Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-01 | Page 13 | Salt Valley Test Hits Oil Showing

Salt Valley Valey Test Hits Oil Oi Showing Showings of ot live oil In a n conglomerate erate crate shale at a depth of to t feet in the Salt Valley test in il Grand Granc county CUlty Utah Uth is i a development oi of considerable promise according to t George Gerge T. T Hanson Hansn president of the te Utah Southern Suther Oil OU company which Is I drilling the well welin in association with wih the Ule Mountain States Petroleum compan com corn Mout pan pany The Tho well wel is I a test of the lower Pennsylvanian and Ordovician formations formations for for- matons below the salt sal beds bes which underlie un un- un- un derlie derie the tho eat eastern m portion of the state The operation now is drilling and andI coring in i shale at a depth of ot approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap I proximately feet feeL feet I