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Show Cold and Flu Retard Oilmen Work in Wyoming Slackening j Oil From Some Wells Is Warm CASr'LR, VVyo., Nov. 21. The influenza hit the Wyoming oil fields hard. Work either shut down completely or else was hampered considerably by the ravages-of the disease. Between I the epidemic and the effect of the cold weather upon the oil, the .Warm Spring field shut down aimost completely. A few leases are still trying ' to keep the work going, but In the main ' the operators have abandoned oil work I until spring because of the conditions. I Water ia very scarce and the Oil in the j tanks has the consistency of liver; in ; fsx-t, is st) thick that the pumps cannot j take it out of storage after It once chills. 1 In Salt Creek the Lmmino- Wyoming Oil : company and the lesemer Oil cotniany, ; drilling a Joint well on section- 10-39-79. made a fine strike recently when they I reached a depth of sixteen feet in the ' io'nn W.il! ir'k n,'d The well flowed mi rutri nwr TM ju't'Mi'k iirni mn.tiw I good for lfoo barrels. on the adjoining leae the K. T. Wi-! Wi-! lism Oil company found the same satid ( and a good well, although the latter will I not do as much as the Domino. The Wil-! Wil-! hams wells are located farther down on I the aide of the dome, but both wells are within the escarpment. The Mid went ' pi, line pump stations will not take The oil from th Hum no well, as it is in the area that is under the government with-dr'twal with-dr'twal ordr. The mattrr of travel over the Wyoming Wyo-ming plnins at thi time of the year is invtaroratiiiK. to w.v the least. The gre;tt stretcher of country where one can fee the snow capped e;iks of the Rockies for hundrd of miles rel off under the wheels of fast cars, which almost every oilman in the siate uss for travel, end distances that formerly meant from two to three dats wtth horses are now covered cov-ered In a few hours from Casja?r and by the longer and better route it is something some-thing oyer that distance. This would formerly me;tri a tr p of two days each day with horwa, but now ihe aulo dtes if In about half a day, and If necessary the round trip can be made between breakfast and supper without inconvenience. incon-venience. On entering the Salt Creek field, the oilmen from other slates are struck by the great dinfanres Iteiween the well. In onlv a few localities are the derricks within a half mile of each other. In thut portion of the field -known as the West Salt (Ycck JmoI Ihe wells are grouped together in a fairly, clow p'olmiiy, but j the field In general presents, a vast panorama of rolling hut lea wilh only here j and there a derrick standing out against the .sky, the background being formed by the rock lopped huttee that lorm the encnrpnient of the- great oil producing region. In driving Into the Salt Creek field, one is immediately struck by Ihe resemblance f tha dis'rtct to an extinct voli'il''" The escarpment rims the whole area like" the lip. of a crater, and inside the crater the c round slopes rapid')' to the level of the operating region. Coming over the rim is like topping the edge of a huge ttowl 'with small undulations, representing the interior buttes, scattered over the bottom. The Ihw1 is somewhat oyal in shape, b-ing approximately seven miles long by five w de. I Another important alrike of the early part of the week is that of the Ohio oil company on Kirby creek near Thermo(0-i Thermo(0-i lis. This well found a water and oil sand like the Warm Springs field in Kirby creek near ihe mouth of Alkali creek at a depth of 4'in feci and unless the strike 1 proyes lo be a pocket, will develop a aec-I aec-I ond Warm Springs field. 1 on the Lucerne dome the Old Dominion Oil company will try again for oil 10 the north of Thermopohs. This company, it will Ire remembered, found a flowing hot j water well at 400 feet a short distance j from Thermopohs last summer and ha been shut down stnee. It recently moved the rig lo another location about a half mile away and will try again. Toe recent cold nights are making trouble all over the state because of the effect of the cold upon the oil. The pipe lines of the Big Horn basin are all having hav-ing considerable trouble keeping the fluid going and the MidweM haa ssked some of its oierators who ship oil from the Salt Creek field to cease drilling operations, opera-tions, as the Midwet lines cannot handle the production now on account of the 1 weather. j It should be remembered that In comparison com-parison with other oil countries, Wyoming Wyo-ming has a comparatively thin earth cruau; oil produced from any of the deep) sand fields of tins state comes lo the surface warm to Ihe hand instead of cold as in other states. Water from wells around 3'(M) feel deep comes to ths surface sur-face scalding hot and will bud eggs In the dump hole. When the oil encounters the colli air on the surface it lacnmrs thick and often stand -up like butter. |