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Show Big Piney Attraction fcr Oil T.Ien; Standard Has Representatives John C Howard, President of Utah OA Refining, ViU Field With Midwest Geologist; Much Activity " Follows Lackey' New Strike" 1C Elf MERER, Wyo An SI Spo-clal).-Th rocont Lorkey oil trlko near Bin; Plney continue to bo the talk of tho oil world here and miay repreaentatlvoa f th 8tnilard OH eamptnlM operating la , Wyoming are v lei torn to tho nolo1. John C. Howard, pre I dent of tho Utah OU fWlnina; company of Rait Lake, a Standard aabaldiary, and , H. Lovey, alao a Standard OU mn, left Tueeday with th Mtdweat IU-flulna; IU-flulna; companya ceolof late, John O. Bartrom and Don P. Coleman, the, lattar havlnaj recently completed a detailed piano aurvey of ib Dry at preaent for tha ptirpoe of viewing the) preeent holding. T. R Harrlaoa. formerly ef tho firm of Harrlaoa and mton. former consulting geologist for th Midwest Mid-west Refining company, la alao la Plney county cberklng ver th. Siwly. provan structursa and eoa-tiguou eoa-tiguou atructuroa. INUKPBNDKNTS OW JOB. , r Dr. H. H. Hints, forwior atudaat 'of tha Vnlvoralty of Utah, rcntly arrived la tha flald with Ooologtst flood man at tha lnataaca of th. Producer and Refiner corporal I oa, with which fompiiy t hoy aro Iden- Plnty dom and conveyed tha find-Inge find-Inge to th caaper office. Imme-dlatelx Imme-dlatelx upon receipt of th geologic-si geologic-si findings th Wtdweat rompany adTlaed tha neareat auhaldlary Standard Oil unit refinery, th I tan Oil Refining company. If th Mld-weat Mld-weat acquire holding In thla district dis-trict U I natural to preaum that th Bait Lak refinery will handle tho crude oil. It la freely rumored hero that man offer hav been made for th Lackey holding In thla field on a atructura long held In disfavor by i tha Standard Oil gologlats, out Mr. Lackey and hi associatea ara withholding with-holding any acceptances until after a teat has been mad. Tankage la now bemg areoted clooa to th well, th flow of which Is at prasent "pinched In.4 Tha analysis of tha oil ahowa soma t bo 4& Raume, carrying Pr cant gaaolfne, l per cent kerone, tha remainder blng lubricant, ambtx. colorad. TBXAS CO THKRK, Following tha Ohio Oil representative represen-tative cam Wllaoa KmerV, aad Attorney At-torney Wc Murray, who visited tha strike, with Harry Uxnds of Cheyenne. Chey-enne. Th Midwest Refining waa advised of tha strike by th rompany rom-pany s acout, C. A. Markey, and tha company 'a geologists wars rushod to ihs Hpv Pin v da ma. Immad lately t if led. Dr. Hlnti state th structure struc-ture la worth whll lavatlgatlng and has ordered another man, Go4-oglat Go4-oglat Irwla, for th purpose of aa-aiatlng aa-aiatlng In making a structure contour con-tour map of th Dry Piney dome. Other oil companion reprata-tlves reprata-tlves har been In th field or or expected to visit tha ecen ef th new atrlks that has finally put Plney county upon th oil map and further Investigation are expected to b mad on other structure that are said to b favorahle. C. W. W a eeo of Muakogea, Ok lean le-an oil operator well known la that state and In tho Smack over. Arkansas, Arkan-sas, field, has visited the Plney field, as wall aa J. . ftmlth nf Denver, Den-ver, P. H. Burson of Paola, Kan., J. O. Hartman of Denver, J. H. Merrill of "alt Creak and Arthur D. Black of Chicago. Geologist representing private groups nave alao been 4a the field. I oeaeeaT eateos b4 Ar-4a-gMeMo ana Christian Vrang of Salt Lake, both of whom are known to be credited with early opinions that the Plney truciuree would probably afford western Wyoming prominent oil pools. MrJ Rurrltt acquired eome valuable holdings for aoma Pacific coaet representatlvea In no la Barge Plney dlatrlct a few weeks beforo tha present oil etrlke. apoa the heele of the afidweat came the Tessa company, whoee engineer have juat completed a ptana table aurvey and detailed report which waa undertaken after th wall waa opened for the Texae company' superintendent, su-perintendent, J. Bark on. The Texas company has Oeologteta Stewart aad Zatterstrom In the field. W. C. fcpooner, geologist for th Transcontinental OH company, I at present In the field and this Pittsburg Pitts-burg oil concern also has A. L. Hawkins and Fred W. atone la the La Harge oil field wofklng out a detail surrey on tha old petroleum withdrawal for the Transcontinental Transcontinen-tal subsidiary, the Arkansas Natural Nat-ural Gas company ef ghroveport. Ia. F. N. McOregor, attorney for ! the latter company. Is In th field1 |