Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-23
UTAH HAS WEALTH
IN HYDROCARBONS
All Lines Of Work Being Pushed
In Eastern Utah as
Never Before.
PLACER WORK INCREASING.
Local Men Financing Number OF lrri-
CATION Schemes ON old Otniah
Reservation Land.

zone unfamiliar with the hydro
cartoons OF Utlh can hardly appreciate
the Immense wealth thcre IS in Them
declared Ccorge n. Mulvey OF Vcrnal
superintendent of the Pitts5urg-eait
Lake On company's properties IN the
reservation company today Mr Null
vey declares that the oil Industry ga
eastern Utah and western colorado is
moving ahead rapidly Many Calitor-
mia aud Nevada people aro looking %
eastern Utah AS o. likely field.
Mt MuNey declares that % number
OF Tonopah people lefi SALT Lake last
night Go take over the placer grounds
along the Green river where Che Ulntah
Placer Mining. Irrigation q EXnlora-
ton company g. now getting ready 20
show what the river sands viii yield.
"Wr are making shipments right
along by way of Price of rabbyite ami
Gusonito' said Ar Mulvey. The Gil-
son.ts property .s about 10 miles from
Nyton aud the Tahhyitc mime which
Be- the only one of its Kind ln che world
is about s. miles from Myton The GLE
sonito IS being shipped To- Piitsburg
and art works. while the Iabbyite rs
shipped 30 Salt Lake CITY There are
about 18 men now working at the prop
critics.
WORK on RESERVATION.
"Tho reservation is looking better
than 10 has for years. The government
irrigation project Us working about 200
men. and the Dry Gulch people about
1850 more. Three Irrigation districts
are In the process Of formation, ana
il Is safe 20 say that "a half million
dollars will be spent in the country this
year. A number of SILT Lake capital
lists are backing the various projects.
'The Emerald Oh company OF Nernal
Is drilling a number OF new wells Ia
the Rangely basin. which IS just over
the line in Colorado. During the WIN
ter four wells were sunk ana they are
an Welding oil. Two uf the wells are
yielding about 20 barrels a day, while
the other two are less. The oil IS the
highest I'm paradne base of any found.
The oil Is not being developed at pres
emit with the purpose of shipping ii
there was a railroad through here now
Il is certain that there would be con-
siderable excitement In Utah over oil,
'erhe synclinal dome Is the largest In
tho world and is five times as large as
that at Beaumont, Texas.
THE Hunt people ~ California nave
seven Rigs in the field drilling and they
already have 10 wells down. getting
oil
CALTFORNIANs INTERESTED
Several California people have just
gone into what Is known as Power
springs, 20 miles south OF Ver;iaL ID
drill for oil
THE placer properties along the
Green river ~ miles south east Of Yer
nal. are 10 have a boom this year and
it Is almost certain that some good
sized quantities OF gold will he tal,a ID
out there. There Sc much gold IN thc
sands and the dredges ought 10 be able
10 save II. a number OF Tonopah le)-
pie are taking up the placer property
below the uintah Placer Mining COM
pany property The latter company d
ready % begin work with its drcdse.
"Thc reservation has "a world Of
wealth when IL is considered tha, rho
/ government report places the wealth.
| from the hydrocarbons alone at ba-
/ tween So. 600 OO0.0 and $4,000 l00
That is the amount that IS now ia
sight"