Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-23 | Page 23 | Oil Drill to Start Tuesday

OIL DRILL TO START TUESDAY Ogden Men Return From Site of Test Near St George Driling on the Mid American Mid Oil company property in southern Utah five miles from tram st St George will begin Tuesday This was re- re reported re reported ported Saturday by men who re re- re returned re returned turned from that district clala OW- OW data of ot the company who ho are Ost- Ost ORden Og Ogden den business men estimate that within 40 days be struck A party of Ogder men who Are In the company vis- vis visIted vis is visited the tho property during the pu past pa week They were P F Kirken- Kirken Kirkendall Kirken-dall Kirken dall dali Ray nay M Id Jones Curtis Allison Paul R n M Hoggan Roy nay Jackson J Francis Fowles E E B Carr Chris P C Rich Rich- Richardson Richardson Richardson ardson and Howard Fowles A derrick 12 feet teet In height has bas boon been completed the rotary drill drill- drilling drilling ing outfit Installed pipe lines laid and over everything placed In readi readiness ness for tor drilling operations It w was said A A six mla extension has hai been boen made to the s scene ene of ot operations by the Dixie Power Powe company The pipe line is feet Ceet long The derrick contains feet teet ot of lumb lumber and was completed within four days from the tim that expert riggers started to work ark A 75 horsepower electric motor molar is In iii place A Inch 20 hole will be drilled at the start and will later be reduced to 15 Inch Inches ell A great deal of ot Interest Is being shown In southern Utah o e over tle te operations of at the Mid American Mid company there It was said laId Officials of at the tho company say they have every confidence In the reports of at geologists and In the showings mad made mado a In tests testa E B E B JennIngs formerly of ot Lou Loa Angeles an expert drill man has been employed ed to drill the tho well