Show OIL CO HEAD INSPECTS LOCAL FIELD WOULD LIKE TO SINK TEST WEEL this FALL MAT HAVE MORE LAND LEASED mr aft H F crittenden of salt lake city president of the conqueror oil company spent two or three days in parowan carowan and vicinity last week looking over the local oil field wit a view of locating a place to put down a test well and also trying to get leases on more land in the vicinity of the little salt lake mr crittenden states that his company would like to start work on a test well somewhere in the valley near the lake this fall if possible but in order to interest capital in the project they must secure leases on more land because no company would be justified in coming in and going to the expense of putting down a test well on a small tract of land with the absolute certainty that if gas and oil were obtained other co companies in banies would come in and get the benefit of their pioneering at least two prominent geologists have made reports on the local field which have been very satisfactory and which are to the effect that oil will probably be encountered at from 1500 to 1800 feet deep mr crittenden intends coming back to parowan carowan a little later in the season and spending several days among the land owners in an effort to secure the required amount of leases to justify his companas comp anys commencing operations |