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Show OIL & GAS TESTING MACHINE SAYS PLENTY OIL AND OAs HER,; A man named Sprague came h recently from California witf,"6 machine which he claims will' iri(,a cate to a certainty where and appro'" imate quantity of gas and oil UX" ground. The machine appears t,0 complicated, shows depth and iH' cates oil and gas by different nohe'" people here who have heard it sav it hisses when gas is indicated. 5 Mr. Sprague tested ground cut Diagonal street, gas being indicated at 1700 feet and oil in quantity 4000 feet. He made a test ner the temple neither oil or gas being jn(jj cated. Last Friday with a number of Citj zens he made a test near the Virgjn Dome well. Mr. Sprague disclaim" any knowledge of conditions at the well, yet his indicator gave aln-.o-tei act duplicate of the log all the av down to 3400 the point where opera tions at the well ceased. Beyond that the reading of the in. dicator was as follows: 3550 iiniP shale, very hard; 3600, very hard lime; 3670, broken; 3680, sand verv soft; 3710, broken lime shale; 3753 hard sand and shale; 3772. lots ot gas, big paying well; 3800, broken limes and shale; 3960, hard cap rock-4023, rock-4023, oil, big flowing well; 4125' broken limes, very soft; 4131. hard cap rock; 4158, sand, gas ar.c 0il 500 0, very hard granite. Mr. Sprague has since gone to Iron county, to locate water underground the News is informed, but is expected to return here today. |
