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Show ENTIRE UIIITAII BASIN OIL, GAS 'RUSH' SPURS UTILITIES TO ACT EDITOR'S NOTE: The following fol-lowing article was clipped from the August 16 issue of the Vernal Ver-nal Express and is being reprinted re-printed for aur readers in Duchesne Du-chesne county because of the optomistic and encouraging information in-formation regarding the Uintah Basin. What has been said about Vernal and the immediate area could easily be true of. Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, Duchesne and all of Duchesne Du-chesne county. Recent visits to Vernal of top executives in the biggest ail companies in the United States and their statements that they plan multi-million dollar invest-, invest-, ments in exploration in the Uintah Basin, has had almost immediate repercussions in the industrial and building construction con-struction fields. A list of vacant houses and apartments was swallowed up by the "immigrants" several months ago and one of the biggest big-gest headaches of the local Chamber of Commerce is to find accommodation for the steady stea-dy stream of oil workers and technicians that is flowing into the area. The town is literally "bulging at the seams." Oil is not the only major drawing card that is transforming transform-ing Uintah Basin into another Klondyke gold rush; natural gas often discovered as the operator oper-ator plunges deep into the earth in search of oil is being discovered dis-covered in commercial quantities quanti-ties At the present time officials of Mountain States Fuel Company are making tests on Ray M. Johnson wells near Bonanza to determine if the quantity of gas merits the expense of laying equipment to distribute the gas. At most fields millions of cubic cu-bic feet of gas are being dissipated dis-sipated into the atmosphere daily, apart from a small quan-tity quan-tity used in company operations. Vast reserves are needed before commercial use can be made of the gas, but increased discoveries discov-eries indicate that reserve is forthcoming. Quick to seize on the possibilities possibil-ities of the natural gas production, produc-tion, .the newly-organized Uinta Basin Utility Company has petitioned pe-titioned for a franchise to serve natural gas from the Uintah Basin Ba-sin to Uintah, Duchesne and Wasatch Wa-satch counties. Incorporators are four prominent prom-inent Salt Lake City businessmen. business-men. As this paper goes to press, it is predicted that discoveries at the Carter locations near Duchesne Du-chesne will develop the area into in-to a "pool" instead of wildcat drilling. Gulf Oil Co. also has a development devel-opment plan in the already established es-tablished Roosevelt pool. Aiding the rural areas of Uintah Uin-tah Basin, the Uintah Basin Tel-onhnnn Tel-onhnnn Pnnnoratiup has received a grant of $449,000 from the REA officials in Washington to install telephone service to approximately ap-proximately 1150 farm families along 450 miles of Rural Electrical Elec-trical Association lines. All of these developments indicate in-dicate an era of thriving business busi-ness for a long time into the fu- ture. This is not the kind of boom that left ghost towns in the early days of the West, but a long-term, careful, scientific planning by experts in their fields of business. |