Show development of san juan oil fields 0 A F allen alien of glenwood springs colorado and associates of long beach california have entered upon a development program in the san juan oil fields at mexican hat A columbia steel drilling rig was moved onto the location last week and is now being set up in the of sec 6 T 42 S R 19 E drilling will begin as soon the rig is set up mr allen alien and associates own about 1000 acres of patented land which includes most of the patented land in the entire field and that portion of the field on which many of the better wells were located at the time the field was producing in 1922 including the arcola well the hudson and the mexican hat wells this field was abandoned a number of years ago as production did not justify building a pipeline to distant refineries and the lack of good highways and large motor transports at that time made transporting of the oil unprofitable this oil is very high gravity and is found at a shallow depth dept of to feet mr allen alien has been drilling some wells in the rangely langely Ran gely colorado field for the last two years |