| Show UP U AROUND SUNNYSIDE the advocates special C correspondent orres writes of the oil situation there the riff rig was vas in trouble a few days lust last week during juring the first two weeks of its operation it had gone down something owr over one hundred feet passing tho tile drift anda and a heavy bod bed of Indu rated ale immediately overlying the first ulas massive sive scam of 0 saw sand asphaltum la in breaking through tho the shale to the sand lio however weer tt a small fissure VAS was encountered largo enough to ad ada nut the bit but opening at tsuch na an angle to the well ae as to catch tho the head of the bit oa on it its return this trouble delayed progress f from rom the 1st to the fth dinst on the evening of tho the ath however tho the bit passed smoothly into and out of tho the fissure and rith ease and careful handling Is progressing without further oust obstruction st the rig is located in the north fork of whitmore Whit canyon which in a distance of four miles exposes ria 11 the sand asphaltum ledges of the bean rian ri an cliffs the present well NN will ill cut tho the lower seven hundred feet of this asphaltum while the coli are now cont luu log ing the road up the canyon over tho roan cliff dl dald ld and down into the uintah oil basin whence their second well can penetrate the thousand feet of sand asphaltum now lying above them the ranslo a sand ledge led go encountered by the drill crops about a it half a mile ae down the canyon it Is also exposed pter this dh elildo ide on tho nine ne M mile ile side hence no u oil Is expected from it two or three other massive oil sand ledges underlying also crop ful flir flici dici down the canyon and therefore no doubt prove barren or it if productive they will necessarily how flow a vis etus mus and oil similar to die flow last year of the uintah coz com n banys well in willow creek and t fir tr r the same reason that bothello bot both wells hells are located on the outer rina rim of the uintah lasin hence penetrate pena trute tho the nand sand asphaltum too near the droppings crop pings in fact all the sand asphaltum ledges for the first five hundred feet under tho the mcwhorter derrick are so exposed that now flow oil all cannot be exacted expected from them on this side of thre boan cliffs at about six hundred feet down however tho the drill will begin to to Nn penetrate etrata tho the famous mana moth vein whose crop Is constantly leading out oil about one and a halt half miles down the cati a aon this Is one of the lo 10 lowest ast ledges of tho the roan bonn cliffs and Is so f arco ree f from rom exposure near tho the veil well that while tile company are expressing no us its to its productiveness ti dT veness elless they are wagering tho costs of 01 a well on it oer oler the divide this thi company owns everal several miles of ground adjacent to the price oil company tho the patmos head company and tho the grand view all ItIl located well within the rim of the uintah oil basin and nil all co boering ering the w seventeen hundred feet of rich and asphalt uni ura whose cropping clopping form he e koan cliff langhof mountains here that the mcwhorter crow crowd 1 should place their fi arst well at tit a point on the of thu having seven hundred feet of oil all rock below w when hen ono one mile farther north would pia them within tho the basin alad na over its entire seventeen hundred teet t of rich liar sand asphaltum Is p acu cu c the least nah when C 0 howker ho it Is known that athly bj atre r ill cid ol oil 01 men and na ave been producing blowing alar castlio cart tila lio of crop of se semento en t twel gwehe 10 fot net in california they cant a hardly fco expected here L t go far baand i the 0 three veins eack of 01 a huldred foot thickness tk they ney iwo c expect a n how flow f trem ram of all imer and though ough it proves I 1 I 1 nase ay reason of the tho divide purl T 1 I 1 YO being on 1 this I side tilde of the crouch wilt reach tho the railroad lie hero re in a sh length a gravity plo P no line nine mil miles es rh horeau Wh hore Oreas aa while ft b bator tor grade frade of petroleum can bo be expected from tho the same eina ci tapped from front a point over the dl ide in the basin yet a moro more costly means of transportation must be provided mr mcwhorter understands the situation n thoroughly hoi however eyer agthe as the present ax extension tension of his wagon mad road over the divide into the basin suS suu ests tests the denver people though later starting operations are no iss i ss aitho 0 than the california company oom pany their grand view road will be completed nod and their rig miming running in within tho the next week they have reelected the bead head of bango range creek for the site of their first well voll they aill all penetrate first possibly ono one hundred and mud fifty feet et of drift and thin shale then will sink at once into about ond thousand feet of massive sand asphaltum as shown in the tile bonn roan cliff exposures about ono one mile alp tup the i alse of the formation their well should begin to flow at three hundred to four hundred feet down |
