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Show SOUTHERN UTAH IS TO HAVE OIL BOOM Ipava Coalition Oil Company to Start Things In Wayne County. Salt Lake, March 17. With the formation of the Jpava Coalition Oil Company, which filed articles of Incorporation Incor-poration with the county clerk yesterday, yester-day, a start was made toward developing devel-oping the oil lands in Wayne county, that threatens considerable excitement. excite-ment. The company is capitalized at $1,000,000. divided into shares of a par value of $1 each. Of the number or shares 400,000 have been placed in the treasury- The officers are Eugene Grutt, president; presi-dent; C. M. Lane, vice president; C. C. Dunning, secretary and treasurer. Tho officers with Gus II. HirBchtleld and G. T. Bean form tho board or directors. di-rectors. The officers of the company are the firm of Grutt, Dunning & Lane of Rawhide, whose mines In that country coun-try are among the best properties there. For several months they have beou working on the organization ot tho company and acquiring lands in the eastern end of Wayne comity, about eight miles west of tho nearest point on the Green river, and 45 miles south of the town of Green River. The company has acquired the right to several thousands of acres or land and machinery will be ordered at once for tho sinking of wells. Since the appearance of the Grutt peoplo in the oil fields scores ot persons per-sons have been busy in the vicinity locating ground. Charles A. Peet, a Salt LakV? mining engineer, and a party have been in tho fields for several sev-eral weeks looking over the situation. Don C. Robbins, who waB one of the first at the Ipava fields has also located lo-cated some good ground there, it 13 said. Both Mr. Peet and Mr. Robbins have not devoted their entire time to the district about Ipava, but have also gone over to Miller's canyon and up into the Freemont valley. The cntiro country is being prospected for oil as It never was betore. The oil-bearing sands that have been found aro south of the Slnbad country and, from there south there is said to be. every indication of oil in largo quantities. Many Iowa people have lately been in the field and it is said that Mr. Robbins has interested a number of New York capitalists to take a hand. It has been the opinion of oil experts ex-perts that the Uintah basin was at ono time one of the greatest oil basins in Iho United States, if not the world. When the formation of this great oil reservoir was broken by volcanic action ac-tion and other causes. It was decided that tho oil had made its way to lower formations. For years oil men have been figuring where the oil could be tapped within striking distance of the surface. The success attained In exploiting the Virgin river field and the rapidity rapid-ity with which that field was taken up led oil men to branch out In other directions to find oil territory. Recently Re-cently the attention of these have been turned to Freemont valley In Wayne .county. The valley Is formed by tho San Rafael swell, which bends upon itself and shoots off In the direction di-rection of the Henry Mountains, upon the ono side, and an iron-bound reef, which parallels the Colorado river, upon the other. The formation hero is several hundred hun-dred foet lower than the Uintah basin, and forms a cyncllne busin underlaid with sands of the character which absorbs oil. Within eight miles of the Colorado tho oil sands come to tho surface, and it is here that the greatest great-est oil seeps have been encountered that have yet been discovered In the west. Experts who have been on tbe ground are all of the opinion that here will be developed the greatest oil fields in the country. Already locators are flocking into the field. During the past month there have been fully 25,000 acres of land located. There ls a big company of New York men who have Just completed com-pleted locating a large number of claims. California men are now on the ground, taking up territory, and an organization from Des Moines, la., is likewise securing land on which to |