Flowing Gold The Story of Oil in the West
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph monthly monitors an in depth survey of oil as a basic industry. It traces origins from early oil booms to modern demand, notes key fields such as Salt Creek and Monument and discusses drilling, seismic surveying, and the costly search for new oil using manmade earthquakes and seismography to map underground formations.
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Mountain States
Montana
Kevin Sunburst
Drake
Pennsyyvania
Florence
Colorado 2
Alexander Graham II
Telephone
Wyoming
Evanston
Brigham Young Oil
Salt Creek
Casper
Aerial Survey Slated for Strawberry Area
Region 4 Bureau of Reclamation announces an aerial topographic survey of the Strawberry Reservoir area, 75 miles west of Vernal. The project aims to assess capacity for a potential Central Utah Project, with maps, ground control, and faster data than ground surveys. The reservoir would store irrigation and power water from Uintah Basin streams diverted to the Colorado River via a long conduit, supporting 450 000 acres of land and substantial hydroelectric output.
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Region
Bureau of Reclamation
Strawberry Reservoir
Larson
Strawberry
Vernal
Utah
Colorado River
Charles R Sparkes Dies at Dayton
Charles R Sparkes aged 37 formerly of Vernal died at his Dayton residence on June 17 from a heart ailment. A World War veteran, he lived in Vernal about four years before 1933, farmed the Hopkins place in Davis ward, came from Derby England 40 years ago, and was active in Grange work. Funeral services were conducted June, burial in Vernal.
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Charles R Sparkes
Dayton Washinton
Judge's Omission Trims Sentence In Gas Station Robbery Case
In January 1939 John Yonty 30 was sentenced by Judge Michael Musmanne to up to 20 years plus 10 more under the Habitual Criminal act for a gas station robbery. The judge failed to include the habitual clause. the Allegheny County court reduced the second term, sparing the defendant from the longer sentence.
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Pose
John Yonty
Michael Musmanne
Western Penitentiary
Yonty
Musmanne
Allegheny County
Information Drive Maps Utah County Prospects
County spotlight from the State Department of Publicity and Industrial Development notes Utah counties show housing shortages, economic boosts, and growth across Vernal Cedar City and Heber City regions. It highlights timber, mining, ranching, and energy activity as drivers, with attention drawn to housing, farming, and infrastructure impacts for future development. The piece also recalls William Howard Taft as a presidential figure in history.
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State Department of Publicity and
Peck, Nebes
Ratton
Tate
Utah
de Housing
Cedar City
Ity Pacheay Saaudteg
Wil Bose Boone
Ksavine
Warne County
Heber
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West
Warren Wright
Larson Sand & Gravel
Clark LarSon
Silvertown
C. E. Searle & CO
Basin Chevrolet Garage
Geo McCardy
Met. Vernal
Uteb
Just
County Hospital
Frera Capes
LaSaNe Hotel
Chicago
Charles R. Sparkes
Dayton
Pittsburgh
Braddock
William Howard Tutt
Atetes
Fier Uiion
New Mexico
Arizomam Ee
Enware Ae
Morris Haws
Ilalph Hodgkinson
Calli
Edna Ferber
Akiss
Warners
Flora Robson
New Orleans
Clair Southam
Ug Et Se
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