Show As the winds breeze in the oil news mews south baxter basin southeast of rock springs is to be tested at once in an entirely new spot SW seja sec 31 twp tap 15 R a few miles from the gap walter B scoville head of the beneficial and tower petroleum oil drilling Z companies arrived recently prepared to make the ithe start seven heavy trucks of supplies including a national rig canle came in from labarge yesterday in morning orning and were immediately headed heade df for or the drilling site in an interview with the rocket pocket mr scoville said we are going ing after oil icare we are 11 1 1 starting a small ri rig now and expect to make 1250 feet in thirty days later a stan standard darid rig riff will be used we have a star crew for this work andee and we have a new system of drilling that saves time preliminary y machinery and supplies came in this morning all told we have arranged for the transporting of twenty trucks of material for the camp the rig willbe be placed and quarters ifor for the men erected at once it will be a joint nestby test by the tower and beneficial oil companies we start with a 20 inch ilich hole and will be equipped to make a deep test we have based our conclusions on the advice of several geologists acquainted with the conditions and all have corroborated each other no drilling has ever been attempted so far south in baxter and we are in a virgin spot there has been considerable surface erosion in that locality and we figure we are closer to the pregnant sands than are many other sites in the baxter basin we have bave closed several of our camps in other fields for the winter and are concentrating all our present efforts right here in baxter basin in which we have great faith considerable showing of oil in the particles of sand which adhere to the big bit lends optimism to the atmosphere around the price river petroleum well in 16 14 10 with within ilithe the price city limits the bit is in the lower morrison sand superintendent H E walsh of the company is well pleased over the prospects at the well superintendent ora huey of the defunct south wellington 6 dome well has finished packing the tools and will leave for abr amarillo texas this week the hole at south wellington location has been plugged and the tools are being stored at the madsen ranch near by kemmerer oct 15 the california petroleum corporation has brought in what is believed to be the largest producer in the la barnefield barge field this week with an estimated flow of barrels during a 14 hour test the well its is located feet north of no 2 beneficial well known as the discovery well where a rotary drill is now being used to extend the hole to feet it is believed that the new well hits the shallow oil pool in the middle of the structure at a depth of less than 1000 feet two huge hug 6 storage estorage tanks iare are reported to have been ordreen by the coni company pany to care for oil from the new producer the well is situated on oil section 34 27 the honor of discovering los angeles now newest estoil oil field brought in iby by the associated oil companas Comp anys cypress no 1 well at potrero Po is attributed to joseph jensen formerly of salt lake by the los angeles Z daily times which says credit for the discovery of oil at prother Pro 0 goes to joseph jensen geologist for the associated oil coni company pany the field department did its full share to make the discovery possible lyle but t it was mr jensen who worked out the geology and persuaded the company to drill the well he reached the conclusion that there was at least a small accumulation of oil in that vicinity and he worked reworked out his geology carefully enough to drive a stake in the right place in section 34 reg regardless ra r adles S of the fact that the geological delart departments ments of nine other oil producing organizations Z had tried to do the same thing and had bad failed mr jensen graduated from the university of utah two of his brothers N H jensen engineer for the international smelting smelling Sm elting company and john jensen a member of the firm of cheney jensen martineau stephens are well known salt lakers report is that a trainload of oil has been shipped from the railhead loading station at susie four miles north of kemmerer the first fifteen days of the present month in all forty two cars have hav gone egone forth carrying labarge b oil to the utah oil refining companas Comp anys plant at salt lake city P t i ohio oil companas Comp anys 1650 foot discovery well of oil and gas on oil its hiawatha test on section 22 township 12 range is attracting much attention on account of its unusual nature according 6 to rock springs advises advices of a few days ago ohio is located half a mile northeast of the big myers gasser brought in last fall myers got a small gasser at about the same level of chios latest but of an entirely diff different erent texture chemically ohio got a foot flow of what is termed rainbow gas that constantly shows chromatic col 01 ors s indicating el a wet gas heavily charged t with virgin oil such a good showing was unexpected at that depth it comes from a tertiary stratum myers hole blew itself in when the wasatch lower member of the tertiary geological column was reached at 2220 feet it tested cubic feet flow it is added proof of the unconformity of that region and is out of the beaten path of usual oil conditions as uncommon if not noteworthy achievement the several sand horizons are saturated and mandof many of the drilling conditions encountered are puzzling each move in this district is attracting deep attention and none of the heavier lower sands especially especial lythe the great sundance has been reached here although athylie thy lie stretched north and south for seventy miles in reachable conformity A california company is reported to be negotiating for a lease on the government experimental oil shale plant at rulison colo and the plant may be started up lup again early next year if the california company does not secure the plant an appropriation of is to be asked of congress for the purpose of continuing the experiments the union oil company will abandon its lisbon oil test unless oil is discovered at feet the company notified the state land board by a letter from S Grim Grini engineer for the company says a moab dispatch the test is being sunk on a lease on oil section 16 township 30 south range 25 east cast in san juan county on what is known as the lisbon anticline the test is now down feet it has been definitely decided that no pipeline will be run to a railhead from the labarge Wyon wyoming ling oil field this year A preliminary survey has been run from the california tank farm in the field to opal station seventeen miles east cast of kemmerer on oil the oreon oregon short line midwest engineers 6 made the survey and it is expected the line will be constructed early next summer at present crude oil from the field is being hauled by motor tanks to susie a station on the 0 S L and transported to the salt lake refinery of the utah oil refining 1 I company california petroleum is at present erecting breding an barrel storage acre tank on its tank farm in the ithe field W J graham has received word from the california oil men 0 L hyatt PI G phelps and C C morris of riv arside and felix scheer 0 of f san bernardino who were hereabout two t I 1 va weeks we ek s ap ago that they will be here shortly with material to start drilling on the bee hive dome says say s the st george news I 1 |