The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-18
INDICATIONS ARE FLATTERING.
Drilling Progressing Slowly But Vein
Believed to Be Near.

Mt. Pleasant. Nov. 1.-THE outlook at
the scene Of operations of the Mt. Peas
ant OH q Gas company. which is sinking
q wei near this city. becomes more Ia
VOrable every day. In fact. every foot
of ground penetrated by the drill shows
that the bottom Of the we'll is rapidly
nearing the oil veil. Work has been go
ing on very slowly now for week Ow-
ing 20 "a scarcity of casing for the hole.
but good supply Of that article has
Deen shipped ana VIII arrive mere tOmOr-
row, after which there win be no delay
until oil is reached. or until it is shown
conclusively that there is no oil there.
The we'll is down now about 600 feet and
there is about 400 feet Of water i'm the
hole. owing TO there being an insufficient
amount Of casting on hand. and the bor-
The drill is now in a very hard. black
shale. sample Of this was taken out
Tor aSsaying purposes last week and
made an excellent showing. Forty per
cent oil was disclosed by the test and 10
per cent gas. which is considered extra
good at that depth. Ii is anticipated by
Mir. Woodward. the expert. that a LAYER
Oi black shale almost as hard as steel
VIII be encountered soon. which viii be
slow in drilling but immedia tely under
this ht expects TO finG the cap which
covers the oil vein.
Oil shows more plainly than ever in
the water which is taken daily from the
well and becomes more plentiful each
day, this being taken as further evidence
OF large body Of OF being near at hand.
Considerable interest is being shown in
by home people and by outsiders. A
number of gentlemen who follow mining
In various forms Tor a,liVlug have visited
the wei during the week and all Of them
speak IN high terms of the prospects.
one gentleman, who is considered an eX-
pert in the oil business. and who has
been in and around oil fields for years.
but who has no direct interest i'm this
project, said the other day. after inspect
ing the showing which the company is
making. that n chad never seen the equal
of il any place I'm the country either east
eTS and others about the stock and
number of good sales have been made.
The FairvieW Telephone company. an
independent concern. which has been
conducting private line in the neigh
DOrlng town. IS making arrangements 10
branch out in the very near future
switchboard has been ordered and is eX-
pected daily. and ac soon as 10 arrives
a regular exchange win be started with "a
central office and lines running all over
the town. Mllburn. several miles to tho
north. VIII be connected also. and Birch
Creek, couple Of miles this side will
also be IN the exchange, enough subscrib-
ers having been secured already I'm each
Of these towns TO justify the extension.
I'm Fairview lines have been extended
over nearly every street already. and the
outlook for the little enterprise is good.
combination with a similar line.
which is now i'm operation i'm Emery
county and which intends 20 include the
Carbon county coal camps on its circuit
I'M the early spring. is q possibility of the
over the hill from Fairview to Scofield.
the two lines viii make one Of consider
able Importance TO all this part of the
state. as there is an enormous amount Of
towns and valleys Of the eastern part Of
the state