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Show AMERICAN OIL GETS BIG WELL NEAR GREYBULL Production of 200 Barrels Daily Obtained From San A at 1 250 Ft O RET BULL. Wy, Oct. Jl.-Whtt iimmliN to b th birCMt oil producor I ever at nick In Big Horn county wm broucht In roovntly on tho Untorsubor ranch, on tho Oroybull livor. about a mil and a half from town, by th Amortcan Oil company. Tho cap rork ovor tho oil sand waa trurk at a dpth of MM foot. Aa aoon tho rock waa ncountorod. drtlllnc topped.. It being tho InUntkia to drill into tho land later. Abmit 10 o'clurk Faturday avanlna; th ftn i nd oil broke throuah t'i rap rack lard th oil Towed In a contlnuoua atroam itirtil S oork Punrtay rTenlnK. whan urn r,fl'TTar tUfTaefffd" Tn wrpiri it. pmla.r-vnlnir pmla.r-vnlnir tho gum forc--il th parkins in the capping and beaan flowing again. In omo manner It cuirht Mr, maklna beautiful apcta4il axalnat th evening sky. Qrat volume of flam and black amok arnded to a great h.ght. 'in work of again getting It urder auhjfctlon wag nagun. and at o'ejock Mommy morning It waa again capped and ron- - nor ml with tank, aim- ahUh thuo It haa bn acting decently. A ttt of a twentv-four-hour run Into th tanka ! demm.atraied that It ta producing iw ibarrcla a day. It la flowing regularly at the aam rata, Th tanka ar connected with th alia-( alia-( Refining and th nil la being pumped there aa fa at aa It flow a ' Th fir destroyed all th woodwork of tn rig. but th boiler, engine and machinery machin-ery were aaved. Th company haa mv-cured mv-cured a rig from the Midwest company and will tcg1n immediately th ainking of another wll. , Record Urn waa made fn th linking of th wen. th depth of 1240 feet being mad In eighteen daye, A groat deal ot i credit la duo Manager Affleck, through mhoee untiring effort a and good man agement the American OH company, m making good. enaaaaaaaaaeeaaaaaaanaaaaan. |