Show oil well fast gaining depth mountain fuel supply company has reached a depth ol oi over feet at its ou oil test well in the chalk creek valley one mile east of coal ville vilie according to reports from the location the well Is still bottomed in brown shale in drilling the first 1000 feet progress was delayed on several occasions by the necessity of cementing of water bearing sands this difficulty is encountered no longer and the company is reported to lie be making hole at the rate of feet a day using rotary equipment the company began drilling early in june starting in the frontier formation ot of upper cretaceous age it expects to drill to a depth of between and feet finishing in the bear river formation the approximate equivalent of the dakota sandstone of wyoming and colorado |