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Show OIL EXCITEMENT BREAKS OUT AT FILLMORE FILLMORE. Utvh, June 6. Great excitement ex-citement prevails here over Indications of oil at the State experimental well. In boring oil has been brought up and can be seen on top of the dump. The depth of the well Is now some 250 feet and the formation now being bored through shows more indications for oil than water. j Numerous locations have been made 1 In the vicinity. Some have even gone so far as to put up their notices on homesteads and also on the school section sec-tion upon which the well is being bored, two lacotlons even taking the well rn. As the news spreads the exclte-- exclte-- ment grows and it would not be surprising sur-prising If the whole country hereabouts Was located within the next few days. ' ' ' . " -1 Mr. Westphal, the contractor who is boring the State experimental well which is five miles north of here said today: "I have found oil here, not very much, but it looks like it Improves every day. I am under the impression that some day we will see a good oil well here. 'Right at the present time I am in a white shale and no oil or water. The well is only down Z50 feet and everything is in good running order, or-der, and gives me the assurance to go the contemplated depth. "I also found by drilling in this -well that whenever I find a broken formation the seams are full of oil, also the sand and this keeps the water out. The ground is standing up well so I can drill the full size bole, ten inches! to such depth till I get in the , broken ground.". . ... |