Show y st 01 notes on the oil industry 0 0 ro r ro it Is A it it a it it it A 4 9 it it it it 9 it 9 9 9 it 4 ra 11 11 11 press evanston wyo the piedmont oil company whose chief stockholders are in ogden has a s at last overcome all difficulties of a financial character and has resumed operations at af spring valley wyoming press evanston wyo thursday last george beard brought to town six barrels gallons of oil from the eillis well on section 22 the product is to be taken to the michigan wyoming property north of town for lubricating use on the machinery of that concern news register evanston wyo dr returned yesterday to his home at grand rapids mich the doctor has been here for the past three weeks during which time he installed machinery on the ground of the michigan wyoming oil company in fawkes canyon fifteen miles north of evanston this company will commence drilling next spring if possible price advocate alex aiex hillstrom superintendent in of the new york utah well in darks clarks valley was in town the first of the week taking back with him some tools and parts of machinery for sinking further the hole which is now at a depth of about a thousand feet he says the casing is now all in and boring will be resumed as soon as the parts he came into town after are on the ground and adjusted to the work his company is after oil he says and there will be no let up until they it or it is demonstrated there is none in the eastern utah fields castle dale progress don C robbins is authority for the report that the new york utah oil company operating in darks clarks valley at a depth of a little over 1000 feet had struck a strong flow of the finest kind of illuminating gas and the derrick and works are now being furnished with gaslight the companas comp anys well is all cased off and every preparation has been made to sink feet it if necessary to reach the heavier oll oi bearing strata considerable earnest and intelligent work is now being done in the green river field and there is very every reason to believe that the coming year will see some big wells brought in down there camera kemmerer wyo the union pacific railway has won its fight to prevent outsiders from locating oil claims on its lands at spring valley where the best flow of oil ever struck in the intermountain region was encountered in a well owned by the american consolidated oil company the decision of the secretary of the interior to whom the matter was referred supports the contention of the railway company that the land is more valuable for coal than for oil and is already being worked as a coal mine proposition by the railway As nearly all the oil claims in the evanston district are located on ra railway lands this decision is a severe blow to the industrial advancement of the southern part of uinta county press evanston wyo since our last issue the groshon carter oil company has made another good strike of petroleum on section 34 near spring valley it will tie be remembered that the first oil sands encountered by this concern were eased cased off and boring continued they had drilled but seventy five feet when the last strike was made this well is now a paying proposition without a doubt and according to all reports equals any strike yet made news register evanston WYO wyo R E leonard of salt lake was in the city a few days this week mr leonard is western agent for the oil well supply company of pittsburg one of the largest concerns of the kind in this country his mission was to report on the advisability of his firm establishing a branch house here and he was so well impressed after looking over the field that he recommended that his house take this step at once the old flour mill will be engaged for this purpose and a large and varied stock of oil well supplies will be brought here at once unless con coll cerns of this character had the utmost confidence in our coming industry they certainly would not net spend thousands of dollars in in new branch houses they are going to do business here and there is no doubt of it |