Show WYOMING the workings of the abandoned union pacific coal mine no 1 the oldest in the state recently caved in making a hole about fifty feet square and seventy feet deep in front street the main thoroughfare of rock springs the street was crowded with traffic at the time but no one was caught by the collapse of the section superintendent E F annis of the newly organized rock springs coal company of conroy states that the workings of the conroy mine recently leased by his company are in bad shape and that several weeks will be required for reconstruction work before extensive operations can be undertaken however the company is shipping from the old property and conroy which has been deserted for a long time is again a busy camp the standard exploration company drilling for the merritt oil gas company in the big muddy field has brought in what is said to be the best well so far developed in the first or shallow sand aws ready and from the first the well produced better than barrels of rich oil daily with both the upper and lower sands proven to be producers the big muddy takes rank among the best fields in the country tile the lower sand is known to be over feet thick and its oil is rich in gasoline the deep wells cost about to drill but when they reach th objective this is SOO soon returned to the drillers drillars dr illers |