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Show FILINGS MADE IN SEARCH OF NEW UTAH OIL FIELDS PTd by the Gordon creek well of the Pacific Western Oil Corp., west of Price, now down more than 9300 feet, and the CuttrM Co. well, 11 miles west of Vernal, reported to have reached a depth beyond 7300 feet, the search for commercial oil in Utah not only persists but accelerates, as indicated indi-cated by filings made by major oil companies intent upon drilling or having holdings in favorably regarded locations. The records of the Salt Lake Land office disclose that during the past two weeks aproximately 50 oil and gas applications have been made covering over 125,000 acres, with most of the filings made by residents of Oklahoma, Illinois, California, Montana, Wyoming Wyo-ming and some Utahns. Included in major filings are additions to previous holdings by Standard Oil Co. of California, with two additional structures located lo-cated near Escalante, Wayne county. It is reported that the company is unitizing these areas under the supervision of the U. S. 1 Geological Survey and that drill ing will start during the year. Within the past month the Carter Car-ter Oil Co. has acquired operating rights on approximately 80,000 acres additional, including areas just north of Fish lake and in northern Summit county. The Pure Oil Co., controlled by the Charles G. Dawes (former vice president of the United States) interests of Illinois, is reported re-ported to have acquired working rights -on 60,000 acres located along the southeastern border line of Utah. Mountain Fuel Supply Co.'s well on the Last Chance structure in Emery county is , reported deeper than 3500 feet, and the company's other well on the Clay Basin structure struc-ture in Daggett county down 7200, within 2000 feet of its objective depth. The upper Clay Basin structure struc-ture has produced gas for several years and is currently the only commercial gas field in Utah. During any oil campaign rumors of oil strikes are not unusual and experienced operators suggest that such rumors be discounted, particularly par-ticularly when wells have not yet penetrated formation justifying showings or production of oil of commercial magnitude. Not yet an oil state, Utah's great geologic structures, such as Uintah Basin, San Rafael Swell, Circle, Cliff and others, justify thorough testing, especially ., to penetrate the deep sederrientries of the Paleozoic formations in which are found the Weber sands from which come the great oil production of the Rangely field of Colorado, just east of Vernal. |