Show WELL DRILLING OF JUAB OIL CO Manager Gives Log of Distance Gone Its Similarity to Lucas Well The Tho Juab OH company compan has experienced about all the troubles that usually accompany pan pany the first operations in a new field and amI to back It up the declarations of or Pro Professor Professor fessor Crandall the California expert that a well flowing not less than 00 bar barrels barrels a day would be struck inside of ot feet has not been verified by the work as i the well is now approaching the mark But Manager F W Yo Dunn Is not at all discouraged He lIe believes that he Is going to get oil in this first well in the Juab field fJeld and anil that before long lon Wed Ved Wednesday the well was down 43 feet teet at 6 p m and the tho drill was making good progress The following log of ot the well was sent up to Secretary G O R Raymond and an the latter to see s e what a comparison looked like dug up the tho log o of the famous Lucas well the Spindle Top Texas gusher The character of ot the formations passed through were so near alike that he believed ed It would be Interesting dope for folks Interested 1 in the local field so he of ot fere 1 both for publication It Is unusual for a company prospecting for tor oil to make public the character of ot the ground 1 it is drilling in but there has never neer been brien any thing concerning conditions In the Juab field fJeld that Manager Dunn and the com company company pany have not always been willing to dis disclose disclose close believing that If It the field proves up there Is room for everybody that cares to get in and drill The log on the Lucas well gives the readings at intervals all the wa down to where oil all was struck between n and 1139 feet and Is copied from Sir Boverton Redwoods work on Petroleum and Its Products 1906 1006 edition e The log for tor each well the Juab to the bottom and the Lucas to the nearest cor corresponding responding depth figures representing feet read as follows Log of the Juab Well Thick Thickness ness Depth Nature of ot formation 40 40 t Yellow sandy clay and soil mixed 23 53 55 Coarse graI surface water salty salt clay artesian fresh water under 73 Yarl us colored gravel mixed with sand 22 Various colored gravel finer 53 Coarse gray fa sand with seams scams of ot yellow clay 30 20 Blue clay thin strata of at clay lay 30 20 Coarse gray gm sand san 1 with pyrites 20 Blue clay Fine gray sand 66 8 Marl 20 Gray Gra sand with concretions and some lignite Log of the Lucas Well 36 36 Yellow clay cla 20 56 Coarse gray sand I Q Blue clay pretty hard hardi 73 i 2450 gray sand 20 2 Variously colored gravel bean to goose egg size 52 62 Coarse gray sand 35 Blue clay cIa 21 Coarse gray sand with pyrites 19 Blue clay 43 45 Fine gray gra sand with lignite S 8 Marl GO 60 Gray sand with concretions and much lignite |