Show OIL AND GAS SHOWINGS INCREASE IN SPITE OF HOLE FULL OF MUD the string of tools lost last week in the frank shafer no 1 discovery well on cane creek dome were recovered sunday and the work of cleaning out the hole to test the productive stratum at feet is again under way today the tools had been run to within 22 feet of bottom and favorable progress was being made the well is making a considerable volume ot oil ard gas as ia foaud and when the oil stratum is reached an interesting performance is expected A quantity of iron in the bottom of the hole is being side blacked brac ked and this work is necessarily slow it will probably be several days and possibly a week or more before the hole is cleared to bottom r operations are being conducted with the hole full of heavy mud to hold back the pressure this will be baided bailed out when the tools reach the oil stratum and ithe sand will then be given a test the fact that oil and gas iare making through nearly a mile of mud is a strong stion that the productive stratum should kiriake a sensational show after the mud is removed operations are being resumed on the J H shafer well on chafer dome where 6 1 4 inch casing will be run to bottom at feet drilling should be under way again on this well within a week |