Show petroleum notes high grade crude oil is still flowing at intervals over the top of the casing at the crescent eagle well near thompsons Thomp sons utah according to news from the camp the gas pressure is also as strong as it ever was and it has become plainly apparent to everyone who has visited the well ell that a real producer has been brought in the fishing job continues to harrass the drillers drillars dr illers and officials of the company however and it may be several days before the lost string of tools is recovered A C coit president of the virgin dome oil co and R E graham one of the directors arrived at st george utah from san jose cat cal recently and are getting things fixed up to resume drilling at the virgin dome well it will probably be a month before drilling starts the well is now down about feet lacking just two feet of that figure and is believed to be near a prolific oil supply the company has had all kinds of trouble and a long hard fight but now seems to be where it will be able to carry out its intention of bringing the well in articles of incorporation have been filed with the county clerk by the incorporated oil company which will have headquarters in salt lake and will engage in drilling exploring pl distilling and selling petroleum the capital stock is limited to shares with no par value fixed the ancor pora tors are george jay gibson vere L mccarthy john L fitzpatrick michael L railey rudolph F geoghegan thomas F kearns and frank J westcott officers of the company are george jay gibson president vere L mccarthy vice president john F fitzpatrick secretary and treasurer wyoming people especially carbon county people will learn with pleasure that the survey for a pipe line from craig colorado to parco wyoming has been completed and that application has been filed with the public utilities commission of colorado for permission to construct this line ne says the rawlins republican A deal was consummated mated some time since whereby the prairie oil gas company secured practically all the oil being produced in the le craig fields this oil is now being stored in tanks near craig aig and is being shipped to the refinery in tank cars the construction of a pipe line from craig to the refinery at parco arco will mean that this oil will come directly into wyo ling ng tor for refining cringing bringing in a bbl abbl well in the lakota sand at salt creek reek by the midwest refining company will result in the edition know according to estimates by those in a position to ow of approximately OCO bals more of oil to the the total output of this most wonderful high grade oil field in world this quantity alone will be sufficient to furnish the oathee crude requirements ts of the casper refineries for a period ree years running at their present capacity the new e en in in the lakota sand also practically doubles the stock values yel of such companies anies as the consolidated royalty new ork oil 11 salt creek producers mountain producers and i others oth of the ers i abing having royalty and working interests in the center field wyoming oil index barrels 1 oil shale hale in the united states contains the of oil and when released leased will solve the problem of curtis curr naval on oil reserve ve according to secretary of the navy en ell D wilbur who passed through salt lake recently tic route r i fro from III the pacific coast to washington 1 I par oil il TV wanted t to look over some of the acre naval shale nale reserve in utah and colorado he said and to note the progress which had been made in extracting the oil I 1 saw a process in alhambra for extracting the oil and I 1 regret very much that governmental experiments along this line were forestalled by the filibuster which defeated the deficiency appropriation bill the utilization of the oil reserve is of particular value to the navy because unlike oil shale cannot run away in fact it will solve the naval oil reserve problem something which is of tremendous importance to the nation |