| Show WILL FIRST OIL GUSHER BE TAPPED IN CRESCENT EAGLE WELL from the looks of things at the moment it is not going to be many days until the crescent eagle oil company settles once and for all whether its backers are to be rewarded by the announcement that a genuine gusher has been tapped and that faith in the enterprise has been justified last wednesday a week ago the 41 inch casing for which the management has been waiting passed through salt lake and a day or two later was being delivered at the well it was then figured that with ordinary good luck this string of casing would be grounded in the bottom of the hole and set so that drilling might be resumed 1 within ten days everybody cona con necked with the proposition is on the tiptoe tip toe of expectancy while the watching public is expecting the work in this well to definitely determine whether utah is to be rated among the big oil producing states of the country in the future A few days ago said C H allen alien president of the company in discussing the situation at the well our head driller john tannehill one of the best drilling experts in this country decided to swab out the hole for a portion of the distance so that the water which has been holding back the gas pressure might be lowered and a determination made as to whether the gas gas pressure had subsided he was not long in deciding that it had not when less than half of the water standing in in the well had been removed the gas shot out of the well and the subterranean su noise noise and rumbling I 1 which accompanied the flow of gas water and mud left no doubt that the tremendous gas pressure was still there tannehill stated that the gas was so wet that when lie he poked his hand into the flow and withdrew lie he had immersed it in a can though it his hand was as wet as I 1 of gasoline casoline oa soline and the odor was identical 6 that demonstration proved that it would be unsafe to until the string of casing had been attempt any anything thing more new 6 placed and set because of the risk that would be ta taken ken in losing the well the well is 2330 feet deep and is bottomed on the top of an oil sand that mr tannehill is sanguine will produce high grade rade in such volume that there will no longer be any doubt Z 6 as to whether utah is to take its place among potential oil field sections of the country oil 0 il geologist A G burritt following an ail examination of the property months ago was of the same opinion the crescent eagle companas comp anys well is located six miles railroad and only a west of thompsons thom Thomp esons sons on the rio grande mile and a half from the main line its geographical z C location I 1 if f oil in commercial utah is about the middle of giand gand county the quantity is developed in the crescent eagle well marketing problem is already solved because it is practically t the he railroad on it oil boom is is on if the crescent eagle gets |
