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Title: Wealth of the Uintah Basin, Utah, and automobile guide ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Charles Booker, 1863- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Denver, Printed by the Carson-Harper co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fields. In those dis-tricts, the oil, though occurring in much older formation geolog-ically, is said to be found in sandstone, interbedded with shale,in linticular bodies or completely enclosed reservoirs. The Colorado-Pacific Development company and the EmeraldOil company, the latter of Vernal, have done the principal workin the district. The Colorado-Pacific people have sunk 30 to 35wells and the Emerald people, 11 to 12. One of the wells of theIoriner company has been sunk to a depth of nearly 5,000 feet.In the Emrald wells it is said that oil is standing to a depth of300 feet. The Uintah Development Company, composed largely of Cali-fornia capitalists, has been operating near Vernal for severalyears, and has expended more than $100,000. Indications arevery incouraging. In 1913 E. H. Corse and others of St. Louis and Chicago,located more than 150,000 acres of oil land a few miles south ofVernal. At the time of going to press with this booklet no de-velopment work had been done. 41
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To;)—Yellow Transparent Apples, raised by S. P. Dillman, Vernal, Utah.Center—Melons, from George Slaughs ranch on Green River, near Jensen.Bottom—Prize Winners, fruit and corn, Uintah Basin Fair. WKALMII OF THE II NT A II I. ASIN. irPAll Story of Wolf River Apples A tniit grower of tiic MmsI was making iiKiiiirics about ilicadaptability of tliis Iouiitry to tlu- i)r()(liUtion of a;);il(s. Tlicman witli tlic land to sell cxliibitcd a Wolf Itivrr apple. Theeastern man insisted tliat it was artilicial and would not be con-vinced to the contiary until lie liad tasted it. A fiiiit dealerfrom the Lintah Jiasin was in Salt Lake during State lair andCliurch conference. He asked one of the leading merchants on^lain Street to allow him to use a part of the window space forthe exhibition of sonu apples. Tiie merchant indignantly refused.Tlie fruit dealer from the Basin reached down into the dicss suitcase and pulled out a Wolf River. The merchants eyes bulgedout in astonishment. He ha<l

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