Show As the winds breeze in the oil news officers of the price river petroleum company report that the test well being drilled at price section 16 14 10 is is now down more than 2335 feet and that the geological formations underlying price will be thoroughly tested the fir first st layer of the dakota formation was reached at a depth of 2245 feet this layer was a fine sand with considerable talc in this there was much iauch oil in the form of a heavy grease the last two feet of the formation became more coarse and the oil was mobile enough to fill the hole for a small distance which according to the company officials is a very encouraging sign the sand immediately beneath the red bed now being penetrated is coarse and spongy and should contain the oil in a more liquid form sewell thomas mining engineer of denver and a son of former U S senator charles S thomas spent several days in debeque recently looking after his oil shale interests mr thomas purchased about acres of oil shale claims in battlement mesa district several years ago and now is preparing to apply for government patents to the lands the utah oil refining company is spending approximately in the installation of holmes manley process in companas comp anys refining plant at north salt lake it will double the gasoline capacity of the plant and give one of the highest grades of gasoline on the market it is stated it also will result in a material saving in the cost of distillation and bring the local refinery in a class with the finest in the country two units are now being installed it is understood der stood that one unit is already in operation report from the labarge oil field is that the california petroleum corporation is soon to erect another bar rel oil storage tank to care for the increasing production at the field the same company erected a tank of the same size early last year and it is reported to be nearly full as well as other stora storage 6 e tanks in the field of which there are many this action is taken to 0 mean that it likely that the calpet calbet has bas much confidence in a pipe line being laid to railhead this year the gas and small oil showing made by union oil company with its test on lisbon dome proved to be only a pocket with very little oil showing company got the showing at 2693 feet and the tools were blown up where they jammed feet from the top the drilling resumed and the hole is now down 2870 feeland feet and has passed through massive salt formation most of the way according to recent report the annual meeting of the rainbow oil company was held in kemmerer recently with the following elected members of the board of directors R D george georg W anderson C M bjerke chester H bowers and will S fawcett the board was organized by electing will S fa fawcett w president R D vice president and C H bjerke secretary treasurer various activities of the company were discussed but no change made in their original pla plans ns the utah southern oil company which heretofore has confined its activities to the rocky mountain area has closed a deal with the skelly oil company a mid continent oper ator for some joint wildcat drilling in texas the two comit tp panics anies have acquired acres on a wildcat structure in reagan county upon which a test will be drilled on a 50 50 basis the skelly company being in charge of the drilling P la hs zd ra yide for the starting fig of the be test by bt october lt 17 observing z the great demand for living quarters for the scores of persons no now w making labarge their headquarters E N simkins who recently arrived from california and J I 1 sims of labarge made a deal with W D newlon n for seven lots lot s in labarge townsite lots which recently were thrown upon the market oil showings have appeared in the W D newlon oil 61 well ivell in section 12 26 the oil was encountered at feet the baler came up dripping and the sump shows oil this well is located one and three fourths miles southeast of the nearest producer and one and one half miles south of labarge townsite navajo oil companas Comp anys poling t no 1 located on the poling headquarters ranch in hutchinson county texas is making m akin g feet of gas the company has some acres of oil land in this vicinity and is drilling another well near the poling well which has just come in as stated above A G dana president of the prairie oil and gas company accompanied by E W krampert chief geologist and other field officials are in rock springs wyo to expedite the studding spud ding in of the company companas comp anys s test on alkali creek one of the highs of the hiawatha structure this uplift is bein being given a thorough test of larger oil companies and by the american chain company interests of new york analysis made by the united states bureau of mines shows chegas the agas flowing in the well at payette idaho to be remarkably mar kably rich the well is now down 1580 feet it maybe decided to go deeper in the hope of striking kinz oil the govern ment analysis shows 2 per cent carbon dioxide 4 per cent oxygen per cent methane per cent ethane and no nitrogen W S hawley head of the big eleven oil cow which some time ago drilled a test on the conrad butt auw structure announces that he will drill two more wells on this structure according to the montana oil journal To within thirty days five wells will be drilled on the bannatyne newest bilfield oilfield oil field forty miles north of great falls on which ralph arnold brought in a producing well avell A new company has been organized and in corp for orated te eby d rawlins wyoming people under tinder the name ol of nelle oil company the men at the head of the company dat are J F J B moore glen watson and max lill in son the company has secured a lease on 2500 acres i by charted coln coin county on a new dome which was recently char geologists f geol nl dr eugene S perry head of the depart department nien t of to b the ozy oy of the montana school of mines and assistant adami director of that institution accompanied by dr na A E vis head of the mining department of the school has been D cical biting itin 11 the kevin sunburst oil field making geo ceolo loica is to be lations and securing data ifor for an oil bulletin which ma gnap issued by the state this bulletin will contain WL data suggested I 1 production and show everything which might bes b of t he as necessary to give the public a good understanding under stan field and its possibilities |