Show II I Business Barometer I II I III I Tho The war department has sold surplus m material between l 8 S to 14 ass re gating Inti 1 7 o o. o of w wilch 4 Ich textiles In Including In- In eluding wool amounted to to and animals A commission consisting of ot three naval officers a mining engineer and a n geologist geologist gist s will be bo sent ent to Alaska to ascertain what steps should ho bo taken in connection with development of ot the coal oal fields Effort to stimulate the production 0 of coal b by r reducing prices to somewhere near prewar basis Is to be made whoa when comm committee composed of or mining officials I and dealers meet with Industrial board of ot department of or commerce The Tho Glenrock Oil company compan on Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- cia day completed Its Us well No 4 on the tho Blackbird Black Black- Blackbird bird lease In the Big Muddy tI field ld reports from Crom Casper Indicating that It promises to be a heavy producer The Tho oil shot allover all allover over o the derrick with th the tho tools barely barel penetrating the tho top of ot the san sand No estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate was made of ot tho the possible barrelage Another Important discovery in the tho Cresson the premier gold mine of ot the tho Cripple Creek district and ono of ot the tho greatest In the tho world was reported when hen announcement was made that an immense im- im Immense Immense Im Im- mense bo body of ot high grade Jrade ore had been uncovered In virgin ground on tho the eighth level Tho The find will add perhaps a million million million mil mil- lion dollars to the ore oro r reserves of or the tho property and ma may run well above that figure I |