Show OIL AND GAS IN UTAH while wyoming and colorado have forged to th the front fiant the P past ast few years in the matter of oil and natural gas production utah has sto stood od still with only here and there an attempt to de celop its hidden treasures treasur ds buried in the depths of the laramie sea period according to a local geologist yet utah possesses fields indicating just as r rich ich if not richer resources than some of the wyoming districts which a few years ago were passed up as practically not worth test testing yet today are producing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of oil a month yesterday another oil man of considerable experience in western fields said 1 I know of an oil pool in utah which I 1 believe has no equal in the west YA it has been withdrawn from va public under the governments system of conservation this hidden treasure may be held so long that before it is permitted to be developed by enterprising private c capital a substitute will be discovered and it will be per bitted to lie there forever and be of no use to mah or beast utah has in the past twenty years or so displayed many conspicuous indicators of extensive oil and gas fields in numerous places within her borders first came the several natural gas flows on the east and northeast shores of great salt lake which have been utilized for many pul pui poses lighting and for fuel then the san juan field with on one of high grade paraffin oil 61 attracted a dral deal of attention at one time to this isolated southeast corner of the slate skate again the oil excitement in the virgin section domai ne nen ir st george demonstrated that the asphall turn oils also aisa are found within the states limits later oil is said to have been found in three 2000 foot wel wells bored in thac i huab field also in shallower lowey in san ale over the hilla to the erfet in those parts carly carl carly carl y a heavy per c btag e of oils lat later er sas grab 1 has been discovered and in ibach cach valley and is being utilized in a number of homes A fe few weeks ago two flowing wells waie cef e struck in boxelder Box elder county oh the west side of promontory mountain and have furnished several carloads shipped to the eastern refineries the rangely langely Ran gely in the uinta district has st veral score wells and without a dry well is the report from yom venial deep water wells in in various other parts of the state have turned bitter from the flow of oil into them according to reports while leaks or seeps are reported from a number of other places all these indicators found in the center and the four corners comers of the state are pointed out as almost infallible signs that when the search for oil and gas is taken up in real earnest in utah the results will probably surprise the most sanguine john B taylor a salt lake geologist and engineer who for years was inthe in the united states geological ee survey has gone over utah many times in of oil and gas fields with many eminent governmental officials fici als M mr taylor opened the first standard oil producing field in Rits russia sia all unite unit in the theory that some day ah utah will be noted for its production of these fuels today operations are now under way in the juab field in cache valley and west i of promontory in boxelder Box elder county while preparations are under way to begin drilling a few miles north of salt lake |