Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-21 | Page 12 | Drills of Salt Creek Petroleum Held Up

DRILLS OF SALT CREEK PETROLEUM BELD UP Boiler Trouble Cause; Expected That Operations Will Ee Resumed Soon. Thn Salt Creek Petroleum In its well on section 21 of West Salt Creek has been hold up in drilling because of boiler trouble. trou-ble. Tlie drills are within buL a few feot of thfMr objective. It 1 expected drilling will he resumed soon and that Salt Creek Petroleum will rah oil sands within a day after such wiivitis. Other companion have been slinilc.rly delayed In bringing In now wells dining the past week. The Hidden Treasure Oit company is one of the new companies which was organized or-ganized In Basin, Wyo., and will operate In the Bipr Horn basin, with holdings In Lbtt tvreitiuil lower uuell creak, ajid Uobx cippk domes, amountlngr to more than T.OO ncres. The offtrers are W. A. 'Robh, president. Basin. Wyo.; J. JllWreth, vice IH-esident. Sealtle, Wash.; D. K. Lewis, eorretarv and treasurer, Basin, Wyo. The rumpanv is capitalized at $300,000. fully f.aid and non-assessable. Jl. B. Selfert of New Wilson. Okla.. is tlie field manager man-ager and he has three standard rigs that he will put in operation soon. The Quadranek- Oil company, said to bo headed hy some of Missoula's (Mont.) strongest business men. will start opera-lions opera-lions in their Kig Horn basin- and Big Jlud.1v holdings in the near future. This company recentlv housht outright a tract of land' on Hie Big Horn river adjoining production and pipe lines which they will drill first and should get a good producer at about HOO feet. Casper Press.