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Show UINTAH IIAHIV COUNTHV Oil, DHII.MNO IS SOON TO KTAHT VKH.VAU July ip. everything in-dlcalea in-dlcalea that the Midland Oil basin In the Woir Creek country will ho pros-Vected pros-Vected thla summer. The Mid-Con-tlncntal Oil company haa let a con-tract con-tract to Hurry Mark or Craig. Colo.. lo do the drilling nnd he Is on his way to the oil field to begin work. The United Htates geologlonl survey ha made a favorable report on this basin. Oil expert aay that It la an oil basin and the two outfits drilling In that aeetlon nre much encouraged. Ono of them la now down five hundred reel and haa atrurk aevernl pockets of gas. The MId-Contlnental people have had enough faith to locale over nine thousand thou-sand acre of land. The past week Miuk lm been get-ling get-ling hla outnt ready and will drill about seventy mile below Crulg at the Junction or the Vernnl-Meeker roads. Ills outfit coiuljta or a traction trac-tion drill of the largest slie nnd I ca-pable ca-pable of going down eighteen hundred feet. The drill nlono weighs two thousand pounds. It la aelf-aupportlng and will also haul the camp house wagon and trail wagon, |