The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-17
BUSY DAYS AT PRICE
Coke Oven Starts and Oil Ex.
pertS ArriVe-NeW Rail
way Branch.
Special to The HeraIdN-

Price, Utah, Feb. 16.-SamueI Mac
Eachern of Scranton, Pa. an ex-
pert in oil and an extensive oper-
ator TOR years in the Pennsylvania oil
| nelds, is here Tor the New York e
Utah Oil company, which has large
holdings Of oil and coal lands in five
counties of eastern Utah. His purDOse
Is TO go over the ground with the field
manager, Alex HtIlstrom, and select
places where wells are to be sunk.
one standard rig is now on the vsv
here and others are to follow. It is
understood the first we'll is to 60 down
near Farnham. a few miles east of
Price, while the second viii be taken
On TO Emery county near the well of
the San Rafael company. He is more
than pleased with the surface indica-
ions nereabOuts and says he has
never seen anything anywhere to equal
II, and ne has visited every oil-produc-
ing dlStrict in the world. After a sus-
pension of week or more in getting
repairs for machinery. work is to re-
sumo at Green River tomorrow on the
well of the California & Utah com
pany.
They are now down to nearly the
LOOO-foot mark and confidently ex-
pect 10 encounter a flow of oil at anv
stroke of the pOnderOUs drill. Owing
10 the fact that the telephone line from
Price TO Castle Dale is closed SUNDAYS
I no word is had from the susber re-
ported by the San Rafael people or the
committee that left for the scene yes
terday. W. l. Roberts, the leading
light i'm the California crowd. is clos.
ing out the interests of himself and
associates in California this week and
will divert the energies and money of
the Kern river people to the Green
river fields.
Coke Oven Starts.
Work has been started at SUNNY
slde on the 200-Oven coke plant of the
C'ah Fuel company Early spring viii
also see work begin on 100 new cot
tageS for the Sunnyside coal miners
and other residents there. The cokinr
coal from the Sunnyside mine is now
hauled to Castle Gate and mixed with
the product there. This is 10 no done
away with anu by the building of these
new ovens the capacity of the fuel
company doubled.
in this connection il is stated that 4
survey is ordered by the Rio Grsnde
Western to Green River and also one
10 Mounds from Salina caryon east
and north and that connection is to
be made through Emery county with
the Clark road form Marysvale TO meet
the San Pedro lire when ii gets that
far toward salt Lake.
man who has done much grading
tor the Western says he has been an
preached to bid OF the work and he
positively knows the line is to be con-
Structed. The Sunnyside coal and coke
would ger a California market through
this outlet
II would not have to be transported
over Soldier summit II the line should
touch Green River station the hotel
depot and other Improvements of the
Western are TO be moved a half mile
west and water pumped from the
Green river. Land owners have been
approached there Of late for terminal
room, but prices are said TO be out of
al reason. General Palmer. Colonel
d. e. Dodge. George W. Kramer
George 3. Dodge and other Denver on
orators have had an agent at SUNNY
side lately negotiating with the owners
for 1900 acres of oil lands east and
north of Price. An offer of $4,000 cash
made by Morris Sommer Of salt Lake
was recently turned down. The gen
tleInen are going IN deep al Debeque.
Colo, and are DESTROYS Of entering the
eastern Utah fields.