Show I it r WILL ILL REGRET LOST F I OIL OPPORTUNITIES r- r Apathy of Salt Lake Citizens Surprises the i Operators DOZEN DERRICKS IN FIELD Experts Confident It Will Prove Greatest in inI Country I Virgin Oct Nearly Nearly a a. dozen I I great oil boring derricks s are tada today strung alon along North Korth Fork for six miles i and on the western outskirts of oC Vir Vir- gin Several boring outfits are arc on the theroa roa road from Lund station several are In cars there awaiting transportation while whilo not le less than a dozen more have havo been or ordered cred or are in tho the cars Vir- Vir hound bound Before Defore the heavy j I sno snow storms block th tho Black Dlack Rock pass north of oC It Is conservatively con con- estimated there will bo he not less les than 25 5 to 30 machines In actual operation In the new oil field And the they will not be hI confined d to the immediate vicinity of North Fork and and Virgin b by any means One company has already unloaded ed an nn outfit on Little clee creek ten ton miles below bolow Virgin E. E I. I Hastings has one ordered for lor tho the district south of there and tho the InterState InterState Inter Inter- State Oil company of ot LOS Angeles has bus busan hasan an nn outfit on the way Vay for the Forest Pierce country 2 25 miles southwest st of ot Virgin Ir in Vast beds of or shale shalo and oi oil bearing rock similar to those at Virgin but butIn butIn butIn In greater quantities are aro found near Forest FOIe t Pierce while the general character character char char- acter of ot the ground the ground the red sands sand and blue shale found at nt Virgin where where- they hey have struck actual petroleum of ofa ofa ofa a hl high h grade ra o In three places are seen cen in jn this new nev district One Lot Los Angeles concern has nearly acres aCles surveyed ur thereabouts thereabout est ini-est of or Monument roda Today the country countr for many miles mile north and east of Virgin for 40 10 to 5 50 miles and awa away down Into Arizona Is s a forest of or monuments Four Foul little littlestone littlestone littlestone stone monuments as high as a a. gatepost gatepost gatepost gate gate- post or four posts mark the center oja ol oj oli a i section of acres while 1 12 similar simi simi- lur lar ur monuments designate the corners corner of the greater sections Ever since last October or earlier In n fact nearly a a. year ear before oil was wa I struck this on a a. bl big scale was begun Several experienced oil men took tool up un land In this oil belt bell last fall fan and in January of ot this year They told the writer enter toda today that thc were a as sure of oil here then as the were the day tho the first successful well was struck All An unite in predicting that southern Utah will vilI presently show to the world the biggest thin thing in oil fields in the Vest West if It not the 1 biggest In the tho world Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia in fact none of ot tho the oil states have hn the thc surface showing you have ha right here remarked an old oil oil man yesterday Why Vh I am am fairly astounded to see seethe seethe seethe the moneyed men of or Salt Snit Lake practically practically down here hele I cannot und understand It IL The They are letting letting letting let let- ting fortunes slip through h their fin fin- g gort r. r and f oUtside capital Is picking them up Some day day- and It Il is clo close lat l at h hand nd they will wake waIte up to lo find themselves In the position of the foolish foolish fool fool- ish Ih lr Is wi Uio ho o nn nal na-i ailed to put pitt r. r ci j jIn In their thai amps And the man voices the hc theof lIts I of Jt of If old oil 1 m rn mo |