Show WHY ACTIVITY IN 1 OIL ISE iSON IS IS' ISON ON INCREASE E IN IN- IN WYOMING Extensive Development Under Under Un Un- der Way Between Rawlins and Lost Soldier CASPER Wyo Vo Juno June 26 Oil Oil activity Is on the Increase In the district be between between between be- be tween and the Lost Soldier field and present Indications are arc favorable for or extensive development this season Tho The Midwest Refining company comp has hus leased fourteen full tull sections acres from froni the Union Pacific railroad in what Is known as tho the Separation Flats district district district dis dis- and has commenced drilling a test teston teston teston on section 16 21 16 This well veli wel Is re reported reported reported re- re ported showing some somo gas at a depth of ol only a a. taw few hundred feet teet This group croup of ot leases starts at the southern boundary of ot tho the Lost Soldier government withdrawal withdrawal with with- dra wal and extends several miles mies to the south In checkerboard fashion The Midwest also alo has about ten sections north of ot this district Inside of or the tho withdrawal dome and Ind southeast of ot the Lost Soldier The Ohio Oil 01 company has taken up q everal veral leases In the tho Separation Flats Fats district and Is preparing to drill dri near Soda lake In section 36 36 24 t The Texas company has acquired al almost almost almost al- al most 2000 acres In the district and probably probably probably ably will 1 drill dri Geologists have havo been making some somo new surveys of ot the tho territory north of ot Rawlins recently and havo have revised to a certain extent their previous opinions of ot the dIstrict dis dIs- The escarpment marking what was supposed to be bo one largo large structure with tho the Lost Soldier dome tho the only part that has his so tar far been found productive productive pro pro- has been picked up at nt a location location location loca loca- tion much further south than where hero It ItIs itis Is 15 believed to fade tade out and now It Is beloved be- be loved that there are aro a series of ot folds or small smal domes which may bo ho productive |