The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22
AlI-SteeI Drilling Rios.

The new company is departing from the
beaten fleld in ordering equipment. In
stead OF using the old-fashioned wooden
0errlcks and the usual stationary boilers
ana engines. 1t is ordering all-steel der
rcks and boilers mounted on wheels
owing TO the scarcity of timber and the
,la,Lsl uIne that other companies are ex-
PeFienclns IN getting equipment delivered
PRESIDENT Dunn expects that the steel
IlSS VIII be delivered and set I'D long he
lore the material ordered weeks ago by
otner outfits can be delivered at the
1T is only going to be a matter of Sc
curing horses with u.s. said Mr. Dunn
Inc new steel derricks are constructed
sixty teet long. They buckle or hinge In
the middle and are ready to haul in and
set up within an hour The boilers and
engines also go in on their own wheels
ana once at the point selected for drilling
a rev hours will be all the time necessary
20 get them into commission. We have
ordered one rig and shall place an order
Tor another soon. AS fast as one well is
IlnlShed the rigs Will be moved to new
i beiiaI,o 8, ana oTher wells put down.
DeneVe there will be twenty rigs or more
operating in the Virgen City field within
the next sixty days. and also firmly be-
HeVe that a large number of fine wells
Within year I believe the field will he
SuI1lclentIy proved and the amount of oil
developed VIII be so large that a nine
line company will be organized to nine the
Oh LOT the entire distance of $50 miles to
this city"
Field Is Sure Winner.
By Mr.. Dunn and other experts of wide
experience who have made a study of the
Nlrgen field it is claimed that every
known. formation found in other oil and
gas fields are exposed in the Vfrgen river
region 1t is also claimed that it is 90
ing 70 be the easiest kind of a field in
Wnlch 10 locate the oil pools, because the
FORMATION is exposed in a manner to guide
the expert unerringIy In most other
countries and fields the surface is so
deeply covered with soil trees shrubs
etc, that most of the drilling has to be
done by guesswOrk.
In many places throughout the Virpen
neld gas springs are found which are
capaole Of being ignited with match; in
OtheIS OIL SeepageS at different attitudes
are round coming from beneath lime or
Shale strata, while in others the oil comes
from trenton lime groupings similar To
I ennSyiVan1a. In addition to these a1-i
uenCes OF oil, large groupings of fossil
ated rocks are exposed, while limestone
pIsqOmlnates over the entire field.
=. Inese condluons and others equally as
significant were noted by Mr. Dunn while
IN the field, and he predicts that these
IIIeds VIII produce more and a higher
grace or Oil than any other field in this
country Each stratum of the formation
VIII develop different character and q
olIIeTent grade of oil. as the different for
nations are penetrated, until ali have
Oeeh passed through and salt water is en-
COuIlteTeu 1t IS going to be an easy field
TO drill In, as the formation is so regular
ana when the field is full OF equipment
ana dflIilng IS the rule it is believed that
the average time of developing wells will
not exceed fifteen days.