The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-29
OIL FIELDS OF
VIRGIN RIVER
Fast Trains on San Pedro Will
Stop for Passengers at
Lund Hereafter.
CEDAR COMPANY GETS OIL
SKETCH SHOWING WHERE DE-
VELoPMENT Is GOING ON.

It is now possible to take the Los An
geles Limited trains for the Virgin river
oil fields in Washington county. Here
tofore only local trains would stop at
Lund, the point from which through
stages run. and passengers were put TO
a great deal OF inconvenience, to say
nothing of the loss of two days time in
going and coming Recently II. II. Bull
frog Clark took the matter up personally
with Vice President j. Ross Clark. and
after the passage Of messages back and
forth and a letter of full explanation on
the subject, the former has received the
following self-eXplanatory message from
the vice president of the San Pedro com
pany from Los Angeles, under date of
''To II. II. Clark: Thank you very much
for your letter of the 2lst Nos. z and s
will stop on flag at Lund to pick up or let
off passengers destined to or from Salt
Lake and Los Angeles and points beyond.
Please inform your friends (SigneD ].
Ross Clark
Another Well Brought In.
Yesterday it was announced that gas
had been struck in the Bonneau oil well.
near Virgin City. A message from DR..
L. +. Benson to II. H. Clark yesterday
forenoon brought the additional news that
oil had been struck I'm the Cedar City COM
pany's we'll little over two miles north
of Virgin. on Wednesday. The strike was
made al a depth of 574 feet.
So rapidly Is news making IN the Virgin
river field and so general is becoming
the demand for knowledge of the field
and the work being done there that The
Herald, through the help of Fl. II. Clark.
Is able this morning to give a sketch of
portion of the field and show the approx
Innate location OF fifteen rigs and wells
For the most part Local designations are
used, because the names Of the companies
where companies instead of individuals
should be given, are not known.
At any rate, wherever a black SPOT ap-
pears on the map, there either oil has
Fnly y-frr
There are great many rigs in the field
scattered all the Way through the coun-
try for twenty-five miles, even over the
line into Arizona, and more are going in
all the time.
Doings at Other Wells.
The well designated as Rhyolite No. I is
the well that got the first good flow. It
Is now supplying all the rigs in the field
with oil for fuel. The well marked South
ern Utah, in section q, is the old spring
pole well, near the first oil seep that at
tracted attention to the country and
well is reported to have reached the first
oil strata and is being sunk deeper Now
the Cedar company has hit il and II will
be but a matter of short time till sew
eral other wells at which work has been
delayed for one cause or another Will be
reporting strikes. Gas was tapped in the
Bonneau well Monday and the belief is
that oil was also encountered.
What Half-tones Show.
The half-tOne pictures here represent
first. the camp of the Southern Utah Oil
company, which is located on section %
No. > gives a view of the formation sew
enteen miles southeast of Virgin City, five
miles east of Antelope Springs and on the
edge of Arizona, just over the Utah line
Here the formation is said to be Just IS
regular and precisely the same as it is
right around Virgin and to the north No
8 is a picture taken at the original upper
oil seep, near the well of the Southern
Utah company, on section 81 where oil
was got at a depth of 2l0 feet with a
crude spring-pOle rig. This point is about
one and three-fOurths miles west of the
Bonneau well, where gas was struck Mon
day.
There is lots of information in the ac-
companying map and half-tones never be
fore given TO the public. Altogether they
show that something is really doing IN
that section.