Show Petr petroleum petroleum oleu in notes government patents recently were received at the glenwood springs land office conveying title to the oil shale placer claims 1 nos 12 as 3 4 56 7 band and 8 to the t columbia oil t shale and refining company of columbia tennessee debeque news the C A well weil oil syndicate has been organized with a capital of by judge freeman and J N phelan of great falls tip oneil M E mccarthy and C A well weil of shelby tile the company is taking over from the carter oil company a lease on oil section 4 34 lw kevin sun burst field A flow of gas said to be over cubit feet per day has been encountered in the well of the montana oil company on the bowes structure at a depth of 1000 feet the gas carries commercial quantities of gasoline the company expects to drill two more wells and then erect a gasoline recovery plant more than damage was done by a fire on the which destroyed thirteen oil derricks with machinery tanks and buildings at santa fe springs california according to fire department officials six oil companies each lost one to four producing wells most of the tanks destroyed belonged to the mohawk oil company A special meeting of stockholders of sunburst refining company will be held at great falls on the the meeting I 1 is being held to authorize the issuing of first mortgage bonds the money to be used to pay the debts of the company amounting to approximately consisting of bank loans and ba balance I 1 all cc due on oil plant construct construction L n in the first nine months of 1924 the plant earned according to new york advices advises ad vices gordon campbell and S C ford of great falls have been added to the board of the royal canadian oil syndicate ltd of toronto the board having been increased from five to seven members syndicate also has taken over control of the royal canadian company of montana to whom it is reported gordon campbell has leased acres of land in the kevin sunburst field the utah oil refining company studded in its well on the vernal structure thanksgiving day ed stewart is in charge of the drilling everything start started ed off in good shape and no setbacks are now expected some unexpected delay was occasioned d on getting timbers for the derrick and steam fixtures A no 3 heavy national machine is being used and a 65 foot derrick has been constructed for handling long strings and casings the machinery is capable of drilling feet if necessary however the frontier sands are expected to be reached at between 1200 and 1500 feet and if a production is not struck at this point drilling will be carried down 2500 or more mor e feet vernal express grand junction sentinel drilling into the frontier sand on oil top of which the drill rested when the giant gasser was brought in on oil tile the Gar garmela niesa dome thanksgiving day by the sun company increased the output of the well from million lillion I feet at which it was estimated to anywhere from forty five to sixty million feet next afternoon the flow was estimated at cubic feet later it gas was stated 11 that it had increased some estimates placing it as high as feet a day aft after er the frontier sands had been penetrated the flow of gas was bucce successfully shut in the valve on oil the top of the casing having been closed it will wil remain shut in until six inch cas casing incan be received at the well and the great flow cased out that the test may continue down to the dakota sand where gusher oil is expected |