| Show WYOMING there are now ninety eight wells in the abig muddy field ninety of them are credited with a total production of barrels per day or an average of barrels each the midwest refining company operates forty two of them with approximately 21 2125 05 barrels a day production word is received from lusk that the famous old silver cliff mine there is to be reopened as a result of the present favorable price of silver the property is said to have produced a heavy tonnage of copper silver ore in the but it has been closed for many years it employed about 1 50 men in the early days and the new operators plan to run on even a larger scale lusk was once known as silver cliff the mine adjoins the townsite C P mety representing the williams lunian luman mining company has bonded the mcgrath mining property from D 1 I darr of basin and associates the ground is near the williams luman mine at depass and probably will be worked in connection with the latter the company is now installing a concentrating plant and active development of both properties is planned shipments of crude ore are being made by trucks to the railroad at the mascot oil refining company of utah has added to its large holdings in the lincoln county fields by acquisition of the lease of the lincoln wyoming oil company on acres in the fossil field the latter company had two wells on the ground one feet and the other feet deep and the mascot interests ordered drilling to be continued mascot oil refining is expected to enter the producing list in the near future A G burritt of salt lake lahe is consulting engineer and geologist for the corporation data compiled by H G james for a history of the oil industry of the country show that there are five refineries in operation in wyoming representing an investment of and which will have a capacity of barrels of crude oil a day when present enlargements are completed he states that ten others are projected those now in operation are the two at casper and greybull Grey greybull buil owned by the midwest refining company two at the same points owned by the standard oil company of indiana and one at cowley owned by the northwestern oil refining company |
