Show As the winds breeze in the oil news col A G burritt salt lake 6 geologist reports that the well of the beaver valley oil company has reached a depth of feet drilling has been suspended temporarily to low lower er and set four and a half inch casing as the hole is is caving some the report also stated a good showing of oil and gas has been persistent for some time the beaver valley oil Coni company pany headed by walter james is making a test of the pennsylvania formation near black rock heavy Z gas pressure has handicapped operations at the ashley valley test of the utah oil refining company near vernal according to reports received in salt lake a week ago under reaming had reached a depth of 1345 feet the plan of the operators is to to a depth of 1655 feet where ten inch casing will be set before drilling into the horizons productive of great gas flows in the no 1 well in the morrison in drilling the last feet it is said no less than six 6 gas sands have been struck with a slight 1 showing Z of oil on one outburst the force of gas threw all the water and mud out of the hole and shot the bailer to the top of the derrick ac sac y twelve carloads of ditch digging machinery have arrived aved in colorado and work has been started on the ama rillo denver natural gas line pipe has been distributed along the right of way and is to be welded into place as fast as the ditch is ready supply stations along the route will be maintained to insure the completion of the contract by oct 1 1928 drilling of the beehive dome situated eleven miles southeast of st george utah has been undertaken by california interests oil men of southeastern utah will follow the beehive test with close interest since it is the first test of the moenkopi Moen kopi west of the hurricane fault drilling will be done by the felix scheer drill contractors of san bernardino cal the well site was located by A L hiatt of riverside and W J graham of st george who interested california capital in the venture the hole is being put down a little east of the apex of the dome it is said on the permit held byars by mrs jessie H reynolds of manteca cal A productive horizon should be reached at a depth of feet it is estimated development of a commercial producer on this structure said to embrace a considerable acreage would be of great importance import ane to washington county studding in of the diamond oil test of the buskirk anticline situated in diamond fork canyon near thistle was accomplished on wednesday last week the operation was witnessed by a large delegation from spanish fork and springville Spring ville and by a number of officials of the company including manager J W musser secretary joseph behling john shewell and geologist C W buskirk the john L shafer no 1 well on cane creek dome which will be the first flank test of the utah southern oil company will be studded in within a few weeks moving of drilling equipment to the location is now under way that the illipah petroleum syndicate will bring in a producing oil well before christmas is the prediction and confident belief of J E amenda manager the drill has reached the top sand at feet with the sludge showing gas and oil colors and a string of 6 inch casing was being run into the hole when he left it is the purpose to continue drilling to the second sand a stratum 45 feet thick which will nill bettit be cut at af feet according to the log lo 10 of well no 3 this hole holc is only twelve feet from no 3 well which was abandoned when a string Z of casing was dropped by the driller Illi illipah pali is in a basin on the edge of a mountain range in white pine county about forty miles west of ely and midway between that town and eureka nevada the first well of the illipah petroleum syndicate was studded in in september 1920 drilled to feet and abandoned after a long fishing job when the buckling of a string of casing caused loss of the tools the zola oil company operating on section 25 township 27 range 93 in the crooks gap section has suspended operations for the winter clyde H decker who has been in charge of the drilling during the past few months was successful in sidetracking sidetracking about feet of pipe and drilling the well to a depth of feet where considerable water was encountered the well is now cased to within a few feet of the bottom and it is understood that the company will probably drill deeper in the early spring rawlins wyo republican js se the well of the midwest refining company on oil the lies iles dome near craig colorado which recently produced over 1000 barrels of oil may make molly rink wood mansie wealthy despite her efforts to prevent it molly leaped into the public eye when she armed herself with a shotgun and for days prevented the midwest workmen from entering her property where the new well is now located royalties from the well which promises to be one of the best ever opened up tip in colorado may make her wealthy the well is expected to produce about 1500 barrels a day under normal flow which is retarded now by process of separation from the 17 million feet of za gas as which flows daily the oil is liht light li ht green areen in color and h has as a gravity gr amity of 31 molly who fought for two years to prevent the drilling of her land will come in for a generous share of the royalties t SJ with the bringing brin ino in of two more producers both on the famous section 34 leases leases of calpet calbet in the labarge field welded added assurance for the early spring construction of pipeline from the fields to railhead underwent underwo nt further crystal crystallization iza tion on oil tuesday carpets Cal pets 6 J in the southwest quarter of section 34 was hooked up with tank line and showed for a good average shallow sand producer or anywhere from to barrels daily in the northwest quarter of the same section the 4 A well of the same operating company cut its first shallow oil sand and showed for good average production but drilling below found a water sand feet deeper which necessitated plugging back before the resumption of further b deep drilling b pr practically y all the lands in the three sections being eing operated intensively by calbet calpet are held by either kem gnerer permit ees or local fee owners the majority is permit land kemmerer gazette i it is reported from craig colo that one of the major clil il companies operating in the craig field intends to drill two more additional deep tests in the moffat field these wells to 0 o test both the morrison and the sundance formations the norrison is known to be productive in this field but the sundance has not been tested the dakota sand has been a heavy producer in the field for three years |