| Show As the winds breeze in the oil news assurance comes from more than one source that the idea of piping natural gas into salt lake and other utah towns from wyoming has not been abandoned by any means the appearance in town a week agoff ago of R S lord president of the hope engineering company of mt vernon venon ohio started tongues to wagging as they have not wag wagged 69 ed since the mining review first told of the tentative plans of the hope company when applications for a charter to do business here were announced on the subject one of the daily papers quotes mr lord as follows we as well as others interested in natural gas have been giving the salt lake situation more or less attention during the past two years and it is possible that something may be worked out to bring gas from wyoming to the salt lake valley again it may not be possible to bring about a satisfactory development we are still interested in the proposition but until something more tangible is accomplished there is nothing I 1 can say that would be in any way enlightening at about the same time mr lord was being quoted prominent gas and oil men from the southwest wyoming section also were in conference in salt lake with somebody on some business or other then as though in anticipation of big news breaking lester G baker editor and publisher publish ef of the rock springs rocket made a flying trip to this city accompanied by geo L erhard who evidently trails up the news for the rocket and other wyoming oil and gas publications if these worthy boosters boasters bo of south southwestern southwester weste rn Wyo best business interests were not here to keep in close touch with what is 6 going on their actions were deceptive they pulled out for home again on the afternoon of the he t ath as non communicative as oysters r M P smith president of the Colo river oil company is in salt lake after driving to moab and lisbon to wit vess ness the test of the union oil company on lisbon dome mr smith returned impressed by conditions at the well and believes important results can be looked for from tests in both grand and san juan counties what is said to be the largest gusher so far completed in n montana is the hungerford well on the adams farm on section 12 34 lw kevin sunburst field the oil was encountered in the wilcox pool in the south extension of the field at a depth of 1335 feet and flowed 1193 barrels in six hours through two one inch ducts in the swab the well is S estimated at from to barrels per day and was drilled on a lease belonging to the sunburst refining company As a result of the outcome of this well fifteen new wells are starting and seven new locations were announced in the immediate vicinity two cars of casing has arrived at baxter station in tle the 7 middle of baxter basin for the marland and producers and refiners refinery Re finers for delivery to its test on 2 19 in the north baxter basin structure wyoming A knocked down steel rig is stored at its last y years ears camp on section eleven this will be used in the new test old test was two hundred and thirty six feet north of the major fault traversing the basin almost due east and west articles of incorporation of the standard oil gas company were filed with the county clerk on the ath instant liht an authorized capital stock of it is the intention of the company to commence vigorous development of at least two of petroleum structures in the verv very near future according to ernest goddard who is secretary secretary of the company and who has been for thirty years identified with the mining and potash industry the I 1 company h has con control frol of over acres of oil land advantageously ioa located d ir ed iti in utah california and wyoming I 1 it t is t the he corn com banys program to immediately ship a no 5 complete rotary rig from california and assemble the same on the tropic structure in southern utah where the company now has acres B 0 jones vice president of the utah southern oil company came over from denver a few days ago to confer with president george T hansen concerning activities of the company on its holdings in the intermountain states ft P reiter foster test on the W C U three states ture south of orrock rock springs cut into a gas pocket at feet on the ath it is is a rich wet gas according to supt bupt V W sidey and i indicates more further down the RF R F corporation t 1 is e elated with its success so far company is working on its wa water ter line one mile in length from vermillion creek with the pipe and trench work proceeding rapidly the new st steel eel derrick will be placed above the star rig early next we week ek 3 s one of the most important items concerning the labarge ba ago pil oil field this summer in the discovery of oil in the wyoming production companas Comp anys well located in sec 30 28 six miles north of the california holdings and three and one half miles south of the old lincoln idaho or lackey wells the baler of the wyoming productions well came up monday morning dripping with oil which also was mixed with the ba lings says the kemmerer gazette of the ath much machof of the oil was saved and brought to kemmerer m where it is on display at the kemmerer garage frank hlachun the garage proprietor being heavily interested in in the company the oil is of a high 6 grade having about the same body as gasoline the oil was encountered at a depth of 1015 feet in a lime capping the drill has penetrated the same hard shell strata encountered by rees and others indicative of oil sands immediately below this discovery along with other showings east of the labarge fiel field d as now constituted is serving to extend the area of the productive area anay miles an offset well to the wyoming production is being drilled by tracy mail one fourth mile northwest on the tip top defontaine ground round 19 28 |
