Show IN THE OIL FIELDS the niobrara wyoming oil company is drilling at hat creek about thirty miles from lusk wyoming it is reported that the guggenheim syndicate has entered the wyoming field and has already begun initial operations at casper work has been started in the construction of the derrick for the lahontan oil syndicate in the stillwater field near falion nevada it is reported that parties representing big oil interests have acquired land near nevada and that drilling operations will soon commence J H henby of grand junction colorado is preparing for extensive operations in the grand county utah oil field and will probably begin work with a standard rig the western allies oil gas company of moab utah is pushing work with its big star rig and is employing two 12 hour shifts twelve and 10 inch casing is being used according to advices advises from laramie wyoming engineers will soon complete tho survey for a pipeline between that city and the rock creek oil field a distance of forty 4 five miles the big four oil gas company of fallon fallen nevada is making preparations for an active campaign of drilling in the stillwater field using the drilling rig formerly used by the dixie potash company F W girard rookery building spokane washington has recently returned from a visit to the oil section of harney county oregon and is quoted as saying that the outlook in that section is most encouraging with one well down 1200 feet and producing barrels of oil daily it is reported that the blair oil company operating in the lost soldier field in wyoming has struck a 45 foot sand at a depth between 1000 to 1200 feet and that a well has been brought in having an estimated production of 1000 barrels per day the oil possesses fine lubricating values I 1 it is reported from denver that a strong syndicate composed of eastern capitalists will vill soon begin the construction of an oil shale treating plant with an initial capacity of 1000 tons at a cost approximately of the plant will be constructed either at de beque or grand valley colorado the nevada oil basin company of tono pah nevada has been organized for the purpose of developing promising ground in the oil basin district near current creek in white pine county same state the officers of the company are W W booth president W J tobin vi vice ce president A G Ray Raye cratt raft treasurer and harry macnamara secretary the wyoming consolidated oil company of moab utah has resumed work in well drilling and has a hole down to a depth of 1000 feet drilling was suspended four months ago because of a lack of casing which has since been supplied it is expected to reach the oil sand shortly as salt water and a small amount of oil has already been encountered the times of yerington nevada says that it is rumored on good authority that the travellers Trav ellers oil association formerly operating in the vicinity of fallon is to begin prospecting in the oil fields near wa buska while the exact position of the new well is not divulged it is said to beabout be about six miles east of wabuska babuska Wa buska experts have pronounced the wabuska babuska fields as having the best oil indications of any undeveloped oil in the country the ohio oil company has an agreement with the midwest refining and standard oil of indiana relative to the marketing of gas from hidden dome field and it is said that a pipe line will be built from that district to basin and thence to greybull this summer this line will take gas from the eight well drilled by the ohio company for community use and also to furnish fuel for the stills of both midwest refining and standard oil of indiana wyoming oil world casper wyoming immense is the only word that fittingly describes the refinery or gasoline extracting plant now under construction out at the lance creek field says the herald of lusk wyoming people who have the impression that this plant is a miniature affair and only intended to supply the needs of the different camps will do well to journey out and look the proposition over casing head gasoline will be developed into an important industry in the next few months and the plant under construction may be doubled in capacity before another year the wyoming oil world of casper wyoming 1 in I says the IT S petroleum brought a well a few days since on section 1689 16 89 is a well founded rumor going the rounds this week this company started drilling last season in the lost soldier section and made considerable progress bea before ore forced to close resumed ined down for the tha winter drilling was resu this spring and at the time the oil was war I 1 of 0 struck the hole had reached a depth feet this is one of the deepest wells in the lost soldier section and the fact tac that oil in commercial quantities was struck is very encouraging dispatches from casper wyoming ste state that the ohio oil company has let contracts condrac RO B ck for eleven additional wells in the compa creek field of wyoming the dis g now has nine producing wells in this the trick and five others drilling TV two 70 of Is latter are nearing completion and one ted expected in this week the newly ne vly condrac n field the wells are widely distributed over the Trap shooters well of the ohio company completed last week is doing better than its initial production flowing at the rate of barrels a day the ers well is on the southwestern quarter of section 34 and is the farthest west well on ohio company property |