Show GOOD SHOWING OF OIL STRUCK AT ASHLEY VALLEY conditions at ashley valley apparently patently ly parallel those at lies iles dome drilling operations near vernal at the ashley valley test of the U utah t all oil Re refining refilling firling company have been stopped at 1765 feet in order to unde tream andi and set casing this decision was prompted prompt by tho bhe fact that oil is bubbling up from a sandy shale stratum at this depth through feet of water running into the hole from a water sea seam at ft 1732 feet and the drilling Z superintendent in does no not think it advisable to proceed deeper without taking every precaution should a substantial oil producing stratum be I 1 struck on resu resuming operations alter after mudding oft off the gas horizon at 1662 1687 feet producing cubic feet of gas drilling was resumed through a sandy formation in which small smaill showings of oil were struck Inform allun Is explicit however that no sand has been struck A blowout around 1735 feet that unloaded the well was thought to mean ibe piercing ot of another gas sand but it was found that gas was leaking andar the shoe froam the strat stratum urit at I 1 feet the brandenber Branden heid id was opened sli slightly glatly to relieve the p prea rea sure eure and drilling allward resumed it if possible eight and erne ane quarter inch casing will be set at 1765 feet a formation shutoff tried for and the well cleaned ot of all water and mud and drilling resumed with wr h a dry hole bole the sundance Sun dante it Is ze lieveld will not be struck before the 2000 foot mark or lower is as reached |