Show HERE AND THERE IN NEARBY FIELDS the beneficial oil company is reported to have recently taken leases on five tracts of sweetwater county including portions of sections 13 14 15 16 and 36 in the baxter basin field wyoming it is expected that the company will begin drilling shortly A of the oil leasing division of the united states geological survey is to be established in salt lake in the near future accor according diniz to word received in salt lake early in the month from george otis smith director of the si survey irvey the salt lake office it is understood will take the place of the denver office which was discontinued some time aro ago and will be under tinder the district office of the division at casper wyoming charles D alsop general manager of the utah california oil company was a business visitor in st II 11 george from the virgin oil field mr alsop told the wash ington county news that the refinery at cedar city to treat the companas comp anys raw product has been completed and 50 barrels of oil per day is being shipped to it from the three wells rj of the company now being pumped near virgin this company has been in the virgin field five and one half years and has kept steadily steadily y working in proving the field and ia NC bringing in producing wells mr also alsop p says the company has paid out from 1700 to 2400 a month during the past three years most of which has been spent in the field lit he speaks proudly of the the fact that home men are doing the drilling mr alsop teaching them himself until competent pie he says the company is a close cor corporation p oration consisting of himself and a few friends and none of their stock has ever been offered on the market A rumor was circulated in kemmerer that the california F petroleum had encountered oil in its well being drilled i in the north part of section 27 27 which is over a mile north of the group of wells that the corporation recently acquired by purchase from the scoville crowd the gazette at once got in touch by telephone with superintendent anthony of the cal pet who reported that the rumor it was unfounded mr anthony added however that the k report likely will be true very soon as the drill is now over 1000 feet in the earth this well if it comes in will prove another mile and a half of la barge oil bearing r G L ellis geologist for snowden and was a recent guest at the hotel utah after attending to b business usi affairs mr ellis planned to drive back to moab the snowden test of the prommel permit on the cane creek structure one mile east of the frank shafer N 1 studded in last week L it would be very difficult to convince the local people who have been putting money into the price river petroleum companas Comp anys proposition at price that they are going to if have anything but a gusher says the eureka reporter H the well looked good some months ago it certainly is is a much better gamble now according to the officers of the company and some of them are even predicting that it will wi be spouting t oil within the next few weeks or as soon as the drill arill ha has s gone through the caprock cappock which has just been encountered of course these things b are always uncertain taw but the driller edward walsh a and nd the pre president aident ot of the ane confident as they in y company howard russell are just as can be that they are now nearing the objective of the drill an ing operations the E J miley interests of california according to the tribunes moab corres correspondent corresponded t have completed a of 01 plane p elk table survey of the fish creek structure south moab in M ridge the chief geologist paul C murray was recently and stated that he was pleas pleased e d with wit 11 t the he st serui and that his company will put down a test well alp meantime to commence operations by early spring in I 1 the 16 will be a itself aiu a road to the location will be built which in considerable undertaking 4 of the ohio oil 01 com r agn john mcfayden general manager oil pany in the western states district is at rock pa springs con patrols an inspection trip says the rocket the ohio 17 north and considerable property in townships 16 and I 1 said th at range west in the baxter basin area it was asser ager on he came here expressly to view the W A myers has 9 stirred the hiawatha dome the big myers discovery signify cant ant it is a s s up wide interest throughout the country I 1 index to other possibilities in this region and will be an II 11 ilu impetus petus t to further development y programs s v one of the most unusual and freakish displays of ice formation ever seem in this region was that at the rainbow oil companas Comp anys n ys big gasser ga during the past week and sunday the g yell well was visited by scores of people who had heard of the jig grotesque formation says the kemmerer gazette of the 3rd ard the ice came from the water thrown from the well by the gas that is estimated at from 40 to 50 gilliom cubic feet capacity per day after the gas had been struck at WO 1040 feet tuesday afternoon of last week water from an upper strata found its way into the well whereupon it was forced up with the gas so strong was the gas pressure that the water was thrown about the 84 foot derrick in a spray which coming into contact with the freezing atmos phere formed into ice which made the derrick appear as a giant bant icicle with tentacles extending in every direction finally the giant control head was placed and an extension placed that steered the gas to the side of the rig shooting the stream horizontally about six feet high for about feet from the rig report is that the gas flow has been mud ded off and drilling will again be resu resumed m ed shortly if the ice has not destroyed the rig considerable trouble from gas has been encountered in drilling this well which is no 2 of the rainbow company nine gas stratas already k have been encountered in a depth of 1040 feet the last gas 0 strike blew the tools out of the well |