Show As s the winds breeze in the oil news oil news developments during the past two weeks as they relate to local operations have stood as close to the i zero mark as they have at any time during the winter not that activities have ceased or that there has been much slowing plowing down but just because news out of the ordinary routine has not been forthcoming at the original shafer well it is said that marking time is the order of the day awaiting a string of steel casing from pittsburgh other activities in the south country are covered to some extent in the items following the same holds good for the la barge dry piney section over in southwestern wyoming Z but as the winter season wanes there is not a shadow of doubt that a real revival will be heralded in the meantie meantime me lets make the best of it by patiently waiting price sun john W mcgee and W H holmes the texas operators will be drilling for oil about half way between price and wellington on the south side of the river some four miles out of this city within the next few days yesterday thursday afternoon mcgee went through this city on denver rio grande western train no 3 for the state ca capital lital after acquiring a rig at green river from the f Uta utah hOil oil refining company this in use down there but a short time is said to be as good as new and a standard he was accompanied by his driller ora huey the trip to zion is to buy some tools and other things required in operations here R J turner local representative and attorney for the texas interests met mcgee at the train for a short conference he will be in price about the first of the coming week when more of his plans will be known the work contemplated will be on no nd small scale holmes and mcgee have producing properties at amarilla tex and elsewhere in the lone star state as well as in new mexico they are confident of developing a producer at the location selected locally their holdings in the nine mile section and in the basin country are also large the big six well three miles west of moab the p pio jo heer test of the district is drilling new hole at a depth of aop feet and during the past few days there has been a noticeable increase in the gas flow A hard black shale is being mg cut for a couple of weeks the well had been tie tied d up by y the necessity of drilling up a joint of casing b but the lt last of the iron was brought out several days day S ago and good progress is now being made A complete shut 0 ff of water hasteen has as been effected and the ay 4 8 inch hole can now be carried carrie d down several hundred feet deeper if necessary moab times negotiations for the sale of the holdings holding YS of the sentinel en oil company compan y in the torrance and rosecrans oi oil I 1 fields e to 10 the standard oil company of california for a consideration aaion in m excess of a million dollars were completed in los angeles eles a week ago in announcing the sale of the props arties F ester foster vice president of the sentinel said that 1 r of the proceeds will be distributed to the stock balders S as a dividend trend of 50 cents a share par value being 1 1 the e properties sold include acres in the torrance field with fi fifteen wells town lot leases in the rosecrans field with w tn four producing wells the sentinels interest in a e lease held jointly with the standard in the Torrance field band and also its interest in the E J miley forty acre lease 11 u the same field the deal adds 2300 barrels a day to the standard aldard andard of Cali fornias production the he california ornia petroleum company had just about completed ted its big modern camp at wyomah in the labarge field m in southwestern wyoming on the it is more like a than an oil camp among the buildings are a dunk bunk house cook house garage and machine shop the new club c ab house was opened on christmas there is a big central power plant for electric lightning central heat and the pumping of an excellent supply of water for domestic use something that is greatly appreciated by the fifty or more employed emp loyes of the place is two phonographs and two of the latest radios says the casper oil index the ahe company has five producing wells with an aggregate daily production of about barrels A number of small tanks have been erected in which to store the crude and one barrel tank is nearly completed in addition to the producing wells the company is drilling seven new tests crew of pipe liners is busy on a line from the field to railhead and the lympany company is getting ready for intensive drilling campaign with the advent of milder weather in the spring t 0 dakota montana oil company on january 1st ast paid a dividend of 5 per cent the company has paid a total of 55 per cent to date according to advices advises from dillon the crowley oil company will spud in its test well in the crowley oil field about march alst 1st this field is nine miles northwest of dillon montana the officers of the company include F J hagenbarth salt lake president of the national wool growers association burton T green one of the organizers of the assoria associated ted oil of california and W H duffer of los angeles in 1926 over barrels of oil were p produced reduced in the kevin sunburst field and commercial oil wells were completed these wells had an average initial production of barrels according to the northern oil information bureau of shelby montana it is reported in great falls that ralph arnold has taken over a block of thirty thousand acres from the wolf creek oil oi I 1 company anthe on ithe wolf creek structure in carter and powder river counties montana the th e oil and gas prospecting permit held by william douglas covering a tract of land on the san rafael swell T 23 S R 12 E has been canceled according 1 I to notice received at the local office from the general land office this land will be restored to filing under the leasing act at 10 a in february 10 and all permits filed up to that time will be considered as having been filed simultaneously it is announced in case there is more than one qualified applicant the award will be made as the result of a drawing A green river utah dispatch of the says on being opened up this morning after a rest re st of several months the crescent eagle well situated on the crescent dome near thompsons Thomp sons shot oil over the top of the m mast ast for fi five ve minutes subsided and flowed water and then started gasing and making oil and finally caught fire from the derrick stove burned down the derrick house and nearly destroyed the rig before it was wa s extinguished this report was made by H C allen alien salt lake attorney w who ho with associates has a lease on the well and surrounding gro ground und mr allen alien who arrived at the field to dir direct act the beginning of operations at his lease states es that the well was opened up this morning and the tools run into the hole at a depth of after drilling through thirty feet truck struck I 1 bridge was s feet a of plug the tools were blown up in the hole and oil spurted arted forty five feet in the air for five minutes except for destruction sheltering the drilling equipment no of the house st t will not be delayed mr damage was done a and nd operations allen alien is confident that production is coming from the stratum at feet which has at numerous times before made impressive showings within twenty or thirty days he expects that the leasing company will have the hole cleaned out and casing set on the bottom so that a thorough test can be made the well which is now under control is gasing strongly as operations at the boulder knoll oil oi I 1 and gas com banys well nine miles east of monticello have been suspended for the past few weeks waiting for a bull wheel and other equipment this well is now at a depth of 1650 feet it is the intention odthe of the company to if necessary and lower the ten inch casing that was recently run so as to maintain as large a hole as possible I 1 T the he hiland hi land oil company of ogden has filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk showing a capitalization of divided into 2500 shares of preferred stock at a share and shares of common stock at 20 a share walter B scoville is president A T write vice vice president L M malan treasurer and secretary S joseph smith and john A way directors |