| Show iW J S I I I r I ir vj f I I 4 Briefing on Gas Exploration Col Cot D. D 11 II Byrd rd heal head of Frost Fro t explains explain to J J. A. A l cGuire I president Utah Natural Gas Co where here his firm will drill for additional supplies for Salt Lake Lako City and other Utah areas st 1 Demands Spur Jew ew Ventu e eI I Drilling of three wildcat natural I I as wells in Salt Lake San Juan nd zd Emery counties to supply adi ad- ad i onal fuel for Salt Lake City as s been announced by Col D. D H. H lyrd Dallas Tex president of Frost rd Frost rd-Frost Inc I One well a foot test lest on the acre Monticello structure I ight miles cast east of Monticello Sanan San uan an county Utah already is filling ahead It was d in by McConnell Drilling a 2 contractors I IA A second test to a minimum of feet will be started two weeks nine miles north north- est st of the Salt Lal Lake e City airport Salt Lake county Osborn Dr Drill Drill- ng rig Co would be contractor 1 Col Byrd said a third well wellis is banned lanned on the Last Chance ure re Emery county weather permitting per per- rAIl All of the gas from these and ropo ed wells by Three States l tural Gas Co in which Byrd- Byrd fost st has interests will vilI be he dedi- dedi ted to the Utah Natural Gas Co I I I Petitions for Line Linc r I This latter firm has a petition u Aiding p ns before the Utah public r commission to construct a mile mile inch 22 trans- trans line from Boundary buttes an n Juan county to Salt Lake My y I fAny Any ny gas discovered by Byrd- Byrd t rost or Three States would be in Edition dilion to billions of cubic feet in serves serves at the Boundary Buttes I l ld discovered several se years years ago c cy Col Byrd and his associates IThe The Texan is 13 in Salt Lake Lale City with John A A. A McGuire resident president of Utah Natural Gas and J f M Wilson Durango Colo Cob States vice ice president He lie emphasized the well three-well I he outlined is only the beginning of a search for natural gas Monticello Location Location of the Monticello test testis is in the NE SE Section 17 Township Township Township Town Town- ship 33 South and Range 25 East Salt Lake meridian Name of the well weB is the Sitton No 1 Objective formations are arc the and Pennsylvanian The Salt Lake Lale county well would be drilled on a a. acre S spread read of lands leased from duck clubs the state of Utah and Salt Lake City corporation Objective is the recent sands Location is planned for either Sections 10 or 3 3 Township 1 North Range 2 West I 1934 1034 Discovery Disco Last Chance structure in Emery county was the scene of a cubic foot gas discovery in 1931 1031 Col Byrd indicated that if winter inter weather intervened a third well would be drilled on one of many structures in southern Utah controlled by his organization Col Byrd and his partner Jack Frost have had wide experience in oil and gas operations in the Four Corners area of Arizona New Mexico and Utah as well vell as In Texas They were first associated as geologists employed by Humphries I Co in 1923 which brought in the Mexia texla Tex fields They formed Frost Byrd-Frost in 1930 a company I which now has large interests in in east Texas fields and in wells inI in New Mexico |
