Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 16 | Virgin Dome Oil Adds to Equipment

VIRGIN DOME OIL ADDS TO EQUIPMENT Judge George R. Lund of St. George, ong identified with the mining iind oil nduHtry of southern Utah, who en me .0 Salt Lake yesterday for a brief business busi-ness trip, said that in spite of une ud--erse conditions there was still mtu-h oil ictivity In his section of the country. Al-hough Al-hough holding- no personal interest in he Virgin Dome Oil company of St. leorg-e, art organization headed by "U". r. Graham of Los Angeles, Judge 'Lund ;aid that this company was steadily lushing its work on a big test well. Equipped with a standard rig. good progress prog-ress w;is made until the excessive hard-ieys hard-ieys of the mcl; put the bits out or commission and the lack of rain cut off he supply of water. Nothing daunted, ;he 'Virgin Dome laid a pipe line two uilfrs into the mountains and then secured sec-ured a new nnd heavier equipment, including in-cluding a "four-way" bit. This a rrived it Lund Saturday, will be installed this .veek. and drilling will be at once resumed re-sumed with a fully adequate equipment.