Show NATURAL OIL TOL WELL the drill sinkin kinling deeper and deeper each eath day FOR 31 ABE ILE COD GOOD sina line dollars FiD ended i copular subscription to be ogden foertter Fort ter tho the great hammer at the gas and oil well is rapidly forcing the pipe and drill down to bed rock and the gentlemen at the be head ad of the enter prise have veil hell founded hopes that within the nest next few days the goal will be struck and agdens 13 fac willbe tur turina ng future assured assured the drill is now down over feet and is passing through a greasy clay filled with a superior quality of coal and here and there are encountered the pebble e rock a sure indication that oil and gas are near at hand some trouble was experienced with the caving in of the dirt below the end 0 of f the t e P pipe IT but the water bag has been tu turned rn et 1 0 oil and the mud and slush pumped out BO ro that there will be no further difficulty in that line work is being bein prosecuted cited vigorously and soon scon the heavy ze a v jc drill dill will fall upon sald rock on the day of july last year the first blow was struck on the ogden gas wells and the first trial was made to make the junction city world renowned as the seat of an oil and gas region since that time the work has gone steadily onward and seven men have put up the necessary amount of capital which has thus far amounted to a little over now ti thoy oy have decided to open the books to popular subscribers and allow one hundred of ogdena business man m in to put in 10 each into the work which amount they feel confident will ill more than suffice to eink sink the well to bed rock where experts who have examined the prospect declare both oil and gas will be encountered in paying quantities the company has 1 acres of good land in in the immediate vicinity of the well already leased and more drills can be sunk if deemed advisable the people of ogden may not be aware of the tact fact but in one of checan the canyons near the derricks derrick of the natural gas company there is a small spring where natural rock oil flows out in a stream thia this natural well ell Is on the b belt 0 it of the new one and there must of n necessity be gas and petroleum iu in the strata overlying the bedrock the discovery of oil and gaa gas in or around the city of ogden in paying qu quantities entities an means millions of dollars dollard ad added d ed to her yearly wealth the starting up of the iron foundries F nd smelt the erection of machine shops and a genera general impetus to the business and import ne eaf if the city mana alana ger gom ri rt h says his company will be enabled to furnish fuel as cheaply as coal can be delivered at one dollar per pr ton this is no idle talk or boast abo oil regions of f pennsylvania penns iva oda and new york W which hive qu M in the world for richness nd wealth producing with the nat iral facilities ogden has for the handling of freight and supplies her a lie ile mineral wealth as yet partially adall undeveloped her mountains of iron ore the richest in the world merely waiting to be worked her rich farming dist acts and last but not least her enterprising citizens there is no reason why the queen city should not become the metropolis of the west the oil and gas to make her such only await developing and the business men should lend their mite to the project |