Show western venture discards small rig for star no 28 salt lake city utah jan 30 1923 1928 editor vernal express dear sir it may interest your readers to know ot of the activities of the western venture corporation in n the vernal district this concern as jou ou know now drill drillon riz tor for oil on what we call the vernal about 6 mile miles south 1 west est rt cf vernal laet the email armstrong I 1 rig rl was as di carded as inadequate lor for the tough fo mahlons encountered encounter ve and a number 23 star riz set 1 n I 1 nirh Is now drill wry every day dav mn a inch hole at r biting a depth I 1 of approximately feet has been attained Pro progress giess should be much more rao rat d from acm now on as the heavier equipment and long stroke will III aar the hole to the object lve live hi h lips 4 orlund fet f et de den deri ri the rhe I 1 western venture well Is located atle ted in ir c sr ot of sec 8 6 awn 3 south P 21 E 8 9 L f and base this Is about halt mile northwest ot of the th old aced well ell in section S 5 which many vople will remember as drilled in IS 19 1 this old heed need sell ell the oil acne at only feet at feet both the drillers and mi reed claimed they could have made a ell I 1 for to barrels dally daily capacity ithe the oil zone proved to ave a total thickness of feet i it Is now a well known fact that mr reed located his well ell in a trough that exists in the I 1 twists between the two old antic trial arches plainly observable from the road west of vernal ant and it 13 W kate in n the tight light of 0 our present knowledge of structure structures that he found any quantity of 0 oil at all inasmuch as the vernal Is precisely similar to the structure of the great sunset midway and ether other gusher fields of california se believe that when the more favorable area aress are tapped further from the outcrop and on the arches very ery lare large wella wells of from 2000 to barrels dally daily capacity will be brought in 1 it li Is indeed true that an oil of heavy gravity probably 18 16 to 18 deg de baume ik expected but when it Is considered that some ut of the greatest cil oil fields in the world panuco and cerra azul of mexico coatings Coa lings mckittrick and sunset midway of california venezuela fields of south america and other foreign elds ids produce oil of from 12 to 13 degrees baume gravity one can begin to appreciate the economic value of the basins a base oil resources the rhe western venture corporation now controls coit rols over acres on the vernal besides this empire of 0 ho dans the corporation owns tour four complete drilling rigs casing trucks and other equipment our corporation has done more to advertise the tile oil resources of the basin than thin any other company or individual we have given away free frel hundri hundreds eds of ecological geological man mas and reports given lectures in ogden and continued on page pace 7 DISCARDS BIG FOK FOIL STAR NO as 2 continued from page 1 salt lake etc it Is the opinion of 0 the geologists ho he organized the western venture press wool ool garments while still damp with a medium hot iron until they are dry use a pressing cloth if U ironing on the right side slightly dampened cheesecloth Is useful in pressing flannels ai as it draws up the fluff of the material corporation that the oil prospect prospects of 0 value will be found back of the vast sand outcrops ot at the tertiary formation and not as now generally believed in the morrison Morr lson and sundance which to date have proven of comparatively small value as pro horizons 1 I do not vant want to imply that the b the ashley valley test la Is of 01 email small worth quite the contrary in fact I 1 am only attempting to illustrate comparative alue alues of the basins prospect he oil ho horizons icons in other words end and as matter of actual fact the formation which occupies the greater part of the uintah basin produces more oil throughout the world than any other formation and a hundred times more oil than the morrison lson and sundance 1 I am frequently asked what we wm do with the oil when we find it but flee fice it to say that no oil of any economic value has ever been found in the united uni ed states that was not immediately tapped by pipe lines or rail roads and it id b the discovery of thia this one natural resource alone that will immediately cause railroads to build into the basin basim in conclusion I 1 will say that the vernal has n connection or to the ashley valley done dome next week in a brief article on an the geology ct of the vernal area I 1 will include a geologic map and cross sec see eions giving the location of the various structures and Illa the reasons why the vernal should not ba be confounded with any my ot at the other structure now being heing avs arm peered in the basin sincerely boin E n R |