Show PETROLEUM NOTES jai illustrating z what oil field development can accorn accomplish g tile the inland oil index says that casper and environs has an all annual pay roll of in utah oil refining I 1 company lost its rig over no 2 A ig hughes in the little lost soldier field by fire recently several weeks ago the companas comp anys cook house in the same field t was destroyed by fire origin of both fires is unknown the mammoth oil company s answer to the governments suit for annulment of that corporations lease on the teapot dome was filed with the federal court at cheyenne wyoming on oil the the answer contains a sweeping denial of A all 11 la fv char charges chares Z es of collusion and fraud as contained in the govern I 1 6 mentis complaint and asserts that the lease is legal and valid IR according to the inland oil index the Kas oming oil company and the bair oil company are soon to be consolidated with the prairie oil and gas company a wyoming corpora tj tion with capital stock of general offices will be maintained at the hynds building cheyenne wyo officers and directors are as follows dana H kelsey president A I 1 ig dana vice president and general manager J L havice t secretary and treasurer 0 E garretson assistant secretary and G E brimmer a director both the Kas oming and the t bair oil companies are active opera operator tort and producers in the salt creek and lost soldier fields the consolidation of the these se e companies will take place a as s soon as details can be worked out crude from the teapot and salt creek oil f fields in in Wyon wyoming ling reached the main line of the sinclair system at freeman mo just outside of kansas city saturday making tile the distance of miles in approximately 30 days says the inland oil index of the the crude was turned into the line at the clayton tank farm mar 12 and reached freeman apr aar 12 the line is composed of 8 10 and 12 in pipe engineers figure that it required bals to fill the line from Wyon wyoming ling to kansas city and that it will take about bals more to fill all of the tanks at the different stations in addition to what it took to fill the line itself with the delivery of this ibis oil to eastern refineries and seaports wyoming crude is no longer confined to the narrow and restricted local markets but blit has hai a worldwide world wide market in which to compete for better prices A new gas apparatus designed to utilize fuel oil distillate in ill the manufacture of gas for commercial and domestic pur poses has been perfected at buffalo says tile the oil and gas gal journal the new process is said to be more economical that than the manufacture of coal gas while the plant apparatus necessary in in the making of gas from fuel oil distillate is much lower in in cost than coal gas apparatus the ga gas s produced it ls is I 1 claimed has five times the heating value of producer gas contains no sulphur and burns with a non oxidizing and non carbonizing flame the gas has given satisfactory results it in direct application to heat treating of ferrous metals and in n ja panning and enameling tests have proved the gas suitable for li lighting h ting and heating and for doil domestic lestic purposes colm comparing paring well with coal gas in thermal efficiency four gallons gallon of fuel oil distillate are required per thousand feet of t gas as one at attend I 1 tend 24 r ant can operate a plant having feet capacity pe per r hours hence the operating cost is low |