Show TO BEGIN DRILLING K baku oil company has had machinery on road and will se be ready for fop operations e daku oil company will begin drillen dr on its property arty in the rade ly field november r 5 the rig beached dragon several e v days da ago d Is now low in gansit to langely rangely Ran ra gely it was first rat consigned to rifle rl but ow g to tho the Z heavy snow enow between be that and rangely langely it was wa ie consig n e to bragon dragon it Is a keystone ke p ortt ab rig ig of a capacity of 2500 fe et nd d weighs pounds it Is the present P I 1 intention of the company to togo t go immediately to a detthof dep depth af feet f c t to the firlit oil sand cgeorge george alula mulvey b I 1 one of the well knan known mining aril and oil experts of thie this section of tho the west I 1 will be in c charge rge ri of the work and there Is yo BO doubt but the interests of 0 the he corn com eany will be looked aft after r in a thorough businesslike manu manner r As is well known by the people of this part of the country the rangely langely oil field Is located in raven raton park in the extreme northwestern parit of rio blanco county colorado the field occupies a basin which is a broadened portion of the white river valley the post postoffice office is about 33 miles from dragon the present terminus of the uintah railway the trip from dragon can be made in a single day stage and principal mall mail connections are made by way of Afe meeker eker which Is 60 miles distant by road up the white river valley the property of the baku company Is located near the property of the requena company of meeker which company has been operating for a num her ber of years with very ery encouraging results the first well of this company was sunk in 1902 oil struck at a depth of feet Is reported to have yielded a flow of several b bar ar aels a day as tested by the ball bailer e the well ell was continued for a dep deett t of feet when it became crooke and was abandoned the oil was wa poured on the ground and was A as burned another well was nas drilled a short dis tance from this and the same oll air bearing sand band was encountered at the e same depth drilling was aas continued to a depth of 1680 feet when a abala bid were er and 1000 feet of sand line were lost in the hole and this well wal was also abandoned still another well was sunk by this company near what Is known as stinking creek about tour four miles north of white river work was done at intervals from 1903 to 1906 water Is reported to hale hae been struck at a depth of 80 feet in course gravelly material which is said to ha hae e been the b base ase of the valley wash under bed rock this water Is almost certainly the underflow of stinking creek no water has ever eer been boruck sij ruck in any of the wells within the mancos shale gas was found here at a depth of feet but no oil the drilling was as continued to ito a depth of 2560 feet but was finally abandoned because of the accad accidental antal parting of the casing all of the wells were ere drilled with the intention of contina ing through the mancos shale to the dakota sandstone the meeker company also of meek or er colo has been operating in that tiled filed for a number of years the depth of one of the holes is now feet and is in good condition about one bear ear ago this fall several new wells were drilled and a number of the he older wells were pumped under the tha supervision of J if hunt of hayward Haywar 3 cul many coalier wells hate hale been sunk eunk recently most of which it is claimed have struck oil mr air hunt has gilen ghen the following statement in regard to his work in the field altogether my experiments and tests show that oil is found in all the wells except tyco two at depths from to feet below the surface the wells coer A thren three mlle from north to sou so soland at And and one and one halt half miles from row east cast to west the oil Is of uniform character and in all wells rises to the same level approximately feet below the surface dy by continued pumping the production increases the formation in which the oils Is found Is sand and shale mixed varying in thic thickness knesE L rom a few feet to 45 feet by shoot ing with nitroglycerine rine the flow is apparently increased although wa have not yet experimented suf ficle ly to determine the size shot w aluch leh is most effective according to the very lates late t information received from coun try there is considerable acrivi y all along the line the hunt now have four rigs and are banki sinking as many mail y wells this company is now patenting acres of ground I 1 |