Show Many Drills Preparing to Start Start i in Active Operation at Once Locations have been definitely selected selected selected se se- se- se by major operators for eleven wells weBs in Moffat l and Routt counties and all of ot these will be drilling withIn within with with- in thirty days das or very soon there there- after Five of them are now rigging up preparatory to in The Time companies are Midwest Refining Texas Producing g Oil representatives of Standard Oil of California Producing RefinIng Refining ing ing- Salt Hamilton Creek Oil and Bonded Production companies says the Steamboat Colo Cob Pilot A contract was let last week for a test well on the Beaver Creek structure structure ture near the Routt Routt-Moffat county count countyline line on a dr dry hole contract account account ac ac- ac- ac cou count mit between Transco Transcontinental Oil On Texas Producing and nd Mid 1 West Refining co companies s according to tc the tho financial editor ct tho the Rocky Mountain Moun Moun- tain News The hole bold will wiil be he drilled under supervision of Transcontinental tal and if it it is productive non-productive the fhe cost will be borne borle equally b J th thu three c companies s the loci oi loca being I so selected that it will prove up acreage acreage acreage acre acre- J age for all taU of them If It brings in oil oU Transcontinental will own the well vell and bear all costs The location is in Routt In the northwest corner of the tile sm SE of the Ithe SW i of 4 82 Tha oil bearing sand is expected at about 2500 feet and the contract let to E. E S. S Lemman of ot Casper is fore for a foot hole Mr 11 Lemmon began loadIng loading loading load load- ing his equipment in the cars tars at Casper today and the time well will be started as quickly as possible I d' d This will be bo th time th pioneer test on the Beaver Creek structure and the location Is eleven miles southeast by east from the Texas I tal discovery well on the t structure l A similar similar- dry hole contract account account ac ac- ac- ac count well weIl will be he drilled on the r lies Ilea structure 92 4 by the Hogan Hogan Ho- Ho gan gail interests said sala the representative tive e of ot the time Standard Oil OU of California California Cali Call fornia Transcontinental Oil and I Texas Producing companies It will be located on the time Hogan acreage acreage acreage acre acre- age and these interests will have ha the supervision of ot the work Midwest Refining and Producing Producing Producing Pro Pro- and Refining have also se selected selected selected se- se locations on the tile lies Iles structure structure structure ture making three wells that will vIiI willbe willbe be drilled there as soon as th the equipment can be erected Six m more re w- w wells will soon be Je sinKIng sinkIng sink sink- Ing lug on the the- Moffat 1 discovery dome where Salt Hamilton Creek Oil is building its derrick on the northeast quarter of the northeast t quarter of or 91 5 and Texas the companies ar are rigging up for far five wells on the time southeast quarter of the time northwest quarter of 91 5 northwest quarter of the northwest quarters of ot 91 5 southeast quarter quarter quarter ter of the southeast quarter of 9 4 and northeast quarter of northeast north northeast northeast east quarter 3 5 4 5 4 1 These six holes on the Moffat structure on the lies structure and one on the the Beaver Creek structure structure ture together with ith the well to be drilled by the Bonded Production company on the crest of the Williams Will Will- iams ianis Fork mountain southeast quarter of 89 5 where tools arenow ere are re renow now being moved In make a total tota of eleven wells In Ii 1 Moffat and Routt butt counties s that are definitely located b by major companies or well financed operators These will soon hoon be in operation op op- op- op probably probably all wl within thirty I days Producing and nd A Refining is fully tully financed to carry forward all of its plans being a s syndicate or of i about t thirty members including New NewYork NewYork York and Boston capitalists and also interests associated with the Burlington Burlington Burl Durl- ington railroad The company is capitalized with shares of or common stock There are no other capital obligations obligations obligations obliga obliga- and no debts but papers are arenow arenow arenow now in preparation to incorporate under the Colorado statutes Producing and Refining owns about acres in its Moffat county trat t of or which about acres lie within the closing contour of ot the lies Iles dome as outlined by its geologists It owns the old lies ranch of oC acres in fee Cee having acquired the title by purchase for tor per acre The contract for tor the drilling has been let to the Piegan corporation of or Great Falls Mont which did a great great deal of ot the development work for the Anaconda Oil company covering covering cov coy ering the Cat Creek and Sunburst fields in III Montana and many other districts The Time location of ot its first lies Iles dome well was selected by Fisher Lowne Lowrie Lowrie Low- Low rie ne Denver Denyer geologists after a very exhaustive field survey covering sev ser eral months It will be located on lot 31 southwest quarter of at 92 4 and the Dakota sand from which the Texas Transcontinental well flow comes is expected at feet being heing about feet shallower than on the Moffat dome The The s shallower depth resulting from the productive horizon being feet higher on the tile structure at the lies Ties Is s regarded as being J highly favorable and In fact the government government govern govern- ment bulletin issued Iss last November speaks of the lies as having greater promise than the Moffat Material l for tor drilling the well has been loaded on the railroad at t Shelb Shelby Mont 1 ana ana- will arrive in III Craig within a few days clays Drilling will ivill begin as quickly as the equipment equip ment can be landed at at th the location and the rig erected The Time lands were acquired and tIme syndicate formed by Mr Ir Ahearn Abeam while he was practicing law In Glenwood Glenwood Glenwood Glen- Glen wood Springs For the last seven years he lie has been active in titles and other legal matters connected with the oil shale lands of ot the time Western Vestern slope and through these associations became aware of the tile value of ot the lies Iles dome several years a ago o whereupon he Ime set about getting the properties for the present or or- It is a pioneer in Moffat county oil exploration the Investigations that have resulted in getting its present properties together having been begun on July 4 1921 nearly three years ago Max Ball nail Was Vas l Pioneer Its only predecessor in the vicinity of the Moffat and lies Iles structures was the Matador 1 Petroleum m company for or whom Max Jl W. W Ball of ot Denver was vas doing the geological and amI therefore Mr Ir Ball is properly thereal pioneer geologist to work put out that area The h interests acquired Practically practically rac- rac all the lands surrounding the Matador and the latter which was wasa a subsidiary of f the Royal Dutch and Shell Oil all companies lost its government government government govern govern- ment filing on account of ze The Anaconda Oil company through E. E H. H Milburn lilburn Its its field manager Immediately took over the Matador lands and still sUll holds them the operating lease having been acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac b by Midwest 1 Refining which will begin drilling the acre acreage ge geml with with- fn the time next thirty days Northwestern Colorado Oil Map The he Clason Map company has lias is issued issued issued is- is sued a new oil r map of or Moffat and nd Ro butt Routt counties giving all natural and cultural features in The scale Is about five miles to the inch and sections in all surveyed areas are numbered The Time Moffat railroad from McCoy l on the bound- bound try iry between Eagle and lo 1 Moffat at coun- coun ies to its terminus at Craig is hown together with the survey of ofUs Its Us proposed extension westward A particularly interesting feature feature fea fea- ture tare is the survey line that ma may be followed in building a a. a tanch of or the Union Pacific railroad south from Crom the main line in Wyoming to Craig This is shown crossing the Wyoming boundary a mile cast of oC where the the- Little Snake river first enters enters enters en en- the time state in 92 14 follows southward up the time valley of oC Four FourMile FourMile Mile and Sixteen Mile creeks to the proposed Rampart reservoir at Fortification Fortification For For- rocks which form torm a local watershed divide Thence the survey continues southward down the tho Fortification creek valley to Craig the time total dIstance distance dis dIs- tance traversed within the state being about forty-five forty miles All wagon roads and trails which are very winding in n the tho rugg rugged d areas throughout these counties are shown in d detail The Tle oil geology given ghen on the new map shows shO the clos closIng ng contour on all w well known structures the time areas included in the oil shale d deposits and the time position of the time Uintah range anticline from the time Colorado state- state geological survey map which is a a. a controlling baseline In the time oil structures structures tures of ot Northwestern Colorado The Time named structures shown on the time map are Hiawatha Texas Creek Sunbeam Elk Springs Wolf Volt Creek Rangely Dry Lakes Deception Creek Lay Creek Juniper Springs Gossard Danforth Sweeney Wilson Creek lies Coles Craig Moffat Beaver Cree Creek Pagoda Sage Creek Fish Creek Tow Tov Creek Yampa Crest Trull C Curtis Foidel Creek E Esteria Egeria erla Park and King Mountain Th Tho oil shale lands in h iho he two counties covers between and square miles one of ot the tho areas extending north Into Wyoming and the other south into Rio Blanco count county |