Show UTAH'S PROMISE OF OIL 4 SS i v- v t r.-r r. J Hyde No I oil well v va sr t L l' l a Grand County r I Apr AM AMA Wi- Wi A Refinery Mexican Het a Sen Juan County By a Q 0 T. T HANSEN NANSEN Pr President Utah Uth Southern Oil I Company N Utah Uth certain hydrocarbons I IN found nowhere else In the world worM occur and the fascinating search for petroleum pools poola con con- with fair prospects of at sue sue- cn V. V i and Ind are the minerals mineral of which this Ihl elate has baa a monopoly It shares thare VI with a few other stales lUtea such euth rare gate gases as AI n helium nitrogen and aDd carbon dl dl- oxide It I Is I. liberally endowed with petroleum p um ga gas U and asphaltum de- de posits i and are produced produced pro pro- doted la in the basin buln hal turn tum seeps p ou on the north shore bore of or Great Salt Bait Lake Iah tiara have been worked aDd and nd some lome shipments shipment made from them at Ie early as 1890 1990 However the tha larger program ot or exploration for oH ott began blan soon toon after arter February 1920 lUO the date data the tha oil and ond I gas gat leasing leas leu tag ing act was wat approved Drilling for oil Incidentally brought to light unsuspected un suspected gai us as H I Helium a noninflammable non gat III commandeered by tb the U. U 8 Sr S. govern govern- meat ment for aeronautical purposes was vat discerned discovered at Emery county and helium and nitrogen at State Siale Line Grand t count county Carbon dioxide or dry I ice Jc a natural refrigerant was WAI tapped at East Anticline SanJuan San SanJuan SanJuan Juan and Farnham Carbon coun conn- tl tyr ty Petroleum gas was wat discovered at Boundary Butte nutt San SlIn Juan Cisco Grand Orand Ashley Aihley Valley Clay Daggett Danett end and nd Last Lait Chance Chanc Emery County 1 8 Showings of ot oil oU occurred at et can list Hat San Juan county Dig Six Sli Salt Valley Ca Cane e Creek and andI I Crescent Grand Orand county Coat Coal Title flUe Summit Summit Vernal Bench I and Bloomington Wash WashIngton Ington county Commercial use ute it is being made ot of tome some of these resources Dry 1 ice U Sa and marketed Ashley Abley l Vall aU y dome supplies Vernal with natural natura gas gat Mexican Hat lint oil was wat relined refined and sold lold for three years yean eau when hen the supply ran out t f F The Tha first Arst lest tut for oil In Utah probably probably was vat that ot or Damberger and and aDd Mull near the town of Oreen Green river This well was waa drilled about 1891 1191 to a total depth of ot 1000 feet and and U Is reported to have hare developed a small maU flow of ot non Inflammable non I gas gat In 10 beds bed of Morrison aeIn age ae I I. In east central Utah the problem teems seems to be to locate and drill the beaches of an an ancient dent tea sea where the llIe sand lAnd are thick enough to retain retain re re- tain tale the tha oil Those dome dumet which hue have bun been drilled are mostly molly In the theold theold old basin buln far from front Itt It edges edget and hare bare encountered Insufficient sand undo la In southern Utah Ulah exploration hat has not progressed to 10 the stage when the ho character of the deep rocks l t II known but hul such tuch lower strata cor car correlate correlate relate at QI to geological age anti and n with formations which an productive of ot oil all elsewhere In the western and northern areas areal the preliminary stages of ex es have hardly been reached reache Surface study Is le Impeded Impelled by huge desert deposits of an snit It sand anti and Millions of ot barrels of oil are contained In the shale deposits de po posits of northeastern tern Utah plate but no DO processing plants for tor the lion Ion of ot oil Iron shale on an a com corn mercial scale are In operation Unfinished tests leafs operating or suspended Include wells well from to 1980 feet deep In Box fader Elder 1 Summit Utah Washington flag Dag Daggett gett geU Emery ry and Grand Orand counties The Tha operators are ure Leonora 51 M. M M Co Petroleum Co Ltd Diamond Oil Co Arrowhead Petroleum Corp Mountain Fuel Supply Co California Co Cu Ral Ramsey ey Petroleum l Corp Columbia Crude Corp COnI Utah Southern Oil on Co and andI I Equity Oil Co Roughly tour four andone and andone andone one half halt to five Ave Ye million dollars have hava been expended ended in direct prospecting prospect ing lag for fur oil within the state stale Hock asphalt hat has been ben developed near Vernal In county and near In lu Carbon county and used for sidewalks sidewalk and road rond surfacing occurs principally pally path as III lUng flying of ot veins vein In iii shale Operating mines are located near bear Dragon and Myton In ins coun conn- ty IY y Un United It I States Stat Bureau of Mines dines reports sales lilIes of by producers In northeastern northeastern Utah of tons In 1933 valued at a- a and tons In 1 valued 1934 U valued at or mineral minerai I wax deposits era arA found rouM in veins velu similar to 10 those ot or A plant lant for tor mining and processing has haa las been built near Soldier Summit In Utah county This la I. reported Ia-reported to Lo be the only commercialized deposit deposit de de- posit of ot In the tha United States Statu In the campaign ot or development Important expenditures have been made within the It state ate for payrolls and supplies Operative Industries Indus trIos tries have hare been formed for tor marketIng market market- Ing log ca gas and residues Expenditures continue In la the search earch for oil Rentals Rental for leases leue have been paM paid paUto to 10 landowners and to the state Legal Leral and abstract work has baa been handled b by local representatives representative Royalties have hava accrued to land and permit owners The Tha tate stale owns own thousands ot of acres of land tome some ol ot which are almost certain to parti participate it If discovery Is It made b The Tho lease terms lire are workable More than 70 10 percent of ot t f reu ren of ot Utah U le I o owned by the cited Bulled States Slates Under the tha terms ot or the tho leasing law the tha state will participate In all royalty payments for production from federal lands |