Show DOWNEY WELL COMES IN defeat turned into success after serious obstacles are overcome advocate virgin city utah the downey well is an illustration ot what pluck and perseverance will do in spite of obstacles when mr downey took hold of the well everything had reached the lowest ebb A hole had just been sunk feet and it was in such bad shape that it had to be abandoned but uncle tom never lost confidence his well was in just the same condition as many others he was sure that if they would go at it right they would strike the oil and he has succeeded even beyond his most sanguine expectations lie he has also demonstrated to the quitters that they stopped work just when a rich reward was within their grasp mr downey was also fortunate in securing the operation cooperation co of one of the most competent and careful men in the field S A halterman of parowan carowan Pa rowan mr halterman has been in the drilling business a number 0 of f years he is the present manager of the star crescent company composed of iron eo county anty men mr halterman had drilled two deep holes for his own company and was waiting for new drills to continue on these when he accepted the position under mr downey he has demonstrated his ability by his success on this well and he deserves doubtless has the unbounded confidence of the stockholders of the star crescent on may 8 they began moving the rig with a crew of two men mr F chance a nevada mining man and mr air john page ot parowan carowan Pa rowan the rig was only moved five feet from the old hole three more days were spent in plugging the old hole then dr drilling was commenced water was encountered at eighty feet eased cased off and drilling resumed only to meet another water flow sixty feet deeper then the first casing had to be pulled the hole reamed down and feet of casin casing put in this was successful in giving them a dry hole nine days were expended in reaming and casing june 4 at feet an eighteen 11 foot oil strata was struck showing good indications the first feet was mostly red shale after passing the first oil sand there was thirty one feet of soft blue slate which gradually grew harder until the second sand was reached at a depth of feet the first strong showing of oil come came friday afternoon june 5 in the blue shale and the flow gradually increased until the second strata of sand was reached friday night at feet fifteen feet in the second sand a strong flow of gas was encountered which gradually increased until evening when ahen the rig was shut down for over sunday the total depth then was feet sunday morning mr I halterman baled out after the well had stood ten hours he found sixty one feet of oil this on a conservative serva tive estimate would easily place the capacity of the well at that time at fifteen barrels a day after baling sunday one could stand feet from the well and hear the gas boiling through the oil and it was seriously considered that it might be advisable to anchor the casing before going deeper the well as early as saturday noon showed more gas than any other in the field it is the fifth well in the united states to produce any quantity of oil in blue shale |