| Show As the wind wafts in the news oil and gas prospecting permits both of which embrace lands in grand county have been granted to esther leib and bicholas Hi cholas T henderson the salt lake hardware company has just filled an order for a carload of american steel wire rope shipped to the moab garage company it will be sold and distributed from thompsons Thomp sons moab and monticello for well drilling purposes chas W walker and H B stone of myton have been in vernal looking over some land which shows signs favorable to oil they are interested in the uintah hasin basin oil and development company of myton which has a large amount of available acreage for drilling purposes this acreage is located southeast of myton the mountain producers corporation announces the bringing 6 in of a barrel oil well in the salt creek wyo field ten days ago the flow of oil started when the lakota sand was struck and while it does not extend the boundaries of the field it is regarded as important as further proving the extreme saturation of the lakota sand the embar oil company of salt lake has completed arrangements for resuming drilling on the big six well three miles west of f moab on the colorado river J J A tannehill who will have charge 1 I of the operations has arrived in moab and is establishing a camp and getting the rig and equipment in shape for drilling bringing in afan of an oil well in sundance sand at 2040 feet with an initial production of barre barrels Is and the completion 2970 feet with an dome at of a gas well on mahoney cubic feet of gas from the same open daily flow of southern sand the lost soldier district in carbon county the me wyoming gives added import importance aiice to this territory oil well was brought in on sec 11 26 90 and the ga gas s well was completed on sec 31 26 87 1 ellen oil Colli company pany has of t the he maude the management the derrick at the announced that the rig builders to put up tip site of the companas comp anys test oil well on the neal dome six miles northwest northwest orth west of 1 l vernal ernal have been order ordered to apo report there the last of february hauling of rig timbers continues most of that part of the equipment having been delivered evered at the si site te the heavy tools recently acquired by the company have been hauled to the neal dome and drilling in it is is said is is to commence during the month of march the texas production company which has a state lease on the colorado river river bed lands extending through the big six and shafer safer structures has established a camp at a point about half a mile up the river from shafer no 1 well D F harrison and P F lowrie geologists are at the camp and are doing preliminary work looking to locating an offset well to the shafer no 1 the new annual supply bill for the department of commerce which now has jurisdiction over the bureau of mines contains an item of for continued construction work on an oil shale reduction plant in western colorado this item carries out the program adopted at senator phipps request last year has been approved by the director of the budget but the appropriation bill has not yet been acted upon by the committee on appropriations of the house some progress was made last summer and the work will be resumed this spring when weather conditions permit if plans of the beneficial oil company composed of salt lake and ogden men mature an oil test may be made at the woodward air field for oil and gas the first step toward this goal was taken when G D ebert representing walter B scoville manager of the beneficial oil company submitted a petition to the city commission for a lease on eighty acres known as betts grove on the west side of the aviation field now owned by the city and used by the government ern ment I 1 an agreement whereby the utah southern oil company will receive from palmer company a new york corporation which is closely connected with large banking interests throughout the country for one fifth interest in its capitalization of shares was ratified by stockholders at a meeting held on the the stock has a par value of 5 per share and will virtually all be issued when the deal is is consummated this action of stockholders assures utah southern oil company adequate financing for thorough tests of the holdings of the company on virtually all the principal structures in southeastern utah declared P resident president george an T hanson of the utah southern company directors and stockholders of the company in in attendance at the meeting included mr hansen george R gray san francisco T A pedley secretary and assistant treasurer of the midwest refining company denver B 0 T vice vice president of the utah southern oil company 1 ones L Is F denver J L dougan secretary detary utah southern kansas and R E rains salt lake D G hanson logan dark clark san francisco E J was absent stated that in in mr pedley the midwest representative the midwest utah southern well tested 1000 barrels cise case will be spent by his company during more or building pipe and water lines machine diachin shops in in the next year the will mean that and carrying out a drilling camp campaign dign of all the structures in in s sou ou eastern utah testing shafer the announced for will include the tests this drilling is to begin in a week a second well dome where of the elk treane creek dome as well as drilling great for foi the cane dome of the of this last one ridge largest TI T argast I structure of in rupture the west drilling will be bf started before june 30 mr pedley said |
