The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-07
OIL FIELDS IN
UIATAH COUNTY
Big Results Counted Certain
in Country That Moffat
Road Will Tap.

j. V. Stewart, a we'll known mining
man of Nevada and California, who has
been spending the past six weeks in
the oil fields of Uintah county. study
ing the formations and locating ground
is in the city for a few days arrang-
ing with H. H. Clark and DIR. L. E.
Benson, who are associated with him,
for the early Inauguration of work on
some OF the properties he has ac-
quired.
Il have been in a most wonderful
country" said Mr.. Stewart yesterday.
Il went out there expecting to remain
possibly week sizing up conditions
in the section around Dragon. near
which is located the Uintah Tunnel Oil
company's property. But after 1 got
the lay of the land, so to speak. and
started out l found the country so in
teresting that / could not let up, cold
as the weather was most of the
time.
Here is a bottle of lubricating oil
that 1 secured from a seep about ten
miles northwest of Vernal, and all of
sixty miles from the Tunnel Oil COM
pany's property. This oil has not yet
been analysed. but / am certain that
Tunnel company is securing in its
ground. There is a great basin lying
below the seep from which this oil
came, and I am positive that it is all
underlaid with oil. This country lies
between the Green and White rivers,
and, with the advent of the NMoffat
road, which viii rua right through it,
predict that an immense business in
oil and the mining of asphaltum, which
abOundS in that region. will spring I'D
L have secured 1000 acres of ground in
the country northwest of VernaI and
arrangements to begin development
there will shortly be completed"
Forty miles nOrtherly from Dragon,
on the Colorado side of the line, Mr.
Stewart ran into another great basin
that is already producing a high-grade
Illuminating oil, samples of which he
also brought in with him. Colorado
people, he says, have already sunk eight
wells in that section, and, while every
body connected with them declines to
talk, every time a we'll is bailed out
the oil rushes down with the water In
a stream that leaves no room to doubt
the success being attained. Mr.. Stew
art has located ten sections of land
below The seepage, from which he Sc
cured his oil. and he and his associates
viii also start development in that sec
ton as soon as possible.
When H. H. Clark was asked if he
was being weaned from his allegiance
to the Virgin river and Juab fields. he
declared with emphasis that he was
not. He said that oil anywhere in Utah
was attractive to him.
IF several fields instead Of one or
two can be opened up" said he, 'ft
VIII be just that much better for the
state, won't it? Well. If it is good for
the state it will be good for us and
for everybody, for that matter. So let
her go; if everybody will get in and
drill and help develop the marvellous
resources of this state il viii not be
long till 1t will become the wealthiest
commonwealth in this country. If there
are oil fields in Uintah county of merit.
let's get at EN-. Personally, I ex-
pect 20 tackle everything possible that
looks good. Some of the ventures are
going to win; maybe all of them. We
are going to get busy, anyhow"