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Show lloi'J LUG 1 1 spurs drilling New drilling scheduled in western Utah and new production pro-duction established in east-em east-em Nevada's Trap Spring weahas attracted industry -"We attention this week ac -cording to Carlton Stowe, spokesman for the Utah De-Pwtment De-Pwtment of Natural Resources. Re-sources. Production at the Nevada field, west of the Utah state line - south of Ely, stimulated with the suc-cessful suc-cessful completion of a 2,-488 2,-488 barrel-per-day producer pro-ducer by Northwest Explora-llon- It is the No. 3 well Producing from a depth of 3,268 feet. The success is a suthwest offset well to the operator's discovery, the N. 1 Trap Springs where a ent installation of ; a 'rSer pump has increased J'1 Production to some 1,-22 1,-22 barrels daily, a well "filled to the west, the No. Pumped 109 barrels per and the No. 4 well to north was recently com -Wed. Oil from the new eId. the second in the state, J? being trucked to Salt Lake tv and to a refinery in lonPah, Nevada. At pre-Price pre-Price of the oil is U-16 per barrel at the well-eai. well-eai. The discovery of oil "'Ms area of Nevada creat-a creat-a & terrific oil-lease play Utah with leases on fed- lands taken extending m the St. George area 0rh through Tooele Coun- h addition, Mr. Stowe re-j,orts re-j,orts Plans by the Argonaut "ergy Corporation and Co-"co Co-"co American Company to a 10,000 foot well about miles north -northeast of town of Hinckley in Mil-a Mil-a County. There has been billing in the vicinity with seven miles of the new 'Moratory test well. |