Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

vester. Grace Brothers at Nephi have
IL smilar plow and harvester which
they run with - or moro span Of
horses. 1t certainly is II fine sight to
see harvester cutting the grain and
threshing it at the same time as it
goes along. Fifty acres can be cut
and threshed in this manner, in one
day j. w Paxman uses steam
plow These mammoth machines are
so much better for poor, ovcrworked
man. that there is little doubt that
soon most of the large farms in tho
state will begin to use steam engines.
ARTESIAN WELLS.
The state has recently contracted for
! the sinking of two artesian welIs-one
! in Dog valley, 10 miles west of Neph,
| the other on the Levan ridge-thc OBJ
| ject being 10 demonstrate the practic
| ability of getting water on the dry
| farming districts in this manner, in
| sufficient quantity for home and gar
| den use. 1t is expected that it will not
| feet--a hope which, if realized, will
| Immediately cause the farmers In the
| district TO follow suit, The expert
ment has never yet been tried.
THE NEW OIL FIELDS.
|
tries which have recently sprung up
| In Nephi, is the new oil project 16
| miles south of the city. Shaln CON
| tanning 3 per cent of paraffn base oil
las long been known to exist iii the
| vicinity, it having come within the
notice of many Of the local farmers
| that the rock near Juah station
would burn for half a minute when
| touched with a match. The district
! has been exported by five or six
| men who report every Indication of
! n high grade of oil. OF course shale
\ containing only seven per cent paraf-
| fin base oil has been rctortetd with
1 great profit. in Scotland and other
| places in Europe; but here in the
| West where railroad facilities are not
| the best and the population is scat
| tered the retortng process cannot
| successfully enter into competition
] with the great oil wells Of fourteen
different states.
Oil was discovered in the vicinity
16 miles south of Nephi by Stephen
Moss and George l3. Hobbies. A COM
| pany was organized known as The
Iuab Oil company. owned largely by
J. II. Burtner and FL, II. ("Bullfrog")
Clark. A drilling apparatus was in
stalled and a we'll sunk to a depth
of $50 feet, mile and a half
southwest of Juab station Unfor-
| tunateiy the site of the we'll is in
the lowlands and largo flow of water
was encountered, which so cucumber
| ed the flow of oil that the well has
been abandoned.
James P. Hurry a versatile expert
representing California capital is now
in the field making an extensive pro-
spect of the district on the west side
of the valley. Tho company he re-
presents is known as the Juab Oil
and Natural Gas Co, and among Its
board of directors are J. w. Vaughn.
treasurer of the Accidental Life In
G. Brown, San Francisco attorney;
Harry C.. Bowers, a Los Angeles
wholesale paint manufacturer and a.
l.. Sawyer.
This company was in the field last
year but was delayed by the financial
stringency.
The latest development work is
valley on the hillside, instead of in
the lowland. This will do away with
any trouble with water, which caused
the abandonment of the first we'll.
The Juab oil field has been pro-
nounced as large and as good in APP
was prior to drilling. All the eX-
perts In the world cannot determine
the extent OF any oil deposit hundreds
of feet in the ground.
In the Juab fields there are also in
dications of natural gas in the soil.
though IL discovered it would very like
" have on uncomfortable force due TO
the rapidity with which it would per-
colate through the soft sands to the
outlet.
Tho fields near Nephi are not vet in
the producing stage but there is every
thing in their favor. There is oil all
about Utah; why not in Utah?
Last year there was about 10000 600
tons of petroleum produced in the
United States, the rank Of the II pro-
ducing states being as follows: Cali
fornia, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Indian
Territory and Oklahoma, West Virgin
la, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Louisville,
Kentucky. Tennessee, New York, Colo
RADIO. Illinois. Wyoming. Michigan. and
Missouri. California, the first on tho
list, produced about 25 per cent of the
total productions: Colorado about .2S
per cent and Wyoming about .005 per
cent. 1t seems therefore reasonable to
suppose that n belt starting in Wyoming
and Colorado extends across Utah and
Arizona, and goes into California,
where it has q, production which
amounts to one-fourth Of that of the
whole country.
Furthermore the Juab oil fields have
q location as favorable as any in the
world. Salt Lake City with oil burners
on the railroads would exclusive of
the amounts required in the shelters
where suitable machinery can now be
installed, use Il total OF 100000 Barrels
a day. AS late machinery makes pos
sible the use OF oil in the smelters. the
demand would be double.
Another thing in favor of the Juab
fields is the fact that the vicinity is
one hundred feet higher s:fat Salt Lake
{ City and oil would with little pumping.
run directly to the city. The oil. OF
course varies, being ut times as thick
as honey or again as thin rs water:
but the hundred foot fall is sufficient
for all purposes.
The advantages in the use of oil as
fuel are many and its acceptance as
such Is sure TO grow until the price
arrives at figure that will bring 1t
into competition with other fuels. 1t
Is well esta blishcd that a barrel of ne-