Record Herds Grazed On Utah Ranges
Utah farms and rangelands reached a record cattle count on January 1 1952 with 679000 head, 11 percent above last year. Beef cattle dominate, milk cows number 108000, horses declined to 47000, sheep and lambs rose five percent to 1332000, hogs and pigs up ten percent to 92000, chickens at 2969000, turkeys 2161000. Total livestock value statewide stood at 126073000 for cattle and 454...
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Utah
Bureau of Agricultural Economies
Wats
Predictions of More Roosevelt Pools in Uintah Basin
Geologists at the Rocky Mountain Section AAIPG meet in Salt Lake City forecast Utah’s future as oil and gas producer. Dr. Armand J. Eardley cites 4000 barrels daily from four fields in 1948 growth, notes favorable factors such as unconformities and wedge belts of porosity, but warns Uintah Basin discoveries remain uncertain without more drilling and seismic data. He expects new fields like Roosevelt and Duchesne and major impact from the Uintah Basin on Utah’s economy.
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Rocky Mountain
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Salt Lake City
Armand J. Eardley
University of Utah
Utah
Eardley
Great Basin
Colorado Plateau
Uintah Basin
Uintah
Green River
Roosevelt and Duchesne
Provo-Salt Lake-Ogden
North Western Colorado gas field promises Salt Lake fuel
Mountain Fuel Supply Co of Salt Lake announces a 20 million cu ft per day gas well in East Hiawatha Moffat County Colorado. W T Nightingale president says a wildcat tested 9.12 million but flowed 20 million. Two confirmation wells to the southwest aim to define field extent and may precede a 100 mile transmission line toward Church Buttes if approved within two months.
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Mountain’ Fuel Supply Co
Salt Lake
Colorado
East Hiawatha
Moffat County
Colo
W- T. Nightingale
East Hiwatha
Church Buttes
Nightingale
Oil and gas future for Utah rises in expert forecast
An expert predicts Utah will grow slowly but solidly as an oil and gas producer, ranking a strong position after Wyoming in the coming decade. A physician-turned-climate seeker moves west and in Arizona asks an elder about local death rates, learning it mirrors eastern levels.
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Utah
Wyoming
State Receives Half Million From Oil Leases
Utah is boosting state revenues from oil leasing says H. Byron Mock reg regional administrator of the Bureau of Land Management. Federal lands yielded 550468 in 1931 vs 319283 the prior year. Utah captured 37 percent of total revenues and 14 percent of federal royalties.
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Utah
H. Byron Mock
Bureau of Land Management
Federal outlay urged for reseeding western national forests
Washington March 3 An approval for the federal outlay of 2 000 000 for the reseeding lands of national forests in the west was urged by Rep Walter K Granger to the agriculture subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee He asked to allocate 1 245 000 in addition to the 780 000 requested in the President's budget for reseeding under the 15 year progovernment and produced from federal lands He compared 1950 figures with 1931 1950 income from public lands and noted rising grazing permit and petrochemical demand projections questioned funding speed and feasibility while stressing the need to support one cow for one month on acres.
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Washington
West
Walter K. Granger
Utah
Utahn
Mock
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Unntah State Bank
Wernel
N. W. Colorado
S. L. New Gas Supply
Eral
Arizona
Bureau of Mines
United States
Rome
Granger
Esa
Irgsi 'Gitaavet
Searle's
Woodey B. Searle
West Main
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