Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-12

grounds.
Precious metal veins are not often
desirable I'm blanket form, while on
sands must be nearly horizontal 20
have values-oil. like the duck ponds
surrounding Salt Lake. has It's linn
its, and one-Quartcr OF section may
be valuable for OIL. while 10 or 100
miles square adjoining may be abb
sciutely worthless. So the mere mat
ter OF acreage amounts to nothing,
unless selected in different localities,
with the proper conditions surround
ing each tract When land is select
ed by I'm experienced men. they do
pend almost entirely ON luck for re-
suits.
FIRST DISCOVERY OF OIL.
oil was first discovered near Oh city,
Pa. bv one Col. Drake some 80 years
ago. Not a year has gone by since IN
which that first discovery mas not m
creased IN new discoveries Methods
FOR drilling and refining, until today DC
IL one OF the great industries OF the
world It's uses are daily being multi
pliod by patent burners and other de-
vices until IL has become the only luel
used By some railroads and nearly so IN
some states for domestic uses also TOT
the manufacture Of gas for cities. IL Is
mined hundreds Of miles 20 market The
longest line IS from Indian territory TO
Newark. n. j., some 1000 miles Nat
ural gas. which nearly always accom-
Danies an oil field. has been used over "a
large norton OF Pennsylvania, West
virginia. New York Ohio Indiana,
Kentucky, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma
Indian territory, Texas and california,
and lu a short time will undoubtedly De
used in salt Lake and other portions
OF Utah.
CRUDE OPERATIONS
The first wells were shallow and were
cased with copper pipe. NOW however
wrought iron or steel pipe Is used.
Tho first drilling was very crude, be-
ing done with churu drills operated by
spring poles. These We're bent down py
men standing on scanold ana stamp
ing tho pole down with thoir toeI let
tins 10 ny up again 20 raise the drii,
then again being pushed down. These
49,, ,,,.r, chilled ''kickers." owing Co the
work being 40 labouous. me men
worked in short shifts. Tho tools We're
drawn from the well by hand wind
llsses These wells rarely reached 800
feet in depth and were not over four
inrbas in diameter AZ this carly date
coblog were not used The drills We're
attached 20 wooden rods made IN sec
lions and screwed together as I'Nuli'A
for depth. Sand pumping was aus"
done by hand Wiudlass.
Later on horsepower was used ana
eth later. steam The old spring pole
has been suppanted by many dinefeni
machine. After 30 was found thar
MANY different strata OF of, sand and
rock laid one above the other and az
different attitudes. various depths had
10 be- reached until now IL IS not un-
common 90 Gnd wells over 1000 feet
deep IN some ac'ls.
STANDARD RIG THE BEST
There are several portable rigs made
nov capable or goug 1900 feet dccp.
but for deeper wells than this thc
standard rg Is hasa u can De- stated
positively now that fully nineteen
twenteths 0f au the ou territory boo
this country s0 fir explored is less
than $500 feet dee.
WHERE on AND GAS ARE
FOUND.
Every OF field has its own pecullarl-
tics. 80 general ans-er can he given
10 the above quotation. The Pounsyl-
yunia neId extends into southern Now
York. eastern ohio and northern West
Virginia. The $40 n this nell is found
In "a gray sand stone. when pulyerizod
it resembles somewhat salt and pepper
mixed Occasionally % ls very coarse