Show THREE NE NEW WELLS INELLS ARE ARE COMPLETED L IN ONE DAYI DAY r I Merritt Oil Corporation n nt t Performs Perform Big Feat in inV in V j. j Big Muddy Fiel Field C t 1 I CASPER Wyo Aug Jg 2 The The Big Muddy field has lIas performed Its bit again with three completions by the Merritt Oil corporation Oration In one day Two of ot these Veils wells ells are are in in Inthe the Wall Creek sand and the third Is In a stray sand which Is remarkably re prolific flowing at the rate of ot seventy five barrels an hour with the thet theto S t to tools ls only a foot In the pay sand Neither of ot the two deep wells has been beenS S S drilled In yet the tools merely touching the sand Both of ot them are on the Barber Barber Barber Bar Bar- ber lease and Judging from past Performances perform performances m mances In this tract which Is Js located In ir section 3 3 both should prove to be good producers They will be drilled in as asS S speedily as possible S The third well which Is located on the Glenrock Sheep company lease tease be began began began be- be gan flowing at a rate which if It if continued continued con con- would make it the best well Inthe inthe in inthe the field The stray sand where the oil was found Is unusually prolific as has been proved in wells drilled in the same ame neighborhood but usually settles down downin in the field average of ot barrels for deep wells In the watertight districts Its initial production is rated at 1800 barrels a a. day Assuming that the two wells t s sP are dU equal r to the field average a Merritts Merritt's r P production has been increased approximately 1000 barrels a day with every possibility that I the increment will exceed that amount Under such conditions the gross production production production tion of ot the Big Muddy field can be estiS estimated estimated esti esti- S 5 mated at about barrels at the present time Several more wells notably notably notably nota nota- bly two for the Kinney Oil on and Refining company any one for the Elkhorn Oil company com I pany three for the Northwest two for tor forthe forthe the Ohio and two for the Texas compan company company com com- pany pan are approaching the pay sand and with these completed as nearly all of v tb them em will be by September 1 1 the total yield of the field at that time should be nearly barrels a day |