Show petroleum notes reports from the oil fields which surround rawlins wyoming 6 are uniformly to the effect that an era of the most intensive development is now on oil the weather has been ideal and this has resulted in an exodus to the fields field 0 on the part of those who ordinarily spend a portion of their time in the city roger 6 W powers president of the western empire petroleum corporation telephoned from coalville Co alville a few days ago 6 that drilling had been resumed on the well started early last winter work at that time was suspended on account of cold weather and after a depth of about feet had been reached it is stated the work will be pushed day and night the event of the week in the rawlins oil fields was the new well of the wyoming illinois oil company which was brought in on the nwe of sec 11 26 90 on the lost soldier dome last friday at 1770 feet W L who is president of the wyoming illinois company as well as director of production for the general petroleum corporation po ration was here last week and took the good news back to southern california with him rawlins republican 1 ah western pipe line company under the supervision of the chief engineer J C lindsay and his assistant henry S barker are making things hum along the right b of way of the line between casper and salt creek wyoming the 8 in pipe is being put together by a mahoney pipe laying machine under the supervision of the westerns We sterns engineering department while ditching laying in and backfill backfilling back fill filling ing is being done by contract as is also the stringing of the pipe the mammoth oil company is making the teapot boil A force of workmen is busy building a new road from the mail main highway to the center of the teapot a distance of approximately 31 miles the company has appropriated for this work the road will be graded and graveled for the greater part of the way with several of the worst stretches concreted the entire structure within the boundaries of the naval reserve has been surveyed under the direction of the engineer in chief thomas W V white and a topographical map is now being made anade according Accor dig to word from bluff utah the monumental oil company which is sinking a af well on the structure south of the san J juan uan river has been making favorable progress the tools which were recently lost have been recovered and the drill has passed the foot mark A sand was cut at feet which accordino according to manager P A dark clark is a new sand having no counterpart north of the river it carried some oil and gas the next important stratum is expected at about feet and strata of still greater importance are looked for at around 1500 feet where the well will be below the level of the san juan river canyon one of the strikes made in the last few weeks was recorded when the san juan petroleum company brought in a gusher on section 4 29 81 in the bolton creek field says the casper wyoming oil index the flow was encountered at a depth of 2043 feet and with the drill but 8 feet into the sand the oil shot up with great force over the top of the casing this strike is on land leased from the lowa iowa wyoming b company where the well comin coming an in with the big production first showed oil last july at a depth adepts of 2026 feet at that time the output approximated barrels and the hole had been carried down but 17 feet with the bit only 8 feet C 0 white president of the washington shale oil and products company arrived from seattle sunday and immediately made arranged arran arrangements gem ants to commence construction work on a ginet process plant on conn creek near the monarch plant says the de beque shale and oil news the plant site has been selected and a crew of eight men and a team commenced the construction of a road to the site A large lare lar e crusher and other machinery has been ordered and construction work will be pushed to completion ion after july 1st ast when the ass assessment estment work has been completed this is the second plant of the ginet type to be constructed in the de beque field I 1 the house committee on public lands has reported favorably the smoot bill previously passed by the senate extending the provisions of section 18 A of the oil leasing act to certain lands in utah the effect of this bill is to give to those persons in utah who have expended considerable money in drilling for oil but who were unable to work continuously on their claims the right to secure leases from the government on a royalty ranging from 1211 12 to 33 13 1 3 per cent without the passage of this bill the claimants having failed to get patents prior to the enactment anac t of the leasing law would virtually lose their rights and their improvements for the department would be compelled to put their claims up at auction and sell the leasing privilege to the highest bidder |