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Show BYRON SHALE YIELDS OIL. ' Utah-Wyoming Company's Driller Confident of Flow In the Deep Sand. With the new well of the Utah-' Utah-' "vVyomlng Consolidated Oil company down close to 1,350 feet and continuously continu-ously In oil shale from the 740-foot point, and with gas pres&ure forcing much oil up between the outer anl Inner casings, A. J. Scott, the com-jany's com-jany's driller, who arrived In the city yeeterday, from the field, is confident tb&t upon reaching the deep sand, at about 1.500 feet,' he w 111 "aave the satisfaction sat-isfaction of bringing in an Important producer. A cumber of producing wells have been brought In In tho Byron field, but they are all lu the first sand The Utah-Wyoming company com-pany Is the first to undertake to penetrate pene-trate the deep eand, which in said by . experts to be the same sand as that In .which the gushers have been found . in th Gray Bull field, Mr. Scott, who has had long experience experi-ence drilling well6 In Pennsylvania, fill fields. Is enthusiastic over the remits re-mits that are being obtained In the Utah-Wyoming well. The great thick-cesa thick-cesa of oil shale which oa been encountered en-countered cannot but mean, he believes, be-lieves, that & strong flow of oil will be met In tho underlying sand. He . is confident that tho Byron field will prove to t one of tho most Important ones lu the wwt, its development ha v. . Ing heen retarded only bv lack of ; knowledge of the format:on on tho part of the operators The formation, problems are being mastered now, and he believes that it Is only a met-' met-' ter of getting wells to t"ie deep sand . to have large producers. |