Show COLONEl NOW AT PROPERTY i IN CASPER C Capitalist Secures Secures- Rig for forlis lis Co When They Are Almost Unobtainable Word Wor has baa just juet been received d from Casie Caspar Cas Cu par ie that Colonel Samuel local capitalist and president of ot the Casper Caspar Embr Oil company now In active operation opera opera- tion In fn the new Powder River lUver fields has returned t Casper sper iper after a at t t art t trip to DemerIt Denver Demer It Is la stated that while ha he was wae In Colo Cob rado Colonel Newhouse o succeeded In purchasing hM for C cash cosh a complete pl string of drilling tools now o In the Dig Big Muddy u field i fl fleo rn Sid s Keoughan eo consulting o field manager has hM been Instructed to arrange for Immediate Immediate Im Im- irn- irn mediate shipment t of ot these parts parla to the I holdings of ot the Casper Embar company compan I and drilling will be be begun n on the company's com coni- J pany's na property within two weeks RIGS UNOBTAINABLE TUgs are practically unobtainable In the Wyoming fields at nt any price and it was only because of ot tho the p prominence of ot Colonel e and his wide acquaintance throughout the West that he was enabled to obtain the machinery to start work ork I drilling drifting Reports from all nil over the enormous enormous enor eor- area areD covered by the oil fields are all to the effect that while most of ot the companies which hav have holdings In favorable favorable favor favor- able localities have enough to begin be be- gin operations Immediately tely most of ot them are suffering are from the great handicap of ot lack Jack of ot tools and casing with which to commence operations While I In Denver which c has gone gene oil oll epe In mad Colonel Newhouse ho gave a an a Interview inter inter- te rt vi view W to the tho Denver Post In which he mid aid Stability and wonderful progress are re features futures of ot tho great oil fields around Ca Casper Caiper r that appeal to me me and they are the basis of ot a great future What these thue fields ultimately will amount to is anater a matter nater of ot merest conjecture rom what I have seen I believe the present is only the beginning The information I have gained from visits to the great Powder River dome the numerous flowing wells of ot Salt Creek and the large amount of ot work that is under underway way In hi the th Big lug Muddy field makes the future most promising HUGE BUSINESS HANDLED When one stops t to c r that during dur dur- ing the month of ot August AU Casper which is Ia now the center of ot the in Wyoming wa wn was in the production of ot revenue reve rave nue second among the division on the entire Burlington system and was the fourth city In production of ot revenue of ot nil all the cities cov covered d by the Northwestern railroad Chicano Chicago o beLg first some Borne Idea ot of the tremendous business handled can t bp ip f The gleaned phe ni telegraph l office I am Informed handles more mere business than than any other office office of ot- fice between the Mississippi and the coast the refineries are now credited with being fourth In the production of ot gasoline in the United States and Casper is 18 Increasing in population rom the headquarters for it suddenly has become an aa oil center of ot approximately people l having nearly nearly near near- n b tel j ly Pd doubled In population a inv In less than h he a year e Casper Casier Is the vortex Torte of ot- ot feverish in In- In At the same time It moves steadily stead stead- ily By ahead sliced with paved streets substantial brick and stone office and business buildings build in ings an ornamental and andI n I heating plant to care for tor all aU the office buildings thereby solving the smoke question before It has started PAYROLL Two Two railroad lIn lines run wi through the town cheap electricity e c is wi furnished the cost b 4 cents centi a kilowatt hour t te two largo large e refineries belonging to th the tho Midwest and Standard Oil companies give rivo employment employment employ employ- ment to 1000 men of ot whom are employed emy em em- y In construction IO a work Increasing tono ono the tho capacity t of the plants from around un barrels els a day WiT to approximately barrels a day Two two mile pipe lines bring the oil from Salt Creek and on m mile eighteen line runs to Casper from Big nil Muddy The monthly payroll of Casper Is NINE FORTY-NINE RIGS tN IN SALT CREEK Forty nine rigs are at work In Salt Creek with a production of to barrels a day and about half halt that amount shut hut in or capped until addi- addi pipe lines and refining facilities are ire provided In n the Powder River field which Is attracting a a. great deal of ot at attention at- at there are eight drills at work more ar are going on Before leaving Salt Salt Lake k for or the oil oilfields fields Colonel Newhouse said sald he expected to 10 return the latter part of ot last week from his tour of ot Inspection but the word received from Casper Indicates that his enthusiasm has been aroused to such a pitch that he has taken off ott his coat andone and one gone to work with his fellow fello officers of ot the Casper asper r Embar company as well as Interesting himself in a a. number of ot other business projects in the field His Ills office is la uninformed as to when he will return and that his absence Is indefinite The TH drilling operations of ot the Casper Embar will Q he le under the supervision of Mr Keoughan who has charge of ot many of the operations of ot the Standard Oil subsidiaries in Wyoming and in is an oil of wide and diversified experience It Was waa due to Mr Mi- Keoughan's foresight 1 In rt that the rigs now being assembler assem assem- bie bler at the e property V were procured at a rf U n h tt when time m rigs are p practically c abl abl I 1 |