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Show GOLD WEATHER HAS fflEIED DILI Activity in Greybull Field Is Expected to Increase When Spring Comes. The cold weather has had rather a depressing effect on well drilling, and the work will not be so lively from now until spring, when it will be livelier than it was this year, says the Greybull Standard. Stand-ard. Weather conditions therefore make oil news in the local field somewhat slack this week. A number of the drilling outfits, out-fits, however, have provided warm and comfortable houses for their employees and will continue working during the winter. An at the other wells where drilling has been in progress, the Hove Oil company com-pany has been bavins: its troubles, brought ahojit by the cold weather. The drill has readied a depth of about 400 feet. The Hoye company is well prepared pre-pared for the cold weather and the stop was only temporary, and it is likely, with the moderation In the weather todav, drilling has been resumed. The emplovees at the Hoye axe well housed In good, warm buildings. The Aladdin well. No. 2. an erratic proposition. Whenever the oil in the bottom bot-tom of the well lakes a notion it wants to come out. it comps. and things have to move. Two or three times recent I v it has broken loose and the oil has spurted into the air to a great height. Recently, on a windv da, it broke !oo. and the oil went far above the top 01 the mast and the wind carried the oil from 100 to 2on yards from the well, covering cov-ering every tree and shrub within that distance with the yellow fluid. That there is a large pool of oil In the ground oivned bv the Aladdin company, com-pany, there is no question, and the com-i-nv will sink a number of wells to develop de-velop it and bring it to the surface |