Show DRILLS OIL IL IN ALASKA FIELD Difficulties encountered In movIng Inc lag Ing machinery from For Por- Portage Por tago tage Bay Alaski 1711 17 miles In Inland Inland Inland land for the purpose of drilling oil wells on the tho Pearl Creek dome during sore tero cro weather eather are arc described In a letter from J H Hunt of Ogden who has been heen In that see see- sec section tion for the past six fix months Mr Hunt says In In n part On On August I 12 12 1 22 The Asso- Asso Associated Asso Associated dated Oil 01 company's crew myself being one of or them arrived lt at Portage Bay Alaska equipped with enough tools and supplies t drill two well veils on the Pearl Creek which Is Is ac- ac according according ac cording to expert geologists one of the Iho th most perfect oil domes diS- diS diScovered dis discovered covered In It t good many years On On August 29 1922 the Stand Stand- Standard Standard ard ant Oil company arrived with I i crew and enough enough- nough supplies to Trill drill drillI drilla Trilla I n a foot hole It took tv to 0 months for or the road crew to build I enough road for a n start to the field which Is 17 miles from rein tho th I town Snow and zero weather prevailed with a gale sale blo Ing from rom the Arctic The t two 0 companies had 2000 tons tone of o supplies to move and at present after aHer only six sh months from date of arrival both are drilling and mak- mak makIng making mak-ine mak Ing great headway On August Augut 12 U 1921 the town ot of consisted of about 12 naU nathe outs dugouts and now there Is In it about white while persons and houses bouses |