Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 23 | Deepest Test Well Drilling

WELL Hole HoJe in Texas Down Feet and arid May May- Go to Level BROWNSVILLE LE Texas Aug C The Tho The deepest test now drilling ng anywhere on on the face tace of oC tho the globe Is going down two twenty miles southeast of or Drowns Drowns- yule villa at the tho mouth of ot tho Hlo Grande The Tue well weIl Is la now down below feet and Neil Noll ell who is rooting th the tho bills for the test anti andi who is a at nt present pres pre ent eat in Alaska o. o has ordered that the drilling be continued until the test reaches tho the foot toot level lovo and th then n nIll I Ill I'll 11 let you OU know what to do as os or orders orders orders or- or ders to the drilling crew r received here heren a n few tew days das ago from Alaska said s Although the test is now down past tho the on one mile mUe depth not nolo a drop ot or water vater has been encountered and a slight aUght showing of or oil exists Tho The wildcat is being drilled on tho the outer edge of ot Mr air E acre tract at a a cost of in lii what tho the owner believes xv ill III some day duplicate on AmerI American Amerian nn soil soli Use the great Tampico oU oLl fields Tho The greatest secrecy Is noticeable In the tho drilling of ot the test an and despite de de- spite tho ho wildest curiosity In this in-this district district dis dis- as to w what at is discovered down In the tho deep hole halo only the merest bits of Information are arc leaking through tho veil voll of and ami it was a choco morsel that reached Brownsville when It was tas learned that th the test had passed the mile depth and was still headed downward with only a n. slight showing of oil and nothing encountered but shale hale rock and gumbo g and then som s smore and gumbo more shale rock Should no mishap occur anti and tho the Est Et Person person test reach its goal goat of feet teet it will be bo the tho second deepest test ever drilled In the United States Tho The deep deep- est cst test ever reported In this country vas as as drilled in the tho mountain district of or West Virginia This test lest was WiS drilled to noo feet teet and was completed ll as n a g gasser Actual drilling on this test teat was begun begun be bo- In January 1920 with twenty Inch gun un specially mado made pipe and with few in interruptions tn- tn occasioned b by delays in the arrival of pipe and other materials the Sat test has haa been drilling Continuously Little trouble trou trou- since it Jt was in trou- trou tile ble has been encountered in the way or of accidents In the hole Progress is now necessarily slow because of ot the great amount of casing