Show petroleum notes the ute petroleum has most of its outfit at the site of its proposed well near duchesne and will soon be ready to begin operations it is 6 going to be prepared to meet most any situation before it starts drilling the laramie red desert oil and gas co drilling in section 18 26 77 north of laramie wyoming has shut down for the winter at feet and placed a wat watchman chinall in charge of the plant operations have been stopped for the winter months by fargo oil co in the poison spider district wyoming this corporation has eight gas wells with an open flow of cubic feet of which are being sold daily the ut utah all oil refining at farnham utah got its reania reaming n job completed easily and is 1 going on down without further difficulty E everything very thin g is i is in in sa satisfactory factory shave shape with nothing to be said except that the whole crew is working r right ight along cuts of from 8 to 10 a ton in various grades of pipe and ranging t a as s high 6 as 14 a ton toil on special grades have been anno announced by t the lie national tube co a subsidiary of the U S steel corporation the reductions affect oil this is the first official country steam gas and water pipe price reduction on pipe since july 7 1921 sheriff D C oakey sold a at t public I 1 auction at sage on the 3rd ard instant the entire outfit of machinery and equipment of the bear river oil development company to satisfy a judgment held by julian brothers merchants of sage amounting to about 1300 the outfit consists of a derrick erected at the well site and a complete lot of drillen dr drilling illin 6 cr equipment and camp furniture and fixtures I 1 the western petroleum exploration co i has blocked up tip considerable acreage on oil the crown butte structure ture in in 0 I 1 cascade county montana and is preparing to put down a test on the seya se of sec 35 20 aw leases on acres have been placed on record the test will start in the colorado shale and all of the probable producing sands will be reached within 2500 feet according to ceolo geologists ests estimates the midwest refining 6 company one of the two principal purchasers of crude oil in wyoming early in the month n posted an increase of 25 cents a barrel in eight grades the new prices follow grass creek elk basin torchlight and grey bull lance creek y 90 cents salt creek and big muddy 75 cents mule creek 70 cents the increase also is effective in cat creek montana crude the increase posted is the first jump in wyoming crude oil since the decline which started last year M J greenwood sales manager of the utah oil refining in b co subsidiary of the madest refining co is quoted in wyo wyoming ming as saying that the plant at S salt a lt lake city is now operating at capacity and turning out 35 carloads of products daily these include gasoline kerosene oils lubricants and waxes the wax is exported to japan at the rate of tons per month where it is used for making matches and candles the plant has employed emp loyes and operates principally on wyoming crude |