Show Oil and Gas News Condensed From Irom Oil and Gas Journal For an oil oU property In Powell county J Kentucky tho the Studebaker Oil company hns has paid The property sold was known as tho the H. H C. C Baker lease Ten per cent wago wage Increase has been granted to by hy the lena Galena nal Oil company of ot Franklin Pa the new schedule having become effective on onIa May Ia 1 I. Recent rains In Oklahoma and Texas have been of great reat advantage ad to oil pro pro- Usually tho the latter hatter have havo a water problem in both states during the summer summer sum sum- mer months Ranger Tex Is to have ha an oil ax- ax x- x chango In which t members are to have booths They will wiil sell stocks leases oil properties o of all kinds and In a R. general Wa way will help to l keep up the excite excite- me ment nt In Wyoming the Carter Oil company compan plans extensive e field fJeld operations for the coming summer Bummer In time the Shoshoni district It has hs taken up four big bib tracts on the reservation and will wm develop elop them Chicago advices state to that the tho Peoples People's Gas Light and Coke company has discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered a process s for or making In Indispensable Indispensable In- In indispensable dispensable in Jn the manufacture of or hl high h explosives es from low grade bituminous coal At a banquet of ot the Oil Oh Trades association tion In New ew York r City lt recently Har Harry i me was viLa a guest arm and armlie he lie spoke of the war and Libert Liberty bonds Everybody present subscribed At Chicago the offices of or tho the Standard Oil company compan of Indiana have been re removed removed re- re moved from rom the Edison building to the K Karpon Karpen upon building Tho latter structure was 1 purchased by the company compan a year ear ago Senator LAno Lane predicts that ships railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads and war industries will be bo unable to obtain sufficient quantities of or fuel oil within sixty days If ir the leasing bill is not enacted and ma mad j operative e meanwhile mean mean- while Buffalo BuCCalo N. N Y ha has another gas as contest This time Ume it is the artificial gas that worries the tho town HI Higher her rates are asked the Increase ase being from 1 51 to l.-IS l. per 1000 cubic feet The natural gas gaa fight Is still unfinished I Melrose Oil OH company comp formed to develop New Mexico territory is well financed and is expected to do considerable drilling drilling drill drill- In ing during during- the com coming in summer Big ban banking ln Interests are arc among those that own stock Much Interest Is attached to a test well ell in Chino valle valley Arizona which I Is being drilled b by the time United Chino Oil and Refining company compan The holo has through feet of re red shale which Is Js said to be oil bearing I According to an Augusta c J.E. J.E. J.E. J. J E. E Hamilton of or Towanda Han Kan has sued suell the Empire Gas and Fuel company compan for or 1 damages for tor alleged failure to properly develop his oil tract a lease of which Is 19 held b by tho the company In reply t tt tO a question the tho Chicago Tri Tri- hun Vin 1 th Th Til Oil i and and Gas company l is ca capitalized iiI d dt at t The promoters aro arc offering it at 51 H a share In Denver where such stocks are traded in the the shares are arc quoted at 7 cents asked no bid price Ground will soon oon be broken at Walters aHers Okla for a refinery The plans provide pro for or barrel capacity A contract has been closed for or twenty acres of or land in which the plant Is t to bo be located The Blue Ribbon Oil and Refining company is back of ot the enterprise In the southern part of Carter county and anti the tho northern part of or Love Lovo count county Oklahoma there are arc to be thorough tests In the near future to show whether or not oil is obtainable in those drifts Geologists Geo Ceo are lre convinced con that the prospects are good oid In both counties Efforts arc are being made to develop anoil anon an anoil oil on field In the the- vicinity of ot Holbrook Navajo Na county count Ariz Geologists have fa favorably fa- fa a- a reported on tho the prospects and some acreage has been leased The Holbrook Hol fbI brook brool News says sas that test wells arc are to be drilled there In the near future In Coa Coast t valley south of or Cape Mendocino Mendo- Mendo cino In California oil has been known as a possible local product since 1865 according ac according ac- ac cording to tho the San Francisco Bulletin Now ow It Is to be bo developed eloped in a vigorous fashion Dr E. E Heymans having Interested Interested interested Inter Inter- ested Eastern capital In the development work Near Boulder Colo Cob tho the Apex Refining and Drilling company has bought a refinery re refinery re- re tiner finery ha having haIng Ing a capacity of GOO barrels dally daIly all Included In the deal aro are eleven acres of land and a refining plant which lo Js to In V hA be o fl Th Tho has Vina production III Ule In iii the Big Big Hollow w n near Laramie Wyo Suit has been brought In the tho United States court at nt Muskogee Okla m b by F. F and R. R Lucas against the Prairie Oil and Gas company asking for an accounting of oil taken from the Lucas allotment In Creek county count Tho lease ha had been assigned as assigned assigned as- as signed to the Prairie and tho plaintiffs are aro arnot not pleased with the results Statistics aro are being collected by government gov JO representatives in the Mid Con to ascertain the costs of ot producIng producing producing ing petroleum Tho The report on the subJect subject subject sub sub- is to be returned to Washington Vl hea headquarters quarters b by May Ma 10 Tho work Is I being pushed along along- in a a. hurry hurr and oilmen oilmen oil oil- men are wondering v what It all means 1 Announcement Is made b by the Mascot I Oil and Refining com company pan of ot Utah that a adeal adeal deal has been heen closed whereby It comes i into of ot additional holdings In Inthe inthe I the Fossil nV Wyoming field on which two wells have been drilled Tho The new acreage consists of or acres formerly held by tho the I Wyoming Lincoln Oil com company pan Observations of L the te temperature e In In tho the I deep wen acm eH near llan i v. b va L ShOW 15 degrees at feet Tho The heat increases In Increases Increases In- In 1 creases 1 dc degree rec for every one fifty feet teet I of depth The crust of the earth there I is thick and cool comparatively I Internal beat is le less hess s in the earth carth there than it I would be bo In localities where the crust is different Stella a a. whoso whose name I has frequently been mentioned In OI Okla Oklahoma homa newspapers owing to her oil land landin I In the Gushing field and md tho the litigation I that has Involved It died at ogee Muskogee on Jt Juno nc 30 SO a victim of tuberculosis She I was vas IS years ears old Two To years ears a ago the girl firl was married to a negro named Isaac Mason 1 L. L E. E Landon a chemist while testing a new method o of making b gasoline at a Kan ICan refinery was the tho victim of an explosion The Tho fluid it Is In said became gaseous c under high pressure and J fumes were sere f Ignited In n tho the explosion Mr Ir Landon wa was wag j very cry painfully burned about the face head and hands He was waR tal taken en ento to the ho hospital for tor treatment Suit has been started in the United States district court hero by Mary M. M Black mack against tho the Independent Torpedo company on account of the death of W. W C. C Black her husband In an nn explosion that occurred on a lease near Drumright Okla Okia in 1916 Tho The man was a lease superintendent and nd was S assisting In placing ing big the shot when the fatality occurred In D Damages es arc are placed at t t 2 Ohio Oil company has decided to make m a thorough test of ot the rhe Copper Dome field forty five miles northwest of ot Laramie Wyo on which it brought In a well Beveral several sev Bev- eral months a ago o at a depth of 2700 jOO feet with a production of or apparently twenty- twenty five barrels It Is believed ed that this well wellIs Is on the edge eds of tho the structure and anh on that theor theory several other wells will b be drilled In the hope that a larger field can be bo found Midway Consolidated limited whose I registered of office Cleo Is In En England land Is permitted permitted per per- to issue shares o of Its Us capital stock to Colonel Frank Kayser Kaser and Captain Robert H. H Behr l. l. i This Is operating in the time Midway oil field In iii Cali California forum fornia and the tho permit b by Commissioner Carnahan In that states ratifies the time action ac action ac- ac tion of the company In Issuing stock to the two t persons named who are arc officers In the English arm army At Augusta Kan iCan last week the Empire Empire Em Em- pire Gas Gas and Fuel l company sustained I Em-I a I lire fire loss JOSS or 01 mo tUo company's 1 garage was destroyed Thirty-five Thirty of the company's cars Fords chiefly chien were burned together with four privately owned cars The ire fire is b believed to have been caused used b by a gas stove In tho the build- build In Ing The Time garage was of metal and arid andwood wood construction and was wai 8 partly covered by Insurance Ft FL Worth orth advices nd state that the Oklahoma Okla homa Producing and Refining corporation of America which has a capital stock of 25 lisa lias been granted a permit to todo todo todo do business busine s in Texas Tho The company compan is 15 incorporated under tho the laws taws of or Maryland It will make Its Texas headquarters at Ft Worth and has already opened offices there The company plans to enter time the Texas oil producing industry on a largo large scale Instructions have been received by the operating departments of railroads oads In southern California from rom Director G General McAdoo of the railroad administration directing that oil holdings or properties of or e cT every description in which the railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads are directly or Indirectly interested shall be reported The demand Is for In information In- In I formation concerning lands wells welts and 1 operations the estimated quantity of I crude oil that could bo ho produced In ono one year from April 1 I 1918 In congress Representative Edward T. T Taylor Talor of or Colorado has introduced a bill providing for the leasing of oil shale le lands alon identical lines with the tho provisions relating to the th same came subject in the general semi gen eral leasing bill which has been favorably fa reported by the committee on publIc lands The reason for the submission of or I such a bill is to Insure legislation which j I I 11 n hn ij h m I I I I I v up j I the public domain in districts where there are oil I Trial of ot the suit brought b by Gregg I Whitehead Co et ct al ad against H. H C. C Megargel l to Co members of the tho New NewYorK NewYork YorK stock exchange to recover stock I In the Oil company held b by defendants de do- as managers of or an underwriting syndicate which bought shares I I and in iii which charges of or fraud and misrepresentation misrepresentation misrepresentation mis mis- representation were made marIe was concluded ed recently before Jud Judge e Mayer In the federal federal federal fed fed- eral court for or the southern district of New York Tori A decision Is expected soon According to the time Dallas Dall Dally Daily News Nes connections for the Prairie lino line be between between between be- be tween Cushing Gushing and Ranger er Tex arc are all read ready to be made at the tho crossings over I Canadian Brazos and Red rivers This I work has b been n done In advance of ot the I I I pipe line lino and there will be no delay owing to water or other oUmer conditions when the pipe line gets ets to these rivers The crossIng crossIng crossing cross- cross Ing over o Red river Is said to have been as difficult as that over the Mississippi owing to shifting shirting and unstable sands and changing Ross Southard a young Kentuckian formerly with the Standard OH company compan of ot California visited Walters Valters Okla In 1916 to rest lIe He Is naturally an observant observant vant ant young oung man and he lie took notice of lo local local lo- lo cal indications Southard leased some sonic acrel acreage e and induced men of ot means to drill wells OH Oil and gas were struck The Time Walter alter field was placed upon the tho map snap Southard Is now a rich man and his prospects prospects pros pros- are gilt edged In a business wa way ho is well hooked up as the they sa say at Wal Walters tens Oil Oh and Gas company compan of or Healdton Healdton Heald- Heald I ton Okla a new now corporation with a 0 capital of or has taken over a lease In section 11 4 formerly formerly held by the time Grey Oil company compau and will start drilling at once to complete a test undertaken b by tho time latter company n and abandoned be because because be- be cause causo of caving water trouble and lack of ot funds to complete It before the expiration expiration tion of ot a time clause In tho the lease con con- tract Tho The lease consists of fifty acres and Is In a section that has several sev sev- eral producing producing- wells Indictments have havo been r returned turned by a federal grand jur Jury at Spokane Wash I a against a number of ot men Identified with tho timo promotion of or tho the Flathead Petroleum company compan Walter alter J. J Nichols on o of themen themen the I men indicted has put up a a. bond for tor his appearance It Is said that W. W E. E Mann Maim I is also sought in connection with tho I I same case Names Kames of or others are arc not di di- di Fraudulent use of ot mails is I dl-I al alle al- al le ed This company compan is said to have re received re- re reI from the tho sale of stocks In n I I Its first drive halt Half haltof of that amount was derived from torn a second sale campaign j I i Th The 2 company had uld 1500 stockholders The I I I I I I I I I oil producing part of the thc enterprise seems seem s to tov have been a failure Charles Grimes Crimes of ot Tulsa and Attorney Lytle of Sapulpa Okla OkIa are In Washing ton for the thc purpose of or getting a Do ruling on the tIme money held helel bv by the tho custodian of the tho Susie Crow oil allotment There is at tills thIs time about In the time hands of the time custodian who has been ordered by iy Internal Hev Revenue n lo Collector Bolan of Oklahoma to report for or Income tax Grimes and Lytle take tale the position that It is not the Intention of the law to collect collect col col- lect the tax from this money as itis subject to tax from rom the time Individuals Owing to alleged ed lack of ot gas fas conservation conservation conserva conserva- tion the corporation commission o of this state has cited the Oklahoma Duluth Oil on onI and Gas company to appear at a hearing May Ia 14 H before the commissioners It Jl Is ia all alleged ge that an order issued b by the commission commission com corn mission was violated In Kay count county This This is the second action of ot a similar nature against the time same company compan and it is Understood Understood understood un Un- that the latter will resist tho the demands of ot the time commission The com corn company pans pany ma may appeal to the national oil ad ad- ad M. M L. L In connection with the tho matter Missouri's bureau of ot geology and mines has ready for distribution a n report on the tho oil and gas JaS possibilities of tho the BoRon Belton area This report Issued In pamphlet form cov covers rs an area of or approximately one seventy e one nt-one square miles mites in southwest Jackson and northwest Cass counties It contains a detailed structural map of or the area showing the presence of or several anticlines and the text treats of |