Show oil notes the casing of the virgin dome oil well is nearly finished and drilling is expected to be resumed within a few days washington county utah news A lewiston montana dispatch of the says official measurement of the flow of the frantz oil gusher in the moab field which came in A last sunday showed production of 1800 barrels with a content ot of 51 per cent of gasoline six hours after the casper osage oil company a casper wyo concern had closed a deal for a 50 per cent interest in a lease in the osage field on which a well was vas drilling the well came in a gusher in the field the location is on the southwest of section 29 46 63 and the strike was made at 1320 feet drillers drillars Dr illers were none too confident of the success of the well oil discoveries are beginning to encroach on the outskirts of san francisco A search for water for irrigation purposes has recently resulted in bringing in good oil showings in three wells at miramar neal halfmoon bay about thirty five miles south of san francisco and oil men and some of the big companies are now making an intensive study of the country as a possible source of big production an engineer representing the state highway department is laying out a road north from kemmerer wyoming to the oil fields at and in the vicinity of big piney three routes are to be surveyed and careful estimates made from these will be chosen this and oil is the road for which the business men subscribed at a meeting recently and the money will be spent under the ne which wal direction of the highway commission will add an equal amount from state funds fun R J walter president of the uintah oil to salt lake exploration company came be recently from the uintah basin where be had been for two weeks wells are DOV ing drilled and with an ample supply of j cas be will wil ing on hand the lower sands said reached in a time mr walter walle gon of ason 8 veins ins he also stated that the new ve highest of the ite recently discovered are grade and the oil PO possibilities surpass left walter walt thing he has ever se seen en mr for denver on the 43 oil exploration at Chew lelah wash W liel miles north of spokane has taken suit and has phase in the last few weeks pany e fa the av cOul coed in further evidence of oil drI has arranged to change its pre ent to go 90 Ity W with ith capa capach r rig rig for a standard feet fro feet if necessary about frit mr well we its where the company started aeao fifteen alft chie one of the owners some beago to ab a adoll dug a well that he had bad the g cause of the strong stron 9 oil and gas odors 0 the e va of 0 one well was seepage from this dences of oil that induced the formation of the company to drill another well was studded in in the cretaceous field on the southeast quarter of 31 29 this property being included in a lease executed sometime sonie time ago by the cretaceous oil company to E L smith of I cem kern although the lease was taken in the name of mr smith it is to be operated by a syndicate of des moines iowa business men of which judge hubert of that city is the organizer judge and mr smith accompanied mr lackey to the field and were present when the well was studded in the site of the new well is about one half mile east and slightly b north of the lackey well which is located on the northwest quarter of section 1 28 according to a dispatch to the denver mining record the dillon montana oil company is successfully operating its retort equipped for use of the J H galloupe oll oil shale process and a high saving of oil is reported shale for the plant is mined from a tunnel started several years ago by ranchmen ranchman ranch men living in the vicinity of the shale beds who mined the rock for domestic fuel and heating purposes the recovery by the gallupe process from this shale is close to twenty gallons of oil to the ton the operation of the retort is practically automatic and so simple that the one attendant has little else to do but gasoline the little engine and occasionally oil the bearings |