| Show OIL FROM OWR ufa after drilling about reIt thirty y feet 0 of new hole bole which inc increased ud the g gas flow materially the bit six drill lo g ac across ross the colorado glorado river from AT moab oab 0 on katurd saturday v encountered a va very hard stratum thought th possibly Os to to be thi the cappock caprock overlying the abee oil aanas ad ai As considerable trouble h had R d been n experienced with the rope which had broken several time times recently it was decided to suspend n operations until the new drillen drilling g cable arrived the cable has been hipped shipped several weeks and should have arrived several days ago it will doubtless reach thompsons Thomp sons today tay or tomorrow and with its arrival arril I drilling will at once be resumed at this stage of the game it was not riot deemed advisable to continue opera eions with the old rope and run the chance of getting another bad fishing job duriez this weeks delay the rig and bolter boller have been cono gone over thoroughly and everything Ts Is in ship shape for operations the gas flow at tit this time Is much stronger than it has ever been before after reselling reaching a depth of 1400 feet the wilson cramer well on tho the organ rock structure south of the san juan river being put down bv diamond drill had to be e abandoned according to word reaching moab this week A new well was started and this is now down several hundred feet the trouble with the first well was caused by losing a bit and after three months of fishing it was decided to abandon the well gelfand and start an other the wilson cramer well Is being put down under contract by the sullivan Sui livan drill company of den ver yer the orb monumental oil company is still fishing at its well on the structure south of the san juan ac cording coming to word from that district rei re i calved this week the stem and jars were recovered but the bit had jump mp ed a pin leaving the drill at th the not bot torn it may be necessary to drill past the midwest oil company A s making arrangements to move its standard ng rig from mceldo canyon near cortex cortez to the company lease on th boundary butte structure south of the he san juan river in utah uta it Is planned to spud in its wel well at boundary butte as soon as possible the mid midwest vest refining company which last v fall brought in the big well on the hogback structure near farmington Is 13 having troubles of its own due to the inability to case off on the he water the disco discovery verv well had to be abandoned and another hole bole was started a short distance away this was drilled to a depth of several hun bun red feet and when an attempt was made to case it was found they had a crooked lole bole after repeated at to set get the casing the drillers decided to skid the rig about feet and start another hole bole this was done and the company Is again spud ding in |
