Oil Shale Plant Equipment Unloaded at Grand Valley
A carload of oil shale plant equipment and machinery for the Columbia Oil Shale company was unloaded at Grand Valley this week. Construction Engineer Gus Goodale is on the ground overseeing the installation of the plant on Parachute Creek. An electric plant is being installed at the site and diamond drill cores are being taken on the land.
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Columbia Oil Shale Company
Grand Valley
Gus Goodale
Parachute Creek
Oil land mapping crew in Axial basin fields
Four members of a U S Geological Survey oil land mapping party led by Geologist J D Sears study oil bearing structures in the Axial basin of Moffat county. The four month field work aims to assess all possibilities in the region.
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United States Geological Survey
J. D. Sears
Moffat County
Adeyterte'y Meppec
United States
Driller Ernest Smith Leaves Rangely for Taft Oil Field Work
Ernest Smith, a driller with the Standard Oil Company, who for two years drilled wells in the Rangely field, departed last week with his family to Taft California where he will continue work in the oil fields.
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Ernest Smith
Standard Oi Company
Rangely
Taft
California
Land Office Awards Acreage to Evans and Greatmint
Vernal Land Office issues prospecting patents to Jacob Evans for 2522 acres in T14N R20E JoF and William Greatmint for 4043 acres in T3N R6W. The filings cover land in Utah frontier township and range designations.
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Oll
Vernal Land Office
Jacob Evans
Jof
William Gweatmin
Standard Oil Quits Field In California Oil Move
The final carload of Standard Oil subsidiary Richmond Petroleum Company machinery and equipment left Vernal for California after over two years of prospecting in Wilson Creek without results. The operation cost more than a quarter of a million dollars with J W Musser and others in Vernal for the trip. A separate political note records the House defeating July 18 a crude oil duty in the Fordney tariff bill, with another vote planned before passage.
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Richmond Petroleum Company
Standard Oil Company
Craig Empire
California
Wilson Creek
House
Pacific Coast Jerseys Win High Honors in 1920 Medals
A 1920 American Jersey Cattle Club report shows 71 U S cows qualified for medals. Six of the ten top records came from Pacific Coast cows with an average fat of 887.21 pounds. seven of the cows earning more than one medal were Pacific Coast. Oregon led with 18 golds, 3 silvers, 1 bronze. Maine and Massachusetts also high. Breeders J M Dicksons and Son of Shedd, Oregon, headed medal winners with seven credits.
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American Jersey Cattle Club
Jersey
United States
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Ohio
Maine
Massachusetts
Washington
J. M. Dicksons
Shedd
G. G. Hewitt
Hood Farm
Valentine's Ashburn Baronet
Utah
W. A .Nuttal
Provo
Pacific Coast States
Oil Potential Highlighted at Utah Gilsonite Quarry
Dr Earl Douglas reports for a Salt Lake concern on oil content in the Utah Basin gilsonite. The basin holds millions of tons of gilsonite and a new machine promises low cost oil extraction.
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Earl Douglas
Jensen Dinosaur Quarry
Salt Lake
Uintah Basin
Clean School Contest Praised for Health and Morale Gains
Utah Public Health Journal highlights the clean school contest across four districts. Superintendents school boards and health supervisors praise improved grounds buildings and equipment and the positive effect on student attitudes. Leaders Henry Peterson R V Larson D C Woodward James W Anderson and James H Wallis recount district efforts and c rate the contest the greatest sanitation and civic morale boost their schools have seen.
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Utah Public Health Journal
J and
Shealth
Henry Peterson
Logan
R V.larson
Cache County
D. C. Woodward, Jr
Carbon County
James "W. Anderson
North
Ban Pete
Jas. H. Wallis
Misa Edith Bowen
John P. Johnson
School Board of
North San Pete
Citizenship Education Through Cleanliness Lessons
R. V. Larson notes that children receive lessons in cleanliness and order to mold them into capable homeowners. He adds that early in the school year improvements in academic work proved the program’s value, calling it the most valuable citizenship lesson introduced in the school.
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R. V. Larson
Pershing Orders War Risk Insurance Aid For Veterans
General John J. Pershing issues General Order No. 27 establishing Army Bureau contact with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to aid ex servicemen in securing benefits. Officers nationwide to assist with renewals, medical treatment, vocational training and claims, with forms supplied and applications forwarded to the War Risk Insurance Bureau in Washington.
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John J. Pershing
Army
War Department
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Bureauy Js War Risk
Ita
National Guard
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Bara
Lars A
Ron
Ko Etetly
Ladies i
Moffat
Standard Oil
J. W. Musser
Salt Lake City
Cotner
Lowell
Wyoming
J. F. Frazier
Charleston
West Virginia
Quintayw State Bank
Kodak
Uintah
H.C. Stone
Vernal
Vernal Market
Chas. F. ‘Tucker
Pershing
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