Show petroleum oil shale notes denis mcelheney associated with the index shale oil company was a recent arrival coming from utah where he had been inspecting oil shale areas debeque news word from moab is to the effect that the utah oil refining company is moving a drilling rig onto ground a few miles from the crescent eagle well near thompsons Thomp sons and that a clash regarding ti title tle is on the american petroleum company of denver is erecting in 6 a derrick for its flickinger no 1 on a acre lease in the southwest quarter of section 29 10 this section adjoins section 31 on which is located the discovery well of the union oil company of california on the wellington in ton structure this well it is said will be an offset to 6 union of california leases ed H watson superintendent of the utah oil and refining company and J M crapo of roosevelt interested in oil lands came in tuesday and it is understood mr watson is negotiating b with local oil parties to start to drill in this section soon mr watson and john howard president of the utah oil and refining company were in vernal last week vernal express the white river development companas Comp anys deep test in rio blanco county colorado after innumerable difficulties covering a long period of persistent 1 effort now has its casing cemented for the first t time i me below the terrific gas pressure found in that area and is drilling without obstacles at a depth approaching b close to the first sand in which commercial oil may be expected the white river structure is nearly surrounded by oil shale beds oil has been struck in northwestern colorado for the second time the hamilton salt creek corporation last week struck a small amount of shale oil at feet their well is located a mile and a half north of the texas discovery well on section 28 this checks up with the first showing made in the discovery well and would indicate that the real oil sand will lie but ninety feet deeper than at the well brought in by the texas company samuel bradshaw of terre haure indiana Jn diana a mining engineer with more than thirty years practical experience will have charge of the t operations of the monarch shale oil company and now is is at the company headquarters on conn creek mr bradshaw arrived in debeque recently in company with N S king of denver and after making a trip to the mine and lookin looking b over the property he expressed himself as bein being z well pl pleased eased with the outlook and believes that he can cail mine shale for the plant for less than it has been costing ohio oil companas Comp anys test well on the chalk creek structure six miles east of coalville Co alville utah has encountered a showing of high grade oil at a depth of 2260 feet according to information received by owners of the lease on which the well is being drilled drilling is being done through a column of water so that it is impossible to know how much oil has been developed in the well samples of the oil and sand have been sent to the ohio oil company field headquarters at casper wyoming the oil tests 42 degree gravity a according cc to the information received and the bailer was brought up full of oil the sand in which the oil was found was entered at 2260 feet and drilled out at 2290 feet |