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| T7;e Oilhidusiry^OIL EXCITEMENT IN SAN JUAN.A Monticello, Utah, correspondent to theMoab Times says:On Wednesday evening George A. Adams and A. J. Young returned from a trip to the San Juan oil fields. They have been surveying claims previously located. They report a great deal of excitement among the Bluff and Grayson people over the late strike of E. L. Goodridge. His well is now down two hundred feet. Immediately after bi'eaking the crust into the second strataof oil sand, the oil gushed forth, rising atleast ten feet above the pipe. From indications around the boring plant, a large quan-titjr of oil was lost in this way. The oil now stands one hundred forty feet deep in the well. The people of Bluff, Grayson and Monticello are now locating oil lands on the south side of the river west of the 110th meridian, and on the north side of the river in the Clay Hill basin. All of the land lying within ten miles of the Goodridge wellon the north side of the river has previously been located. Mr. Adams states that he has learned on good authority that companies already organized will immediately place at least four standard boring plantsin the field to further develop the ground.Mr, Adams is elated over the bright, looking future of San Juan county, oil account ofthe oil lands.New Field in California.(Record, Gardner. Cal.l Oil and gas have been struck on Mono island, in Mono lake, Mono county, and nowevery open lot of land about the lake ornear it has been taken up. The strike wasmade several days ago, but it was not generally known until the arrival of Treasurer Joe Brown of Mono county last week. Hearrived from Los Angeles, where he waswhen the discovery was made.The strike was made on Mono island by the Great Western Oil and Developmentcompany, which started the work of drilling there about four weeks ago. At a depth of 300 feet the drillers struck an unusually strong flow of gas atid this was followed by a rush of oil which amounts to over twentybarrels a day. Drilling will continue andlater the well may be nitro-glycerined in■order to open it up and get the main flow.Mono island contains slightly over 2,300acres of land and the Western companycontrols all of this except twenty acres. In addition, to this amount it also controls alarge tract about the borders of the lake totaling about 45,000 acres. The oil beltapparently extends entirely about the lake and the land about the inland sea for a distance of three miles from its borders has been taken up for oil. Almost every place there are the oil sands and the shale andthe best of surface formation. The next largest holder of the acreage about the lake for oil lands besides the Western company is Judge Rector and associates of Merced, who control about 200,000 acres.The oil found is greatly superior to that found in the California fields, as the base isparaffine instead of asphalt. Oil with sucha base is far superior to the asphalt base, owing to the by-products.Mono lake is already an inland sea inMono county and the water level is at an altitude of G,415 feet. It will be necessary for the company to raise 1,000 feet in order to get above this basin and complete a pipeline to Goldfield and Tonopah, which theyannounce they will do within a short time. This pipe line has already been financed, one of the banks at Los Angeles having agreed to put up $750,000 on the deal. Another pipe line, it is anticipated, will he run4from the lake to Stockton, California. The oil will have to be pumped from the lake level, 6,415 feet, to the summit, which is an elevation of 10,040 feet. This can be easily done, according to the engineers, by utilizing the large amounts of gas at the place for pumping.The Western company has already ordered five new rigs and within a short time the field will be one of. the developed ones of the coast and oil men declare it will be the greatest of California.
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Salt Lake City Mining Review
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Mon, Mar 30, 1908
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