Show WYOMING the fenex oil company which was financed in casper and denver owns royalty rights in the barber and fenex tracts in the big muddy field and is planning drilling on its own account as soon as titles are secured machinery for the proposed refinery of the wyoming refining company has begun to arrive at glenrock glenbock Glen rock it is billed to the big horn petroleum company which merged with the consumers oil company to form the wyoming refining company manager roberts of the latter has not yet announced the site of the new plant the G M copper mining company which is operating a lease on the williams luman property on copper mountain near depass is working a force of about twenty men and shipping a good tonnage the ore is shipped by way of lysite lasite and goes to omaha for treatment it is said to carry as high as 10 per cent copper and low values in gold the company is experimenting with a small leaching plant which is giving good satisfaction douglas is taking its place as an oil center the glenrock glenbock Glen rock oil company has done extensive prospecting and is preparing to start up a rig five miles south of there the douglas wyoming oil company is below the 1500 foot point with its hole in the brenning basin section the union oil company of california one of the latest of the big corporations to enter the wyoming field has shipped rigs and casing into this section and is preparing to drill in conjunction with the sunset oil company other companies are preparing for operations G S holmes jr of los angeles has been conducting an extensive examination of the oil fields around cumberland while W J mccrea an associate has been in the spring valley field on a similar errand these gentlemen are reported to be about to launch into the oil business on a large scale and are said to be securing leases in proven localities before organizing their company when the present work is completed it is stated that they will organize a corporation and push developments in the various fields in which they have secured interests |