Show WELL WIELl R 9 DIA GETS ITS S SW k Idaho Oil Mines Iines Corporation Rigby reports that the company's company's company's com com- pany's Bullock Number 1 I location nw JA a of sw i section 24 Township north 4 range 38 east Boise Meridian Jefferson County Idaho struck a gas pock pocket t tat at a depth of feet in a brown shale zone Oil slicks have also appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap on the water taken from at various depths Geological examination of tho the area around the farm where the drilling is taking place by the Ule company geologist Col Ray E. E Colton Calton Salt SaIt Lake City revealed revealed re re- re- re a subsurface arr arrangement of strata containing many categories which today produce produce produce pro pro- duce natural gas and oil In the major oil fields of Montana and Wyoming Of the lower Mississippian Mississippian l pian rocks ident identified locally in inthe the Rigby general area of Jefferson Jeffer Jeffer- son County Idaho they are inthe in ill inthe the form of a dark grey bluish-grey color fairly thin-bedded thin in places and of the massive type in others The formation contains freshwater freshwater freshwater fresh fresh- water elp corals portions of marine marine marine ma ma- rine organic life llie from which crude oil is believed to have evolved during during dur dur- ing past periods o of the Snake River basins basin's prehistoric record The company company- headed by Ben H H. Bullock president of Provo Intends In- In intends intends in in- tends to drill three other wells Inthe in inthe inthe the area during the summer of or 1953 Drill pipe obtained from Casper CasPer Casper Cas- Cas Per Wyoming and Salt Lake City Utah is already on the ground at the next test site selected about 2 miles mile south of or the present i in adjoining Bonn Bonneville Bone Bonne- drilling but lt nW yule ville County This location e is Jg la 4 of or nw my 4 1 section 2 township Mer Mer- Boise 3 3 north range east 38 idian |