Show As the winds breeze in the oil news postmaster J H mantle of kemmerer was notified a few days ago from washington that a postoffice post office has been established at calpet calbet in the labarge oil field paul B Rose baught being named postmaster A G burritt salt lake geologist 6 who was in the city for fora a few days before leaving for daysville dansville Days ville ore stated that the labarge field near kemmerer is the busiest spot of its size in the state 0 of wyoming b forty strings b of tools are drilling ailward oil ward in addition the california petroleum is operating b a refinery which furnishes operators in the district fuel for drilling petroleum for refining is being obtained from the companas comp anys labarge wells the mile interstate highway linking rock springs wyo with vernal utah is is reported complete this brings the great uintah basin of utah into rock springs tributary territory W C armstrong of the P R oil corporation left vernal a few days since and reached rock springs before noon it is a scenic trip with many canyons to traverse and a riverview river view highway in spots oil survey parties are rejoicing over the finish of the new road which eliminates roundabout trips and brings oil structures closer to each other the heaviest water pressure ever known in oil well drilling developed at the scoville well on the fear ranch southeast of big piney recently according to report just received in m kemmerer the water was encountered close to bottom over 2000 feet and great difficulty was encountered in casing it off special casing had to be procured heavy enough to withstand the tremendous pressure shown to be 1500 pounds an amazing thing in itself those familiar with the flow declare it the heaviest pressure ever encountered or heard of in the history of oil well drilling and it is fortunate that it could be cased off from 1859 to 1925 approximately wells were grilled drilled for oil and gas in the united states of these wells nearly early or 20 per cent were dry holes the greatest activity in drilling was in 1920 when wells were completed high prices following the depletion of oil stocks during bunn the e war period caused this unusual activity 1 in n A wells were drilled for oil and gas exclusive of dry y gas wells in california for which data are not available ts exas led in number of oil wells drilled in 1925 with oklahoma lahoma was second with 2929 report port from labarge is that the claremont oil com ny has brought bought in the largest gas well of the labarge district at around feet depth while drilling for oil the property PO PertY P y was taken over by the claremont from the miller avell interests rests ot of seattle which already had a commercial and upon lt it the ground origin originally all was newlon property lies eisland west and south of the california petroleum prop erty e T and south of the wolf interests which are bringing in considerable 1111 con lp merable oil the flow of the gasser is estimated at not than han twenty million cubic feet A cement crew is now n drill on the job endeavoring deavo ring to cement off the flow that the may be continued into the oil sands aroun on ja june loth says ya the washington county news a wash au P of wel known business men expressed faith that prod hington county y possesses a greater potentiality for the action of crude petroleum than an any other part of south tester eltern 1 r T r atah 11 when they y ancor incorporated ed the arrowhead pem corporation the primary object of this tion lion is to test the land which they have acquired upon the punchbowl Punch bowl washington and bloomington domes all these domes are situated in washington county the board of directors is composed odthe following men president A L woodhouse Wood hous e cedar city utah vice president fred C dern a brother of governor dern salt lake city secretary and treasurer kumen D williams st george utah the balance of the executive board is J F tolton beaver utah john fuller cedar city utah and enoch burton st george utah |