Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-01 | Page 17 | New Well Planned by Utah Company

NEW WELL PLANNED BY UTAH COMPANY The Oustaveson Oil company, according to Secretary J. W. Musser, has iust entered en-tered into a contract with Pat Holohan to drill well No. 2, in Diamond Fork canyon, can-yon, sixty-five miles soulh of Salt 'Lake and on the Denver & Rio Graned railroad. rail-road. Well No. 2, according to Mr. Musser. Mus-ser. ls located about half a mile from an outcrop of saturated oil sands where (he capping is exposed, showing oil in tho seams and erevlc.es of the rock. "We have capped well No. 1, which is showing oil again at a depth of 1173 feet ' says Mr. Musser. "with a view of shooting shoot-ing the same later. We believe, how- ecr, tnat log measurements gained in this well will be invaluable in selecting the place where well No. 2 should lie drilled The new rig which the company has purchased pur-chased has bc.cn moved onto the site to. gether with a carload or coal, piping and other materials, so that there should be no delay in beginning- operations."