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Show GREAT FUTURE FOR LUSK FIELD IS PREDICTED . Oil Experts Declare It Will Prove- Better-Than Salt Creek. CAHPKR. U.vo. Nov. 12 TVjIliam 11 Weaver, general manager of the Weavet Rig Building company, haa returned from I.usk after an Inunction '""tw filed, and alao tha aettllng of several loa cations for new rigs that bia firm has taken contracts for. Mr. Weaver atatea that tha Weaver Rig Building company haa- work ahead that will keep It busy for aome time to come, and ha haa aent a wire to California, where the firm haa seven crews employed, em-ployed, ordering five- to start Immediately Immediate-ly for Lusk to take care of tha work there. Tha Weaver company haa taken con- tracts In the Tnsk field for rigs for Ihe Allen ett leanpenvi 4hw Mpiifsi n m Texss and many other firms that want rigs hustled up In that field Another man Just returned from an extensive flurvey of the Lunk field a nd on who can b rl'd upon for a atralgbt account of the field and Ha future is I-ec A. J. fhiilipot. who got buck from .usk a, fa' liivs a ao. . . Mr. l'hiihiiot sisted that In hia opinion (lie l.unk field woud prove to be abou elirht times as large aa the Salt Creek field, and that It woud produce more oil to the well than the Salt Creek field At the aame time the coat of operation would be amalier than the Halt Craet. for the -reason that there Is little likelihood likeli-hood of there being any great amount o: witter in Ihe l.uwk field below the surface, sur-face, an1 then-fore, only one utrlng of raaiTig would be needed to finish a well while in tl c Salt Creek field several ! string of pipe are necessary. I The oil companies all appear to ! ' j getting ready to put up a stiff figh- I agjiiiMt the government's order of con- f flscation and will all combine togethc I to fight thf fommmi caue I |