Show WES westphal PUSHING OIL development gus westphal is here again from salt lake where lie has haa been coffering con fering with his chiefs on oil oil development in ill millard county tho the nature of his present mission to fillmore is ia not divulged but lie he let it be known that lie is not nov on the business of signing up more leases lie he has taken leases during the last few months on a 1 I good many thousands of acres adjacent to kano kandah h meadow fillmore kidmore and holden but lie he the field sufficiently tied up to justify dri arh diug operations by his corn company panN tit t the present time it 14 inti anti mated by mr air westphal that no lit attempt will be made to sign u ul more territory the themselves chow i 1 I greater disposition to tu co t u operate his compa com pai y does not care to risk riak tile the en orious expense of initiating arillia drilling operations oie rations in here unless the bield is t aly y tied up to make inake them reasonably secure against outside invasion ill in case they should strike oil in commercial quantities during the past few months mr air westphal lias worked assiduously to tic up ill the field for his company and lie has taken leases on oil an enormous acrea g hut but there is still enough land held out by owners to make outside invasion formidable af after the original company might lia have ve spent a lew few millions ot of dollars dollar in testing out tile the field it is just this sittia situation tion makes it absolu necessary that the people got get behind the movement ont to unify tile field and unless this is done development of the lat ent oil resources of the county jay ay be deferred indefinitely J cause of his extensive experience eri ence in drilling in ill millard county mr westphal is convinced eliat arte contour of tile the counie indicates vast reservoirs reservoir 5 of subterranean oil ile he has carefully preserved the logs of the various wells lie he has drilled in ili this section and these have been submitted for the examination ol of the best petro lium geologists in fit the country who ill all agree that thai this should be a most promising field this etitel enterprise c is said to be backed by bradish cap ital to the extent ot some to oi 01 three hundt hundred ed of millions million 4 of do lars and every LISSUL assurance is ia given that when operations ire are fill illy ally begun it will be on oil ili an enormous 1 scale it is not intended to let one test well suffice but rather it is planned to begin the simultaneous drilling of it a nuin her ber of test wells in diverse localities employing ponderous macli mach anery capable of penetrating great depths if need be of course as things stand now ill all of these thin thins things s hinge upon tie ti e abilia bof mr westphal phal to tie up tile field for liis his company lie he seems to be of the opinion that thai lurther progress is dependent laria laib lcy uloa a more operation cooperation co a the hie part of thc jhc people |