Show OIL NEWS GREAT NUMBER OF OIL MEN COM ING FROM california half of the operators in that state arranging to be on the ground early F M phelps and C ferguson ar j rive from los angeles F M and C ferguson of los angeles are in ogden the avant couriers of a host of california oil men who arc coming here to be on the ground in good season for the oil excitement which ia expected to attend development work in the utah and wyoming fields thia spring and summer mr phelps stated to a standard representative eliat ho was conservative when he said that more than half the prominent operators in alie california fields would be out here before spring opened sir ferguson was in the bakersfield region when oil lands now selling for as high as an acre was going begging at 2 and he says he docs not intend to miss another such opportunity and therefore is prepared to take advantage of conditions in the local oil fields W F reeder received word from green river today that the henry mountain I 1 basin oil company would have a rig in alic green aliver district within 30 days alie machinery Is to be purchased at florence colo the principal stock holders arc colorado mining afen |