The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-29
MEXICAN HAT
IS NEW OIL CITY
San Juan County Brings Out
Utah'S First Paying
Oil Well.

There are twenty-five well-boring
rigs now in the san Juan oil fields.
twenty OF which are ia operation every
Wor king rig has a good showing; sew
Sellins from twenty TO twenty five
baffeis OF OH day, according 10 j. T..
Nahsundy. engineer Tor the Pioneer De-
heltplaent company and Well-knOMn
salt Lake newspaper man who has just
come up from san Juan and Grand
counties.
Crews are now putting a new tele-
lAone line into the oil Held from Bluff,
Inaklng direct connection with ThOmp-
son an the Denver & Rio Grdude, l15
miles distant, said Mr.. Nangundy. "a
new trt-Weeklv stage has started from
Bluff 10 the fields, twenty-five miles
away This also runs from Bluff north
10 Monticello ana from there 10 ThOmp-
sons. They are also laying out a city
IN the oil field 10 be called Mexican
Hat This unique mushroom town now
consists Of seven tents. with restaurant
and bunkhOuse, But there is no calcu-
latlng what il may be in six months or
q year from now. Sometimes an of
city of 10000 may spring up in three 10
SIX months.
Right sort of Bluff.
Bluff is a husUing little town of 500
people, and 4 believe one of the richest
fHtle places in tie state As our MeNi-
can sta sc driver put ID i'm his broken
English- If YOU rip one OF them Bluff
people up the leg. the chances is one
hundred dollars would drop Out There
Il is loo miles from "a railroad and IS
putting i'm its own WaterWurks.
The proved oil field is bout ten by
twenty miles. There is also vast ter
rltory of promising ground on the east
" men has not been Scra tchcd The DIS
trict extends from the Goodrich we'll TO
Gallaway ten miles distant, 10 Navajoh.
Ien miles, making "a great triangle, ten
square miles 10 the leg. And they are
either getting the best of indications
or actual oil al nearly every hole which
has been sunk 2e0 feet OF deeper.
The Galloway well is down 1000
feet. II penetrated two oil sands.
either Of which would have made "a
paving we'll, but the object of this one
Is 10 thoroughly test the district and
Il Will be driven near TO 1000 feet
anyway IL is now in "a hard formation
and although il is a first-class stand
ard rig. il is only making about four
feet a day This hardpan may be the
Gaping TO a large oil pool
Utah's First Paying We'll.
The ArcOla well is selling from
twenty 10 twenty-five barrels of excel
lent OH q day This is the first PAYING
oil we'll driven in the state OF Utah
Some days az high as forty barrels are
sold. The price Is S-.I5 a barrel which
makes il very remuueraIiVe. the we'll
paying q bout SO day right now. The
oil is coming from the 63O-fOOJ oil sana
This is the only We'll which has been
shot ia the san Juan field Before the
shooting, the ArCula was giving up but
five barrels day. It's capacity has
never been tested. POO barrel pump
running five hours recently brought up
siXty-LW5 barrels without percepublE
lowering the oil in the well.
The san Francisco. salt Lake and
san Juan properties being operated ny
Col. A = Ellis have fine shOWings- The
Goodrich well was the first in there
Frhe colonel has sixteen wells, covering
perhaps SOC acres Of ground.
r' The Monumental OH company just
struck good showing of OIL This has
sent down 70 The next oil sand.
The London san Juan company, at
depth of go feet has just struck
thirty feet of producing sand. Here the
tools were lost a shot was put IN
and il is thought the tools were luOs-
eued by il and may be regained- Every
Indication is that this well will ouT-
strip the ArCOla when in proper con-
ditiOn for shooting.
The government recently withdr--f
six townships Of the field from oil en-
try. IL has had an engineer and five
assistants in the field all summer.
studying tie geology of the country.
Their report is now i'm the hands of
Tie printers and will shortly be issued.
san Juan and Grand counties are
noT only noted for their oil resources,
but splendid Inducements are held ont
To the miner the fTuit grower and 10
the dry farmer. There are tens of thou
sands of acres of rich agricultural lands
which one day Will be under profltable
cultivation