Show OIL BELT TO BE TESTED NEAR more than two thousand acres leased by strong sall sail lake company around lake on parowan carowan bottoms rig will be erected and drilling commence in june water coal and oil form threefold objective by will dobson among the many tests for oil now going on or projected in the utah field is that at the parowan carowan gap here the conqueror oil corporation an organization of salt lake capitalists which already has one well in the piney oil district in wyoming and is now putting down another has leased two thousand acres on the bottoms around the lake and will commence to drill in june the ob object j act of their bore is threefold first to test the oil deposit that geologists have declared underlies that formation second to determine if the coal formation known to exist under the valley is in such shape as to be worked to advantage and third for the flowing water that will be tapped by the well at least three different geologists b of standing and ability have given favorable reports on the oil possibilities bili ties of this region one of these was the geologist for the consolidated oil company of california mr mr air kirker who was the first to make a detailed investigation ti of the formation and to call attention to its strong indications of oil bearing had been employed b by the parowan carowan mining coke company to give them a report on the coal formation of the gap this company which has now been absorbed by the conqueror corporation po ration was organized by prominent and progressive citizens of par owan to develop the coat coal deposits at the parowan carowan gap after spending 7 thousand dollars tunnelling tun nelling into the coal strata in the gap they found that these had been so shattered where here they crop out that they could not be worked economically but they found too that as the coal formation dipped toward the paro wan valley the layers gradually approached pro ached each other beginning as a series of widely separated layers of various thickness from three inches to three feet and embracing a total thickness of fourteen feet the formation narrows until at the depth where the company ceased operations it was only 9 feet thick and the layers of foreign arn material separating the layers of coal were fast pinching out the geologist for the conqueror company has reported and there seems every deion reason to believe it that under the parowan carowan valley where the coal formation has not been disturbed it will be found as a solid bed of coal which can be worked commercially if the drill conforms this belief a shaft will be sunk to the coal stratum and paro wan will have within nine miles a L developed mine mine of coal of 60 per cent pure carbon conte content rif and of good coking quality where the drill will strike the coal the ledge ought to be nearly six feet thick so leaving b out the strong rig possibility of oil the drilling za of the test well will more mor e than pay since the well will be driven through the water table furnishing the many flowing floN ving wells in the par owan valley and will be located in the lowest part of the valley a good strong flow of water waier will be encountered so a twelve inch bore will be made to the water stratum and an eight inch bore downward from there the water thus ob can be utilized to advant advantage ae by y the parowan carowan gap reservoir co which abich is draining the little salt lake to provide a storage basin for irrigating acres below the gap besides the report of 1 mr ir t for the consolidated oil company of california and of mr air kirker for the parowan carowan mining coke company both indicating that oil should be found at the gap the conqueror company has the report of their own geologist mr air burett that the vicinity shows strong indications of oil or gas more probably oil the report of one of tile the experts is to the effect that a series saries of oil or gas holding anticlines anti clines stretch cli across tile the county from a point near buckhorn hoj n springs covering the paro wan bottoms the gap rush lake and as far as iron springs and that the apex of these lies at the gap on the strength of this report the conqueror company as aforesaid has taken over the parowan carowan mining coke company trading a share of stock in the conqueror company for each dollar of money spent by the parowan carowan mining coke co in development work this opens up to the parowan carowan men interested the chance to participate in the profits of the conqueror holdings in wyoming as well as the thorough test of the parowan carowan field to comply with the terms of the lease under which the conqueror company hold the land around the salt lake the company will send mr burrett to select the exact site for tile the well sometime in may the well rig will be shipped immediately thereafter and drilling will begin in june before a year is up the well will have been finished and the possibilities of the gap region for water oil and coal will have a thorough test the threefold value of the proposition makes it unique among the well drilling projects of the country it means another step stel oward the day when southern utah is to come into her own |