Show As the wind wafts in the news R C coffin chief geologist for the midwest refining accompanied by H A aurand are in the elkridge eckridge Elk ridge field to make preliminary arrangements for the studding spud ding in of the companas comp anys test on that structure 4 C guy wakefield vice president and general manager of the maude ellen oil company A 0 belville of blackfoot ida a director of the company tate taylor the driller of the company formerly operating in the texas oklahoma wyoming and montana oil fields and a crew of rig builders under the direction of E W emley of florence colo have arrived in vernal construction of the 80 foot derrick for the neal dome test of the maude ellen oil company six miles northwest of vernal has commenced and is expected to be ready for operations to start on the as djs y the utah oil development company will have C C double of boulder colo in the field this week to commence operations in the moab field this company is said to be fully financed and expects to do considerable drilling n i i colonel A G burritt petroleum geologist arrived in kemmerer and proceeded at once to the labarge oil field on the to locate a site for studding spud ding by the western slope oil company well on section 16 ground controlled by dr M J goldberg and associates superintendent of the western slope previously arrived in kemmerer and proceeded to move the large rig of his company on sec 17 to the new location about one mile east onto 16 where it now stands awaiting expert instructions from the geologist bert lund and G B moody geologists of the standard oil company of california have completed a twenty nine da day y trip through western san juan county they traveled miles by trail inspecting the main structural conditions the engineers had ten pack mules carrying supplies all companies in the moab field have been generally marking time until the discovery discovery well is tested some important leases of patented lands are being acquired but the starting date of drilling on these leases will be subsequent to the testing of the discovery well james somerville has leased his 1000 acres of ground on the moab anticline to ben H jackson with a provision that drilling of a test aest well shall start within sixty days 1 f ithe 1 deseret petroleum is moving a rig and equipment into the field south of moab for a test it if is understood the ts test t will be made in township 30 south range 20 east on the indian cre creek ek structure tre U 1 C colorado crude 0 o oil il production edw now averages ave averages fages barrels barre re l daily according to the weekly summary of the state immigration department this compares with barrels daily in the preceding week and 1908 barrels daily in the 1 corresponding week of last year production by fields was moffat barrels fort collins 2699 florence tow creek lies iles rangely langely Ran gely boulder 25 P H lowrie F R liese theodore Zat erstrom frank leonard and earl R burnely comprise a party of the texas production company preparing for tests in the colorado river basin the company recently purchased a new gasoline launch from harry W beyers of salt lake to use on the river being a twenty two horse power four cycle motor stockholders in the hatfield oil company are much encouraged over the striking of a large amount of gas in the shale above the dakota sands a few days since says the rawlins wyo republican there was a sufficient volume of gas to unload approximately feet of water that was standing in the hole drilling was immediately stopped after this gas was encountered and under ream ing is now in progress the casing will be taken to the bottom of the hole and cemented before the well will be drilled in intense interest has been revived of late in the oil section of teton county in the vicinity of driggs idaho D cameron who is associated with others in the development 0 of the wells of the teton county oil company was in idaho falls recently and announced that his company is within fifty feet of its objective the crew is now engaged in clearing out the drill hole which was destroyed when the gas pressure blew out the equipment several months ago considerable difficulty is being experienced in keeping the gas back according to mr cameron |