Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
UTAH OIL FIELDS RICH
IN PARAFFINE PRODUCT
GOVERNOR CUTLER AND ISAAC
DUFFIN RETURN
Land Surrounding Mayor Harper's
Holdings HeraIded as Remarkable.
Biggest and Richest Section,
Is Prophecy

Gov. 7. G. Cutler of Utah and Isaac
Duffin of Toquerville, pioneer OF the
Mormon state, returned to Los Angeles
Yesterday from a visit to Catalina ISLAND.
| Mr.. Duffin is one of the earliest set
tiers of the Virgin River valley of Utah.
the new oil fields that are attracting sueh
wide attention, and where Mayor Harper
and associates will sink wells on large
land holdings. Mr.. Duffin moved into
southwestern Utah In 1861 and engaged IN
mining and stock raising at Toquerville,
which Is six miles from Mayor Harper's
tract of land. Mr.. Duffin is registered at
the Rosslyn and will remain here several
days.
1--WE are going to have the biggest oil
field in the world, and the richest, said
Duffin yesterday.
'I have just come from Virgin City
and saw the we'll there that shows lou
barrels of paraffine oil per day.
.'It is paraffine oil, and no doubt ABOUT
II. This makes the outlook simply fabu-
lous. The Utah state chemist and num-
ber of others have made analyses ana
shown a paraffne base. 1t is better than
% gravity.
,aThis oil was struck in the first STRAIT
um, at depth of $50 feet, and as the
drillers were not at all prepared for IL
they went little way farther and
stopped, afraid to go deeper. S-
Dam Constructed
"The oil has been run off into sand
reservoir made by throwing up art
dams, and now it has overflowed the first
pond and is being taken into second
reservoir.
when the drill penetrated this first
hot
feet above the top of the casing, whicn
protrudes several feet above the ground
level. You can see the gas plainly In, the
air. and this proves the oil paraffine.
1.-The Standard Oil company, which has
a dozen representatives in the field buy
ing land, offered $1,000 an acre for the land
on which this first well is located, and
$500 per acre for the surrounding 800
acres.
Mayor Harper's land surrounds this
piece, and he has certainly got some
good ground.
There is great activity all over the
field. remarkable activity when its re-
moteness is considered. Three drilling
rigs are already on the ground, scattered
over the district. and dozen more are
on the way The owners of the initial
we'll have two more rigs en- route from
Los Angeles.
er at Cedar City organized company, |
and within three days he sold to the
people in the settlement enough stock to
do all the necessary work This stock
was sold at 20 cents share. 1t went to |
80 cents within three weeks, and now |
they could get 81 a share for all of it, |
but 1t is all sold. The drills on this Cres- |
cent property are halfway down.
Sought by Standard
'sThe Standard company men are try
ing to buy the land outright wherever
possible. They made me an offer, and
on account of my being so well known
offered to put the money into my hands
to buy everything in sight from the set
tiers around.
There has been no jumping of claims
attempted yet, and there will be none
The owners up there have got an organi-
zation and the first outsider who tries to
steal oil land will be sorry. We have a
body something like the vigilantes.
Governor Cutler and myself are going
to try to see Mayor Harper before we re-
turn and tell him lots of good news he
has not heard regarding the Utah field.
This field is> of great Importance to
Los Angeles, for trade seems to have
started this way. Although some of the
machinery has come from the direction
of Salt Lake, most of our people look
toward Los Angeles. The field is half
way between the two cities, down in the
southwestern corner of Utah, and only
twelve miles from the Arizona line. The
best way to go in is to leave the Salt
Lake railroad at Lund, take stage to
Cedar City, and then private conveyance.
A stage line also runs from Modena, 60
ing by way of st. George, but that Is
the toughest and longest way
Mr. Duffin called during the day on Pitt
P. Hand at the headquarters of Mayor
Harper's Los Angeles-Utah Oil company,
129 South Broadway, and discussed in
teresting maps and statistics concerning
the Utah oil.