| Show J 4 f. f H RJ UP r CAll j I gs SENT fH FROM M 11 H i I I Ohio phio Officials in Salt Lake LakeI I Make Trip to Scene of i 1 Operations I to II f A hurry up call can from tho the operating force orco of the Ohio Oil company at nt Calne- Calne yule sent local officials to the scene of late last week No definite a had been received up to late last night but reports from several days dars ays ago stated that the water water had been completely cased oft off that drilling had been resumed at about 2200 OO feet and that conditions were most 4 Salt Lake men who visited the tho Hunting Hunting- 4 ton well during the past w week ek report that the crew appeared to be bo stalling in the I suPPosed work worl of fishing for tools and that hat there were unmistakable evidences of ct r oil in the ballings 4 It Is officially stated that the crew at atthe the Circle Cliffs well the Ohio com com- pany was still fishing fishing e tools but with ever every prospect of success i The Utah Oil and Refining is la making good progress with its well vell on the I Kerron erron dome and is nearly ready to spud fn In Its Its' well on the tho Farnham dome The Carter Oil company It Is expected I will ili begin drilling on the San Rafael swell within the next three weeks The work of f hauling In the rig from Price Is I completed and the erection of the derrick wig under no way I It It Is stated that a a. showing of oil has hasteen I J teen ben en encountered In the Old Emery well I dh h h the the San Rafael swell at a depth of 4 about ut feet I DEEP TEST FOR SAN JUAN I Announcement is made b by General 4 Manager l Perry A. A Clark of the Monumental I 0 mental Oil company that two engines had hadI I J I been shipped from Oil CIt City Pa to toI I Thompson Utah Utah and from there would I be transported to th the company's s holdings on the south side of the San Juan river rIver I In San Juan county where a deep test well will be drilled It is the expectations of officials of the company that the Honaker sand will be encountered at about 1800 feet River exposures exposures ext ex ex- ex- ex t to the west aro are said to show this sand land and to be fifty feet thick and highly saturated The The Mancos Tribune Times-Tribune says that the promoters of the standard gauge rail road into the San Juan basin of the three states New Mexico l Colorado and Utah are still in Los Angeles where they are perfecting the details or of a plan to build b the the te railroad The They are expected to return pon bon rith ith complete plans signed and sealed after atter which the drive to secure he e land acreage age necessary to put the proposition across will be started I ACTIVITY IN MILLARD COUNTY Millard county are looking fort for- for t 1 ward vard to an oil boom In the near future t I For the past two months geologists representing rep rep- resenting some of the largest companies J 4 In the United States have been at work making a careful examination of ot the Fillmore Holden dome and representatives of the companies have been acquiring leases One company having holdings In Inthis Inthis this field contemplate moving in a standard stand stand- f ard rig On the main highway across a ridge I. I about three and one half miles north of S. S Tillmore is an oil seep about fifty feet I. I wide At all seasons of the year ear this section of the highway is saturated with d oil oil which evidently comes from a frac frac- oil ture Lure in the structure 4 Between the seep and the foothills it itIs a Is reported a homesteader put down a n shallow well for tor water In the bed of an anold old stream Although the well was put putdown down only a few feet it is 13 reported that thata a the water is so heavily impregnated with 4 oil cli as to be practically useless e Oil on was first discovered in Millard i county about fifteen years ago The state made an appropriation for drilling for Water water water wa wa- ter and the site selected for the well was 1 fairly well up on the about five It miles northwest of Fillmore At a depth e of five hundred feet a showing of oil was encountered The oil sand was about eighteen feet thick according to the re reports reports reports re- re ports and was estimated that the Jon would be from twenty to thirty bar- bar of oil per day The matter was re reported reported reported re- re ported to the tho attorney general of the state who announced that the appropriation tion by the state had been made for pro- pro du ing water and not oil The contractor was wa's Instructed to continue the work and put down the well to a depth of eight hundred feet and sent a report to the I state tate land board that further oil indica- indica f HUOh had been found but no water Inasmuch In- In 0 as the appropriation was vac vac- i exhausted the state ordered The tho lilt work stopped and the well abandoned |
