Show IT LEAST HALF A DOZEN HAVE frood CHANCE OF GETTING production WITHIN SHORT TIME the past week has witnessed favorable drilling progress being made on a number of test wells on southeastern utah oil structural several wells are jeanng expected oil horizons and news of a strike may come at any time the J H shafer no 1 on shafer domie down the river from idab is preparing to resume drilling having set casing it will be carried to feet if necessary the frank shafer discovery well on cane creek dome will remain closed down pending the outcome of the J H shafer in the meantime the Pro manlel well of snowden on cane creek is steadily attaining depth and should pick up the first gusher sand within a couple of months the utah southern well on cedar mesa structure is down close to 2000 feet and will run 10 inch casing before drilling much deeper this well has a good chance of getting production within a couple of hundred feet the big six well of the embar company at moab is drilling under feet and has a new showing of oil and gas that is very encouraging A hard limey shale is being drilled this well is one of the most interesting in the entire district tend local oil men confidently look for some production here within the next few feet out on gibson dome the empire aas fuel well is pounding away at about 1800 feet and geological data indicates indi Oates that it has a good chance for production at about 2200 the utah petroleum test on the same structure is now in the clear and will be making new hole in a few days the boulder knoll well adar monticello ti is running casing at about 2000 feet and will soon be drilling athis test has a chance for production in the sand expect bcd at about 2500 feet this sand produced at boundary butte some thirty miles south it is conceded as practically certain that the mel well on cane creek dome will come in as a big producer when it taps the first gusher sand at around 2640 feet jt will require probably six weeks or two months to reach this horizon and in the mean time there is every prospect that borne of the other wells will drop into the pay the outlook for interesting devel was never more propitious in the southeastern utah area |