Show mm RANCHER STRIKES i OIL IN JUAB fiELD HELD FIELDi i At 43 Feet in Stock Well Wel Gas and Oil Oi Force Aban Aban- 1 I. I r 1 6 News ws of at the first oil 01 strike in 11 th the district was brought to this city yesterday by C. C Overson a well knowli ranchman of that region The Tho oil 01 wa encountered not with a a drill ri but in ir digging a well wel for water nn and and th the strike Is regarded as at not of less leca importance im- im on that account account Mr r. r Overson O says 89 that ut at a poInt three and one half one hal miles mies directly south of Juab station he hc started to dig a n acell awell staton well cell 1 with wih a a view of ot getting for M his stock warmer wat water l' l than thal that with wih which tho they were provided provided- But Butt at th the depth of ot 43 feet oil 01 and gas came int lute into the well In such quantities that he hc wa was to abandon It Il n ao as a 3 well vell fo for water I While there tere Is some water in th the well el the oil 01 is It a 3 great dual doal more moro h In evidence than the tho water he SQ says ant antho and ho lie has hns no doubt that a good flow fow o or of oil 01 could bo be developed at cr very ery shallow depth mo rue incident has had tho the effect o ot of greatly Increasing the th excitement o or of Juab county citizens cUzEns over the pros pros- pi iH ct of ot an Important oil 01 field neld being de d.- d. de- de In Juab valley vaHey TV The They entertain than d do dothe dothe n more doubt on that score the several groups of ot capitalists who on tho ho advice of oil 01 e experts are putting and 1 In iii their money Into land laud Je leases os machinery to thoroughly thoroughly explore c th the tho ground |