Show WATER STOPPED AT VERNAL TEST SHALE SHOWS OIL saturation TOR HUNDRED FEET LARGE quantities BAILED OUT hopes of becoming an im important petroleum producer seem nearer of attainment than at any time during recent years in the light of the weeks developments at the vernal well ot of the utah oil refining company information from the field saturday stated that control of the gas and water delaying operations had been secured and that cleaning out of the hole would begin at once it Is definitely stated that the last feet of shale has been fairly saturated with oil not in small quantities but to such an extent that barrels of petroleum can be bailed baided out importance of 0 the showing is by no means depreciated by the trouble with water since tests of company engineers have proved that the water came from above probably at a depth of feet where the well was cemented and a ten inch casing set conditions promising the significance of the showing la is enhanced by the fact that geological conditions at vernal are similar to those at craig colo where a barrel well at a depth of feet was brought in in view of this resemblance of the two fields and the encouraging discovery by b the utah oil refining company local oil men are agreed that the vernal showing Is of arresting importance iw the vernal field has one great advantage over that of 0 craig since the oil bearing formations the lakota dakota and mceldo formations can be pierced with about 2000 feet le less ss drilling Condit conditions lons at cisco no 2 we well if of 0 the utah oil refining company are unchanged A ten inch casing is being cemented in at a depth of 2000 feet before drilling ant a stratum which it is believed will be that productive of from to cubic feet of gas in n no 1 well at 1950 feet tribune |