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Show KEY WELLS ME ! NOW iDER HIP; Company Gives Report of Recent Activities in the Big Muddy District j CASPER. Wyo., May 2G. The Kin- : ney Oil and Refining company offers the following information on its recent ac- j tivities: ! "Within the pr.st few days, seven of the producing wells in the Shannon : sand on the Kinney lease in section ! -1, township 3:i north range 70 west, Big Muddy, have been put on the puinp preparatory pre-paratory to attaching the tanks to the 1 pipe line being installed by the Illinois Illi-nois Pipe Line company for the purpose pur-pose ot conveying the production of t lie Big Muddy Held to the Casper refineries. re-fineries. The eighth well will be tittc-1 with pump rods the first of next week. "Owing to the fact that it takes several sev-eral days for the w-?lls to settle, due to the running in of the loose sand, making it necessary to install new cups in the suctions every few days, it is impossible to make an accurate gauge of the actual capacity of each of the different wells. However, shipments by railroad tank cars have been made regularly, regu-larly, the last car having gone out Wed- I ncsday, the 9th, and todav when I visited vis-ited the lease, 1 found that the gathering gath-ering tanks held something over two thousand barrels. ''The pipe line will be finished, from the present outlook, within the next fifteen fif-teen days, and all tan'is will then be connected with the lead lines and all Ml 1 J II JHJU ttUU ttrtSir, Utff IU Llllll- i bcrsomc methods of ha lulling hereto- ' tore in force, will be eliminated. "The deep test well to the Wall Creek sand is progressing, the drill he- , ins down something over fourteen hun- ' dred feet. A deep well on the Merritt : property, tw0 hundred feet from the ! south line of the Kinney property, will be drilled in at any time noWj and this should, being almost squarely astride the j apex of the anticline, prove to be the ' largest well yet brought in in the field. J 1 1 will also be an indication of what ! the stockholders of the Kinney companv may expect from the Kinney deep well, as the two wells are on a line with the : apex of the anticline. "The prospects for an early increased : production from the Kinney lease are i very favorable." |