| Show S VISIT SHRINES 1 prall preliminary to the launching of ailing operations od or the tb biff big six er dom on the colorado river me c va miles ralles below moab sever prAm b loen ent an official clab of the midwest company and the utah e oil company are an visiting 4 ture this to get first information mation regarding the property and an idea as to the ex nt of ft work that will be involved in nt down 0 a test well seven of bals of the companies comp enit w arrived dived in oab monday and held a number of inferences here regarding the start sc of operation operations two tripe trips to the il I 1 dome were made by motor boat hose oss why were here to participate i the conference and inspection of he 0 proposition were J W stew rt vice ace president preside nt of the midwest in large argo of exploratory work R C 11 in field fiela chief of the midwest for pile a division C 11 chief ecologist kc logist of the midwest G 11 II east brook pipeline expert midwest S ferguson midwest geologist T hanson president of the utah and representing the gen B re 1 petroleum company and arid J L a bougan field dinager of the utah southern athern they werd met at moab 7 F W strong president of the it six sit oil company who has been forking for a couple of years to in erest capital in the rivet domes As only one motor boat was wa avail ahk le all of the members of the party vere ere unable to visit the property on an one no trip and it was feces necessary a ry to ake two trips down the river stew art and eastabrook were piloted by mr strong on cn a visit to the dome wednesday returning today ay and anil tomorrow tomor rou roi mr strong will take and dougan on a similar elc excursion arsion the chief pur pose of the visit it to the property is merely to see the proposed lot location on for the well and to get a firstA first band and I 1 impression of the problems problem that must be bi overcome in providing transportation facilities to the dome 1 is proposed to conini commence crico jellin apera operation tiong as soon as aa nimi bli and nil all preliminary work worl vill be spee speeded Jed A powe powerful ua motor beet boat will be rea w quiren 99 is well as a barge for transporting machinery fuel and supplies to the e camp cemp piers will also have to constructed and facilities provided for loading and unloading the only feasible way of getting to the dome dom with equipment Is by water f the operations will involve ahe expenditure pend iture of a large sum of money and the large companies interested will spare no expense in expediting se the test of the structure A standard rig will be used aed it is expected that the arill will be pounding away by april 1 the biyer dome is reported by geologist geologists to be a perfect one and arid high hopes are entertained that a big producing field will be brought the drilling of the river eil oil lands will greatly at stimulate hulate business activities at moab and if a producing well is obtained moab will benefit im measure masure ably as all supplies and equipment to and from the field must como moab president strong of the big six sit 1 company which holds considerable t acreage on the nver river structures came in monday from crescent where be he has been os assisting on the crescent eagle well he reports the hole Is down about feet feel during the past few days exceptionally all good showings were in evidence indicating that It another nother sand might be near the crescent well looks good at this time mr strong reported if ec essary the drill can be sent vent down considerably deeper another company will soon be operating et t crescent it is 13 the western states development company which haa has spotted a well about one mile north of crescent station two ran of drilling equipment arrived this week end and it is proposed to start operation operations within ten day days george tk p brown has been agven a contract to sua the first feet twelve and 61 ane ne half inch casing cuing will be set george franz has been given a contract 4 to move the dulling drilling equip equipment pent tb th the vell site 0 operations on anweil well no 2 of the I 1 utah uth oil refining on cisco dome bate been going forward favorably it Is ho hoped ped to complete the weh well by the first of the year |
