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Show i . EDITORS OF STATE STAGE FROLIC AT COMO SPRINGS, VISIT OIL WELLS, 449 PIONEERS' FIRST COAL MINE t Visits to points of interest near Coalville and Morgan, the first coal mine opened in Utah and the newest new-est oil well, marked the midsummer outing of the Utah State Press association as-sociation at Como Springs Saturday and Sunday. The editors pushed the serious business aside and concentrated on having a good time, at the two-day outing. The program was arranged by a committee headed by S. D. Perry. Coalville publisher. Sports and a banquet marked Saturday's schedule, and on Sunday the tour was conducted. The 15-car 15-car caravan was met at the Echo dam by representatives of the Coalville Coal-ville Lions club and E. J. Jones, cure taker of the dam, and was conducted con-ducted down through the tunnel to I he spillway. Leaving the dam the caravan proceeded pro-ceeded to the new oil well of the Mountain Fuel Supply company, just east of Coalville. Drilling operations opera-tions were in progress at the time, at a depth of 750 feet. The party visited the Long Wall well, 4 miles northeast of Coalville. The depth of this well at the present pres-ent time is 2875 feet. Mr. Roberts, president of the Long Wall Petroleum Petrole-um corporation, was called upon to answer many questions from the interested in-terested visitors. He related having, in 1917, called upon the late Thomas Beech, one of the earliest pioneers of the section, for authentic information regarding early coal mining activity. Mr. Beech stated that in 1849 a few families moved to what is now Coalville Coal-ville and some of them stayed in Coalville during the winter of 1849 and 1850. Their coal supply was mined and hauled from a wagon road, about 200 yards from where the editors ate their lunch. He built his shanty directly over the opening; in other words, the coal was picked out of his cellar as it were, and hoisted with a bucket and rope. The people of Coalville got their coal supply from the same location during the winter of 1850 and 1851. In the spring of 1851 the shanty burned down and nothing more was done at the location. The present marker is a small green, grassy spot. Mr. Roberts suggested sug-gested a permanent marker at the site. Mr. Roberts then referred to the Mowry shale exposed at Skunk's point about 300 yards father on. He referred to this shale as producing the larger percentage of the oil that has been recovered in the Rocky Mountain region, and the sands in close proximity as the containers or the formations with the porosity volume to hold the petroleum products pro-ducts until released by the drill. He called attention to this objective as the goal of the oil wells drilled thus far in this district. The first twb wells never penetrated pene-trated the sands in this geological zone, therefore neither of them can be considered as having been a test of the district; but that both wells now being drilled should, according to all late geological information on the district, intercept these objective objec-tive sands in the very near future, and that indications are most promising for production. |
