Show LARGE URGE OIL POOL 01 r I Mr Editor- Editor Iron County Record Cedar City Utah Dear Sir I have hae been requested by many people of Utah to send to your paper an article explaining somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what bout about tho the history developement ment and hopes of tho the Virgin Oil Company And hence this letter Some seven seen years yearn ago the Virgin Dome Oil Company in on the most favorable place on what is known as the Dome This Dome is one of ot the three large domes In the great St. St George Basin The well was begun the upon recommendation recommendation recommendation rec rec- of a man by the name of l and another by name of Brush Drush both of whom ate are well known and reliable geo geologists of wh who came well rec- rec commended Since they exported the field there have hae been nearly tw U. U th L twenty nty u. u oer t geologists pass favorably favorably favorably favor favor- ably upon this field It is well known that where we are drilling we are aro in the Pennsylvanian Line formation identical with those great oil fields of Pennsylvania Pennsy which have produced ed cd such great abundance of oil for years It is the same formation a ay that in which The West Mid Oil Company Company Company Com Com- pany recently struck their great two thousand barrel Gusher lusher I at Moab The Virgin Dome Company has haa passed passed passed pass pass- ed through one bed of wax was wasat at a depth of 1500 feet and at feet depth it passed through quite a productive black oil shale carrying a 11 heavy yield of base oil oU From the feet level there has been oil showings all of the way The well Is now down to a depth of f feet The superintendent reports that when drilling on the bottom was dis discontinued continued for a while the sands sand were werl becoming looser more porous and the showings of both oil oU and gas were increasing We feel as confident that we are near to one of the largest oil oU beds bed I in the world as we do that we ex ex- I Up to date the Virgin Dome Oil Company has had as little newspaper newspaper news news- I paper publicity as any oil company in the world But Dut now that those good people who have stood by the u L management so loyally loyally 9 95 Ot know what has been dons dOM wo feel that we can gladly and with tome some de degree degree degree de- de gree of satisfaction announce what we wc h have ve accomplished It ha has hai been quite a task to sink Ink this great w Will well n nto to such a depth When tho the company l began drill ing it had to pass through gh soma sorno cb Gb hundred feet of the hardest kiml of or limo stone A bit was w fastened i 1110 ito the hole hols which le n a job 0 of over nine months at ono oho tin In At other times s y wo havo have had haddis hadis dis is happenings of nature nature na na- ture turo until today wo we have havo about roach roach- ed cd the tilo great ward reward which we wo f feel feil l positive is b 13 there thero not many f fact jot ct away V The management just jusS now is Ie 3 ram 1 ing out tho the hol hole from the foot level le on down and lib also drilling out some ome pipe which was w cut off oU in order to draw out tho the cas casing I and make the hole larger This will not take many weeks and with the tho hole halo sufficiently large to run th tho thu eight inch bit it will not take long to roach reach the productive pro sands which lie ilo beneath There can be no no doubt that we are in an oil formation for the reason that oil Is being bailed out with the ballings at every baling of the well Our own people little realize what a great oil boom will mean to Iron and Washington Counties Neither do they realize what the promoters and ard stockholders of the company will reap when they do strike the oil and re receive re- re the benefit of their investment For further inquiry please write to Arthur F. F Miles Cashier of the tho Bank of St. St George who is the secretary secretary secretary sec sec- and treasurer of the com pany Sincerely Yours Wm B. B Higgins' Higgins |