Show oil field notes note s 1 the midwest Mi dest well ell on the big six lome on the colorado river below moab loah wis mis this thin morning at a depth of feet steady progress having loen w made during the week eek the thel I 1 first d rit of hard limestone wa all penetrated and a layer or of eanoy sandy I 1 i shale cut this morning the bit drilled back into the hard limestone progress prepress the first few fea hund red feet will necessarily be somewhat hat low slow due to the large hole be inz in drilled a 20 inch and the hard massive limestone form formation aaion lying nar near the surface the Ali midwest Iest camp this week plat ed i in operation a new culinary water system which will greatly improve working conditions there heretofore water for drinking and cooking coo kinf purposes has been taken from moab on the boat as the river water unless filtered and treated is unfit for culinary use the midwest company has now installed an elaborate filtering system was in operation today water is pumped from the river to a barrel settling tank located above the camp tamp the water after settling run runs I 1 through a series of tanks where it is filtered through gravel charcoal and sand it is then treated with chlor 1 kle we of lime and is ready for use I 1 ile th water after coming through the filtering operations is perfectly clear and is chemically pure five carloads of drilling equipment for 1 L 1 L travis representing salt lake capitalists arrived at this week the shipment includes a standard rig 15 and 12 inch rasing casing derrick materials and all I 1 necessary equipment for drilling a IL tet well to be located 4 7 milea miles louth south of thompsons Thomp sons A water line is no now beina laid from thompsons Thomp sons nd ind M W geer has been given the contract to move the equipment to the location the francisco drill ing mi corporation also has a no 28 1 star rig ri erected for a test well one mile south of the travis location A atan standard dard derrick will be erected owr the star machine both wells will vall be drilled to depth to thoroughly test all formations within reach of a drill the travis and francisco rigs should be drilling within the next few weeks reports received today to the effect that the crescent eacie eagle and i sandburg drills are both in operation with no new developments ap s either camp work debasing and other lines of oral expression and athletics grand county board of education has been alive to the need of better schools and through numerous acts of that body the school have been able to take their portion on higher ground n aund it has helped to secure better textbooks text books better teachers and better equipment in every line Follow following mg the recommendation of the state department it has enlarged the facilities for outdoor sports it has placed in the schools better teachers thi this year evera teacher in the county Js fully certified it has encouraged pro fess ional preparation bv paying to each teacher who furnished furnish rummer ummer school credits a salary boiros of fifty d dollars 0 11 ars per year while much has been dohe doh to improve the school conditions of our county it would be a mistake to assume that there is not yet much to ba b done standards have been raised in many ways but we must not presume sume that we have reached the lop top grand Coun tvs educational motto Is on ever on |