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Show ! ACTIVITY lil FOSSIL ' FIELD INCREASES' i , sjrvey of a railro.ul p'r. w'. ill 1 !eave tiie .'n0! .Snort l.',r,e at I-os--'!, Wyoirlns,', and tap ti:e K"o-:: oil lield. ' : iias be-;:i coiiii!'jUl, according to V. .. J . MuH'-n, president ::nd ii:ai:.'-;.:er of the 1 Arizoiiu-U'yoin'.ng ti cunpari'. Mr. Mullen r'-cfia iy arrived f T"oin W'.-.-o:;-::!:. It is reaHonaiy certrt;n that t.:is spur, i wiiii'h wtii be a great conv u'.ettcc to o:' ! I producers of that section, fo" it will save j three miles of pipe iine for the Arizona- Wvomlng company alon , will he con- !s:rucu-d in the near future. A loud !ng 1 station, wiiicii will rna!t it possible with ; a few hundred yards of pipe to connect j up a storage tank at the wells, with a tank at the shiim.', will he buiit. it is ' said, on the property of the company. The equipment, consisting of pip'-s. sucker rods, storage tanks, tuoing and pumping engines, is being rapidly m- I stalled, says Mr. Muilen. As soon as the) wells are cleaned up and the installation j completed, pumping and storing of oil will bei;in. Drilling equipment is being shipped from Spring . Valley, and when operations permit, drilling for a deep well will begin. Operation;- in the Fossil field are approaching rapidly a zenith, says Mr. Mullen. The Gulf t'oast Development company, which has holdings adjoining tiie A rizona -Wyoming company, recently wired Ft. T. Dennis, whose land and well-drilling well-drilling outfit the company has leased, that drilling operations will begin on the ground Saturday. To the east of the Arizona-Wyoming Oil company's holdings the "Wyoming-Pacific "Wyoming-Pacific company is drilling. It is said. Satisfactory progress has been made, and the dwep sands should be proved within the next thirty or forty days. The 1 lersman Oil company, which is adequately financed and ready for operations, opera-tions, accord i tig to Mr. Good win, has been organized under the laws of Wyoming Wyo-ming by oil men from the T,usk fields and by Seattle people. Drilling on the holding of this company has just begun. It is said. The excitement over the possibilities of the Fossil field is growing apace, says Mr. Mullen, and opportunities to lease oil lands to large companies under a bond and lease are numerous, it is said. |