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Show DIXIE HAS 85 FEET OF OIL m TIE Hole to Be Sunk Another Fifteen Feet Before Pump Is Installed. Oil stands eighty-five feet in well No. 3 of the Dixie Oil company, near Virgin, since the hole was cleaned out. according to a telegram received yesterday from Superintendent Pat Holohan. Mr. Holohan Holo-han reports that bIx barrels of oil were baled out of the well Monday and that the hole has again filled to a depth of eighty-five feet. Confident that a better production may be obtained, Superintendent Holohan ie now putting the well down an additional fifteen feet and expects to have the work completed by this morning. The pump has not yet been put on the well and no estimate of the production has been made. When well No. 3 Is ready to put on the pmnp ft Is the Intention of the company com-pany to begin drilling the first of the proposed six new wells. The site has been selected and it is expected that the new hole will be spudded in before the end of the week. F. M. Gaylonl, superintendent of the refinery, completed purchases of the additional ad-ditional machinery needed for the construction con-struction of the plant and is expected to be on his way to the Virgin field today. |