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Show MUCH ITIiy If BIN OIL Fll Salt Laker, Finds Thmfi Humming in Big Hont? Basin Region', fe MANY CONCERNS b3 Big Gasser Shows Signsl$ Turning Into an OilSj Well. Kk John O. Howard, president oj Utah Oil Refining company, rott $ to tho city recontlj' from a trip t'( Byron, "Wyo., oil fiold. )j Mr. "Howard believes tho Byron- W is to bo the center of tho grcat y! and gas development of Wyomirij tho present year. Sovoral con composed of good people nnd witi plo financial backing aro now oj ing thoro. . Among thorn is the Fodcrol Petrc C company, of which J. R. Groene W prosulent and. genorai managor. J company has a standard stool d Jj eighty leot high and the best and' iia complete drilling outfit yet brougl t to that part of Wyoming, includi p complete set of fishing tools. This w pany is now drilling' three and. ui miles northeast of No. l, tho 0 Wyoming company's 7,000,OOC ' gasser which was brought in lasta ber, and us, according to tho acc'i I' geology of tho region, the locati considerably further down tho pai . anticlinal slopo than No. 6, Mr. Ho : thinks tho company will probable ( a good oil well. Tbo Federal com j j has leases on 1-100 acros of priv ft owned lands in this field. The tana-Yvyoniing company is also ac at work in this immediate vicinity' , Tho oldest oil wells in this field, i. now been producing for sis or? years. Tho first big gas well, the.1 f Wyoming company's No. 5, was d s& in two or three years ago, and the . ond was No. 6, above referred to, T! - was completed last October. Thel prossuro of thcso two wells is abou L same, 655 pounds to the square (3 tho capacity- of each is about 7,00i cubic icet of gas a day. They are) ' 900 feet apart : )t Dr. Vod J. Pack, president oft; gis Utah-Wj'omiug. has just received s :Li ter from Field Superintendent Ki who says that a few days ago, on necting No. 6, the newer well, wi f meter to supply gas for drilling.; poses, the gas was found to be c ,T ing so much oil that it soon cloggo motor, tonfl'ing to confirm recent ports that it bad shown indication turning into an oil well, a porforij it that is of frequent occurrence in? ' oil and gas fieldB. These gas welt . only about two miles from the tcr? Byron, and tho one drilled in la f tober ib 1663 feet deep. ' |