Show s the winds breeze in the oil news nothing particularly new or startling in the oilfield bilfield oil field situation has occurred during the past two weeks it had been aped that the shafer no 1 well below moab would have struck oil before this time but nothing has happened as his is written the same is true of the second or john H hafer well on the same oil bearing structure maybe there will ill be good news during october sinking at the new well over the jordan river northwest est of salt lake has been resumed following the placing jf f casing down to the foot mark L at the egildson well a few miles east of labarge wyoming where the original contract was completed at 1500 feet beet sinking has been resumed with 2100 feet as the new mark this work will soon be finished and if oil is not encountered by that time it is most likely that drilling will continue V T 1 I officers of the price river petroleum company state 1 that the new casing needed at their price well arrived during the early part of last week and is now being installed things were at a standstill at the well for several days awaiting the arrival of the six and five eighths inch casing but drilling will soon be resumed the marland oil company is said to be leasing lands in the little uplift near zortman phillips county montana charles lackey and associates are drilling below 1875 leet feet in their test in the dry piney wyoming district indications are good for production it is said california petroleum company of utah has acquired all of the holdings of the wyoming reserve oil company compa ny except two 80 acre tracts in all about 1700 acres in the labarge oil field forty miles north of kemmerer wyo the e deal is reported to run to in cash and in oil the ne cash payment to mr and mrs W D newlon and associates who operate as the wyoming reserve oil company Compa is js sa said i to be the california company is is said to be about to begin an immediate and intensive drilling cam laign agn in the labarge district oil has just been struck in the well in which harry stonehill to nehill and others are interested the well is reported to be de a very ry good one they intend to use the oil for fuel and start another deep well says the washington county N ineas aws ot of the charles alsop company are now rung ng three towers tower on the new well which they have just started they expect another big standard rig in this week with which they will start another well the company is now building a refinery at cedar city which is nearing completion ion they intend to truck the crude oil to cedar city in large tanks which they have purchased during the past few weeks scores of strangers have visited kemmerer being en route to the local oil fields where they have been looking over the land with a view to development this week the following parties have arrived here and have been looking over the labarge field wesley E king salt lake banker having with him colonel macvichie a mining man and two capitalists one from reno nev and the other from new york the other party was in charge of ellis E freed of salt lake who had a party of capitalists as well as a geologist from san francisco the latter party also visited the fossil field kemmerer gazette A flow of approximately twelve million feet of gas was encountered ten days ago by the producers and refiners refinery Re finers company which is drilling for the marland oil company at a point nine miles east of rock springs wyoming the test is located in baxter basin but is twelve miles north of the large producing gas wells which now supply the city with fuel the gas in the marland test comes from the first wall creek sands at the depth of 2400 feet this sand which has been barely pierced is estimated to be eight feet thick and the dakota sands the objective of the test feet below in the second quarter of this year the kevin sunburst field produced barrels of oil and the cat creek field barrels |