Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 38 | Utha Con. Oil to Start its Drills

UTAH (MOIL TO START ITS OILS President and Other Officers Offi-cers of Company Inspect In-spect Holdings. J. R. Murdook, president, of the Ltah Consolidated Oil company; Vice President J. H. Keelr, Consulting Engineer D. H. CustAveson and a number of other officials offi-cials and directors have Just returned from an Insnprion of the company's holdings hold-ings in Spanish Fork a nd 1 namond Fork canyons of Utah county. President Mur-dx:k Mur-dx:k says that two wells have been spotted and the enpirwr instnirtod tu proceed at once with drilling operation. Mr. Gustaveson said that lie expected the flrt well would he spuddPd in this week. Mr. Murdock fvpn-.Hsed himself as confident con-fident of the final outcome of the company's com-pany's efforts in drill ins in the Diamond i Fork district, btaMnse that the company j the-ru controlled more than 6000 acres of land and that two or three te.t wells j would he put flown to I he f ir?l sandn. adding that a larRer well would be sent down deeper if the anticipated showing jf oil was secured in th preliminary work, Mr. Gustaveson, discoverer of the Gus-taveson Gus-taveson dome, -said that he was confident, after giving the district Ions and careful Htudy, that the region would he found highly productive of oil.