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Show VIRGEN DOME OIL ' I HAS FINE SHONK I Prospects for I'.ig Field in Dixit M at Early Date Are MoHt H Promising. H FORMATION PRONOUNCED H PERFECT BY EXPERT; H Rig is Now on the (.round and Drill H ing Will Commence Within Ne H Few Days, President Craham i H the Com a in Announces. H Mr. W. J. (Irah.-im, president of tl U Virgen Dome Oil Co., owning x H acres of choice oil lands in the Di H field, which is to be extensively deve H oped shortly, accompanied by M H Gordon Whitehead, is spending a d H or two in Cedar City and is displayir H a large- relief map of this very pror. H ising section at the Cedars Hotel. H Mr. Craham, who is an old and au ..H cessful oil operator, is most enthu , H iastic over the formation nnd indir. ' M tions for u big oil field in the regit fl of the Virgin River, embracing tl M entire basin tilled us the Wash in H ton field, nnd extending from Bloon H ington on the southwest to the he; H of 1'ergatory on the northeast. Tl U formation, according to a number H experts who have looked over the fiel H is ideal from every standpoint. Tin H have the outer und inner escarpment -B the well defined domes which can tl ll l in- well in-llino in :. mill. II Uli VI oil reservoirs, and according to tl' H testimony of old timers who workc irrigation projects there in the carl -U settlement of the country, the eart M and shale in these domes is heavil 'M charged and impregnated with oil an M gas, which nearly uftixiatcd the worl M ers when they were ruting a tunnc , for a canal through one of them. M Mr. Craham states that the con M puny has a first -class rig bought an H paid for, which is on the ground ai '"H ready to commence drilling the; fin M well. That they have the money i the bank to pay for the work, and thi H they are merely giving southern Utn U people all opportunity to share in M small way in the proceeds which ai M bound to come as hoc- as oil is struel H A Conservative Company. M The Virgin Dome Oil Compuny ; M incorporated for 1,000,000 shares 1 H stock having a pnr value of 10c. pi . shun-, and there are 800,00(1 shares c SB the stock remaining in the treasur M It is a very exclusive corporation, an H only a small amount of the stock I H being offeted to the public. As sot, H as the first well is struck, which shoul fl be within a very few weeks now, H will be off the murket entirely. There has been no stock used fi promotion purposes and no uppropr I ation for advertising or salesmen. fl Mr. (iraham is president of the con I pany and J, E. Craham is serretar- M puu.v .100 !. i. wiminin is sctieitti m T. O. May is superintendent of dril ing. It is i . p. ii t e.i that practically the prominent men of St. Oeorge ar vicinity are interested in the con pany, and quite a little of the stock M being placed locally. If an oil fie' proves good there is more money imn quickly in oil than almost an thin I else, and should the test well soon t be sunk by this company reveal tl M presence of a large deposit it w M in. ike southern Utah boom ai nothii H else could. V Developments will be awaited wi I ill great deal of interest. Certain1 ! the indications as shown by the reli map look good for a large and rii field, and the fact that oil in comme ' cial quantities have already been ol tained from the Virgin field a fe miles above this valley tends to ii I crease the chances of it succeeding. W u u |