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Show 3 GUSHERS SPOUT LIQUID RICHES DUR1NGWEEK Promoter in the Big Muddy Field Are Delighted by New Strikes. enthusiasm has ween aroused amonc the admirer, of the Bl Muddy fields by th news that three new wells hav been brought In recently. One well waa slso brought In la I" "j ""'" which news flll-d many Rait Jf'. who own shares of stock In that locality, with Twa of th welts brought In luring the last week are deep holes. h. Mrr,.'1! strlkMln the Big Muddy field being In the Wall Creek at iOl feet, and 'he "lo strike In th earn, field hHng In the jo called "stray" sand St MM feet. Th Ohio brought In a well on the Venlx Wee In the Big Muddv field, at Hon ' """J th Oreybull Keflnlns wiptny h"fh In a shallow wall on Elk No. t In the fclk i irlant nsnr ft th Montana-Wyoming company on th. Neville place nr Bvron. tore loose thla week, bursting the casing beneath the cap and flesurlng the ground wllhln a ino-yard rsditie. The , aa Was controlled after a tmrd fight- Tr.r ee.eral dava. the flow being etopped after an expert crew had J"1, Oklahoma for the scene. The Neville gaaeer la rated as the largest In the world having n capacity of U.ooMO cublo feet In twenty-four hours. Ths gas pressurs Is fifty-three pounde to the squars Inch i.nd haa not dlmlnlahed during the nine years since the flow was developed. rVemont county locators havs organ-' organ-' Ised a vigilance committee for the purpose pur-pose of protecting oil-placer locations from claim Jumpers. Several Inetanree of Jumping havs occurred In he Fremont county fields during ths past fortnight-tine fortnight-tine of the first evidences of the vigilance committee's sctlvlty was the arreet of v!vlei Hall and J. K. Edwards on a charge of Jumping claims In the Dallas field. Warrants for the arreet of aeveral Other peraona have been sworn out. The activity of locators la the Fremont county fields continues, affidavits of uocatlon covering more than too acres having been filed during the last week. Among the Iocs tore are the following: O. M. Bock and associates. Hit acres: Claude Allen and associates. 0 acres: C.'iaries Coulter and associates, 144 acres; Harry Broen. 1 acrea; ). P Mc-Kenna Mc-Kenna and associates, mo seres; U M. Rae and R. M. lmler, 0 acres; Joe Keller Kel-ler and associates, 40 acres; Fenimore rhatterton and aaeoclatea, 70 acres. The greater amount of the foregoing acreaga le In the government draw eeotlon, ten miles east of Lsuidr. Oeorg M. Ammnn, U. M. Bennett, J. A. l'errln. Karl Burn. Pearl Kyle, o. 1. Reed and Jack Ore ham filed affldavtta of discovery, the majority of the validating discoveries having been made In the Alkali Butte and Big Baa draw sections SPBBDB IN NIW HOLE. The ftepubllo Oil company, which brought In a well la the Kimball eand near Basin, ten daye ago, haa moved lta rig and this week spudded In No. I hots, a few hundred feet south of th recent strike. The Boo Ot company la moving a rig to the Bheldong ranch en Hhell creek. Big Hum county, w lie re indication, ar first clsas. The Western Slate. Oil company haa machinery oa the ground and will drill near Crystal, Bis; Bora oounty. la un-provsrr un-provsrr territory. The Wyoming O. compear thl. week took over th holding of th Big Horn Oil and ties company. Including th evs-tm. evs-tm. which supply the towns of Basin and OrsybuO with natural gas. Ths nw eoncern, which was orgsnised under the laws of Maine. Is capitalised at S300.-t. S300.-t. The capltallsatloa ef the old company com-pany waa Sau.ooo. Two' small producer, kav been sdded to th producers of ths slvron field. M. Saber having brought In a fifty-barrel well on the Jone farm and the Ontral Toducing company having developed a thirty-barrel producer with Its second hole. The Rlvertoa Petroleum company has a rig at Rlvsrton, awaiting better road conditions to freight It to th Big Hand draw dome. Th Producer and Keflner Oil company, which aa leassd a portion of the Klverfnn Petroleum nomnanv's holdings, hss arranged for machinery for He first hole, which will be ataited with twenty-Inch caalng and with a rig capable capa-ble of going down 500 feet. The Oraaa Creek. Oil and Development company la down 100 feel with the well which It la drilling on unproven ground at the eouth end of the Oraaa Creek field. The atrata are being found In place at deptha only allghtly greater than those ahown by the lugs of wells In ths proven field. " The Thermonolla syndlcats which Is drilling ths War Springe doms. eaat of the town of Thennopolla, la down tlw feet The well at 126 feet struck a ssnd I whloh gave a good ehowing of oil and gas. A commercial strike at about 11H 1 feet le antlclltated. |