Show salt creek field at salt creek there was little new work as the present production is sufficient to supply the refineries at casper As the entire field is controlled by the midwest company there is little incentive to wild cat several of the older wells were shot among them one well which had never made more than ten barrels of oil per day after the shot this well flowed at ta the ie rate of 2 barrels and after several weeks was producing more than 1000 barrels per day of interest was the spectacular rise in the price of midwest refining stock to 57 per share the midwest company is heavily interested te rested in the grass creek buffalo buff alo basin greybull and elk basin ba sin fields and controls the salt creek field east of casper near big muddy i Iud dy several wells were being drilled at the close of the year small amounts of oil were obtained in the upper sands sufficient in at least one case to make a commercial well near lander three wells were drilled in the light oil region of the plunkett Plunket fc field but drilling was stopped before the dakota sand which the owners believe will be the pro sand was reached in ia I a the southern part of the plunkett field several wells were drilled in the black oil district and the production of oil of asphaltum base was increased south of rawlins in carbon county the american oil company drilled three wells one to a depth of feet but no oil was obtained the dry lake dome east of rock arock springs in sweetwater county attracted widespread attention in the early f fall all as it was strongly recommended by the state and near mee in water wells near kirby 0 definite figures as to production cannot yet be obtained but it is estimated that of nearly nearl y increase there was an barrels the larger part of the production came from the salt creek field near casper the combined production of the greybull C verse coun counties ties show increases J r 1914 1915 tons tons sweetwater lincoln 1 1330 1 sheridan 1005 carbon 10 lo weston 0 g 11 w an fw r ft S ff drilling for oil in wyoming grass creek byron lander and spring valley fields was probably less than barrels the total production of the state is estimated to be about barrels coal operations A decrease of tons in coal production is recorded for the past year re ac hot springs 2533 fremont uinta converse small mines total IT 11 0 00 spring valley field wyoming where considerable high grade crude oil is produced for the utah oil geologist 9 eo in the latter part of november one well had reached a depth of 2600 feet without obtaining oil at the close of the year no further news could be obtained As the year closed wild was active both north and south of riverton north of lander near lovell west of greybull near big muddy and six miles west of grass creek wild batters cat had brought cording to the reports of the S tate state oal coal V mine inspectors the decrease was probably due to the mild winter although the use of oil all instead of coal by some of the railroads no q 0 doubt had its effect the coal mining industry was free from labor troubles during the year production by counties in 1914 and 1915 is given below only hot I springs and con business men of american fork utah I 1 are raising a publicity fund of to e of Am amerlia the mining resources fork canyon the committee appointed ta take charge of the campaign is as follows fol 0 I 1 J F L H wootton john hunter charles tyng G A hemphill W B evol H C johnson J H storrs and john horn |