Show GEOLOGIST 0 COUNTY 4 1 the crescent eagle company operating at crescent this county has continued c operations steadily of late and 0 appreciable progress ai is 1 being made the ile extreme hard formation has given way to a softer stratum and id a depth of 2000 feet has been at a bained the tho drill is still in the dakota bands sands and the oil show showings ingi are reported good when the dall penetrates ten or fifteen feet deeper into the sands officials of the to see production obtained geologist A G burritt of lake city was a visitor at the well I 1 last week and spent several days making an examination of the district brict upon his return to salt lake city he be was wa aked asked by the salt lake mineral survey for a statement aa to what he saw in the grand county fields mr burntt had the following to 3 y anh with reference to your inquiry wel concerning the crescent eagle ae well near crescent utah I 1 will will sayi I 1 recently spent several day days at the well and in vicinity during which time I 1 worked out the geology south of the town of green river and also the Sail Valley uplift as well aa as the outcrops south of cisco the data obtained in the examination of these outcrops to together 1 e r with 99 the log of the crescent eagle 1 e well enables me to netly locate the formation which the drill is working in at the dakota immediately below the base of the mancoe shale I 1 find in the dakota several sandstones that would form favorable reservoir for oil be ba low the dakota and in the upper part of the mceldo formation Omat ioD is a sandstone of ot some 20 to SO feet in thickness which is i thoroughly astur atur abed with oil where it outcrops in the green river district thie this sandstone andt tone is approximately below the present bottom of the well feet above this utter latter sand and on top of the is another 20 foot sandstone which could also be a very favorable reservoir in the upper part of the sandstone in which they aranow drilling I 1 found a consider able showing of oil wh which ich hu ha continued to the present depth thia showing of oil vel proves the condition of the structure and it is tealO reasonable to trap suppose s that some of the lower sands will be sufficiently saturated to brin bring in pro duct lon 1 1 I consider tha that t the showing of on in the well at the present time sant to rether gether with the favorable sands which have hays not yet been reached with the drill to be sufficient ment to warrant further development of the district contractor V R p bash bush was do down from grand junction the last of the week to visit bis his family fas silly and look after business matters |