Show WYOMING the colorado wyoming eastern railroad has created a new station known as apex at a point about fourteen miles west of laramie it is for the accommodation of the wyoming apex oil apex refining drilling and other companies operating in in the big hollow oil field james lindsley S myers david boyce and C E mcgregor of Kein kemmerer are pushing an oil shale project to develop ground on red desert sweetwater county they state that a large deposit of shale there is highly saturated with oil and they expect to soon interest capital in their plans work is under way on oil the first unit of the wind river petroleum refining com banys new refinery four miles down the popo agie river from lander adam griesemer is in charge and the preliminary work has been rushed it is expected that the first still will be in operation soon after the first of the year the 1111 miller ler hill oil company recently organized gani zed has ordered drilling equipment and the starting of work on a test well on the 11 miller iller hill anticline twenty miles south of rawlins hawlins this well is to test the south end of the structure on which several large interests have holdings J B funk has started a test well on the north end of the dome both will go to the embar sand the idalio idaho wyoming oil company represented by william wood of kemmerer has received from the utah oil refining company of salt lake an analysis of oil from a shallow well recently brought in on its holdings near kemmerer the gasoline content was said to be exceptionally high 37 per cent together with 36 per cent wax distillate til late 16 per cent distillate and 9 per cent base cylinder oil oil men in the vicinity are highly gratified at the showing |