Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-02-13 | Page 8 | Cactus Co. Starts First Well in New Field

CACTUS CO ST STARTS STARTS' TS FIRST WELL WLL IN III NEW FIELD Other Companies Plan to Operate in Weld County Wyoming CHEYENNE Wyo Feb 13 The 13 The first well to ba biJ In in the Round Butte oil field In Weld Veld county eighteen miles south of Cheyenne will be in the northeast northeast northeast north north- east corner of section 12 township 11 north range ran 69 west by the Cactus como company com com- o pany Adjoining this corner comer are the I Roxana holdings extending northward on which that company expects to start drilling soon One section of United Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- land Is Inside the structure and the Roxana It Is understood has applied for fora a lease on this thle The Weld Veld county field has been known since Juno 1917 1911 according to Max Ball Ban of the Roxana company who took Brander Gracht U president of the Roxana Roxana Roxana Rox Rox- ana company over the structure As a result of this visit E. E W. W a aI n Roxana a geologist olf t conducted an cef ef exhaustive exhaustive d I tive examination a When surface rf c indica indications I Indies Indies- ton were lacking dug In InI I some places to a depth of twenty feet to complete the structure eggeman was recently called caned In to check up the I work of and the rush to the field followed I The Wall all Creek Creel sands ands do not occur inthis in inI inthis this field according to these experts I The sand Is said to be halfway between I the Niobrara and Benton at A n L depth of 2000 feet The Roxana leased all the patented lands and half haIr the state lands in the structure and the Cactus the balance The Roxana Will unload td itt Its rig at Warrenton station The Cactus is using cars for its heavy material and trucking the balance from Cheyenne