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Show WIND RIVER REFINERY NEWLY INCORPORATED San Francisco and Chicago Syndicate Takes Over 32,000 Acres in Dry Piney Fields. The following report of activities in Ihe Wyornincr fields ii; furnished by the M ontanaVvoming Oil exchange of Casper: Cas-per: Tho "Wind "River KcFmmg company bus been incorporaf ed with a capitalization capitaliza-tion of 5,000,000 shares, par 1 mill. Construction Con-struction work is in progress on the CapUal Popo Agio river, three miles below Lander. Tbe first unit will have a capacity of 500 barrels a day, and the first still will be in operation by January Janu-ary .1. This plant will be enlarged as rapidly as production warrants. The Buss-Thompson syndicate of San Francisco and Chicago has taken over leases on o2.000 acres of patented land in the La Barge and Dry Piney fields, located in the western part of Wyoming. This eompany is moving the first drilling drill-ing ri,g on the ground. Other rigs have been secured and will be moved down in the early part of the spring. The Green River Petroleum company, drilling in the La Barge field with a fi00-foot drilling outfit, has secured a standard rig which is now being freighted freight-ed in to the field. |