| Show whole Raft loads of stimulating news from nearby oil fields are wafted wafred into harbor during the past two week period oil news developments of the past two weeks are so much improved that a reading of the enthusiasm thermos eter will show a decided rise in temperature for one thing a deep seated oil stratum has been encountered in the frank shafer no 1 well below moab on the ca cane ne creek dome at a depth of feet a flow of oil that forced itself to the surface and scattered the welcome fluid all over the derrick was encountered during the afternoon of the ad instant so strong was the gas pressure that accompanied it that drilling tools were lifted about feet off bottom ia where they wedged tight and practically clogged the bore an attempt to jar them loose resulted in a parting of the cable and all efforts since made to fish out the rope and clear the well have proven only partially successful itis it is believed that when the well has been cleaned out the flow of oil will begin again then it will be necessary to under ream and put down the casing to the bottom of the well before drilling is resumed in the meantime it is reported the well continues to gas heavily so there seems to be no doubt that an important oil bearing t horizon has been reached this news from the well indicates the oracles ora cles say that a stratum has been encountered that is most likely to prove much more important than the first oil flow encountered at a depth of 2028 feet if it turns out that way it will be con that the southeastern utah oil field will make history very cry rapidly from this time on this strike seems to prove that the salt stratas passed through are to have no effect on in the value and efte extent nt of the underlying oil bearing formations in other words it will determine that the field at depth has been proven since the latest disclosure in this well activity all over th i southwestern field has been renewed and a lively win tars r s campaign of development on many of the structures in that mat region is assured another piece pc of good news affecting the southeastern ut h oil country developed during the past week when it was lil 18 learned that big operators in the Mid continent field are eleto tackle the country away below green river utah southeasterly oth easterly from the san rafael swell on the sequoia anticline flanking flankin the e holdings of the W L curry crowd of pt P pittsburg t tasbur which has been holding on to much ground down wn there for ye years ars it is reported here that E J lambert an oil and business man of tulsa oklahoma has had a corps corn the n of geologist s going over the entire region easterly from nry mountains bains ta ins and that depending on their final re port port will determine whether Mid continent operators will tackle the region on or not it is declared that the tion eions hav alle i so far made by the oil geologists sent into the field ve been it is favorable these investigations as far as able to learn at this time begin in the country fifty to sixty miles south of green river on the rio grande railroad and heres still another new one on the fourth of the month walter james the blackrock sevier county business iness and mining man who launched an oil company early in the year to drill out in the valley a few miles north of east of blackrock was in salt he was displaying a of heavy blackish greasy stinking shale that local 6 geologists declared was from the pennsylvanian formation and that it might prove the caprock cappock to an oil bearing sand the james well is said to have attained a depth of over 1800 feet and the visitor said that work of sinking finking was progressing steadily so maybe there will be a chance to give sevier county credit for an oil well of value before long y sp all that th the minin mining review has previously said about boring for oil right here in salt lake city has been veri verified since the last issue by walter B scoville of ogden who represents his brothers and other members of the syndicate which has erected the eighty four foot derrick a couple of blocks east of the salt lake pressed brick com banys plant this side of thirty third south street on the highland drive interviewed by a daily paper mr scoville announced that the plant was being equipped to drill with a standard r rig I 1 i g and that a twenty inch hole would probably be studded in today the he and his associates have formed a close corporation and they promise to spend 40 or in proving the ground selected for the w wildcat ild test the villes are the people that recently put over the deal through the beneficial company with the california petroleum corporation and on which a cash payment already has been made A report from A H dorff in charge of operations at the egildson diamond drill bore twelve miles east of labarge wyoming a few days ago brought the news that the well then had attained a depth of 2140 feet while an 1978 1991 feet and another saturated oil showing was made at to sand was cut at 2006 feet the nature of the formation being penetrated has convinced the management that the best prospect of making an important prod producer acer will be government geologists an and d inspectors found a little deeper have already expressed the opinion that the showing encountered at the 1978 foot mark could coul d be made reasonably productive and should it develop later that greater depth attained could not be expected to bring results than now tried out however A G be the sands at 1978 1991 may burritt consulting geo geologist lorist for the operators and every other authority on the situ situation aaion b believes that the wellis well is destined shortly to prove that a new structure of great potential value to the industry is is going to be proven up in in the next few hundred feet burritt reports on piney labarge the piney labarge field is one of the busiest spots in wyoming according to A G burritt consulting geologist and pioneer of the field who returned from a hurried trip into that lively section on wednesday last A long string of trucks is employed carrying supplies from opal into the field where they are unloaded as rapidly as possible and rushed back to the railroad over forty carpenters are employed in constructing the camp of the california petroleum company at labarge which recently bought the holdings of the beneficial and the newlon interests teams are leveling a site for a barrel farm at labarge from this point in the spring it is planned to build forty eight miles of pipeline to opal the nearest railroad point two ditch digging machines are excavating trenches into the field two six inch lines will be laid as soon as this work is completed to convey oil from the field to lo 10 labarge tank farm the california petroleum company is planning to rig tit ten strings of tools three of which will be standard and the rest leydecker and star type two rigs are drilling and two more are being rigged up preparatory to starting holes one of the wells is being cemented preliminary to drilling into an oil sand the midwest exploration company is drilling at a depth of feet or more in section 21 in addition to the score or more of holes going down drilling is extending to the north into the bi big g piney field the scoville interests of ogden are rigging up to drill on oil section 32 30 in the big piney area the same group is hauling materials to the henry budd tract section 36 31 to erect a star rig the corder well on section 9 29 is down 1800 feet with the objective sand about feet below the lackey interests are going to spud in on section 12 27 ogden interests have located a well on section 13 27 the squires well is down 1100 feet and near an oil sand on section 36 27 oil has begun to show with the sixty million feet of gas flow from the test of hiawatha dome which was brought in october 11 the strike is situated southeast of rock springs wyoming and is known as the south end of baxter basin oil men consider the result to be of vast importance and state that development activities in this district should be greatly augmented by the oil found in hiawatha dome |
