Show As the winds breeze in the oil news midwest exploration company subsidiary of midwest refining C company has opened offices in vernal utah with C G scott a 5 district superintendent and H R soper as clerk mr ar scott will have under his jurisdiction the mid bests tests on the ashley valley structure and those near rangely langely Ran gely colo and duchesne utah structure plans for leasing approximately acres of cedar valley lands for oil development by outside capital were vere presented to the cedar city utah chamber of commerce at a recent membership meeting by representatives of oil interests it was pointed out that even in case they should not find oil production drilling would tap the enormous underground water deposits in the valley according to the lease proposed if the interests are not operating by may 1 1928 the lease will auton automatically expire the ohio oil companas Comp anys gas well on the hiawatha dome just over the state line into colorado and fifty miles south of rock springs which blew in suddenly sunday night november 13 from a depth of 2008 feet has been increasing creasan Y its flow until it is now estimated around cu ft per day gas is accompanied by a deafening roar which can be heard within a radius of a dozen miles it is a steamy wet gas and the billows of steam may be seen for several miles distance from the well the prairie oil gas company has announced completion of negotiations for the laying of a gas line from the panhandle field in texas to the city of denver com banys holdings in potter hutchinson moore and carson counties will supply the gas the line will cost approximately and will be a little more than miles in in length the coal strike in colorado and new mexico has don done e much m lich toward settling t the disputes which have held up tip the final closing of the contract for this line the frank shafer no 1 well on cane creek dome is again blowin flowing oil into the storage tanks after a weeks shutdown of operations op orations erat ions while overhauling the pompi pumping ng equipment ment according b to recent report mechanical troubles are anticipated for a few weeks in the operation of the pump but ut these can be overcome in the meantime the well is making a nice commercial flow of oil and the storage facilities will soon be filled to capacity the utah southern oil company has proved beyond question that the shafer no 1 tell 11 is is a commercial producer in spite of the heavy flow of salt it water coming in above the oil stratum and which can not ot be shut out in this well the company is making ar range ments to commence operations on its second well ivell denver may have a great oil field right in its front yard A good showing of oil in what geologists declare is the shan non sand has been found on jhc thc mud bits of the mcdee drilling company boring the well near the fitzsimons hos pa pital on the eastern edge of denver the well has been under operation for more than a year the oil was en countered entered ered at feet and the showing is sufficient to ate a real well at greater depths according to E B dill president of the mcdee company and G N sec detary treasurer the well is being drilled by the mcdee company ipaty under contract for the fitzsimons ions oil leasing i company of denver at 1700 feet a gas flow of 10 million anillio n cubic u lc feet gt per day was encountered with a fair showing of ill i at u 1500 feet a twelve inch stream of water was struck but this was shut off by the ten inch casing which is now it t down to 2840 feet As another stimulating indication of the actual and po tennial production of the labarge oilfield bilfield oil field wyoming the kemmerer gazette of the reports that the new barrel tank erected recently is half full of oil barrels oil was turned into this tank shortly after the first of the present month only the calpet calbet is turning oil into this tank according to report and that company is not running all its production nor running oil into the tank continuously thus one concern is producing more than the announced requisite for a pipe line 2000 barrels daily another tank of barrels has been full for several months besides the large amount being hauled out day and night by trucks this production does not include the rainbow wolf petroleum superior oil co utah oil nor the texas co production which probably would total another thousand barrels daily production while in salt lake on business a few days ago H H link secretary treasurer and guiding spirit in the operations of the price petroleum company reported that sinking in in the well had been resumed driller ed walsh having ing recovered from the illness that necessitated his going to his his home in grand junction with the well down to the 2565 foot mark when work was resumed it is hoped that the objective can be reached in a short time without great difficulty however the cavey condition of the ground round in the lower reaches of the ore bore has interfered con considerably sider ably with making headway during the past several weeks it is now believed that the if trouble rouble has been conquered and that good progress can again be made the price petroleum well is is going down within the city limits of price the company controls about acres of land around and in the vicinity of the well so that if a producer is developed the backers of this enterprise will stanl stand to reap a fortune for their loyal support of the undertaking announcement has been made that B 0 jones vice president of the utah southern oil company has severed active connection with that company and will immediately organize a new oil corporation to operate in the eastern utah territory mr jones who will remain a director of the utah southern company is said to be amply financed for his venture the first step will be the taking 21 over of one half of the utah southern companas comp anys interest in the four colorado river salt domes in southeastern utah these are the cane creek the shafer the lockhart and the indian creek at cane creek dome apparently commercial oil has again been developed in the discovery well after a shutdown of nearly two years due to trouble with the hole A half interest in the utah southern companas comp anys holdings in the salt valley anticline about twenty five miles northeast of cane creek will also be taken over these holdings comprise approximately acres drilling operations will be carried on u under the direction of the utah southern oil company |