Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-03-10 | Page 6 | Gas Flow Cut in Virgin Well

I GAS FLOW CUT CUTIN CUTIN IN VIRGIN mm WELL WLL Star and Crescent Company Gets it at Depth of Nine Hundred Feet H H Clark received a letter from Dr L E Benson at Virgin City yes yesterday yesterday yesterday morning advising him that the teams had finished hauling lumber for forthe forthe forthe the big plant that Is be being being ing contracted on the line southeast of or Virgin and that the outfits had gone to St George From there they were expected to pull out for Lund and begin moving in the big drilling rig that Mr Clark purchased on his recent eastern trip and which has the reputation of ot being the finest rig ever sent west The same letter brought the Information Information mation matlon that on Friday night a big flow of ot gas was encountered In the Star Crescent second well In sec see section section tion 10 north of the Southern Utah well weh on section 15 The strike was made at a depth of feet but there was nothing tn la the letter to show when the company expected to reach the sands Mr Clark feels that the striking of gas in that section of the th field which Is north and a little west of the original origInal origins inal ins discoveries will have a tendency to stimulate work at greater depths and he Is beginning to suspect that one of ot these bright mornings we shall be hearing that an oil gusher has been tapped somewhere In that part of the country