in track. He also held numerous positions in the student body organization, and wan on the staff of the school paper and yearbook. Buster, in the summer of 192S, attended the citizens military training eamp at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoi The past school year he ha- - attended a coaching school fur Afilkapoiis examinations at Columbia, Mo. Kirkpatrick received his apnointment to the naval academy from Congressman Don B. Colton. He will leave Price about Jnne 13th, this next Monday, for Annapolis, where he will undergo his physical examination before entering . Members of the Price Rifle elub, which was organised a few months ago as a unit of the National Rifle association, are making good progress and some riflemen are being Hutchison 1918. in area. October, Says the developed. expert map of the South The rifle range is one of McGee John Tribune: is Oklahoma W. the Okla., Daily Tulsa, the beet in thia section of the atate, geologist from Eufala, who first mapped the structure of the Tex- consisting of 200, 300, 600 and 600-as Panhandle oil field along Dixon Creek in 1918. His maps inranges. It is located about a dicate favorable oil prospects at the point where the Gulf company Jard mile north and west of the eity drilled the first discovery well. With his partners. Holmes and cemetery. Telephone connections beMcllroy, he had already drilled a well before the Gulf was started, tween the targets and shooting pits but drilling troubles in the hole ruined the test. The partners drill- is a feature of the equipment There an two double targets accommodating ed their first good well after the Gulf discovery. four riflemen at a time on one range. The government furnishes ammunition to the members at cost and has CHILD TAILS FROM BRIDGE, DROWNS IN RIVER already given two JO calibre Spring-fielrifles to the elub. It is planned to equip the range with a small-bor- e outdoor range. . CASTLE GATE, June 8. After a ANNUAL AIL CLUBS EVEN? L is president and Bert the institution. search lasting nearly thirteen hours, 18 OBSERVED HERE Reed, secretary, of the organization, the body of little Jay Allen Oldroyd which bouts seventy-tw- o members. WEDNESDAY BALL GAMES AND was. recovered from Price river today BAND CONCERTS Price Kiwania elub held its regular Ths initiation fee is $5.00, including about a quarter of a mile below where meeting last Monday night simultan- ths first years dues, and after that he tumbled into the stream last night eously with meetings of all Kiwania the dues are $2.00 a year. Already Plans for a baseball game in Pries More than two hundred men from the clubs in the United States and Cana- over 10,000 rounds of ammunition every Wednesday afternoon have been towns of Castle Gate, Helner and Price da, the occasion being' tlie'qpening of have been fired and many of the mem- perfected, according to L. R. Bills, bers are becoming quite proficient at manager of the Price elub of the Eastwere busy all night and this morning the International e 1 waa and the sport. it held only at the now stream, ern Utah Baseball league. Merchants being dragging after the water had subsided after be- servance of thia of the eity are heartily in favor of the NEW BUSINESS BUILDING TO BE reser- an annual enatom movement and are eontribnting liber ing turned off at the Scofield AT PRICE ERECTED voir that the body was recovered at tion. The program was given during ally, to the fund to make it possible the zero hour, 7:15 to 7:30 o dock. 9:15 oclock thia morning. to have the games. In order to attract busi- a Construction of a one-stor- y Oldroyd, son of Vernon E. and A Kiwania song and a paper on'lCF' large number of people to these evJayAnn-May Oldroyd, would have wania ideals sent out to the elnbs from ness block adjoining (he Braly build- ents the eity will do all in its power Lola been 4 years old June 20th, last night the headquarters of the organization ing on Eut Maimetreet at Price was to provide entertainment for the eamp The city was playing with some other children formed the principal part of the pro- announced last .week by N. B. Braly visitors on Wednesdays. around a temporary foot bridge that gram. Speaking on Zero Hour,1 by of Paso Robles CajjL, who was here. wimming pool will be turned over 10 the had been built across the river in Ray Deming pointed ont that more Contract for tkfisMw structure was all outside people each Wednesday could than a hundred thousand Kiwaniana let to IsLR Fullmer for approximate- free of charge. Visitors are also urgupper end of town so miners cross to No. 3 mine. He climbed ont were assembled all over the two coun- ly 88000A Work is to begin immed-iatdyT- ed to taka advantage of the eity that the building may be for picnica and outings. Tentative onto the flimsy structure and lost his tries at the same time. An interesting cur- talk on How to Be a Good Kiwani-- m rushed to completion as quickly as balance, falling into the rivw, the plana are to have a hand concert as was given by 0. K. Clay. Mrs. I. possible. Braly purchased thirty feet an added afternoon or evening atrent of which is quite rapid at that point. The childs body was brought 8. Evans rendered two numbers, Judge of property just west of the present traction on inch days. George B. Parker, a member of the building which hears hia name. The to the Wallace ft Harmon mortuary is Provo drib and a guest of the evening new block will accommodate two store he his Beside parents Price. at brother. The congratulated the local men on their spaces. survived by a year-ol- d SanCenterfield, to sent he will enterprise in building the new athletbody Heart Trouble Fatal to Young Lady NOOSE TO FROLIC AT PARK and ic field for the high school. services funeral pete county, for Well Known Locally. Moose will of Carbon lodges county burial. D RAILROAD TO BASIN WILL Uge their annual picnie and frolic at Funeral services for Elvira Silvugnl, ON OIL FRAGIADAKIS ENTERS PLEA OP City Park here next Sunday, June The affair ia daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 12th,' it ie announced. NOT GUILTY TO CHARGE Thera are still hopes for the build- open to the pnblie and everyone ie in- P. O. Silvagni, former residents of thia city, bnt now residing at 1327 Mike Fragiadakis, 33, 'leaded not ing of a railroad through the Uintah vited to attend. The Moose organimnr-d- r Basin from the Salt Lake City end, sations have scheduled a dance to be Michigan avenue, 8alt Leke City, was of first degree a to charge guilty held here last Tuesday. Miss Silvagwhen arraigned last Monday before according to Julian Bamberger, presi- given at the Annum pavilion in Helper the Electric Rail of dent on the Bamberger peace, Saturday night to raise money for ni died Thursday night, June 2d, at justice of J W. nammond, road company and head of the inter- a hand which u to furnish a concert the family home following an illness ofStyhan the killing with charged ests who have applied to the interstate at the picnie. Sports of all kinds and of two months from heart disease. She Kapokis at the Clear Creek boarding dis- commerce commission for a certificate various the to over bound competitive races and games waa a student of the East Side high was He house. line. Uintah the to the build - Prizes donated by school The body was prepared at the at will come features.Bamberger be to up trial trict court, his distnet returned to Salt Lake City Tuesday merchants from all parts of the coun- ODonnell mortuary, and was on view September term in the Seventh re-- from a months trip to the East and ty will he given to winners of con- at the chaperthere Saturday and Sunhere. Fragiadakis -- -- arrested he with met railroad afofficials where tests. will bo given free to day. The remains were enipnd hen a Balloons almost year eentl.v in California, have in a number of cities. lie said that all children attending. to Monday, and wen on view at Flynn is alleged he crime the ter evadFuneral Home prior to the funeral in the He 1926. Colo., developments Rangely, 22, committed on May As a usual thing a woman worries whieh was held at Notn Dams ehunh g oil field, when oil waa neentlyln:-g-dised arrest hv dyeing his hair and as much about wrinkles coming into under direction of the Monsignor A. his looks. His aopre-o- n covered, will determine in a her face as her husband does about F. GiovannonL Interment waa in the whether not road measure or the is from communicating resulted the vanishing of the hair on his dome. Price City cemetery. built. countv. this iu friends with d er . ' ran ao . ' ELVIRA SILVAGNI DE-PEN- other-changin- e ' |