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Show casing and that it will not require re-quire more than 30 or 40 days to complete it to the necessary depth to prove the well. I also saw other derricks in the neighborhood neigh-borhood approximately two to five miles distant from the Zora A. Johnson. From the best information I can get the Austin Chalk in your well was struck at a slightly greater depth than the same formation in the Powell field. The log of this well shows the Austin Chalk to be at the ap- Supt. Fred Turner's Report on Oil Field Ohio Copper Company of Utah Mine Office Bingham, Nov. 9, 1923 Frederick E. Turner, Mine Superintendent. Mr. C. E. Bass, Baxter Basin Oil Syndicate. Gentlemen: At the request of Mr. Bass and to satisfy myself and others as to conditions, at your holdings hold-ings in Athens, I have this day returned and desire to give you a report of my findings. At Athens, Texas, I met Mr. Evans who represents the interest of the Pine Grove Oil Company and Mr. J. B. Davidson. In company with Mr. Davidson David-son and Mr. Evans I went to the Zora A. Johnson well of the Baxter Basin Oil Company which is about ten or twelve miles southeast of Athens. Upon Up-on the property I found a very well built derridk and a full Rotary Ro-tary Drilling Equipment including includ-ing enough drill stems, set up inside of the derrick and enough 6 5-8 casing all in good shape to complete the hole another 800 feet. Two 45 II. P. boilers in good shape connected up to the drilling equipment and enough wood in all probability to drill 400 feet of hole. Mr. Davidson who hs charge of the work, is in my opinion a very capable man and a man who has had many years of experience ex-perience in oil drilling. Mr. ; Davidson told me that the well had been cleaned out and that ' the well is now cased to a tl-jja.. ' of over 3100 feet with 6 5-8 proximate depth as forecast by Mr. Earl A. Wyatt and Mr. D. W. Morrow, both well known Geologists. As the Woodbine sand which is the oil producing sand of this locality lies under the Austin Chalk it should not take more than 600 or 700 feet of drilling to reach this sand and prove this well. Being very favorably impressed impress-ed with conditions as I found them I am willing to take a chance. I am enclosing my check for $750.00 for which make me two certificates, one to Mrs. F. E. Turner and the other one to myself. Very truly yours, Per F. E. TURNER |