| Show OIL FIELDS PROMISE RICHES contiguous TO DEVELOPS NEW SOURCE OF WEALTH oil production already past experimental stages in territory contiguous to ogdan Uit liin the past three years the earth in the territory contiguous to ogden lias been made to yield lip a new source of wealth this is the oil production and that industry is already past its experimental within seven miles of the northern city limits oil nce pages been found in the neighborhood of all alie springs and the result has been eliat companies arc now actively exploiting eliat section for the product aith every indication of success that had hardly oil belt extends vest as far as elk elko o and yol also appear 1 in a number of places in ali i belt ie included the promontory district located on alio shares of the great salt lake about 45 miles north and week of the by con puuing a map of the lake this district will be located west of the promontory range of mountain and south of the southern railway tho first disco chiea of oil were made several years ago but no effort to utilize the product was made until 1898 when mr it of salt lake sunk a drive well to alio depth of GO feet on property owned by hull simpson and paine of syracuse altah at that depth hard rock wae encountered and the well was abandoned the derrick 1 and cribbing still mark the site which is in water about 1500 feet out from the shore line of the lake at ehte point low ridge composed of the outcrop of a heavy body of porous sandstone comes down to the shore dividing alie district into two shallow batna known as alie east dip and the west dip the beach around this point of rocks is covered by a white ennd overlying rocky bottom it i through crevices in the rocky bottom that alie oil bearing substance bubble or boil up alie rocks along hc lake bhore for several miles arc coaled by alie asphalt like residue from these springs at present the most noted district in the vicinity ja tho wyoming district the sinking of a veil for water ahki feet in depth by the L nion company near the town of spring valley in linta county and the discovery of three distinct di oil sand within that depth ranging from two feet to twenty two feet in thickness revealed an m closely resembling the crude oil obtained at bradford pa yet by distillation elbow ing enuch higher of ilium enante than the oils the oil zone at the well mentioned was near an in the cretaceous rocks underlying the spring valley coal measures the fold haling a trend north caste ly and southwesterly about awen ty ahe degree east of north these folds of which there are nuite a number anre quite prominent beonie tion i of alie oil field where exposures have been made by erosion and tan bo readily traced in that manner for miles bearing alio general direction described aboe and showing the strata and uniform in its continuity to be the cretaceous rock and are covered in at a lih angle places with the more recent tertiary for mation from five hundred to fifteen hundred feet deep liali li cli make the eclea tion for drilling ahw a proper of the underlying rocks is not fally elu positive oil sins consisting of springs or seepage occur at numerous points the territory embraced in the field notably at ll illiard flat recent show oil bands to be thirty feet ill width und the full thickness not yet exposed at the aspen tunnel carter oil spring blound and several places around the springe arc good and strong and apparently indicate no lack of material from which they come at all places where oil exposures epo occur the character aernie to indicate oil of a base and abo one thing now to do is to find it in quantity in which event the range is so extensive that a field of great possibilities may result with the discovery of oil of such high grade at spring valley oil men were not long in making preparations to test the territory adjacent to the discovery and at tin writing no less than ten boring rigs have been erected and several others of smaller design at the II illiard flats two rigs are at work while in the fossil section four standard rigs and one hydraulic have been in operation at intervals the prim product obtained by alic distillation of crude petroleum aiu kerosene benzine Ra heavy or lubricating oils residuum and the cruda oil has a paraffin r an base paraffin ra raffin or ap balt the quati tiel of cado petroleum and tho qualities or of tlc alc oil it are infinite in their variety various apt of the spring valley oil by an analytical 0 reputation pvc the sanie general results all showing it to be froni 42 to 41 degrees another st green river on the line of atie alia grande rodith of oden large of rig ere in and oil which dwinon strates a future paying district has discovered analysis of green elver oil green eiver utah the oil taken from the garns nell tests of the oil mado from the eurlace show i distillate 73 per cent oil 13 per cent 3 per cent coke per cent this oil is heavier than that found in ana contains more mineral oil for lubricating and paradine parau ine the oil is of the finest lubricating atri i now 1 iho for it J ua cpr ill cx u an of tho report that these oil land arts ah ot the oil iteld along cn inver in troia iho best lubricating oil is oil beside iveing a very fiao lubricant also a very high prade of illuminating and bolher exceedingly valuable properties STREET SCENE IN OGDEN CITY UTAH |
