Show petroleum notes the new discovery is only about 40 miles east of the company s new refinery at rawlins it has brought tn southern wyoming b into prominence and will no doubt lead to considerable more wildcatting on the many structures in that part of the state the navajo indian tribe numbering owns 12 million acres of land in new mexico the government has fixed a plan governing b the leasing za of these lands for oil drilling and within a short time the wildest scenes ever witnessed in an oil field willbe will be presented in the navajo country ala mosa empire on the first of the month six tons of casing consigned to the monumental oil companas Comp anys sinking test wells in southern san juan county utah by diamond drills was unloaded at thompsons Thomp sons and taken to the site of the wells by the moab garage companas Comp anys trucks A second shipment of equal weight b is reported on on I 1 board cars for shipment to thompsons Thomp sons consigned to the same company frederick G clapp new york geologist and J 0 lewis oklahoma petroleum engineer are getting the low down on teapot dome for one of the congressional investigating committees mit tees they slipped into casper and out to the the pot about two weeks ago and have been combing it ever since they tried it last april but were shooed away by a blizzard the ile congressional committee is due to arrive in denver july 18 and in casper and thence teapot and salt creek a day or two later casper oil index another new oil field may mav have been added to the producing districts of wyoming t by the discovery of oil at feet feets ill a test well now under tinder wa way y at simpson ridge in 90 southern athern wyoming according to the casper oil index the well is bein being drilled by the producers and refiners refinery Re finers corporation and it is is located near the center of the structure on sec 20 21 80 it is is eased cased about feet with 1512 15 inch leaving about f beet of open hole it is reported that with the bit only y 4 feet in the sand that the hole filled up with oil and slopped over several times well was and five bbl abbl steel storage tan tanks set for a test of same after pumping bals it was as chui down for repairs oil is supposed t to z 0 be coming broili rom the shannon sand although some are of the opinion that th it it is a stray sand above the shannon if it should prove to be the t shannon sand it is an important discovery as it would indica indicate that the wall creek should te be within easy reach of the drill dm max W ball has returned froni from calif california ornia where lie nellt to make arrangements for the holding of a meeting me etino t ot of the american association of petroleum geologists at los angeles an in september and spent several days in casper C this week says J the casper oil index asked when california would reach r its peak of production he stated that geologists for the na lore important companies had fixed the first of august 6 a as s we the kinle but later estimates placed it at the first of september your readers said he that if they want to know will reach its peak they should attend the fall alee fl leetin we of the association when they the y will get the real dope fields are going to have a great meeting t he conti continued aued w he ollie ar are e all so close together that we can c an listen to a P paper oil fields felds field and then go out and look at it the character of the te 1 out makes it difficult to estimate As one of the geology de there ther e put it son some 1 e of them are deeper than t they hey are a we are going to have a great meeting |