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Show 2 ' The Western Mineral Survey, Solt Lake City, UtoK Geologist Claims Well Work SpottingFrom Not Guess of oil and gas from this Page (Continued Oil Struck in field known as South Cisco Anticline, considerable water head, or located on state highway and : which D&RGW Railroad, Grand Co., pressure, hydrostatic forces oil to the crest of an. oil Utah. structure when oil zones are In May, 1920, Mr. Rath also reached. Should a structure con did the original geological and tain no such pressure, the oil survey work on the Cane Creek would then seek its level and be Anticline, and in 1926 on Big in the synclines, which has been Flat Top Dome,. Grand Co., Utah,.' a rare occurance,'. he says, point and was later , instrumental in ing. out that as shales, gypsum getting a test well drilled in the beutonite,. etc., were encounter- apex of the structure located 6n ed below this water sand the the bank of the ; Colorado River. base of the Moenkopi formation On December 8, 1925, at a has been opened, which is Just depth of about 2025 feet,, in the above the Park ' City or Phos-phor- ia Pennsylvanian formation, the formation. Cane Creek well drilled Itself in The top of the Park City usual- with a flow of high gravity 36 ly is identified by a rather mas- deg. Baume, green paraffin base sive limey formation, either san- oil at about ..6 a.m., while the dy or shaley limestone. In the drillers were eating breakfast Vernal Oil and Gas Companys and gushed to a heigth of. about test well the top of this lime- 300 feet out. of 10 inch casing, stone member is sandy lime and painting a. 300 foot rim rock in was encountered at a depth of the immediate background with about 1113 feet It will be noted oil. The well caught fire and on the above mentioned section burned down' the rig. The oil that the top of the Park City flow was estimated in excess of formation was placed at a depth 500 barrels. A new derrick and of about. 1150 feet which is cor- equipment was again rigged .up; ten inch casing cemented in, relating practically dead on. As drilling continued in a wet which was hanging in the hole hole at the Vemal test and as and had collapsed about 72 feet gas. with a showing of oil, start- off bottom due to pressure. The it was drillers then drilled through the. ed to increase with depth, decided to discontinue ' drilling, collapsed part of the casing, hang up the tools, try and locate spoiling the casing job and leta string of 10 inch casing, make ting the fluid back into the well. a watershut off, so as to drill The well was gushing by heads into the Weber (the objective (gas. pressure) at intervals of oil zone), with a drv hole for the from 25 to 42 minutes with" a oil test The well is now bot- flow of oil,- Mr. Rath states. TTie tomed in a green shale, a marker company endeavored to set a in the Park City formation, at string of 8 inch pipe to make a depth of about 1170 feet not another water shut-o- ff and filled far above the Pennsylvania sand, the hole by pumping in heavy a prolific oil producer in the mud to hold down the oil and Rangely Oil Field not far dis- gas pressure. .However after seven months of endeavor thq comtant pany gave up, drilled by the oil Finally Find Pipe After combing Wyoming, Mon- and gas zone, and cased the oil inch Utah' and Cali- off with a string of 6 tana, ' Colorado, fornia ' the company!" located a casing. string of heavy ten inch pipe Big Flat Top near Casper, Wyoming, which is The Big Flat Dome is annow being transported to the other structure high. on the Cane Vernal OU.and .Gas Co.s test Creek' Anticline in T 26, SR 19 well located only about six miles East, Grand County, Utah. The northwesterly from the business apex is about 8 miles northwestcenter, of the town of Vernal. . erly from, the Cane Creek disAbout two miles easterly from covery' welL The surface of Big the Taylor Brothers oil strike lo- Flat Dome . is Kayenta formacation about N E 4 Sec. 33, T 21 tion just above the Wingate, S., R 23 E,' H. L. Rath made a Jurassic, Age and will probably location for a test well drilled have about . 1600 feet more covby the Western Crude Oil Com-pa- erage than at . Cane Creek disN E 4 S E 4 Sec. 26. At covery well location. . In other the extremely shallow depth be- words, about 3,000,000 cubic tween 377-4feet the Western feet of gas was encountered in Crude Oil Co. - some two years the Cane Creek test wll at ago encountered a - flow of pe- about 1480 feet This gas should troleum gas with a show of oil be encountered in the Tidewafrom the Dakota Sand which ter Associated Company and should be the same ' sand in Pacific Western Oil Corp., prowhich the Taylor brothers, made posed test well on the Big Flat their strike: The Western Crude Top Dome at a depth- - of about Oil Company has capped this 3000 feet The Cane Creek diswell for further . developments covery well . gusher should be 1) Shallow Well . : . . . - - : . . . : . ny - 43 . ' Ikb onwHacnwal ia met am offer la Mil mar m aolicftaitlom of am afar to bay Iha aanrittaa Mitoud ha rain. Tha .offartmf ia maf aaly by fho praopoctaa. 250,000 SHARES WESTERN MINING & DEVELOPMENT COMPANY A NEVADA COMMON CORPORATION STOCK. Sc' PAR PRICE 10c PER SHARE format H. A. EMERY & COMPANY ROOM 13 St EXCHANGE PLACE, SALT LAKE CITY. I.UTAH, -- mm sussme Western Mineral Survey for authentic reports on Mining and Oil developments in the West. The AND HAIL THIS COUPON TODAY WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 221ft East First South St., Salt Lake City 1, Utoh Gentlemen: Enclosed find ..in payment-fa- r years subscription to the WESTERN MINERAL SURYEY. ONE YEAR $2.50 TWO YEARS $4 Name Street City State . 240-bar- rel . . - . , - - ? Sec. 3E. Drillers say they hit no water except for a dribble of soda water at 80 feet Estimated water flow is five gallons daily. They hit two. small . pockets of gas without oil before topping oil bearing sand. Samples of the crude has been sent, to Salt Lake City for distillation tests. This- - is not the first test at Cisco Others have been gassers. - Capiaa of proopoctao may bo bbtalmad frost usdaniqnod upoa HU. OUT f (Continued; From Page 1) surface pipe. If the well blows In there is no way to stop It and the drillers are today building a dike-tprotect the highway if : the hole does? blow, done Nothing ' more .will be with the test until is control head and casing are . obtained The last time the. drillers stirred the oil up with their tools , the hole started acting like a wild bottle of beer. William Taylor is going, to Pueblo today to try and line up needed equipment the Taylor brothers bring in their wildcat, aided by Har- -. old Stewart, .518 North Second street, and two sons of Delford Army Lieut David and Monte, owner of Taylor Food Mart, theirs will be one of the most colorful stories of a game which has produced many fabulous stories. brothers have The Taylor been dreaming about their own oiL production since they started to work for Continental Oil company at the Florence field in 1919. William worked as a tooldresser until 1931, Delford in the refinery until 1925. They once controlled a 1,520-ac- re block in the Rangely oil field and spudded in a test 100 feet from a producer of 'today, T They couldnt get a grubstake and lost out Delford has twice set up his own oil distillery, once at Rangely and once at Grand Junction. In both Instances he made gasoline for his own use, using oil shale and crude bailed from abandoned hole When his son Monte returned from five-yea- rs army duty a couple years ago the father sold the Orchard Mesa grocery store to his son and. set out to drill the Cisco field on which be had had his eye for over seven years. ' He didnt buy a rig. He made one on Orchard Mesa at an estimated cost of $3,000, starting in March of this year. By Aug. 1 he was able to spud in at Cisco, on a 1,100-ac- re block of land leased from the state of Utah. The two had some difficulties, but when they were drilling they made hole 24 to 44 feat a day. How deep are they and in what-sandThis information is not being, put out. The entire Cisco area is leased. Only dope being put out is that the bit was below 1,000 feet and less than 2,000 feet when oil was hit Sand is Shangrila to 'the drillers! whether .it be known as Morrison or Dakota to someone else. Test is Shangrila No. 1, location i , encountered at a depth of about 3600 feet, which is now considered a shallow well with heavy rotary drilling equipment. There are also other known oil zones to be drilled for in the Big Flat Top Dome area such as the high gravity 41 degrees paraffin base amber colored discovered in the Cane. Creek well at about .3628 feet. This should be encountered' in Big Flat. Top Dome at about 5200 feet and the Cane Creek gusher zone' at about 6600 feet.. In addition there should be deeper oil zones to shoot at such as the Mississippian and Devoni- an.' Utahs Deep Test The test being drilled by , Pa- cific Western at Gordon Creek, now- down better, than 12,000 feet is an indication that major oil firms believe that Utah is worthy of deeper explorations. It appears that more of such activity will be a part of Utahs oil future and large companies with strong financial backing will be driving ahead .to explore the -- states deeper horizons.' The oil future of Utah is more than just promising and all indications point to intense activity in the field in the near - - future. , October 17, 1947 . Anaconda Copper Names New Manager of Mines BUTTE, Montana H. J. superintendent Rahilly, general of mines for the Anaconda Copper. Mining Company since September, 1943, has been named manager of mines, succeeding James to ill health, it was announced J. Carrigan, who has retired-duS. E. vice McGlone, president in charge of western Saturday by Anaconda for the Company. At the same time Mr. operations McGlone. announced that A. C. Bigley, who has been assistant general superintendent of mines' since 1940, will succeed. Mr. Rahilly, and Hale Strock, foreman of. the Leonard mine since 1939, has been elevated to Mr. Bigleys former position. All of the men involved in the staff changes are among the best known in western mining ' circles, and long have been in the Anaconda' companys operating department.noMr. Carrigan, who began a' table career in the mining industry as a mucker 40 years ago, spent some time in the hospital more than a year ago. He returned to Butte several months ago and upon. the. ad vice of his physicians here1 and in California decided to terminate, his long and active duties as a mining executive. Mr, Rahilly is .one of the most widely known operating offi- ' cials in the mining industry. He has been' with, the Anaconda company since 1917, coming to Butte after having had wide experience in the Rocky Mountain area, Mexico and South America, following graduation from the School of Mines of the University of Minnesota in 1911. Mr. Rahilly worked 'in the Iron country of northern Minnesota and Michigan after H. 'J. RAHILLY, renersl sugraduating from .the mines perintendent of Mines .since school. Later he was , employed 1943, 'has succeeded James J;'' in Mexico and Arizona. SubCarrigan as manager of mines:. sequent duties were with the - for Anaconda Copper Mining United States Bureau of. Mines Company. in Alaska," Pittsburgh and the northwestern district His first position, in Butte was as a. mine fire superintendent and he did U. S. notable work in subduing the fires then existing in the Mesd-ervil-le : New district. He became foreman of the Tramway mine in March 1924 and in July 1925 he was appointed assistant general Ah 'Important improvement in superintendent of mlues At one fighting efficiency has been time or another he haa had charge of each of the companys brought to American aircraft ' groups of mines on Butte hill. with the development of selfOn several occassions in resealing feel tanks that save forty, cent years Mr.' Rahilly has been per cent in. weight and seals loaned to other companies for bullet holes three times as fast consulting work in South Ameras the old type. , ica and the western part of the ' . United ' States Rubber Com- United States. ' pany engineers, developers . bf the new tankY' said here today ; the Navy has announced .that they are being installed in the latest type Naval aircraft. Navy approval has been given for in'GASPER that .Successes stallation of the new tank to., have venfollowed deep drilling individual aircraft manufactur- tures during the past two. years ers in their current experimenin many Wyoming fields 'are tal and production planes. finding a reflection in numerous additional, deep teats now under way, and 'indications that'many Net Sales Gain more such projects will be comCHICAGO, 111. International menced in 1947. . Minerals & Chemical Corp., toOne of the latest such moves day reported that net sales for announced is decision of the Sinthe fiscal year endfcig June 30, clair Wyoming Oil Co. to drill a 15,200-ac- re 1947, totaled $41,302,250 as comunit in what is pared with $34,373,106 for the known as the Oregon. Trail area, previous fiscal year or a gain of 60 miles northeast of Rock 20 per 'cent, according to Louis Springs, along the Fremont-Sweetwa- ter Ware, president. County line. - suc-cuss- ful . ! - - . ! 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