Show petroleum notes it is reported arted that the kevin oil gas abi companas Comp m anys H herman er no 1 located on sec 21 35 sw in the extreme northwest corner of the kevin sunburst field montana has been brought in as a commercial producer developments at two grand county oil wells the cres cent eagle near thompsons Thomp sons and the cisco no 2 of the utah oil refining b company near cisco are still hovering at a crucial point without decisive events occurring indications that the crescent eagle well ison the brink of pro are many according to official reports A showing of pure crude oil struck in a sand about feet from the surface on the utah oil refining companas Comp anys well at vernal utah has created more excitement throughout gh the district than anything that has happened for the past fifty years according to officials of the ashley valley oil company for whom the well is being driven with a total depth of feet bellof well of the midwest refining company at north casper creek has developed a flow flaw of 1 bals of fresh water and 80 bals of oil bottom of hole is supposed to be in the Ten sleep sand with feet more of this formation remaining unexplored by the drill further drilling had to be suspended because the cable tools would no longer drop against such a volume of wat water r accompanied by a pressure of df pounds five carloads of equipment for the drilling of the john L shafer no 1 test oil well eighteen miles down the C colorado 0 river from moab are en route to thompsons Thomp sons two lw of the cars are loaded w with I 1 ith casing s shipped hipped from youngstown ohio and the pipe is is in 20 15 10 8 and 6 aich sizes the other three cars are loaded with gasoline engine boiler strings of tools tool dressing outfits arid and other paraphernalia for the rig and machi machinery anery inc including luding the aerial tim i bers for the derrick all of the equip equipment mentis is new ma material and with the exception of the timbers is from caspe casp er wyo tomorrow saturday is the day selected for drilling into the sand in the harrison well on thi the dudley estate estai tract west of town when the possibilities of the well a as 11 a of oil producer should be learned says the de beque news the ath announcement to this effect was made tuesday by he manager J F harrison who stated however mt th it that would hot make any estimate as to the length 0 of f tune time u will be required to reach the sand and drill deeply enous that into it to make a test of its productiveness he stated stated i eight it was estimated the drill must be sent down seven or eig feet results can be known an in view of the pub lity e given the announce announcement me nt it is is expected there willbe a ae ia e number of people at the well to witness the event it is confidently believed that the well will be a producer on a commercial scale and that the completion will inaugurate a new era of prosperity in de beque and result in the speedy development of the whole field and also lead to development of the battlement structure across the river the lumber town of verdi eleven miles west of reno nevada was excited a few days ago over the discovery of oil shale in a cut on the main highway at verdi glen a resort on the west edge of town al revert president of the verdi lumber co on whose land the discovery was made brought samples of the shale to reno revert said that oil and water were oozing from cracks in the shale when he visited the place an engineer who was on the ground said the grading had uncovered the top of a perfect anticline the shale deposit was cut by the isbell construction company which has a contract on the new highway the discovery is about two and one half miles east of the nevada california state line nevada mining press |