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Show jOil Now Seen In j Well At Ephraim i Oil will be struck within the next ! sixty days in a new well now drilling drill-ing down in Sanpete county, if ttio i hopes of the officials of (he Utah Ccu-j Ccu-j tral Oil company are realized, i The well is located a mile easl of ! Ephraim. It is one of the prettiest anticlines in the west, according to some oil men who have visited (he place. The well is now down 100 I feet. For some distauce (he drills ! have been in an extremely hard rock. It is underlying a sandstone, and beneath be-neath this again u lime shale favorable favor-able for oil is (he anticipation. The well will be drjlled GOO feet. Before this depth has been' attained (he oil should be struck. The hypothesis upou which these deductions have been made is the fact that oil has been found years ago 900 feet .to the south, and in an identical formation upon (ho same dome. Hero is located (he old Poulson water well. It is now down 650 feel and is affording afford-ing a good (low of water. Mr. Poulson Poul-son gives an affidavit that oil was struck in this well at several hundred feel below the surface. He says he bailed out considerable oil, on various vari-ous occasions. But water was (tie object of the well, the oil was cased off. and the well sent down deeper after water. The Utah Central Oil company has a CO-foot derrick erected at the well and as soon as some additions can be made it o the machinery the drilling will be resumed.' Tho' company has sub-leased from Hie General Oil company com-pany 3.000 acres of land checker-boarded checker-boarded over three ' tmviishinx Tho officers of the Utah Central are as follows: President, J. J. RioliHrrt-sn; RioliHrrt-sn; vice-president, and general manager, man-ager, Thos. L. Woodruff;.'' .secretary-treasurer, .secretary-treasurer, C. A. Gillette. The capital capi-tal is $100,000, and shares at 10 cents par value. Western Mineral Survey. |