Show h TELLS OF o PROGRESS i OF VIRGIN ELLS i Peter Petel Porter Returns From FromField i Field Surer Than Ever EVe of Success 1 KEPT KEPT- BACK ACK BY BREAKS i Drill Stems Snap Upon sti 1 I I ing e tone That haJ Japs' Japs I t N 0 Oil II Sand San d I. I I Poter r of or tho th Southern thErl tH Utah IL an Imd th tim tho ern Oil com com- pany w who o d yf from rom the Virgin fleW while to report nn any mote more flOW ne havIng been brought In In Is more ever that the field 4 will make mAk Rood good Tho new wens up upon ff L' L reaching A R. certain depth have almost t Invariably In- In 34 variably be teen n Ile delayed l Nl by breaking ln theirL their L- L drill tem stems The Tb reason for or this thi i 19 41 that thata hat a R. stratum of limestone I 14 encountered r covering th oil n 91 sand and the operators have hare not t t t. t d d. d Ih tho f f teat at t of qt drill drill- In 1 through the limestone ut an nn ac tc The thickness lm K of ot this e stia- stia turn tum Is usually from Crom eight to 14 It feet fed Operation at the tho Southern U Utah h. h th the I nod th tho Virgin r ln River flyer Oil an and ami r Ir I Development De company's w well H No 2 have l been held heW bp tip b by the brooking of ot sterns stems 4 In er e every case cs it has hns bc bein n necessary to toh i h have havo f the Jew J parts s manufactured so o that the relays s aro are much mitch longer than the they be bo could supplies be bc obtained at ILL either Salt Satt Lake or Los An Angelo Anselo The tile Southern 1 tali 1 expects tc to resume h by next Monday and ami It I Is believed helleved that thata a few fen da days work will tap the tho oil basin tV Mr P Portor found Cound 1 15 16 drills at nt t work In Inthe Inthe the Held field Two WO of or the the D. D G. G GU Martin Martin Mar U Utin tin and rowel Powers rig ig arc are Just a Tho rho depths attained in In the o other 1 r wells ells are lire ap alii follows PI Virgin m l O. O tU and D. D Oos Cos well No o. o 1 1 r r I Cedar Cit City Cit w ll II McK lcK z Ie w Jl v 8 well ell 4 4 n Southern Utah Wl well r Virgin River welt o. o I tO well wen l 11 w Clark well ell I Jack Martin well eli O G l i ont well veil W g wen well iIO 7 lambert well JOI Prone Iron Th These veins veins' will virtually prove ov a It district dis Its Its- I II of about tour tom by twelve twel J 1 rles al although although al- al though the tho lar larce majority of or thorn Sri aro I aI within a u radius of ot from three to live tin j.- j. miles from the original w well 11 Tho TIu- well wells I t l have oil ni al' aio the tho No o. o 1 i. th the o Cedar t p presumably lna b he hecK cK I I J 0 1 t l' l n b b bC r r- mm turn tiny oI totAny Uwe time The rb nn bad encountered 1 frs ge when a fl j i o of Its machinery occurred lie Mr Porte was accompanied to the Jire b ld b by Cb Charles s rl s E. E Brinton an au expert of or-I or 25 years years' ars experience In various oil nil oilfields r fields who ha has tak taken n the the- management ement or of orthe 1 the entire op operations or of tilt the Porter Clark Clarl Port I t. t syndicate M Mr r Brinton after ufler examinIng the tho formation did Ud not b bC hesitate to report 3 favorably upon urton tho Virgin Oel field He declares de Ie- de- de I clares dares that it i only i u f. mu tel of or going I after the oil to get set H. H t. t |