Show OIL NOTES agas A gas well has been brought in by the exploration company operating near buttonwillow Button willow kearn county california and cubic feet daily is reported from this well which has been drilled to a depth of 2716 feet this company now has five wells in the district oil shale placer claims in the uintah basin district of utah just across the colorado utah state line are being taken to patent 1 by the claim owners who are headed by E J president of the tintic gintic standard mining company at eureka utah debeque news report from the newlon property at labarge wyoming in sec 12 26 is that the well is being cemented at 1685 feet to cut off the water flow considerable trouble is being an experienced in seating the pipe properly owing to the great gas pressure A hard formation has been encountered at this depth mr newlon is enthusiastic over his prospects for a big producer officials of the price river petroleum company operating near price state that the tools lost a short time ago have been recovered by the fishing process the driller who succeeded the late edward walsh is handling the work in in a most satisfactory manner and the tintic gintic shareholders who have been keeping posted on the showing at the price well feel confident that the drill will soon reach the oil sands reports from boise state that rapid preparations are being made by the standard oil company to drill east of idaho falls to a depth of feet A standard rig is to be installed studding in of a twenty four inch hole will be undertaken in about two weeks A heavy duty engine has been installed and a foot tower constructed A permanent camp has been established and water piped 2500 feet colonel A G burritt salt lake geologist was in kemmerer during the week from the labarge oil field where he has been active all spring and reports that while drilling activity is somewhat at low ebb in the field everything points to considerable activity in the very near future says the kemmerer gazette during the week colonel burritt spotted a well for the wolf petroleum company on sec 5 twp tap 27 where a standard rig is no now nov v being erected hopes of utah oil men were revived on monday by a report from moab that the boulder oil and gas company on the W A endter ranch in the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter section 17 34 25 had struck a strong flow of gas that threw rocks over the top of the derrick depth of the well situated sixty miles south of moab and seven miles southeast of monticello is 2640 feet the moab correspondent of the tribune reports that the well started to spray oil over the top of the derrick in heads it was believed that the well was vas drilling itself in the low flow is coming from a limestone overlying the conglomerate drilling of the well hasteen has been financed by san juan county farmers and illinois men bert galloway of monticello is president of the company |