Show WIDE PUBLICITY IS GIVEN OIL FIELDS that price people are correct ai i I 1 t 1 ir a estl ornate mat of the importance of the ad sia jacent oil field fields li to evidenced by the following article in lait last sunday sundays trib unet una the year juit just started will witness the tho through ough testing of the oil fields of utah before the year ha has run it its coure course the possibility of developing oil pools and formations to a commercially T krofl profitable I 1 able point will be definitely le tie ter mIned what abat the story of the yead ill bring tring f forth orth none can tell at present but this much ean can be aid said to lay oil compan les its of great magnitude member members of the standard oil family important inde pendent renden tx ani an I 1 in n I 1 many andl visuals and group groups of hae bae determined beyond all peradventure pera denture of a doubt to I 1 wh whatever ateer money man e y may way be necessary to tidd find out whether the possible oil field fields of utah can con be made to produce the commodity of which the tb modern industrial world Is i in tuch such need possibilities of wide estat to discuss the possibilities 0 of f what a big discovery cf of oil would mean to the state would be to begin castle guilding tuil Tull ding without bounds yet uch such a discovery would bring true eo so many of thoe those acry ery dream that sober thought may find it difficult to conceive them lor I 1 or many year years it has been the am of many men vitally itally interested in the he development of the great na an tural resources of the state to try out these of oil bisot at a lit tie money hai has been spent in the year years gone b by hardy prospectors but it remained for 1920 to op or tl 0 a e way y to the greatest possible develop ment men a it ani a III it remains for 1021 1921 to gee ace that this test testing ing is prosecuted to the end necessary to determine finally just what hat utah can or cannot add to the tile world Is store of precious pre ilous oil nung in many fields there are generally speaking five principal fields in which tests will be mode during the next few months the san rafael swell locate I 1 for the mot mst part in emery county offers probably the largest contiguous area upon uron which filings f have I 1 ten made in great num bers the ban lan district is a also so one of tl III e most of the tile oil formations which will vill I 1 le c bestel price in carbon county the heart of at the coal mining ir Is about fiat miles from the main formation but to the north of the san rafael proper is the hui hington dome tl rec ree miles from the town of huntington A rig is now in the process of erection on the huntington dome anil and bulte Ipos pom illy milly this formation may be one of the first to me actual drilling opera eions residents keenly citizens of the tile section of the state where the oil oll seeking activity is een cen now are showing a keen interest ill in the march of affairs the farmers and other local people are aye baing cm em loyed to some extent at present in the shipping of drilling machinery mach luery sup plies and other things to the sit sites of possible welle wella the communities are er in chary for as much of the tile new business as pos sille green river rier interests In teresta and the price leaders are the principal contestants at pres arit and from both place plates much w ark rk has been done on the improvement ani construe tion of roads leading to the fields where the drilling will probably be done increasing road 11 price people hav have constructed conet rutted a road and bridge through the buckhorn draw to the ban san rafael arver and are ing that stream tr to facilitate operations from that point further south in the vicinity of tie tl e circle cliffs formation second largist probably among tie fields fid Is which will be tried shortly short lyp a similar interest la Is leing icing shown more remote from rail transportation and face facell I 1 with greater natural difficulties a road thirty hirty t tout four miles long is being built from aca lante to the circle cliff cliffs in addition to tj the tile rig going up near two other rigs tre lre nearly read t to start work one on ohio oil company ground in IL the circle ell cliffs formation another toward the north erly end of the san haftel swell snell arop rop er on ground which john E fennerty len lenner nerty an eastern oil man holds the lease to prospect these two rigs it is sail pal I 1 on good nu au tho dhority rity are nearly ready to begin ac se ual boring many companies Comp nie oe permits the substantial interest int erist ersts which are entering the utah tip f lev Is is indicated by the folk foll wing cIng chiti alt ue male rattle their applications for linnit pro pet ground the ohio oil any the oil company tile midwest oil refining Ile lining company tile carter oil company COmra ity the matador oil company an aal other important corp rations now I 1 engaged in the oil business in many fields the interest int frit irest of themselves them in theae these fie Is is shown by th the a ap ii of nearly 2000 individuals and firms for permits to prospect this estimate estima tp made ly 1 gould D blakely registrar of the salt lake land laud office includes many filinies filin irs 4 by people with out the state A very considerable ma bority of these application applications have been made by utahna numerous applications granted more than a score of applications hae haie already been granted othera others aro being passed upon almost daily by the land office at washington applina tiona have been granted on th tta san ra fael formation to the following har ilar old ellington J A carroll bishop to seph 8 glass cooper anderson charles A quigley david J lemon JL timmons ilizabeth Hl zabeth J NV seely william J tidwell frankie it guthiel Guth lel glenry A al aexander 11 cowe comie I 1 eland leland cowie er net nest cowic cowie william 8 cooper ben den jamin V brown browne bert L miller and J JL L ammon in the circle cliff cliffs formation per miti mits hae lime been granted to M t J 1 goth berg the midwest oil refining eom earn pany the ohio oil company and george E brimmer on the Ca neville awell swell a permit has been issued to john E P fennerty in the san juan country there ere are many bol holdings dings of placer claims under an old law which are said to offer ex cellena pio peete for drilling A num ber of well put awn in fr that district dietr ct from to feet have yielded oil in small what deeper tests will reveal to be determined bat but the deeper test tests will cetta certainly be mode mo de geologist commends formation formations an oil geologist Reo of wide exic ence employed by important interests in eald said the other day that ft tt ere Is t no question lun but that thebo various fields have splendid formation formations the prospect prospects for finding oil are good he eaid said but only the drilling can determine what may actually be found it line las been estimated oti mated that it will cost flom to 15 oooo tu to dig a deep ct test well in many of the alace laces will be explored bat the wella well will be dug lug and they will bo be dug this year the approach of spring means the coming of active operations utah will know before the year Is over if thero there la Is oil in paying quantities beneath these theme favorable structures |