Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-13
Representative Business Men Are
Guests OF Pittsburg-SaIt
Lake Company.
VISIT SPRING VALLEY WELLS.
See Drilling. Balline, Pumping and Re
filming Pcrformed-New Industries
In Sight for Utah.

AiNll " SAT- Ihhei anu q lNN LA'lH ''llNA
cities visited the Spring valley oil field
yesterday. They were guests OF the
Pittsburg- salt Lake oil company and
every detail to make the trip COM
piete success had been remembered
and arranged by committee in
charge Drilling "bailing" pumping
and other steps in on-extraction were
IN progress at the wells and explained
10 the visitors upon their arrived at
the field The refinery was also visited.
AS but few in the party had ever seen
oil-drilling being performed before
their stay at the wells was a real treat.
Breakfast was served at Ogden and
lunch on the train going out to Wyom-
ing Coming in the committee in
charge telegraphed ahead to Evanston
for lunch.
The executive committee which had
the affair In hand and made such
success Of it comprised: .. *. Lewis
G.. n. StrevelI, c. Il. Gable, f. I.
Brocknan, A. V. Taylor chairman and
j. ii. Richards. secretary.
Special Pullmans were attached to O.
S. l.. No 3, leaving here for the east az
7:10. ogden was reached in good time
and there a Wait Of one-half hour for
breakfast was announced, The COM
mitee had arranged an elegant meal
for their guests here. The next stop
made was at Echo, where William ID.
Sutton, a Park City business man. got
aboard. Further along the line the
train was delayed a long while through
an operators mistake. The station re-
ceived an order to hold the "Oil
speciar until 1905 passed. After
tiresome wait in a whlrllng snowstorm
the operator received another message
TO "let 'er go. I meant 1855 which
passed you over an hour ago.
REPRESENTATIVE PARTY.
AT Evanston the following wyoming
men boarded the train: United States
Senator c, y. Clark Of wyoming, G. II.
PeXton, Mai. Z. NJ. Foster. L. Kastor.
A. j. Harris c. $. Baker, George Even,
Jr VIM. j. Cashin, and Frank Cashin.
Those on board from Salt Lake We're:
ID. Porter. S. $. Porter. T. 3, Druehl
Il. w. Salisbury. DIR. Richards, Louis
Mccormick, Dr. Wilcox. l.. II. Farms
worth. G. r. Odell. j. w. Taylor. a. V.
Taylor. c. N. Strevell, Judge j. A.
Street, DR.. DonaherO. X Lewis, Frank
Knox. Byron Groo, b. +. Grant. II. F.
Morris, NJ. II. Walker W. J, Browning,
j. Jensen. j. L. Franken. c. o. Harris
Kearns. r. r. Martin. L. II. Curtis. F.
O. Fabian a. b. Mosely. w. ]. Halo
ran. b f. Cannon. w. +. Adams. j. S.
Richards, r. b. Patterson. Joel Priest,
Herald; George Geiger. News" b.
Armstrong. Republican; II. Dunbar,
Tribune; f, l.. Shellabarser Telegram;
w. c. Higgins. Mining Review, and c.
A. Brazier, Goodwins Weekly.
RUBBER FACTORY READY.
Along the line R b. Martin, consult
ing chemist, and A. V. Taylor of the
company spread out a collection OF
crude articles made from oil and hydro
carbons and so far as practicable ex-
planned their manufacture and their
possible uses. The oil by-products are
made from oil being welled in Spring
valley and the hydro-carbon products
are made from the stuff being mined
by the company at Sunnyside In its
hydro-carbOn holdings in the Uintah
reservation. The company owns 1850
acres of oil land in Spring valley and
from the oil 1t is obtaining from six
wells can be manufactured lI5 different
by-products. Within 10 days a factory
viii be in operation in this city. This
win turn out paints, paint by-products
and the simpler rubber products, such
as bumper and easket rubber
Eight wells have been opened and six
more drillings win be performed with
IN the year. The average depth AZ
which oil has been found in the six
wells in operation is 1900 feet. The oil
sand is not hard. nor not yet soft. The
company has been advised to shoot"
It's Wells by some experts and not to,
by others. rShooting" is commonly
performed by dropping some high ex-
plosive into the well to blow UP the
beds ana thus create a big flow. Good
Ia, IA
way, while others have been benefited.
The company has half decided TO
shoot one well as an experiment.
OIL Is VALUABLE.
The SIX wells have not been running
long enough to permit the company es-
tlmatng their daily output The re0n-
cry which has been IN operation 10 days
has capacity OF 800 barrels of oil a
day and the company expects TO en-
large the capacity 90 800 barrels before
next fall The oil found In Spring
valley took first prizes at the Portland
and st. Louis eXpostons this shows
Us quality, The government report for
l90i-5 on the production of petroleum
compares the Spring valley oil with that
OF California and the commercial values
or each are far apart, the Spring valley
product being worth So barrel and
the California stun - cents per barrel
only The same report predicts great
things for Wyoming as an oil state
WHY SALT LAKE WATCHES.
The significant point in All this is
that salt Lake Is 90 be made the man
uiacturing and distributing center OF
the Wyoming OIL fields. And this is
not all The PittEhurg salt Lake on
company owns 10000 acres OF oil ana
hydro carbon ground In Utah and
Wyoming, Subsrneting 1880 from
10000 leaves 5000 and Il Is
this number OF acres OF oil
and hydro-c0rbon deposits the com
pany owns In Utah. It's asphalt de-
posts az Sunnysidc are the largest I'm
the world. s5O,00Oo00 tons Of ore being
reported IN sight at the present time
for pavement ana all similar work.
The company has also 60 claims. regu-
lar mining size, 60ONi 800 feet. OF
hydro carbons surrounding Fort Du-
chesne IN the Ulntah reservation. II
owns oh land near Cotton and asphnlt
deposits near Powder Springs and
West Water
HYDRo-CARBoN FAMILY.
The chief hydrocarbons are asphaIt
ogokerlte, gllsonite elatorite and Tab.
byte. From these are manufactured
an almost endless string VI products. Mr..
Martin. Is working IN the laboratories
constantly and makes some new dis
coYery every few days He says
aughlngly, but earnestly that he win
be making cologne and other high
grade stunts from the colnpauys hy-
dro's and oils before he gets through