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Show MILFORD V ALLEY IS " TO BE OIL PRODUCER FOUR GEOLOGISTS OF ABILITY AND EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE SAY THIS SECTION SHOULD HAVE. TEST FOR OIL AND GAS--ALL AGREE ON REGION NORTH OF MILFORD, UTAH Geologists and experienced oil men declare this region to be overflowing over-flowing with promise for the production pro-duction of petroleum with onu mind they characterize this locality as posessing the geology and essential essen-tial structure necessary to the ex-si tence of a real oil field. As far a.s we are able to learn this field was first examined during the period just preceding the world war, by a prominent Salt Lake geologist, geolo-gist, who, we are informed, gave a very favorable opinion of and recommended recom-mended a test well. Again, about five years ago, Herman Her-man Kaminska, living seventeen miles northeast of Milford was drilling dril-ling a well for water. After reaching a depth of several hundred feet Mr. Kaminska evidently found something which surprised him. The next thing the neighbors knew Mr. K. had a cap screwed down tight on his casing and was in Texas interviewing his two brothers-in-law who are oil well drillers. A leasing compoign was undertaken un-dertaken but financial reverses and the vicissitudes of business made k imposs ble for these people to come to Utah. It is whispered that Herman knows more about this region than ho cares to toll; anyhow the presence of oil there is more than a fact with him it is a religion. During March and April, 1924 William H. Sherrod, of Los Angeles, who is a geologist of many years experience ex-perience in oil regions of the Southwest, South-west, made a very thorough geological geologi-cal examination of the Milford Valley, Val-ley, also of the Virgin field. This work included an extensive examination examina-tion of the Grand canyon of the Colorado Colo-rado as the depth and thickness of -.(rata there would have a bearing on conditions in this valley. E. L. Graves of Los Angeles, came in September, 1924 and after the usual us-ual geological "once over" found things to his liking. Then, last, but not least, Mr. A. G. P.urrott of Salt Lake sojourned geologically geo-logically in this locality and while we are not at liberty to quote him, we understand he has placed his stamp of approval on Milford Valley. We learn from reliable sources that Salt Lake City and Ea tern capitalists capital-ists are at present having ; n extended extend-ed geological examination and contour con-tour maps made of the Milford Valley Val-ley wilh the view of locating drilling sites. The slates of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico which up to this time have not occupied the "spot light" in the "oil world" will the coming year be thoroughly romb-i romb-i ed and tested for oil and gas ns no states have been heretofore. I Wo quote th efollowing from Cob Thomas, a leading geologist, of Globe ; Arizona: "The last five veers has 'shown greater advancement in the science of oil geology than the preceding pre-ceding fifteen y-- - New fact . and data have been brought on to enable the operating oompani s to eliminate the hazard in prospecting for oil as never before. "Types of structure found in oilvc countries which preduc' commercial accumulations, which years aeo w-r ea-e e,l over, ill he examined and icsied. "Formations that w : p.-sod . v. r with the l ei ef that t y ,-..t;l . no. hold hydro-ce.rbor.s in the:-. w:l! le drilled, in these states this v ;.r: (or I the reason that they have proven prolific producers in other parts. "There are more 'Scientific men of the geological fraternity working ih these four states at the present time than have ever before been assembled assem-bled in any territory. "There have been sent here and have been brought here by operators who have the prime object in mind of 'GETTING OIL AND PROFIT FROM THE EARTH AND NOT FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BUY STOCKS,' The last two years have proven to the promoters that if they cannot get, oil they cannot keep on promoting. "The layman usually hears of domes and anticlines as the only pro-j pro-j ducing geological structures. The I modern geologists today are searching search-ing for many other types of folded i structures- that have been proven by precedent in the many places to trap ' or allow for the deposition of o l in mother sands and migratory sands, j "Structures such as monoclines, terraces, fissures, plunging anticlines cnUclinal noses, structures sealed and closed by faults and regions where lensed sands are tilted, all will be carefully considered and possibly tested." . "Wilh gasoline being consumed at Ihe rate of approximately nine billion gallons per annum, what is mors alluring and perchance fabulously . profitable than the searching out, geo .logically examining, acquiring and testing of promising oil fields?" I Of lale years the oil prospector, or "wild-ratter." as he is . frequently called, has been seriously trying to find some means- of testing for the presence cf oil in a given structure before he drills, and thereby eliminate elimin-ate much of the hazard that is incident inci-dent to drilling for oil in an untested untest-ed field. For a number of months past Attorney C. T. Woodbury has bee.ii investigating the work of a young roan living at Charter Oak, California, who seems to he able, through the use of simple instru- f ment.s, to determine whether a given structure contains oil. The following is a statement of Mr. Woodbury's observations, ob-servations, concerning the work of . this young man: "During the latter part of December, Decem-ber, 1924, at the solicitation of some i friends at Los Angeles, I made a trip to Lo sAngeles and on to Bowie, '. Arizona, for the purpose, primarily, of witnessing and investigating the tests and work of Glen Johnson, of Charter Oak, California. Mr. Johnson I is a young man of nineteen year? of ago. perfectly normal in every respect, res-pect, and of good, average intelligence. intelligen-ce. His father, who has ben of great assistance to him in the development of the instruments ' he uses and the gift he seems to possess, is a very fine man, and I believe, from all that i 1 could learn of him, a first rate geologist. geo-logist. "At Bowie, Arizona, the Bowie Oil Leasing Syndicate have a large hcre-rg hcre-rg under oil lease on a structure, pronounced by six reputable geolo-jg'sls geolo-jg'sls to be one of the largest and i most promising structures in "West- em Amr:ca. It. was at Bowie I first met Mr. Johnson and had the opportunity oppor-tunity of witnessing his oil tests. These tests are most convincing. I havi seen a great many of them marc cu the Bowie structure and have not the slightest doubt but that they are mie tests. I have seen Mr. Johnson make tests producing wells in the California oil fields, and the resr-lls correspond absolutely with the l . suits obtained from tests made on the Bowie structure, except that the results from tests made on the latter structure were more pro-' pro-' nouneed and indicate that produc- tioii will be much greater from wells dr. lied there, than from present pro-' pro-' duction from the California wells that were tested. j "While the Bowie structure has . been passed upon most favorably by geologists, yet the officials of tnu Bowie Oil Leasing Syndicate aru placing their greatest reliance on the Johnson tests, because they thorough ly believe that Mr. Johnson has actually ac-tually told them that the oil is there and in large quantities, while the geologists have only, and can only, tell them that the oil ought to he there. Furthermore, they have evidenced, evi-denced, their faith in the verity of these tests by actually drilling oper-at oper-at oils. On February 23rd they spud- (led in their te.st well with a best type standard rig and are working three crews of drillers. Judging from the ' latest direct information rece'ved by the writer from the well, the hole should be down no without 7nn feel. I I "Mr. Johnsoe's lests -will eventual- ly be explained on a scientific basis, j Recently Daniel G. Chilson, formerly j of the Bureau of Mines, University of i Arizona, perfected an instrument ny the use of which he has been able to locate hidden bodies of ore by radio j signals. A similar devise has been per ! fected in Germany. The American device de-vice is briefly described in an article arti-cle published in Ihe February issue of the Popular Mechanics magazine, I at page 1 89. Physicians who have ex-. ex-. ".mined Mr. Johnson stale that his body is charged to an unusual degree j with static electricity. Chilson's instrument in-strument has demonstrated that the 'phenomenon we call radio is in the earth, as well as in Ihe air. Undoubtedly, Un-doubtedly, it is some unusual bod ly jeondilion or aitribnfo. possessed by exceedingly few persons, that onab-' onab-' les Mr. Johnson lo test for ib pie -once of oil in the earth. Who will ilhat radio is not the active principal :n t he se tst s ? i ' "On two different occasions I had the opportunity of watching Mr. John-on make his tests. Last Dee ne her. myself ,.nd about fifleen ti,,,-men ti,,,-men were with him for two days in the field on the Howie ami Wilcox structures in Arizona. Kaeh of us oh-rv"l his work with the elo -est attention. The tests ar (. simpl-that simpl-that there is absolutely nn possibility of their tV-ing faked without dete,-- t'cn. I pn-itivelv I-now tha' tte results re-sults Mr. Johns'. n c-et- ar" not ob-'ained ob-'ained through ?om physical '-fieri on his part, or by ;. ' v trirV Th-- et.lv :-'' real v. thn ipo r-snle- ,!,-'-ined fr'-m tis vo-ir- laan' 'e ' -.- - cmiM t.v wmio-Mr." in ('- cart'. ' ) r t'-.-n ' i! 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