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Show Oil Seekers Persistent Despite the fact that test wells in the Uintah basin persistently refuse to indicate a potential oil field, the Carter Oil company will start its second wildcat test well five miles west of Vernal. Number one weell struck a huge gas flow at 5200 feet, but choked up with mud at 8,000 feet. For fifty vears oil hopes in the basin have periodically fluctuated yet still no oil. Oddly enough, how-ever, how-ever, this basin, which refuses to yield oil, lies adjacent to the Rangely, Colo., oil fields where j more than 70 wells are in pro-1 duction. |