Show As the winds breeze in the oil news according to the latest information received from great falls the gas pipeline from the kevin sunburst field to great falls will be finished by december 1st ast the utah southern is taking over operations on cane creek dome and will resume work on this well within a week or two reports the moab times independent of the an inventory of midwest equipment on cane creek and shafer domes was completed wednesday an attempt will be made to develop the horizon at 2028 feet which produced a large amount of oil but which was abandoned by the midwest in this well due to the impossibility of shutting out water coming in from above utah southern also plans to drill at least one flank well to test the salt dome theory the utah southern is taking over the equipment of frank shafer no 1 and john L shafer no 1 on cane creek dome and J H shafer no 1 on shafer dome snowden are retaining their equipment used in drilling the prommel no 1 and it will be left in the field pending further developments the midwest utah oil refining refining and other companies are reported to be interested in the work planned by the utah southern the latter company however will have sole charge of all operations an oil engine b as an auxiliary power unit is to be brought from alma sunday it is expected for the index shale oil oi company the davis truck that has been engaged on the highway work near leadville which work was to be completed friday will be sent after the engine the index company bought a big truck recently but while it was being driven over from denver so many defects in it developed that the machine was sent back to the dealer it is believed the index plant may be started up within the coming week as it is reported to be almost ready now for operation de beque news E ae H rosenburg of los angeles 6 is rigging up to begin drilling grilling on the porcupine dome near forsythe montana mr rosenburg has an agreement with the montana pacific oil company which in turn has an agreement for acreage with the ie stellar oil gas company A number of years ye ars ago stellar cellar drilled several wells the deepest being 2340 feet it is estimated that production will be had at from to feet five thousand gallons of crude oil were used daily durm park 1119 part of the past season in oiling the roads of yellowstone according cording to a recent daily press report the mcgee holmes aimes syndicate well at 14 15 10 has been pronounced dry and Q abandoned by the drillers drillars dr illers superintendent ora huey 1 will remain there ere until the casing has been pulled and the hole oie plugged and then leave for Atina amarillo pillo texas where his syndicate indicate has another drilling contract the depth was 2464 feet acet at the time of the abandonment they were drilling in a dry y sand at the last depth development ant of uintah basin oil holdings of the west of ern cm arenture venture corporation is to be begun under the direction F j JS T sur of experience in in P a geologist twenty years texas ined fid and Wy wyoming orning who for the last two years has con 1 tur his by activity to the uintah basin the western ven 1 attire the corporation rp oration a company organized under the laws of I 1 1 state of neva vada a is capitalized for slow divided into I 1 anair equal shares mr sur is president of the company an frank rank E E davis vice president delit holdings of tile the com pany consist of more than acres near vernal on three structures where mr sur believes large production will be found activity of the company for the present will be confined to drilling formations of the tertiary age on the vernal east of vernal where the company has a rig and a hole started noah rogers has made application in the local land office for a lease in the virgin river territory for lands in township 41 south and range 12 west rogers application declares that a well feet fee t deep has been drilled and that during a boiling test ninety five barrels of oil were obtained the discovery well the application says was drilled by the oil company drilling operations of the beaver oil company on section 19 24 9 near black rock utah has reached a depth of 2895 feet in pennsylvanian limestone encouraging indications of oil it is said have been struck the well was recently visited by S R bishop rock springs geologist frank paxton millard county commissioner fred bird of hatton and walter james president and manager of the com company jacques president of the california petroleum corporation of california parent company of the california petroleum corporation of utah which is operating at labarge was a visitor in kemmerer wyoming making a trip to the calpet calbet property at labarge b mr head of the largest independent oil corporation in the west was en route from his companas comp anys prope properties in montana to h his is headquarters in los angeles rates agreed upon for the natural gas to be piped into denver fr from orn amarillo texas follows first cubic feet 90 cents a month next cubic feet 15 cents a hundred next 1000 cubic feet per month 7 cents a hundred next cubic feet per month 6 cents a hundred over cubic feet per month 5 cents a hundred the gas will be delivered to the cities service company which will distribute it to consumers operation of midwest refining company in ne ya sec 9 on the hobbs structure in lea county new mex will be watched with considerable interest because it is a doodlebug location the drilling site was selected by an instrument controlled by the midwest midwest known as the mag nat ometer the new instrument is said to locate minerals and liquids on the magnetic principle W H chark returned from a trip to denver where he was looking after matters connected with the patenting of f oli shale holdings of the shaffer shaff er oil refining and the honolulu consolidated oil companies the application papers for both now are being prepared and as soon as the land in townships 6 and brange 7 range 99 is restored to entry next month publication of the notices of application will be started shaffer shaff er holdings consist of 29 and the honolulu of 22 claims |