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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-02
BIG OO|NGS
IN OIL FIELD
Prominent Washington County
Man Tells What Is Doing
Around Virgin City.
BOOM Is READY TO BREAK
MANY WELLS GOING DOWN AND
LAND PRICES GOING UP.
BOOM IS READY TO BREAK

A letter from A. F. Gregersen, the
wealthy rancher and cattieman of Wash
lngton county, to a friend in this city
tells of the writer's investigations and
business ventures in the Virgin City oil
fields. He states that the country Is
now on the verge of a genuine boom,
boom that is sure ito break with the
bringing in of another well or two. There
are now no less than a dozen rigs ON the
ground radiating from Virgin City
Some of these have commenced work
and three OF four more will be pounding
down holes within a week. One rig has
gone fifteen or twenty miles south and
two more, MIR. Gregersen says, are head
ed in the same direction and will be
placed in commission at points twenty
to twenty-five miles southerly from Vir-
gin City.
At the original well ne says a 1900 gall
Ion tank has been set up and is being
kept filled with OIL. This oil is being
sold 10 other outfits for fuel and the
probabilities are that all companies and
individuals drilling in the field will use
this oil for steam making purposes, as
it is cheap and easy TO handle.
Every expert that has been in the
field, as we'll as everyone operating
there. is confident of getting oil, and
MIR. Gregersen states that the unanimous
opinion is that a great field is going to
be developed: He says it is now impos-
sible to get land within a radius of five
miles of Virgin City for less than $50
and from that up to $50 an acre and much
business is being done. The moment the
Virgin River Oil & Development conf
pany's second well is brought in, or any
other well. for that matter. land prices
will take another jump. As there are
now practically dozen wells going
down, the belief is that the month of
November will see the boom break loose
in the widest kind of fashion.
The recent heavy rains have interfered
with the hauling in of drilling machinery
and supplies, and MIR. Gregersen says
there is so much stuff in transit that
everybody has become impatient at the
unavoidable delays and the work of
starting up many rigs has been greatly
retarded.
Ground long distances back and higher
up than that around Virgin City is at
tracing attention and experts are
claiming that ii will prove to be just as
good as that lower down.
Big operators from Goldfieid and Tono-
pah, Mr.. Gregersen says, have jumped
into the field and some big deals have
been closed during the past few days.
Most of them have been cash transac-
lions, while others have been on options
of only eight to ten days. Fifteen or
twenty different parcels of land. in as
many different localities, have changed
hands and the business is apparently
only just beginning to move.
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OIL BOOM INCUBATING
IN THE FILLMORE FIELD

George w Holmberg is up from Fill
more, Willard county. where ne has Deen
taking UP big acreage of prospective OIL
bearing lands close to the town. He states
that excitement is growing apace there,
and that the Bakersfield-Nevada COM
pany which has a we'll down 800 feet, is
expecting to strike oil daily.
At the Newhouse well, three miles from
town. the bore is said to be 600 feet deep.
Operations were suspended there a few
days ago and the impression ar Fillmore is
that oil has been struck and that the well
has been plugged on that account
This impression is strengthened" said
Mr.. Holmherg, because that is about the
depth at which oil was struck in the well
that was sunk near by by the state In an
attempt to get arteSian water. 1t was the
strike at the state well that prompted Mr..
NeWhouse, i am told, to drill there. The
story goes that the man who had been
employed to sink the well for the state
reached a depth of 600 feet and there
struck oil instead of water He either pur-
posely or accidentally lost his tools at
that depth, plugged up the well and then
came to Salt Lake and reported his dis
Covery of Mr.. Newhouse. The latter was
effort was made to recover the tools, but
the well had caved in the meantime, and
that was impossible. second well was
then started and that has now been closed
up and work has been stopped at a depth
corresponding with that attained in the
state well. These are the reasons why
the impression is down there that oil has
been struck"
Mr.. Holmberg reports that Messrs. Dav-
Id Keith and Thomas Kearns of this city
have landed drilling rig at Fillmore
Buildings have been put up on ground
owned by them, and 1t is expected that
they will soon be drilling.
Two Los Angeles outfits are getting
ready to bore and ground in all direc-
tions from Fillmore, Mr.. Holmberg says,
is being located for miles and miles. Fill
more, he declares, is the liveliest place he
has been in for long time
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NEW ORDERS ISSUED TO
ALLIED ELY COMPANIES

Orders were received here late yesterday
afternoon from the higher-ups by the
heads of all the allied interests here to in
crease their working forces, and rush ev-
erything to as early completion as posi-
BILE, says Tuesdays Ely Mining EXPOSE
tor.
Chief Engineer Judel of the Nevada
Northern will now put night shift on
rock work, and push the road to the ter
minus in the shortest possible time.
The mining superintendent are also
looking for men today. This order in
cludes the Nevada Consolidated, that laid
off its underground force only day or
so ago, which fact is pregnant with sig
nificance 1t means that there is a sud
den change in policy; that things finan-
cial in general, and in relation to copper
particularly are righting themselves in
the east, and that the powers are anx-
ious to hasten the era of actual produce
ton here.
1t all spells even greater prosperity for
Ely in the future than in the past, an ear
lier realization of our dreams of destiny
dacreed greatness than we had heretofore
hoped for.
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FINE STRIKE
At ALTA CAMP
Big Body of High Grade Ore
Tapped in South Column
bus Yesterday.
NEWS TELEPHONED HERE
NOT YET KNOWN.
NEWS TELEPHONED HERE

telephone message from the South
Columbus Consolidated yesterday noon
brought the Information that a great
body OF fine ore had just been broken
into at the face of the No l drift on the
Quincy tunnel level. No assays had been
made, of course, but eighteen inches OF
the ore was described by Superintendent
A O. jacobson as being all high grade
while numerous smaller streaks of ore
lust as rich were laced all through the
mass. As the IRE body filled the entire
face of the drift and then some. il was
decided TO nut in some holes on the side
and learn, if possible. how much wider
than the drift the ore body extended.
There was great elation at the mine over
the change that came in so suddenly and
the belief was expressed that an extern
sive rich shoot OF ore was beng en-
tered
For some time past this drift has been
going through ore, but for the most part
ID was low grade. A change was conf
IDENTIFY expected. but there was no de-
velopment in the mine that could be
taken as a guide as to when the change
might come If the new ore body makes
as everything yesterday indicated IL was
going to do. there will be lots of ship
ping ore rolling out of the Quincy tln-
mel workings in the immediate future.
The results of assays and further devel-
opment in the shoot will be eagerly
watched by the shareholders, who have
seen the price of the stock go to smash
during the past few weeks.
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Mines and Mining Stocks
MINING STOCK EXCHANGE
Market is Slowing Down and Prices
Are DelcateIy Poised.

Following a months trading that in
volved more than 100000 shares of stock,
with "A selling value exceeding S1.600,0Vo.
November opens with the market slow
ing down and prices so delicately poised
that the least suspicion of real buying
causes an advance, while any attempt to
realize Immediately brings about re-
verse effect. 1t looks though this was
going to be a good market to buy in for
some time TO come and followers of the
game are taking on the better stocks
right along and paying cash for them.
As soon as the money situation clears up
and the smelters relieve the congestion at
their plants all through the west the
mining stock market is going to look up.
The mines justify IL and earnings will
make the stocks move.
During the two regular and open board
calls yesterday a total of ga 700 shares of
stock, with selling value of $50, 9GS. %,
changed hands. Following is the list of
final quotations and record of sales made:
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BALAKlAlA TRAMWAY
PLACED IN COMMISSION

James ]. Burke, who had the contract
for supplying and installing the three and
one-half mile aerial tramway between the
mines and the smelter of the Balaklala
Copper company, in Shasta county. Cali
fornia, came home yesterday morning.
He says that the tramway was just com
rleted and tried out when orders came
to suspend operations of all kinds.
1.-The tramway.' said Mr.. Burke, lis a
fine one, and notwithstanding the fact
that the buckets have carrying capacity
of / 500 pounds each, it worked like vet
eran right from the start. We filled up
the bins at the smelter and then locked
up until such time as the company is pre-
pared to go ahead and finish it's smelling
plant When the companys finances are
in shape again, it win not take long 10
place the new plant, which is beauty, i'm
commission"
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Mining Notes.

There was released from the Pioneer
sampler yesterday six cars of ore from
Utah and two from Nevada mines.
The foreign visible supply of copper
yesterday was 1l,275 tons, an increase of
591 tons within two weeks.
Eight carloads of ore from Utah, seven
from Nevada and one from Idaho were
released from the Taylor & Brunton SAM
pier yesterday morning.
Jack Hayes who holds a lease on the
Stalwart claim of the Talisman company.
i'm Beaver county. is now loading a ear
of ore that mine sampling shows to carry
from 1l5 to 80 ounces silver and from %
TO 50 per cent lead per ton The lot will
hel in the market during the next few
DAVIS. The eompany's shaft is now being
sunk from the 3a-foot level.
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Open Board.

Beck Tunnel S00665c: 5OO665c, seller 60.
Crown Point, 500627c.
Colorado, 300GS2. 95.
Grand Central-100G$3.5 80.
Indian Queen-300d121zc
Iron Blossom, 000dSSc; 1,4O0dS7c; 10000
Sec
May Day-1,O00Q43c: 2O0042c
Seven Troughs-500G30c.
Uncle SAM ,0I0G76c; ], 200677c
Shares sold, 5000.
Selling value, s2l,610. 70.
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CENTRAL MINING CO..
STANDARD COPPER CO.

The stockholders of these two COM
panies who wish to gain the advan-
tage of the steps taken and to be taken
to consolidate the properties of the two
companies, are requested to forward
their stock certificates at once to II. F.
Clark, cashier Commercial National
bank. Salt Lake City. to be transmit
ted for exchange and conversion into
shares of the Bingham Central-Stand-
ard company. The right of exchange
may soon be withdrawn and stockhold-
ers must now act promptly.
Nov. 1, 1907.
BINGHAM CENTRAL STANDARD
COMPANY
BY D. c. JACKLING, Vice President.
WILLIAM NJ. BRADLEY, Secretary.
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Forenoon Sales.

MammOth-lO0IS2. OZI2.
Uncle Sam-5O0g73c; 1.000d73c, seller Coo;
1O0974c; 1,s00Q75c; 1, 7O0G76c; 1,O0o975c,
seller 10.
Beck Tunnel, S0od65c; 100a66c. seller 20.
Black Jack Cons 5G625c; 40Od2515c
Colorado-950GS2. 50; 50GS2. 921h
Crown Point-100G2ec; 500d27c
Iron BlOssom-5O0d3Sc
South Columbus Con.-100Gs2c
Sioux, 3O0Q35c; 4,700Q36c.
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D0lNGS OF UNLISTED
STOCKS ON EXCHANGE

Ely Witch and Uintah Treasure Hill
were the only unlisted stocks to record
sales yesterday. The former brought 4lc
and the latter 15c
Emma Copper was quoted at 6laG1ac,
offered for Bingham Standard, 14c for
Copper Glance and 42c for Mechanically
with Ice asked for Copper Glance.
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Afternoon Sales.

Lower Mammoth-1O0GS1 Is.
Mammoth-4O0QS2. O21z.
May Day-900d42c.
Uncle Sam-1OOdTc; 1O0076c; soOOa75c;
100q74c.
Beck Tunnel-301Q64c: 20od63c: 500G65c,
buyer 80; S.40cG62c; 5o0964c, buyer 80
Colorado. 400qs2.9O s0OQS2. S712.
Little Chiefs O0615c
Mt. Lake, 200d41c.
New York-25 00G14c: 1,5099141ac.
South Columbus Con.-2O0q82c; s00Gs1c;
a0dS0c.
Sioux-6O0d361sc 70OG37c
Seven Troughs-1, 3O0G311kc; 1,20ods1c.
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GREENE-CANANEA
STORY is CONFIRMED

Just three days ahead of the Boston and
other eastern papers, The Herald told the
story that orders had been given to close
down the mines and works of the Greene
Cananea company, at Cananea, Mexico.
The Heralds story was whipped in from
Ely, where a private dispatch had been
received, telling of the company's con-
templated action. One of the stories that
came over the Pollock private wires from
Boston yesterday had the following on the
subject:
Notwithstanding that accumulated sup
plies of copper have been materially re-
duced and the price has advanced from
12c to 141zc the mines, shelters and con-
centratOr of the Greene-Cananea will be
closed down Nov. TO- General Manager
L. D. Ricketts, of the Greene-Cananea re-
leased this information in Bishee, and the
same information is obtainable from Du-
luth. The Ricketts, statement is as fol-
lows: The Cananea mines will close
down Nov. TO- and arrangements are be-
ing made with that end in view. The
Mines smelters, cOncentrators and every
thing with the possible exception of the
development shaft on the Cananea and
Duluth. will be put out of commission on
that date. Everything will be done TO take
care of the men who are employed "
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Other Districts
Ore and Bullion.

Ore and bullion settlements in this city
yesterday. as reported by Mccormick &
Co.. amounted to $4,000, as follows: Sill
yer. lead. gold and copper ores, s32, 600;
base bullion, $4,000
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Boston, Nov. 1.-The market today
showed very little change. readjust-
ment TO new conditions is going on and
things will be very dull for some time
Stocks have rallied about ten points and
the rush of bargain hunters is over Met
al prices are encouraging, and will be
shown in the next dividends. The clos
ing of Greene-Cananea brought out some
selling, and the close was weak, offered
at Sc. North Butte. Copper Range and Os-
ceola are gradually being picked up and
show an absence of linuidation-
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WEEKS ORE SHIPMENTS
FROM TINTIC CAMP
fSnecial to The Herald.l

Eureka, Nov. 1.-DuriEg the week end
ing last night there was shipped to the
valley shelters from the mines of the Tin
tic district 40 carloads of ore, as follows:
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Open Soar

Beck Tunnel-700d62c
COlorado-l00ds2 80, seller 80.
Lower MammOth-1006s1 Is.
Uncle Sam-606d75c.
Yankee-500G43c
Shares sold, %, 700.
Selling value, slS,29S.
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COPPER STOCKS IN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

Following is the daily market comment
of Paine. Weber & Co, Boston. together
with the range of prices of copper stocks
and other Boston listings in which the
west is interested, as well as a similar
report on New York curb transactions, a
feature that has been added recently by
James A Pollock & Co. to its private
wire service, and from which 1t is Sc
cured for use in this department of The
Herald:
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For the best printing call on the Gem
fury Printing Co.. Salt Lakes printers.
165-1s7 South West Temple st. Both
phones. Goa
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For artistic, dp-to-date printing call
on the Century Printing company Salt
Lakes printers, 165-167 South West
Temple street. Both phones 604.
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Stocks In San Francisco.
The closing quotations on Nevada
stocks in San Francisco yesterday, as re-
ported over the private wires of James
A. Pollock IL Co, were as follows:
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rribune-Reporter Pig. Co.. &c W. I'd So.
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l. naERNnaREER.
Good Printing.

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Expert Chiropodist
The Sanitarium Baths.
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Salt Lake Photo Supply Co., kodaks,
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UTAH LITHOGRAPHING CO.,
45-47 Richards ST.,

Makes a speciality of bank and COM
work, stock certificates, bonds
and diplomas. The only lithographing
house between Denver and the coast.
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bowl lying on the floor
in fragments, she was
speeches. for a minute.
l allowed that silence to
work; l judged it would
increase the effect. / was
waiting for her to ask,
Who did that" so that
/ could fetch out my
news. But it was an
error of calculation.
When she got through
with her silence she
didn't ask anything
about it-she merely
gave me a crack on the
skull with her thimble
that l felt all the way
down to my heels. Then
| broke out with my in
jured innocence, expect
ing to make her very
sorry that she had pun
ished the wrong one. l
expected her to do some
thing remorseful and
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she wrought upon that principle upon occasion.
Tom Sawyer,"-I don't remember whether it is
or not,-that is an example of it. Henry never
stole sugar. He took it openly from the bowl. His
wasn't looking; but she had her doubts about
Not exactly doubts, either She knew very we'll 1
would. One day when she not present, Henry
took sugar from her priced and precious old English
sugar bowl, which was an heirloom in the family,
and he managed to break the bowl. 1t the first
time l had ever had chance to tell anything
him, and l inexpressibly glad told him l
When my mother came in and the
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pathetic. l told her that was not the one-it was
Henry.
But there upheaval. She said, without
emotion, It's all right. 1t isn't any matter. You
deserve it for something you've done that l don't
know about; and if you haven't done it, why then
you deserve it for something that you going to
do, that | sha' MT hear about.
Getting Even with Him
THERE stairway outside the house. which
led up to the part of the second story. One
day Henry was sent Grand, and he took
tin bucket along. l knew he would have to ascend
those stairs l went up and locked the door on
the inside, and came down into the garden which
had been newly plowed and was rich in choice
firm clods of black mold l gathered generous
equipment of these, and ambushed him. | waited
till he had climbed the stairs and was near the
landing and couldn't escape. Then l bombarded
him with clods which he warded off with his tin
bucket the best he could, but without much success
for l was good marksman. The cods smashing
against the weather boarding fetched my mother
out to see what the matter, and l tried to ex-
plain that l was amusing Henry. Both of them
were after in minute but knew the way
over that high board fence, and escaped for that
time.
After hour or two, when l ventured back
there was no one around, and thought the incident
was closed. But it was not. Henry ambushing
me-. With an unusually competent aim for him, ne
a bump there that felt like the Matterhorn l car
but she not strongly moved. 1t seemed to be
her idea that incidents like this would eventually
reform me if / harvested enough of them. So the
matter m I had
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recognized that that prominent bit of circum-
stantial evidence had escaped her sharp eye. That
detail probably added detail to my punishment
1t is human. We generally visit Our shortcomings
on somebody else when there is possible excuse
for it-but no matter, / took it out of Henry.
There is always compensation for such Justly
used l often took it out of him-sometimes
an advance payment for something which l hadn' t
yet done. These were occasions when the oppor
tunity too strong temptation, and l had
to draw on the future l did not need to copy this
idea from my mother, and probably didn't. Still
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There was a Jere. Clemens who
was a United States Senator, and
in his day enjoyed the usual Sena-
torial fame-a fame which perishes
whether it spring from four years
service or forty. After Jere. Clemens
fame as Senator passed away, he
was still remembered for many years
on account of another service which
he performed. He shot old John
Browns Governor Wise in the hind
leg in a duel However, l am not
very clear about this. 1t may be
that Governor Wise shot him in the
hind leg. However, don't think it
is important. / think that the only
thing that is really important is
that one of them got shot in the
hind leg.
1t would have been better and
nobler and more historical and
satisfactory if both of them had
got shot in the hind leg-But
it is of no use for me to try to
recollect history. l never had
historical mind. Let it 60 Which
ever way it happened | am glad of
it, and that is as much enthusiasm
as / can get up for a person bear
ing my name. But am forgetting
the first Clemens-the one that
stands furthest back toward the
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birth. l did not get this indifference from my
mother. She was always strongly interested in the
ancestry of the house She traced her own line back
to the Lambtons of Durham, England family
which had been occupying broad lands there since
Saxon times. l am not sure, but think that those
Lambtons got along without titles of nobility for
eight or nine hundred years. then produced great
man, three-quarters of century ago. and broke into
the peerage My mother knew all about the Cemenses
of Virginia, and loved to aggrandze them to me: but
she has long been dead There has been no one to
keep those details fresh in my memory, and they
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anyone else; but he fire.
quentlv did righteous
ones that cost me as
heavily. 1t was his duty
to report me, when l
needed reporting and
neglected to do it my
self. and he was very
faithful in discharging
that duty. He is Sid in
Tom Sawyer" But
Sid was not Henry.
Henry was a very much
finer and better boy than
ever Sid was.
1t was Henry who
called my mothers at
tention to the fact that
the thread with which
she had sewed my collar
together to keep me from
going in swimming, had
changed color. My
mother would not have
discovered it but for
that, and she was mani
testify piqued when she
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out OF Ine open WINDOW
and carrying the flower
pots with him, just in
time for my mother to
arrive and look over her
glasses in petrified aston
ishment and say, What
in the world is the matter
with Peter?"
| don't remember
what my explanation
was; but if it is recorded
in that book it may not
be the right one.