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Show If! fill lj Montana-Wyoming firing Good Oil Well on Gu. land Anticline. STANDARDALS0 BUSl Presence of "Octopuj" an Excellent Recommend, tion for Field Andrew J. Scott, field su,rjr . for the Montana & Wvomi-, pauy ,n its development opeV-' ' the Byron, Wyoming fitld ' turned to the city. Tne t'. '" newest well, located in tvTv" anticline two miles west of "f. "if of Byron, came in a few dav- V' a depth of 600 feet. It f;;" tervals and Rives promise of '-..-', an excellent well. I3 flow is that charact--.; wells in whlch the quaevtv o relatively much jreatcr tlu gas. In wells of this kind a ol oil accumulates, nearlv or o -t" ing the well. Sooner or latf-the latf-the gas pressure is straw but "ot tyy . f ree, the gas Hot. . by the oil m the well -ath--" cient force to lift the' coluti i' aoove it. The oil then fc.,", over tne top like one of valley flowing water weih E.- higher and higher like a jpU 'v weight of oil on the acram :V -grows less until finally ' her head off" as the dri;f-"T.. it, and then relapses into q;:f! -ready to repeat tne perfonuirj This company, in which : lake people are intereiti" producing wells in this f i eld 7.-500 7.-500 liarrels a day of fortv.foir'" oil a light oil" of excellent This is pumped to the K::-Jr Cowlev- on the Burlin2ton raL::; The holdings of this cog-.-.s-t : near those of the rtah-Wvo::; ' pany, composed of ?a!t Lake V and of which Fred J. Pack o: versitv of Utah is presiit:-. ' L tahAVyoming has, it will be bered, tw-o sis million ja.ver; enormous rock pressure. The : the one first drilled is bei::"':. consumers in that vicinity t-I; -second is capr-ed because " there j present market there for it: Un the Byron anticline. r east of Byron, the Mutual 0i! has a well down -2100 feet -rth : showing of oi! and gas. Te:5 i heavy gasser. but is sTrajir; This company, of which J. R. l- lees is president and in wh::: ". Howard, president of the T:ah 0, fining company of this (;r ested. has large holdings in the : field. The Ohio Oil company, the tr;: branch of the Standard, is well on the Sessions farm ncr :: ground controlled by the M::- Wvoming. This well is new :;". -feet with a fair showinc of r! will .e sunk to SOM feet.if.EK Lee Champion, who is :r.csti:' the Midwest Oil companv ore-jr.:: the Salt Creek field rortn o: -Wvoming. is now in the Bt-c:; on" au investigating tour, pffi-in pffi-in the interests of tee ttsr.;.- |