Show oil notes drilling of a well by the dixie oil company on its property situated a few miles from virgin washington county utah is progressing under favorable conditions according to colonel C P tasker general manager of the company large star national or standard rigs gradually are replacing the smaller machines in the weston county wyoming oil fields and as a consequence the development companies are boring to the deep sands for production the large companies are are buying the leases of the shallow well developers charles lackey has started to drill lackey well no 1 on the northwest quarter of section 1 township 28 range in the piney wyoming field to a greater depth on feb 5 1919 the well struck a small producing sand but was never drilled deeper it is the purpose of the driller to continue to ta the next sand the united states geological survey has decided to make a survey of the oil prospects in idaho according to information received by gov davis noted geologists who have visited this state have claimed that the formations here are typical of rich oil deposits oil borings bolings are at present being made at payette in the western part of the state and in the oakley country in the southern section the survey is to extend from weiser in western idaho to the teton country in the southeastern part of the state thomas B jefferson who with associates have extensive holdings in ther the big piney oil field arrived in kemmerer two weeks ago and went out to the field to take charge of the operations of the associated oil company which will do extensive development work in that region this year As has been announced in the republican the associated company which is a subsidiary of the southern pacific railway hallway company will drill a deep test well on deeded ground this summer to test all of the sands being equipped to go feet if necessary mr jefferson is an oil man of extensive experience and a better choice to manage the affairs of the company could not have been made elko free press july 5 the report of prof frederick J pack prominent oil expert brought here from salt lake city by the elko oil corporation was made friday evening in the mayer hotel to the stockholders and in no uncertain terms the expert passed 0 adversely on the probabilities of the elko field lying a few miles to the north and west of the city in company with president gedney the expert was taken to the field on friday morning and the entire day was spent in going over the land taken up by the corporation it was planned to have professor pack spend the greater portion of the week in the field but what lie he saw on the first day was sufficient for him to reach the opinion that there was no further ne need ed of spending more of his time and the companas comp anys money 0 |