Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

much greater extraction. owing to It's
much lighter quality, you can readily
sec that the ultimate production VIII
be enormous. 1t has been demonstrate
ed that the saturated oil sands VIII
yield upwards of 10 per cent of their
volume in OIL Taking this as basis
and figuring the cubic contents of one
acre with known depth OF 300 feet
of oil sand. we have 1850 square feet
in an acre by 800 feet. depth of thu,
oil sand. equals 13.06S.000 cubic feet of
oil sand under each acre. Ten per
cent OF this equals 1.3O6,S00 cubic feet
OF oil under each acre. Multiply this
by seven and n half, the number of gal
Ions in n cubic foot. and you have 9,S0l,-
600 gallons, divided by AZ. the number
of gallons in a barrel. and you have
23S,357 barrels of production for each
acre. These figures IRE conservative
and will give You some idea of the en-
ormous value of such oil lands"
PARAFFINE IN CHUNKS.
Persons who have been down the San
Juan river canyon in boat declared
that in many places the paratfine can
be found in chunks where the oil has
evnporated. At the Honaker trail the
greatest scep from the Honukcr sands,
or lowest known sands Is found Hero
a little over a barrel of oil II day secps
out. running probably as high as three
or four barrels on hot summer days, and
this has been going on for centuries.
Just how many wells In tho district
could be productive Is hard to say, MS
tales, more or less inflated, are told.
There Is no doubt as to at least
10 wells in the district being able to
furnish a good supply of oil OF course
1t would be necessary to case them and
have them shot rs the oil sands are not
really n sand but n very porous line
There is no caving and in places drilling
Is particularly hard.
There are several drilling outfits in
the field doing contract work. w. p.
Dancer of Bluff has n small rig In the
field and is contemplating putting in a
largo Keystone rig. Tho Globe Well
Drilling company of Reno has just en-
tered tho field with a good rig capable
of $500 feet. j. Il. Nash the field man
nEer of the company has had n varied
experience In California and several
other fields. The company has q con-
tract for 4 1,00o-foot well on Redwood
ground, n well on tho Pacific San Juan
ground and also on tho Old Gibraltar.
WAGES IN FIELD.
With the advent of tho Globe COM
pany prices have been cut and are now
lower than S. a foot for drilling Wages
In the field run from So to IS u day. first
class drillers getting from s. to IS n
day. Most of the machines in the field
arc using crude oil for fuel, while there
are several electro gasoline engines us.
Ing the crude oil direct on tho machines
All tools are sharpencd by oil burn
crs.
Tho FORCES arc made by stono lining Il
foot hole in tho ground to tho depth
of about two feet. A largo sand stone
Is then placed in the hole and IL three
quarters inch pipe run from u barrel Of
crude oil to point in the holo where
1t can be sprayed on the sand stone
~ blower Is attached to the engine and
the pipe is extended into the hole so
that stream OF air moves over tho
sand stone. AS the top OF the hole is
covered up and a small apparturo left
Tor tho admittancc of tools IL very heavy
heat can be secured. In using oil ns
fuel the same practise is in vogue The
engines are started by wood until the
Doi!ers are warmed. when the oil Is
turned In and blower set in action.
Tho rush of assessment work has mn
vented n great deal of deep drilling in
the field and with but one exception
portable rigs are used This execution
is the standard rig operated by IN,
Norwood and Bluff City oil company in
johns canyon on the extreme wcstnrr
part Of the field. This is known MS tho
Galloway well. l.. w. Galloway OF Nov
wood. Colo, Is in charge.
USES TOWER.
This well Is the only one operating
with Il tower and Is the deepest in tho
district. L, w. Galloway Is determined
to catch the Honnkcr sands. Tho camp
Is one OF tho best situated in tho dis
trlct and fine stream of water comes
down the canyon. There Is also plenty
OF feed for the stock. The we'll on
December |. was we'll down toward the
l6Oo-foot level, making about four feet
II day
Tho company pierced the Goodrich
sands early In the drilling and again ut
tho LILO level, ran through a good oil
bearing sand, The Goodrich sand was
about six feet thick and the other much
thicker Mr. Galloway Is of the opinion
that IL either one OF the sands wcro
shot It would make an excellent we'll
1t IS his intention, as he now has tho
sands cased off. to proceed to the Honn
ker sand and then shoot each sand
on the way up.