Show the way has been paved for the resumption of operations on the boundary butte dome in southeastern utah on a navajo indian reservation permit by the dismissal of the gov injunction suit in the federal district distrct court at salt lake city last week the operation has been tied up for several years as a result of the reversal of the opinion of secretary of interior fall that the land was subject to leasing under the mineral act of feb 25 1920 by his successor followed by an injunction suit filed by the government against the permit tees and the operator the permit tees had won in the lower courts and the case had been taken to the supreme court where it was pending when remedial legislation was signed by president coolidge on march 3 operations will be resumed as soon as an agreement is reached between the midwest refining continental oil and union oil co of california the well was being drilled by the southwest oil co on bec 2243 22 43 22 in san juan county the suit involved 21 permits which had been issued under the fall decision the operating companies then built a road opened a coal mine and studded in the initial well previous to the injunction that stopped work the midwest refining interests had spent in road and drilling and had earned an exploratory wll down to 1659 feet setting 16 inch casing at feet 12 12 1 2 inch at feet 10 inch at 1375 feet 8 1 4 inch at 1560 feet and leaving the bottom 9 feet an open hole the last 9 feet is bottomed in the conglomerate and in the official reports is stated to have had marked oil showings for the last six feet As a matter of gossip it is understood to have been for several days at the rate of 30 barrels of oil daily this well is located on the ed mcmahon barnson permit owned by the salt creek producers association the well is still bottomed in the conglomerate which is assumed froat the outcroppings outcrop pings to be 10 feet thick oil was not expected at that horizon below the at additional depth of feet will be found the Du Shelly sand which shows at the outcrop to be to feet thick since the furnished a surprise by producing oil much interest centers in the results to be obtained in the Du Shelly although the first real objective of the test well is the sand which is expected at to feet this sand is the source of innumerable oil seeps at in the canyon of the its outcroppings outcrop pings san juan river to the north the principal camagies ca manies that had acquired the old permits from the original permit tees and will now hold th acreage under the new permits are salt creek producers mountain producers san juan oil development continental oil and amney coastal of denver and utah oil roaming of salt lake city fort collas consolidated royalty owns a substantial overriding royalty on practically all the pennants J L dougan field superintendent of the utah southern oil company who went to salt lake city last week went on to garland wyoming where he has resumed operations on a well which the company is drilling there and which had been closed down during the winter M 0 corey field superintendent of the utah petroleum corporation returned tuesday franr a business trip to salt lake city he reports that operations on the companas comp anys dome well have been slowed up due aca cavey formation the depth being about 1650 feet about sacks of cement will be pumped in to overcome the trouble the companas comp anys ggibson donate well la drilling under 1500 feet |