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Show STUCK INASPHALTUM. Oil Drill Fastened in Mineral Find in Well. Price, Utah, Aug. 2 Yesterday In drilling for oil nbove Runnyslde, Mc-Whorter Mc-Whorter & Hastings struck n heavy stratum of soft nsphaltum that fastened fas-tened the drill lrLthe hole, and tho cable wns broken In trslng to raise tho drill Considerable excitement prevails over this development, which Is said by oil men to be n sure indication that oil underlies un-derlies the slto of tho well, und not only this, hut tho nsphaltum Is considered con-sidered n rich strlko In Itself, Today nn effort was made to recover tho drill, but without success nt the tlmo tho reports re-ports came from there. As soon as tho drill Is iccovercd sinking for the oil will bo resumed. |