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Show UTAH MEN SEARCH FOR WYOMING OIL One of the picturesque mining operators op-erators of Utah and eastern Nevada In a. ; Burritt, wbo about a year P4jo was interested in the Ohana and Amalgamated properties In the Osce ola district The following from the Kemmerer Camera of December 17 locates Mr Burritt over In Wyoming, where he is now Interested in oil operalions The Camera says: That renewed activity is to begin in the La Barge oil fields is evident after the meeting held in Kemmerer last Saturday evening, when a lease was entered into by the La Barge Oil company, with J. B Bariani. who has Interested C. B. Stranahan. New York capitalist, in this field, and I the work of drilling another well Will commence before February 1. Mr Btraaanati Is represented here by A I C, Burritt an oil exnert who will be general manager of the work, ano the gentleman who made the inestl nations of the field, which has retult-cd retult-cd In the present lease. The large standard rig of I he Sublet Sub-let Oil company, v.hlch Is located Just east of Kemmerer. has been purchased and will be moved to La Barge at once, where work will begin on the La Barge Oil company's land, where the oil seeps are located. The lease Is entered into on a royalty basis and arrangements have been made with plenty of money to back up the work and push It to a full prospect ef the property. Mr Burritt is greatly impressed with the proposition, but estimates a well 800.0 feet deep will have to be driven to get results The indications indica-tions are all good, and he believes that flowing wells will be found. For sev eral years this has proven a very Interesting territory, and two wells which have been lost brought good Indications In-dications of oil. One developed an artesian flow of water, while the oth er brought gas which, when alighted, would shoot high Into the air The moving the outfit to the fields has already commenced and the work of the company will be watched wltd Interest. OH seeps and the pres ence of oil In the streams of that vl ttnlty are indications that the oil Is there and will sooner or later be lo cated. A party of Salt Lake capitalists vis lted Kemmerer on Saturday of last week In the special car of Mr. Man son of the Shurt Line. The party Included W. W. Armstrong, presldet.t of tho National Copper bank; Uavi 1 Keith, president of the Silver King Mining company, a Salt Lake million aire: Frank J. Westcolt, secretary to ex-Senator Thomas Kearns: E. L 1 Manscrti and A. B. Stevenson. The party came In ou No f al noon, and v.as taken at once to Frontier, where they visited the mines of the Kern ' merer Coal company, and during the i afternoon left with a special engine ! for Pocatello. Mr Queals accom ranylng them. The object of tbe visit has not been made public, but It Is possible that th lslt of these people may mean much to Kemmerer |