Show PROMISE OF OIL 4 q V i 0 1 0 1 will G ra rm ca 1 1 k N it 54 I 1 refiner mexican hat sanjuan ciuni Z by G T HANSEN president utah southern oil f Y company N utah certain hadr hydrocarbons ocar bons IH found nowhere else in the tha world occur and the fascinating search for sizeable petroleum pools continue with fair prospects of sue suc ens CISI and are the tha minerals of which this state has ha a monopoly it shares hares with a few other states such rare kases gass as helium nitrogen stud and carbon dl oxide it Is Ilber liberally alIr endowed with petroleum gas and asphaltum do d posits asphaltum and glis onite are produced in the uintah basin aspdal turn tum seeps on the north shore ot of great salt lake have been worked and some shipments made from them as early as 1890 however the larger program of exploration for oil began soon after february 1920 the date the oil and gas gaa leasing act was approved drilling tor for oil incidentally brought to light unsuspected gas reservoirs helium a noninflammable inflammable non gas commandeered by the U S government for aeronautical purposes was wai discovered at woodside emery county and helium and nitrogen at state line grand county carbon dioxide or dry ice 16 a natural refrigerant was tapped at east Anti anticline clino san juan and farnham Farn bam carbon county petroleum gas was disc discovered at boundary butte san juaa cisco grand ashley valley uintah may clay basin daggett and last chance emery county showings of oil occurred at mexican hat san juan county big six salt valley cane creek and crescent grand county coal ville summit vernal bench uintah and bloomington washington county commercial use Is being mado made of of these resources dry ice Is refined and marketed ashley valley dome supplies vernal with natural 1 gas mexican hat oil was refined and sold for three years when the supply ran out the first test for oil in utah probably was that of bamberger and millis near the town of C green ireen this well was waa drilled about 1891 to a total depth of 1000 teat feet and Is reported to have developed a small flow of noninflammable inflammable non im la in beds of morrison age aae la 11 arut st central utah the problem beia to be to locate and drill the lubeach of an ancient sea iea where th the sands anda are arc thick enough to re fallt ur the oil those domes domen which keys hate been drilled ars are mostly in the old eld bum basin far from its ili edges dge and liar kave encountered sand land li bouth utah ha has not progressed to the stage where the character of the deep rocks Is known but such lower strata correlate as to geological age and position with formations which are productive ot of oil elsewhere in the western and northern areas the preliminary stages of 0 exploration have hardly been reached surface study Is impeded by huge buge desert deposits of salt sand and alluvium alu vium millions of barrels of oil are contained in the shale deposits ot of northeastern utah but no processing plants tor for the production ot of oil from shale on an a commercial scale are in operation unfinished tests operating or suspended include wells from to feet deep in box elder summit utah washington daggett emery and grand counties the tha operators are leonora M M co lingwall Long wall petroleum co ltd diamond oil co A arrowhead rr ow h ead petroleum corp mountain fuel supply co california co ramsey petroleum corp columbia crude corp utah southern oil co and equity 01 oil co roughly four and one halt half to five million dollars have been expended in direct prospecting ct for oil within the state rock asphalt has been developed near vernal in uintah county and near sunnyside Sunny side in carbon county and used for sidewalks and road surfacing gilsonite occurs principally as filling of veins in shale operating mines are located near dragon and myton blyton in uintah county united states bureau of mines reports sales ot of gilsonite by producers in northeastern utah of tons in 1933 valued valued at 57 71 and tons in 1934 valued at or mineral wax max deposits are found in veins similar to those of gilsonite A plant tor for mining and processing has been built near soldier summit in utah county this Is reported to be th the only commercialized deposit of in the united states in the campaign of development important expenditures have been made within the state tor for payrolls and supplies operative industries have been formed for med tor for marketing gas and residues expenditures continue in the search for oil rentals fo for r leases have been paid to landowners and to the state legal and abstract work w ork has been handled by local representatives royalties have accrued to land and permit owners the state owns thousands of acres ot of land some ot of which are almost certain to participate it if discovery Is made the lease terms are ara workable more than 70 percent ot of the area of utah it is owned by the united states stated un under der the terms ot of the leasing law the state will participate in all royalty payments for production product loa from federal lands |