Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-08-29 | Page 6 | Clark Looks into Oil Field

CI nJ I S OIL OI FIELD Salt Snit l Lake s s' Expert s Glow How Jn lug ing Account of at Indications In Jim a 3 private atC letter leler to D. D II H. of this cl city J. J Ross Rosa Clark of ot the Salt Lake o Rout tells of having Sll investigated the Virgin oil field with 01 satisfactory r r. r suits The Salt Lathe Route sent ent D. D H. H PCt Petty letty an un oil 01 cX export rl into the tIme field flold fela and he has returned rel with as ns glowing accounts account of or the tho oil indications as ns 01 any amm that have been I given Mr Ir Petty Is reported re rc- re- re ported portel as s saying From rom all H indications there i is la an nn Im Im- Im- Im immense mense bo body 3 of oC oil 01 underlying thia thi por pot don tion of Utah h and when once opera opera- tons ar are begun it will wi without without- doubt doub rapidly develop into loto one of ot the groat- groat t t oil 01 districts ever worked There i IB is good water there und anti the tho point where whore this first well weH has been heen sunk lies about les 95 miles mies from the Salt Sal Lake road This oil 01 land lies les in Washington count county In Jn th the southern portion of or the state I would it Is potton 8 say a about out 50 by 00 thO miles In Most of ot it is des de des rt rt lond land but hut there Is some aeme that Is IB me ff fertile an and farms owned by ly the tIre Morn Mor- Mor for for- n rons rons ons are arc found here anti and there Time The he settlers are nil all al Mormons and somo some of lC them have ha for Cor months been fn tho the seepages which are many and nn plainly seen