Show petroleum notes B A myers is a recent addition to the ranks of the oil fraternity in casper havin having b come out to take charge of the carter oil co cos s salt creek production his headquarters were formerly in tulsa twenty mile oil and gas co which has three or four gas wells on the williams park structure routt county colorado is reported to have closed contracts with eastern parties for the erection of a plant at its wells for the manufacture facture of carbon black senator L 1 IL girard of boulder announces the recent merger of the colorado corporation with the utah corporation of which he is president the new concern owns 1280 acres of shale claims near debeque and acres near colton utah the works of the alliance oil and refining co liere here has completed its first run of wax and asphalt with good goo 1 results both products being 1 15 of excellent quality two 1 new storage plants are under construction to serve t this his ne new department of the plant the company has just placed it in operation two new stills mt states mineral age standard oil of indiana received an order fron fromuth standard of new jersey for the shipment of 2 gallons of gasoline from casper to new orleans the ship sh p ment to be for the export trade this means that over r tank cars will be necessary for the shipment and is is the first 1 refill time ti me since early in the war that gasoline from casper caspe r of eries has been abroad at that time millions of 4 gallons gal bolls lolls wyoming made gasoline were sh shipped dipped to europe through the imperial oil co of canada while midwest refining company has holdings in utah and is understood to have a financial interest in several of the tests being put down by standard oil companies it has just contracted for the drilling of its first well in its own name it is planning to start two wells on the mill hill creek dome in the uinta basin in northeastern utah on holdings of the hyland oil and refining company of salt lake city this company has leases on acres of school lands and 40 acres of patented land and a contract on 2560 acres covered by a prospecting permit one of the tests will go down on a state lease and the other will be a prospect well on the permit land hyland people turn half of their acreage over to the midwest the humphreys mexia oil co s no 1 hester ross in the mexia pool limestone county texas started ai at 8 barrels and will make a barrel well after the flush production is off the same companas comp anys no 2 on the rogers farm in the same pool kivas was flowing z barrels horn from the top of the sand ross and others foot gas strike on the freeman brothers farm in the northern part of the county is in a new sand at feet lower than the woodbine sand production in the mexia pool IS is i Z iven i as barrels a day there are 27 producing wells in in the field which if opened up would produce barrels a day I 1 1 i |