Show POLICE CHIE CHIEF OU AFTER OIL Hilhouse and Others Will Wil Wil l Develop Land in Wyoming D. D IL Hillhouse former chief of ot po flO- flO lice of or Reno neno Nov No is 16 l on one of or the tire latest converts to the possibilities of ot oil 01 dc de- He lie together with H. H I A. A Whittaker one of or the tIre wealthy ranchers ranchers ranch ranch- ers of or Nevada Ne ada and H. H D D. McConnell one of or tho largest oil oU operators In Texas Tex Tex- as as will wil be associated in a Cose closed corporation corporation cor cor- to be tie I cor-I formed forme for tho purpose of or Immediately commencing active de development do- do dl- dl of ot 2400 acres of or oil 01 land inthe Inthe in inthe the Cumberland Cumberlan oil 01 district south of or Waterfall Lincoln count county Wyo A Star rl rig has been purchased and arid it Is anticipated that active operations will bo be begun In tho the next thirty days wi H. H D. D McConnell who has had twenty t ty years of in the tho oil all business busi bust bustness ness says fays the oil al fields felds of Lincoln and Uintah counties countes Wyo not only offer as great possibilities as al any field that he has hat seen but also has the hl highest hest grade brade oil 01 yet et discovered Mr r. r McConnel McConnell McConnell McCon McCon- nell nel says the attention of ot the biggest oil 01 operators of or tho the United States States' is being attracted to tho the Lincoln antI and county oil al fields and practically practical practical- ly 1 all al of ot tho the big big mining men mon of ot the tho west are arc now confining their efforts to oil 01 because they that it will wi be the big industry of ot tho the future Mr McConnell further asserts that companies companies com corn panics and and corporations are aro being or organized or- or in tho the United States which are arc In fact tact British companies and whose object is I to buy up lars largo areas aroas of ot oil lands as quietly and nd 01 as cheaply as possible pos pos- sible sible Ho says sas that tho Shell company company com corn pan pany of or California a British concern had a production In 1 1917 1 about do double that for 1915 I |