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Show LOOKINC OVERJOAL LANDS Uintah Basin Deposits Promise Well, Says Inspector. State r ngweer George F. MrGon-ngle, MrGon-ngle, C Allen, stnto mine inspector, inspec-tor, nnd O .1 Grimes, cretnr to Gov. bnnon Ilsmberger, were out in tho Uin nli Hasm comilr mint 0f last week, g0Ig as far as Itangclev, Colo. The tnp was for various of. Horn piiriMwes, although some of the members of t,P tmrU mtmget )(, sqiicorc in an hour or two of rishing tsvd or three limes They remirt, how-ever, how-ever, that lluir "luck was poor." Me-Oonngle Me-Oonngle conducted several invest ig.t-tioris ig.t-tioris with regard to diwted water rights in (lie lUin Seerl of those wero in the Vernal district. Alhn Inspected some mining projiertieii for tho State nnd tneidentallx he mined somo additional information with regard re-gard to the c-immerrial coal fields of the Hnsm for the hurt-flit of mine. Ho iiled several workings that nro off the Itenten track and solihuii Visited l slate offinals, among thtH being the flHtente mper1ie of the Itnvoii Mining foiiimiiv oh I ml inn Creek, wrnie lwent milra southwest of Diichciie There he round twelve men at work nnd the prmliiet lnmg shipped In truck to Heliwr. where il brings a good price on both tUstrn nnd Suit Ijike Cm markets. Allen also al-so -tileil the llnin OiUomle Mining eomrmnV pr..Krtv, flHnt ten miles south of Mln, whew a new ahafi is being sunk wnlh of the old 1'srMte wtirkinint Tln pnMud Mill mar-koletl mar-koletl nt Price pnr miles wmlli of . Ourny he r,..inl the Itasin Metals Mltlttllf Cftt1MirMl,..H taklML ! I.Imu ... .H, "i-'ini nn,rn niw inirait tyor the former I lolnnd eopper mine nntl is endent oritur to adapt the old mill to the M-M-nti'ic reduction of the copper oxide found in that region. J. II. IJeiwie of Athcno, Ga., is mttimger for n ffrnp of Ge.,rjri aiwoeiatea. Ill the coal rieldi Allen inventhrat-ctl inventhrat-ctl the f Inik mine at Tnblwrn in the Illnek Tail Mountain ontl field, antl tho froemmeiit mines ami the tarson mines in the Deep Creek field, mm well as the plant or the lied Creek Coal etmiMin on Itetl Creek. These nre wniron miues, nitrating wlienevar orders nre on hand to supply local settlers or fuel for the oil hilling operations nenr Moffat. A goo I grade of cos I oectint in all thevc fields in five-fiNit einn, tho product becoming much freer fnim "Inine" with depth. The ".lip"' at Tnblonn is thirty-eight thirty-eight degrees, while that in the Dtcp Creek field is fifteen. At Moffat drilllnif oterntions nre going on nlstut four miles southeast of the town for oil, nnd the Uintah Oil nnd Kxplorn-lion Kxplorn-lion eoiiimny has n staudnrd rig with the drill down clexen hundred feet. Tho hole was started with n dinmeter of sixteen Inches, enabling the operations opera-tions to be continued" In n depth deemed sufficient to reach any oil-bearing oil-bearing sands which may be found there, AlUfi rcxrU a new eouiian Is putting in n drilling rig nliout thirty milin sottlheast of Vernal, close to the Colorado line In ltangle the refinery of the Tnven Oil Hid ltefln-ing ltefln-ing eoniNtny i now in oMtation nnd when impnrtenieuta are eoHipletetl w II hne n eaHteit. of air-tut 'hew hundrotl Imrrels a day. The llteli-inond llteli-inond Oil eoinimiiy is sliil sinking its decii well in that Ideality. |