Show Continental Oil Company I I Merger Under Discussion NEW V YORK March Marchl 9 Ar- Ar Discussions for tl the e merger or of Continental Con Con- Oil company o of Denver with one or more of the leading midwestern and Pacific coast producers producers pro pro- are under wa way it was learned authoritatively today following fol- fol lowing bowing the visit here this week o of II E. T. T Wilson chairman and Sidney Keoughan president ot of tai tal Continental it was pointed out occupies a strate strategic lo position through it its service stations which extend through fifteen states from California to to- the midwestern oil fIeld In addition the company con trois producing fields in Montana Wyoming Texas and Louisiana and California Recent activity in Its stoc stock followed bringing bringing- in by the company of a new field V V. V D. D counsel for fOI the corporation one ot of the I companies mentioned in merger re- re ports porte said There Is nothing de deli deli- i- i nite ite I can give you at this time |