Show 0 IN GRASS CREEK BASIN the ohio oil company operating in grass creek basin wyoming thirty five miles northwest of thermopolis Thermo polis is testing out its wells and is pumping barrels of high grade oil daily from each well the company recently constructed a bar rel storage tank and this is now full of oil and the mining alining review is informed that it is quite probable that the company will soon construct a gravity pipe line to graybull oil field on the burlington railroad in little buffalo basin nine miles north of grass creek several wells are being drilled by the midwest west oil company and california people but so far gas only has been found these wells yield large volumes of gas at a rock pressure up to 1000 pounds the main sand in this field is very thick and it is believed that oil will ivill be disclosed below the gas in order to test this possibility a rotary rig will be employed in order to pass through the gas bo horizon considerable interest is being taken in the big horn basin as regards its heavy fuel oil possibilities heretofore drilling has been conducted for the purpose of obtaining a lighter refining oil occurring in cretaceous formations and no attention has ha been paid to the fuel oil which is found at the top of the pennsylvanian and at the base of the triassic |