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Show Oil Test Well Shows 2000 Feet Of Water Gravel More than 2000 feet of apparently appar-ently "well loaded" water gravels were drilled at the Paxton No. 1 test well near Black Rock, according accord-ing to Mendell M. Bell, Salt Lake geologist, who logged the well and checked samples as it was being drilled. As stated to the Milford News, Mr. Bell estimates that the water reservoir "could never be ex hausted" through normal irrigation irrigat-ion or manufacturing use. No oil sands were encountered, he ' said. The drilling was still in the old Lake Bonneville bed at 3379 feet, where drilling was halted halt-ed by the El Capitan Drilling Co. of Kansas, who were putting down the well. Mr. Bell said there was a possibility that if drilling was continued to much greater depth oil sands might be encountered. The gravel bed was encountered at 1450 feet and is estimated to be at least 2000 feet in thickness. It extends north to Black Rock and at least 10 miles south. The log of the well, as charted by Mr. Bell, showed gravel and sand down to 300 feet, with salt water at 45 feet. From 300 to 315 a brown marl was encountered and sylinite gypsum from 315 to 450. A dark grey gumbo from there to 915 feet. From 945 to 1450 the drill penetrated pene-trated a gray marl and from 1450 to 3379, where drilling was stopped, stop-ped, was a solid layer of gravel ' and sand, varying in size of a I kernel of corn to a pecan nut. |