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Show County Oil Well No. 2 Reaches Depth of 1,545 ft. Drilling of ilie Beaver Valley Oil company at Black Rock, Beaver county, near Milford, Utah, in the No. 2 oil well has reached a depth of 1,545 feet. Work was temporar-' temporar-' ily interrupted at a depth of 1,545 feet by cold weather, according to Manager Walter James, just when operations had reached an interesting interest-ing point. Samples of the bailings brought to Salt Lake by Mr. James smell strongly of oil and gas. No. 2 well is about three-quarters o a mile west and one mile south of No. 1 weli. which was put down a little over J, ..'00 tent and was about to gj int ; th; !:uitive hori-;on, hori-;on, w'ten some'in-: dropped st3.il in the hole and prevented completion of the test. In the spring, Mr. Jair.e:-, veteran sheep and mining man, will start the development of a promising showing of gold discovered in the Marysvale district through the intervention of Providence and alertness of two sheepherders. Just three-quarters of a mile west of the famous old Wedge, which furnished some of the richest high-grade high-grade gold ore ever mined in Utah, Mr. James was running a band of sheep. The area had been visited by several cloudbursts that cut deep gashes in the earth's surface. In passing over one of these cuts, Mr. James' herder saw a rich quartz vein exposed. An examination of samples taken seemed to indicate gold conlent.of $26 a ton. A recent operation prevented Mr. James from making the trip but he had his brother, a mining man, examine ex-amine the showing, lie thought so well of the discovery that he staked out eight claims and those are to be worked this year. Mineral Survey. n |