The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-13
OPERATIONS IN
THE OIL FIELDS
''Bullfrog" Clark Sends Out a
Breezy News Budget After
Two Weeks Round Up.

H. H. "Bullfrog'' Clark, who is pres
ident of the Southern Utah Oil com
pany, operating in the Virgin field, has
been adding to the holdings of HIM
self IN associates during his present
stay in the field. Following the dis
patch which toll of the operations at
the company's first well a day or two
ago. he sends up a letter dated at Vir-
gin City Monday. From it The Her
aid is permitted to quote as follows:
after two weeks of continual trav-
ell over the oil fields of this region, and
covering a radius of over twenty miles,
/ have no hesitancy in saying it is the
most remarkable showing / have ever
seen. l have broken off pieces of crop
pings of Trenton lime precisely the
same as that which makes in the
Pennsylvania field, that has been ex-
posed to the burning rays of the sun
for ages, n have seen the oil trickle
down the sides of the new break for
Inches. And this is not confined to on,
place, but as far as twenty miles apart.
A one place. about twenty miles
south of Virgin City, the belt or layer
OF Trenton lime carrying the oil seems
10 be about 100. feet thick. / have Sc
cured about ten sections covering these
groupings, and extending about five
miles back.
AT Virgin everybody Is busy. and
The derricks make the landscape look
like the Los Angeles fields. All oper-
ators are burning oil from the original
well, n | have never seen any oil
that burns better 1t is very infam-
mable. and ignites readily from a
match / understand there is now be-
ing used about thirty barrels a day. In
ST. George | found the people awaken
ing 10 the fact that there is something
gong on here, and a subscription is be-
ing taken uD to complete the road
from Shem to st. George. and from the
latter place to Toquerville and. as the
road from Shem to AcOma, on the San
Pedro railroad. was built by the Utah
u Eastern Copper company as a trac-
ton engine road. II is an ideal one. The
people OF st. George expect to make
mat the main route to the oil fields
from their direction.
Il cid not expect to- remain SO long.
but the country is so interesting. and
the opportunities for investment are 81
good, that I do not know when I will
get away; ] do o believe i'm running
away from good things. 1t is remark
able what a small amount of Utah
is invested here. Nevada is
iurLlsnlng nlne-tenthS of it at present.
The Southern Utahs rig is averac-
over sixty feet to the shift. or 12O
feet per day, and the eyes of the camp
are watching it closely. as the COM
pdny's holdings are among the largest
the district, and exceptionally well
Frank Bonneau has a splendid rig
on his ground, adjoining the Southern
on the south, and the Cedar City
company is sinking on ground adjoin-
ing the Southern Utah on the north. A
rig is being erected on ground adj
joining the Southern Utah on the east.
1t is the intention of Bonneau and
Southern Utah company to go to
the second sand. which should be
reached about 800 feet below the strata
n which the present wells have been
made.
From ten TO- twenty oil men are
into this country daily and ac-
c~Cmmodations, while not the best, are
better h | expected to ind, and
prices are reasonable. You may look
FOR me when you see me-"