Show petroleum notes the springville Spring ville oil and gas company is making preparations to resume drilling on their property near dasin basin wyoming where a well has already been sunk to a depth of 1400 feet an additional depth of feet is to be added when it is expected that oil sands will be encountered the deep test well thirty miles east of grand junction colorado being drilled by carter oil company was down feet on the the bore is said to be the largest ever made in colorado Colora dothe the hole being started with a 22 inch drill bit the well was studded in on the drilling at the dig big six oil well near moab utah is again under way after a five day shutdown due to a broken fly wheel of the engine the mishap to the engine occurred on the the well was at a depth of 1090 feet a week ago in a blue shale formation gas and oil showings are strongly in evidence with each bailing D bergera of helper fred larcher of price and G decurti of san francisco all prominent stockholders in the western allies oil company were in moab recently looking over their oil interests there mr becatti Be cutti who is ia connected with the bank of italy san francisco and his associates are very favorably impressed with the oil outlook there their company is actively interested te rested in sinking the big six test well the well being drilled by the old emery company in the san rafael utah field had passed the hundred foot mark a week ago some surface water had made its appearance and the drillers drillars dr illers were figuring on casing ii it off according to advices advises that came out by way of huntington the well is being drilled to permit the use of fifteen and one half inch casing at the start and it is hoped that the water flow will not necessitate casing off at the depth attained A lease for railroad at green river utah to be used by a big contractor for oil field operations has been acquired by calvin cass who is understood to represent the george melcher company of casper wyoming the melcher company contracts on a large scale freighting rig building and well drilling in the wyoming fields and it is understood mr cass has secured the location here for a branch of the casper company in response to a request made by gould B blakely register of the local united states land office for information relative to the expiration of the time limit for the posting of notices following the granting by the general land office of a permit to prospect for oil and gas within the confines of the state word has been received from commissioner william spry of the general land office that the time for posting notices expires ninety days from the date of granting th the permit it in washington mr blakely said this will come as a surprise to many people who have been under the impression that the time would not expire until ninety days from the time the permit was received by the applicant during the last week something like feet of casing has been put down by the ohio oil company at its huntington well drilling is to be resumed during the next few days with the arrival of two bits the casing is twelve and a half inches and was not found necessary because of the formation until more than a thousand feet had been attained some trouble was had last week and previously owing to broken parts of the engine these have been placed price utah sun |