OCR Text |
Show OIL SANDS FOUND IN FOSSIL OIL FIELD Special to The Tribune. KEMMERER, Tv-yc. Oct. 31. Oil sands at a depth of only 192 feet. In the shallow shal-low fossil oil field, were encountered Saturday Sat-urday by the Idaho-Wyoming oil company com-pany which is drilling In that field It is estimated by experts. v. Wheeler of i Pennsylvania and Stanley Morian of the Western Oil companv of Salt Lake Cit-.- 1 who visited the field Sunday that the well could be shot at the present depth and a pump well of fifteen gallons of pure oil a .day would be tho result. How-! ever these same experts advised Messrs cvel" a,,d wood or Twin Fa Is, Idaho, who are interested in the Fossil company, to case off the oil and drill on down to a second sand, which undoubtedly lies below at a depth of about 600 feet. It was the decision of the company to do, this. That the Fossil field can at least be de veloped ,,,, j h:;,r,W pumi.-Wf-U Mft! w ;, f definitely established ,v strike made buttmiay. However, there Is everv indication indi-cation of deeper funds willi heavier flows at a ureater deplh. The Well is onlv ;, mile from the Oregon Short Line railroad. |