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Show let covering the oil field a as sonn as further n-1 able informati n cull b ' obtained and that the clu'i v o :1. spare no efforts to give, this Important resource re-source of the stato the prominence It I deserves. OIL DEPOSITS . ARE DISCUSSED Commercial Club Committee Investigating Inves-tigating Large Fields in Southern South-ern Utah. That the oil fields or Utah are one of our richest resources was fully proven at a meeting of tho Commercial Commer-cial club's comni'ltce on oil. coal and gas l.cid last evening and attended by representatives from iv?aily aJI of the ell districts wlth'.n the slate. The San Juan oil field was represented repre-sented by W. P. Dancer of Bluff. F. V. Fodr.sh, F F. Jack eon rod P. M. Croo-pir Croo-pir The Emery county fielj was represented rep-resented by II. A Pitts. C M. Lang and J. F Turner and Uic Spring Valley Val-ley oil fields of Wyoru:ng and the T 1 11-tali 11-tali fields of Utah were represented by A. V. Taylor and Joseph H. Richards. Rich-ards. Mr. Bcdfish. Mr. Cropper and Mr. Dancer all spoke of the wonderful re-velopments re-velopments In the nan Juau field, whirh already has eleven producing v. ells with a capacity of about 30ou barrels per day. The -e gentlemen cwlled attention to the fact that practically prac-tically all of these wells were owned by California pi oplf and that with one exception. Utah mpttal is without represent alien. Mr. Pitts made an tresting talk about 1 ho Emery county fields where he claimed was found tao second largest larg-est oil cropping in the world iho largest being In Russia. J. H. Rkhaids of the Pittaburg-S.rlt La.k Oil company, said that while most of his Interests were In Wo-nilng, Wo-nilng, be had visited nil of the Utah fields and was prepaicd to state that the undeveloped oil resources of this state were greater than those found anywhere In the west. May Employ Engineer. The s"ggestlon was made that somo dls'ntere-ted and rellarde engineer of national reputation should be employed employ-ed to make a report upon all of these fields so that Intending Investors could secure unprejudiced information. A committee consisting of C. W. Fi field, J. II. Richards and A. E. H Peterson was appointed to gather additional ft?-ures ft?-ures and reporl upon the feasibility of employing an engineer ror the purposa suggested In conclusion. President Joy If. Johnson assured the gentlemen pres ent that the C0mmerri.1I club jiuldlcity bureau would be glal to issue a panipu |