Show operations IN LA BARGE FIELD NOW attracting WIDE ATTENTION many developments of a surprising and gratifying nature involving development of the la barge oil field on oil a gigantic scale are in the making at present while actual news from the field this week is of a I 1 general nature the successful ones in a way resting upon their laurels for a brief period waiting to catch their breath as it were the kemmerer gazette has been informed during the past few days of big deals involving 6 hundreds of thousands 0 of 1 1 dollars for development work that are not yet consummated but are arc expected to be made within the next few weeks every available acre of potential oi I 1 la land lid in the la barge district has been secured by drillers drillars dr illers and preliminary details leading Z toward the movement of rigs b frei freighting Z etc are now being 1 13 1 3 worked out testing wells first tile the wyomah company at present is mainly eai engaged aged in preparing for tests of the two new wells brought in in last month with such great grea t success one 1000 barrel tank has been completed but this could be filled in a lay day or two from the production and other will have to be erected before actual testing calibe can be started A two inch pipe was connected from the last wyomah well brought in wi with th leidecker idecker Lc rig to the tank a quarter of a i nile mile distant last saturday but the small pipe carried the gas only the tank resounding with gas like a gigantic bumblebee bumble bee chorus wyomah company elects new board over shares of wyomah oil stock of the shares issued in the company which holds large acrea acreage e in ill the oil field ws vs ret represented resented at the annual meeting of tile the company held in kemmerer several holders of wyomah stock were present at the meeting who were not of record according to tn company books and were barred from participating explanation is that an assessment was declared on all sti k sonic some time ago and various stockholders had not paid it whereupon their stock was sold this is to be contested by the holders accord according inz to report after this ire preliminary had been disposed of the stockholders proceeded to business which consisted merely of clec elec tinLy n p board of directors to succeed the past officers T C hall president arza paul secret secretary arv and F julius anderson christian vrans and E ephraim Mann manning inz tho new directorate is is composed of christinn ara 11 1 T M S Po poulter tilter arza paul TJ T J P critchlow cli chirles irlas woodward dr T E elliott and carl peterson the new directors will meet soon and elect officers an extensive development ir program for the la barve barce field was ow outlined lined and it was announced that all needed finances were at hand to proceed the oDera operating tinz company of the wyomah is known as te beneficial oil company the wyomah being the holding company utah oil refining official in field W H lovesy an official of the utah oil refining company was anva an arrival in kemmerer sunday morning beme oil a trip to vari various oil fields of wyoming and colorado he celile c mc here from the la barge barg e field in which his covinI nv is is deeply interested ns as to the amount of production seeking to caire it for the salt lake refinery ry which is far short of oil to keen operating ratin at near capacity an ail unverified led report in connection w with ith mr Lovs cYs sit is that he was negotiating tor for la barge oil with a view view to cOntract contracting inz its removal by bv truck from the field to sublet or sus susie ic shipped to salt to be loaded upon tank cars and take T ake ke cita the plan being to employ a fleet of tank arc trucks k s to daily between the wells and the railroad the vis vis aitor is reported to have offered mid continent p rices prices for the oil mr lovesy is also reported to have been well satisfied with all lie he observed in the la barge field and to have given assurance that the field was already made elkhorn is in spotlight developments of importance at elkhorn no 1 drilling in the stumpf permit near the southeast corner of section 17 27 disclosed a thickness of oil bearing heretofore not encountered in the la barge field all eyes are on this test as it lies two and one half miles farther north than the production attained at wyomah AVy otah driller bird is authority for the statement that he is encountering identically the same condition as lie he has found in his experiences in the salt creek field president W S kimball of elkhorn and field superintendent A H were business iness visitors in Kern kemmerer a few days ago they arranged 6 for the delivery of 10 i inch casing to be run to ward off possible ca veins A sand is expected to be reached almost any day the company will proceed to the maximum depth if necessary so great is its confidence in the existence of oil in the lower sands |