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Show OILMEN GETTING BUSY IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH SUBSIDIARY OP THE STANDARD TO TEST COUNTRY. San Rafael Swell and Olrclo Cliff 3 Favorite Sections For Thooo Who Would Do Things On Big Scale Uintah Basin and St. Gcorgo At trading Attention As Well. Aside from the Announced determination deter-mination of cocrnl of the larger cmn-pnniiM cmn-pnniiM to gio n tbonitiRti tent to the jioMibilit.x of (Iw doping oil in .Southwestern .South-western Utnh, mnn rosiilentit of the stnto nnd person from other tmrts of the country are making npplicntioiM In the go eminent for penniMion to prospect More than four coro Mich npiliciitions lme Intols been forwarded for-warded from the Knit !nkc Cit land office to Washington, 1). C, nnd will bii taken tin there in the near future for dicision. In addition to these, hundreds of applications hne been turned in to tho land office to be for-wnrded for-wnrded ns soon ns the datn the contain con-tain arc chcrknl and en ficd. Among the npnlicnnU for pennts-nlori pennts-nlori nru mnn oilmen of oxR'rieucc, nnd, in addition, thero are miners, geologists, Inwjors, coal producers, winners, mcrchnnts nnd many others who nro willing to gamble ou tho prwonro of oil in the stale. Now that nomc of tho nttplirtioim linvj btt'it faxorobly nctisl iinm and the tvsl tK-riod of actiinl testing is about to begin, man of the other pititionent are beginning to nrnko their tciilnlUc plans for testing the formation other than IIiom) tiK)n whloh the granted npplieations are located Gould II Illakele), register of the Salt Lake Clt land office, iwjs that the filings embrace fixe pnnelpal areas, munch, the Kan ItnTnol .Swell, Ilia Circle Cliffs, Washington rount.x, the t'iu-tali t'iu-tali Hnsin nnd San .limn county In Washington count), where twt wells nru now being sunk, filings hmc Ik en miiile that, If nil granted, would blanket imrt of tho count) ffec deop. One of the aniilieations k4iught ler-mission ler-mission to dnll for oil on the laud occupied by the St. Oeorgu temple of the Uttcr-dny .Saints rhttrrli, while otherM named laud which has bun cox end b) mining pntinls for decade. de-cade. In tho dint riot nioru difficult of niress the filings hnxti not Ixcn if) plentiful nnd thero hnxc been but few cttse of duplication thus far. Hut the ccrtiilnt) of many eontusts is rihii liy officials in tho eonsidentble Hum-Iter Hum-Iter of dupllentions duo where. Hut one application rweixeed lix Illnkele.x lias been denied by the general Inud office. That is the one bx the Carter Oil coiiimny for pennlssioii to prospect pros-pect in Twp 'M, UrungM 7, in Knn Jiiiiii (Hiunty ou which laud the Ohio Oil eompaii) has also made n filing. lttceut applications granted Imck nl Washington, I) C, nro to tho Ohio Oil eomHiii), it subsidiary of the Standard, Stand-ard, on an unsune.xwl tnict in South-iviiteru South-iviiteru Utah, und of William S. Cooper, .len W. Scol.x, Jr., William .1. Tidwell and Kniest S. Cowie, the latter from Kansas City. Tidwell toriuerl hxid nt Wtllington in Car-Ikiii Car-Ikiii count), Kwdy is from HauHjli, while Cooper is I. icsideut if ion |