Show I DEBEQUE OIL FIELD WILL WILLBE WILLBE WILLBE BE TESTED BY BIG COMPANY Drilling operations will begin near Debeque Colorado under the supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of P. P F. F Shannon and H H. T T. Duce for the Joint account of the In Inland Inland Inland In- In land and Carter Oil companies The standard rig tools other drilling equipment and casing on the sway way to De Beque have a total weight around to tons A fleet of or trucks will be required to transport the outfit to the field from De B Beque que Lumber and other material for buildIngs buildings buildings build build- ings at the drillers drillers' camp have been purchased there and the site for the camp has been selected by Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Shannon About barrels of water a flay day ay will be required In the operations The supply will probably be obtained obtain obtain- ed by Installing a pumping plant and ami pipe line A force of sixteen to twenty men will be employed A twenty-Inch twenty hole will probably be started as It may be necessary tl to togo togo go to a depth of feet to reach the best sands although a big production production pro pro- may be struck at 2100 2101 feet according to the indications as interpreted Interpreted Interpreted Inter Inter- Inter inter- by geologists How long a time will be required to finish the first hole can only be estimated as much depends on circumstances circumstances cir cir- circumstances cir cir- beyond human control If It no bad luck is IJ experienced a hole bole 2500 to feet deep might be finIshed finished finished fin fin- in n sixty to ninety days while a streak of bad luck may cause a adelay adelay adelay delay of weeks but with plenty of money and the best obtainable If It the way of equipment to start with chances of delays In such work are reduced to a minimum While at least one geologist is known to have examined and to have written a report on the big oil structure structure structure ture a good many years agoa copy of his report being In the possession of M M. H H. Callahan of De Beque most of them even members of the United States Stales geological survey either wholly overlooked the structure or for some reason reason Ignored it The present present pres pre ent drilling program may mar be said to tol l have ave had 11 its inception earl early 1 last I h. h 1 c. c year as the result of a visit with I Mr Callahan by E E. E Byers Emerick of the Carter Oil company and and who Mr Callahan says Was teas advised by his company to pay no attention to this section But Mr Emerick sa saw oil from the Callahan well which he visited taking a gallon of the Uia o oil with him hilt on his departure for Grand Junction h he tested it As a result of Df tests showing the oil was of fine quality Mr Emerick again went to De Beque and became Interested interested interested inter Inter- ested In the geology of that vicinity His examination and report of findings ere checked and concurred in by Geologist Hill Hm of the Continental Continental Continental Conti Conti- Oil and P. P B. B Whitney geologist geologist geologist gist for the Inland Applications made September 11 resulted In permits permits permits per per- mits being Issued about December 20 Noticing the activity in the field and the purpose being learned A A. G. G Burritt a geologist of of Salt Lake City was called there by Irving F F. Greene to the structure Mr Burritt's report being favorable Greene filed an application for a permit permit permit per per- mit and got a number of local ana nna other Colorado people to do like lIke- wise The crest of the structure follows a general west east-west course along thaline the tha theline theline line between 9 and 10 The rhe filing cover an area extending six miles mUes east and ten miles mUes west of the rivet river and seven or eight miles from north to south embracing more than square miles mUes |