Show WORK AHEAD OF commercial CLUB has hnz to got get busy to partake in benefits i from OU oil boom opportunity is rapping at our door the oil boom is ia now really on and the oil fields we axe not far from us prom from a statement made before tho the salt lake real estate board by C george H watson we quote oil lc Is going to be developed down there and it will be in the next six months declared the speaker 1 I believe I 1 am conservative when I 1 say that some of the most productive wells wella in the country will be in the san rafael swell I 1 have enough confidence in the prospects to invest of my own to begin drilling operations and I 1 intend to raise ten times that amount among friends in the east an oil boom is always accompanied by a tremendous increase indrea se in population said mr watson and there is no doubt that the results will be the same in utah ill venture to bay that the population of this state stated mill ill double within six mouths months after oil is discovered and treble within a year the salt lake real estate board would make no mistake in getling getting behind this great prospect anil most certainly our com commercial mer club would not make a mistake either tr get behind behin d this great prospect of course tile tho club has to have the support and operation cooperation co of all citizens of richfield to do things and to do them right the opportunity is rapping but we will have to open the door to let it in else we will be left behind and will fall into the class ot of citizens whom rudyard kip A pling terms an amazingly queer gang just look what other cities are doing A salt lake paper of last saturday reports that representatives of business houses of price and huntington announced that on march 25 and 26 the civic organizations of both towns will mill operate cooperate co in conducting an excursion into the san rafael swell district of the oil country one hundred automobiles will be used to accommodates the expected tourists the excursion will leave from price A banquet will be tendered at huntington and lunch will p be served on the oil fields fifty members of the salt lake mining exchange change ax have assured the committees of their intention to take the trip A was made on the condition of the road into the san rafael swell district to the effect that the highway is now in the best of condition as a result of the competition of a bridge over the san ratael rafael river fifteen miles west of huntington at a cost of the work on the highway was done at the expense of the citizens of carbon and emery counties who met their obligations by contributions the cost was to each county compare with this report what we vvo are doing we lve have drilling going on in caineville Cai neville a place that could bo be easily reached from here it if tho the roads were passable pao sable did we io do anything so tar far to make them 1 rateable ashable did we encourage any m to make richfield the centra distributing point did wo we ae ar ran any excursions to richfield and to the oil fields near richfield did we advertise ourselves other cities aro are doing with the best of re suits no and a thousand times no we are content to tell to each other that richfield is a beautiful country city with paved streets and electric lights and sunshine days a year and wonderful agricultural possibilities bili ties and a wealth of minerals around us yes we know it and we aro are telling it to each other but we 0 do not tell it to the outside world we will have to change this method wo we will have to tall fall in step with other progressive cities it la is easily said that we havo have a commercial club and the club should do it it Is not the club its you ou get behind tho the club and the club will do things A meeting will be held of the commer caal club thursday night march 17 y at 8 in tile the club rooms in tho the state bank building how many embers ambers will be ba there and how now members will they aliey bring to help hell discussing ways and for making out of this won city c ity a won wonderful woner erful tul big city v |