The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-01
NEW TOWN FOR
THE OIL FIELDS
Wlngfield : Nixon Syndicate
Gets Land Adjoining virgen
City for ToWnsite.
RIGS ROLLING INTO FIELD
MONEY TO BE SPENT ON THE
ROADS.

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nounced in the Virgen City oil fields
every day, and visitors now in the city
from that region emphasize all the big
reports that have been coming from
| there. Satisfied that the region is going
TO make tremendous noise in the world
| Judge X. l.. Johns of Goldfield, repre-
seGtlng the Wingfield-N Nixon combination
OF which he is himself a prominent mem
| per, has been purchasing big tract OF
| land adjoining Virgen City proper, and
a new town is to be incorporated at once.
People are now rolling into the country
and quite tented city is reported to
| nave sprung up there. Judge Johns came
| up from the south Sunday and will soon
| return to give the new town and other
interests of his big syndicate his per-
sonai attention.
Another visitor who came I'D from the
fleld yesterday morning is George Mont
gomery, brother of Il. z. Montgomery Of
Montgomery-Shos fame. who has
been three weeks in the district on this
TRIP IN the interests of the two Los An
geles companies promoted by him. One
is the Los Angeles-Utah company and
the other the Utah-Virgen company. Mr.
Montgomery and these companies control
more than 1000 acres in the field and
Ike others who have preceded him, Mr.
montgomery declares that there is nc
| question but what the Virgen field Is
going to develop into the biggest oil
producing section of the United States
Five Rigs Now in Field.
We have had one drilling rig delv-
cred at our Los Angeles Utah property
said Mr.: Montgomery yesterday, land an
other rig that was ordered about two
! weeks ago viii soon be In the field. Our
flrst rig is being set up on ground about
five miles north of the well finished by
the RhyolIte crowd. 1t VIII be pounded
down until the bottom of the oil-bearing
stratas are reached. The other rig will
be used on ground located about six miles
southeast of Yirgen and three or four
miles south of the river.
There are five rigs now in the field
The Rhyolite crowd that got the first
well has three, man by the name of
clark and his associates have one and
we have one. There are seven more on
the road between Los Angeles and Lund
that Know \of while some have been
ordered from the east and a number more
are being shipped in from the Bakers
Ileld region by Ren who have had ex-
per1ence there. believe there will be
not less than twenty rigs at work down
there before the end of November and,
considering the short time that has
elapsed since the first well was finished,
that VIII come close to being a record
for any field.
"A Los Angeles crowd is now prepar-
ing to put down one or more wells in
what Is known as Rock canyon about
nine miles south and west OF Virgen CITY.
on property owned by a Mr.. Duffin il
is said that paraffine wax can be scraped
up right on the ground down there, and
the belief is that some big wells win be
found there.
No Chance of Failure.
81 concur in the statements have seen
printed in the Salt Lake papers to the
ERECT that, over great area of that
field not single dry well will be made.
radius of ten miles or more Of the origi-
nal well not a single dry hole will be
found. In other words the country's
formation is so regular and the evidences
OF OIL are so uniformly spread over a
vast stretch of that country that failure
by experienced drlllers is utterly out OF
the question.
You can say for me also that Salt
Lake talent has secured most valua BILE
ground in that field. | mention the pos
sessions of the Southern Utah COMPANY
IN particular. because I was instrumental
IN helping the crowd TO get some of its
land. Its possessions are so located that
1t IS exceptionally easy of access and in
most instances the oil-bearing stratas
will be cut at comparatively shallow
depths.
Il recently had commercial test made
from lot of oil secured at the Rhvolite
crowds well by Mr. Dubbs, his initials
l have for the moment forgotten but he
Is one of the best authorities on the
coast, and has plant between San Pedro
and Long Beach, while he is now prepar-
ing to build refinery at Oakland. The
oil tested by him had been in an open
tank, exposed to the sun for two weeks
and had receded six inches. showing the
evaporation of the gasoline and benzine
qualities in the oil. The test showed II
per cent coal oil. $50 proof; 10 per cent
yellow lubricating oil; Is per cent black
lubricatinS; 30 per cent distilate and 8
per cent paraffine. Mr.. Dubbs pro-
nounced it the best oil he had ever tested
viii Improve the Roads.
Now let me say a word for the peo-
pie of the Virgen City country. They
are all awake to the possibilities of the
wonderful activity that is being inaugu-
rated down there and they are doing
everything in their power TO help the
thing along. They fully appreciate that
the making of big oil wells means mil
lions of dollars to that section and great
prosperity for every one of them. They
are fine people and oil operators, either
from the east or the west, or from the
state of Utah, can bank on receiving the
best of treatment at their hands. Teams
are becoming more plentiful now, and il
is my purpose to get a number of the
companies now in the field to chip in
together and spend s1,0J0 or 81 500 in MAX
ing the bad portions of the road between
Lund and Virgen City good. That amount
of money will make 1t possible to handle
big freighting outfits with ease and give
us an automobile road that can be COW
cred in a few hours"
Mr.. Montgomery leaves for Los An
geles tonight and will be in the field