The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-12
SIXTEEN RIGS
IN OIL FIELD
All Are at Work-Depth At
tanned in Several of the
Wells.

Peter Porter, secretary of the South
ern Utah and Southwestern Utah Oil
companies, returned from several
days trip to the Virgin river field yes
terday morning. Charles Z. Brinton,
who has had thirty-two years expert
ence i'm the drilling and handling of oil
wells in the eastern and southern
fields, has been installed as field
manager of the companies of which
Mr.. Porter is secretary, and that he
will make a record during the winter
and spring months the company Off
Gals are willing to wager.
There is not a great deal new TO
report from the field right now" said
Mr.. Porter, but in order that folks
might understand what is really going
on down there, l made it my business
to get a list of the outfits in that pOr-
ton of the field, most of which is
north and northeast of Virgin City,
and the depth attained in the various
wells l found sixteen rigs. thirteen
Standard and three Stars, nearly all of
which are working. Those not iii use
are being set up and it will be only
a short time till they are in commits
sion. What is being done i'm the coun-
try to the south and southeast of Vir-
gin, skirting the Arizona line. l did not
learn, but there are number of rigs
and operators in there.
THE Bonneau well is down $50 feet
the Mckenzie well is $50 feet deep and
oil has been struck, but for some rea-
son the management is not permitting
any information to get out concerning
it. The Duneron well on section % is
just started, and was down 100 feet
when / left. The James Martin well,
In, > - Il, N go II
Martins well on section 6. above
Mountain Bell on North creek, is just
beginning to pound away. The Rhyo-
lite No. well is down $50 feet and
still going, while Blood, the big Cali
fornia operator, has two rigs going in
to commission at Mountain Dell. The
Montgomery we'll is down 500 feet and
the ]. r. Clark well, on section Is. is
down 500 feet and still going. The
Lambert well, on section "a, is down
290 feet, and at the Powers well on
section is / found them 'spudding in
The Sloane well, twelve miles south
east of Virgin, was told had reached
a depth of 800 feet and sinking was
under way, but ! got no word about
the Pollard Well"
Mr.. Porter stated that the Southern
Utah company's we'll on section Is was
down 5l5 feet, and Manager Brinton
was waiting for fishing tools, to re-
cover the bits that were lost several
days ago. He will likely have things
un0er way within a week
The strike in the Cedar City COM
pany's well in section 10. north of the
SOuthCru Utan eompany's well about
of a mile, was genuine,
all right, and Mr.. Porter brought up
a bottle of the oil from it to show
what it looked like. This well. he
says, is $40 feet deep, but the own
ers have not yet determined whether
to go deeper or not. The matter will
be determined i'm a short time.
st. George and other interested peo-
pie have subscribed $500 for the pur-
pose of having repairs made on the
road between Shem and Virgin, while
people are constantly going i'm and out
of the field by way of Lund and the
Kimball stage line. and everybody is
Eow forced to admit that genuine work
is being done in a genuine oil field.