Show BIG RIG ON WAY what appears to be pretty reliable Inform information ailon from the wister western end of uintah uintah bisin basin Is that the ute uie petroleum company will have a standard rig on the ground within the next ten days or two weeks the information came from men connected closely enough with the operations of the company to make its source hardly open ito iio question the site selected for the first hole Is said to be about 12 miles in ties southwesterly from the town of 0 duchesne ducheane it is in a canyon next to ito indian it Is reported that the ute company has had a large force of man ju u the basin including engl neeri and geologists they were making a complete map of the large holdings which are variously estimated at up to acres this work has just been completed and the men discharged or transported sported to other fields the next step Is to ship in the standard rig and start to lo test the ihu structure to great depth the rig will bo be shipped in by way ot of colton i on the denver rio klo grande grand e railway the ute holdings wore vere formerly held by the matador petroleum company a subsidiary of the great dutch shell oil company of europe As foreign corporations have to worn ork under some disadvantage in american fields it is just possible that the dutch shell while apparently out ol of the proposition is 13 really the power behind the throne western mineral survey |