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Show INITIAL SHIPMENTS TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS The first shipment of equipment tor tne new refining plant at Virgin, Utah, for ithe Gustoveson Oil company com-pany is loaded and reaoy to go tor-ward. tor-ward. This shipment consists o two large capacity first-run crude stills, which will be immediately installed on reaching the oil held, the concrete con-crete foundaiions have been previ ously completed. Another shipment for the refinery, consisting or seeand-runstills, seeand-runstills, or steam stills, was consigned con-signed Wednesday of the present week. This shipment will be followed follow-ed by agitators, or scrubbing plant, and other required machinery, which will be shipped out the first part of next week. A carload of piping, several sev-eral condenser boxes, run-off tanks and other appurtenances will soon follow the two cars of fire brick to line the stills will also be sent out shortly. The Gustaveson people are making mak-ing every possible effort to speedily complete the new refinery plant, as it is understood that the demand for Utah gasoline made from Utah crude oil is becoming insistent in the south end of the seate. During the week the Gustaveson Oil company completed its No. (i well, which is reported to have an initial oil flow equally as large as the No. 3, which on a pump test showed an average of from 72 to 8 5 barrels of oil per day. No. 6 hole has not yet been systematically tested and it is believed that when this test is made, the new well may prove even a greater producer than present oil showing indicates. It is known that plans are now maturing ma-turing for the installation of ample oil storage tatiks at Virgin. At present pres-ent the Gustaveson people have every available source of oil storage filled to overflowing. There will be storage tanks built for 300 barrels of gasoline gaso-line at. present and this storage capacity ca-pacity will soon be si'eppcd up to ' 1.000 barrels as new wells are1 brought in and production increased. As field development progresses thej company plans to materially increase refning capacity, wliieb nitty be done by merely adding additional first anil , s" ond run stills- - Mineral Review. A |