Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-17
SOUTHERN UTAH IS
TO HAVE OIL BOOM
lpava Coalition Oil Company to
start Things in Wayne
County.
MANY GOING TO OIL FIELDS.
several purtics Arc Nlrcady Locating
Land in District. Many More
To start shortly.

With the formation of the fpava
Coalition OH company, which filed arr
tcles OF incorporation with the county
clerk yesterday. "a start was made to-
ward developing the OH lands In
WAYNE county that threatens consid-
cradle excitement The company IS
capitalized at 100000 divided into
shares of par value Of 81 each. OF
the number of shares 100000 have been
placed in the treasury
The officers are Eugene Grutt, presi-
dent. O. 81 Lane. vice president; c..
g.. Cunning secretary and treasurer.
The officers with Gus II. Hirschheld
ANA g. ~ Bean form the board Of di-
ucCtOrs
The officers Of the company are the
firm OF Gutt Dunning q Lane OF
HawhIdo. whose mines iu that country
ara among the best properties there.
For several months they have been
working ou the organization of the
company and acquiring lands In the
eastern end of Wayne county, about
eight miles west of the nearest point on
tho Green river. and 45 miles south Of
the town OF Green River.
The company has acquired the right
to several thousands of acres of land
and machinery will Dee ordered az once
for the sinking of wells
MANY LOCATING LAND
Since the appearance of the Grutt
people I'm tho oil fields scores Of persons
have been busy in the vicinity locating
ground Charles A. Peet SAT- Lake
mining engineer, and a party have been
iu the fields for several weeks looking
over the situation. Don q. Robbins,
who was one OF the first at the Ipava
fields has also located some good
ground there it IS said.
Both Mr.. Peet and Mr. Robbins have
not devoted their entire time TO the
district about Ipava. but have also
zone over 20 Miller's canyon and up
into the Fremont valley. The entire
country is being prospected for oil
as IL never was before.
The OIL bearing sands that have been
found are south Of the Slnbad country
aud from there south there Ia said to
bee every indication Of oil i'm large
quantities.
Many iowa people have lately been
I'M the field and il IS said that Mr.
Robbins has interested a number OF
New York capitalists TO take hand.
II has been the opinion OF oil experts
that the Uintah basin was al one cime
one OF the greatest oil basins In the
United States, III not the world. When
the formation of this great oil reservoir
was broken by volcanic action and
other causes. 10 was decided that the
on had made its way TO lower formA-
tiOns For years oil men have been
figuring where the oil could be tapped
within striking distance Of the surface.
SOUGHT OTHER FIELDS.
The success attained in exploiting
the Virgin River Held and tho rapid
IFS with which that field was taken
mp led oil men to branch out In other
directions to find OH territory. Re-
Gently the attention of these have
been turned 20 Fremont Valley In
Wayne county. The valley Is form
cd by the san Rafael swell. which
bends upon itself and shoots off i'm
the direction Of the Henry Noun
taius. upon the one side. and an IRON
bound reef, which parallels the Col
urado river upon the other.
The formation here Is several hum
drcd feet lower than the Ulntah Basin,
and forms a cyngliuc basin undcrlaid
with sands of the character which
absOrbs OIL Within eight miles of
the Colorado the oil sands come 90
the surface. and IL is here that tho
greatest oil seeps have been encount-
cred that have yet been discovered
iu the west Experts who have been
ON the ground are AN of the opinion
that here will Dee developed the great
ost on fields ln the country.
Already locaturs are nock'ug into
the held During tho past month
there have been fully $4,000 acres of
land located There BIS a big company
of New York men who have just com
uleted locating large number of
claims california men are now ON
the ground. taking up territory and am
organization from Dcs Moiues, la, is
likewise securing land ON which 10 OPP
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