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Show will pump more than two barrels bar-rels a day of this grade of oil will produce more in monetary' returns than a 200 barrel well of fuel oil. It is said that I. C. White, geologist of West Virginia Vir-ginia and advisory geologist to the South Penn Oil company, a subsidiary of the Standard, will come to Juab county and investigate investi-gate as soon as the wells are started. The oil depth there is about 1600 feet. i "We mean business," said Mr. Wheeler. We are going to put a half million into development work and the fact that we put $200,000 into wells here in 1907-1909 1907-1909 is proof that we are out for business. In order to obtain information for the use of the state board of land commissioners in the matter mat-ter of reconstructing the Flatch-town Flatch-town dam, J. J. Sanford and L, W. Jordan, assistant engineers in the loeal office of the United States geological survey,, are making examination of the water wat-er supply condition in the Sevier river. Mr. Jordan is covering the part of the river between the Sevier bridge dam and Lynndyl, while Mr. Sanford is working between Gunnison and Pan-guitch Pan-guitch lake. Will Prospect Juab Oil Fields Again The following from Sunday's Herald-Regublican is indicative of a promise to open up experiments experi-ments again in the Juab county oil fields and also tends to show that oil was encountered in the previous experiments to an extent ex-tent which it is thot it will pay to develop: Oil leases are being signed in southern Juab county by F. J. Wheeler, of Riverside, Cal, and it is expected that drilling of test wells will be started within a short time. Mr. Wheeler represents rep-resents eastern capitalists who propose to experiment in the Juab county fields during the jpring and summer. Operations vvere begun there in 1909 by the San Pedro Oil company and by the Mount Nebo Oil company, jut it is said by those interested that only drillers were employed, that the tools were run below oil depths into water and that the oil, which is of a high gravity, grav-ity, floated off with water. More than $500,000. is to be invested it is announced by Mr. Wheeler, who stated at Nephi this week that if leases are secured secur-ed for 30,000 acres test wells will be drilled. He is there now md has taken leases on the Jhase, Wright, Ingram, Taylor and Schofield farms. A number of other tracts also are under lease. He says five wells are to be sunk at once. A number of persons connected connect-ed with the Salt Lake Route are interested in the Juab oil' fields and it was learned that the Standard Oil interests are connected con-nected in leases taken in the vicinity of Nephi. Telegrams are expected in Salt Lake today giving the details of the amount of money to be expended. When oil development was started in Juab county in 1907 and 1909 test wells were drilled at an expense of $2UO.OO0. A sample obtained was found to be a high paraffme oil running 40.90 in gravity test, while the ordinary ordi-nary fuel oil runs from 13 to 16 in gravity. An oil well which |