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Show Utah Oil Drilling h Roosevelt Area a n004S level (with eastern te 'ki-np and western Uintah , JJCnh, fas exceptions to the :al " tiebut the recent heavy leas- indicates that drilling oper- tO fnn7wiU step up considerably fa matter of time. :rs m are now 13 active oil ,ns in Utah, as compared to " year ago, with Uintah coun-l3 coun-l3 maining the scene of the ts. aviest drilling activity. nintah was also leading in the Jfsummer of 1949, followed t Grand county in second !L This year's well drilling much more scattered. There "no real second place contend- "interest in oil properties also vk shifted to an extent. While small amount of activity conges con-ges at the Ashley valley field 1 theast of Vernal, the possi- '--ties opened up by the bring- in of the Ute Tribal No. 1, 2 j: air miles northeast of Roos- f elt have drawn the attention oil men farther west. Evince Evi-nce of this fact is offered by unent drilling operations at Ute Tribal No. 2, one mile est of the No. 1 well, the Bluebell Blue-bell (Monarch dome) well, 10 t air miles northwest of Roosevelt, ara the California Co. Gusher nil 10 air miles east of Roos-pi Roos-pi and the recent leasing of Irian-owned land in the vicin- it;' of the Ute Tribal and Gusher we'.ls. Land leasing continues heavy in many counties of the state i:i in Nevada. Last Tuesday lie Duchesne county board of Knrr.issioners announced the i.. lease of 289 acres of land, near I llchesre, to the ctvln 0;' iio. Carter and Continental Oil i)l f companies also announce that trilling ODerations on land leased tear Duchesne in Augxist, 1949, sated in Sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 15 16, 17, and 18, Township 4 fc.ih, Range 4 West, will begin t;ie first of the year 1951. E1 i i Total depths now reached at, it Ute Tribal No. 2, NW SE, See. 21. T1S. R1E, and at Blue-ur. Blue-ur. s!l Monarch) well, SW NE, m 6, T1S, R2W, are beyond "it and 7,618 feet, respective- 3 At the Gusher well. NW NW, 35, T5S, R19E, the drilling "w is now testing on pump, aest production is 31 barrels s'oil in 22 Vi hours. porkers are rigging up rotary s at the Jack A. Burnett No. ; SW SW. Sec 34, T4S, R11W, -a the Strawberry reservoir. |