Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-09-20 | Page 9 | Merritt is Drilling 22 Wall Creek Oil Wells

MERRITT IS DRILLING 22 WALL CREEK OL WELS C Company Uncovers 68 Producers Producers Producers Pro Pro- in Wyoming in Past 18 Months Monts Special Dispatch h. h I CASPER CASPER Wyo Sept 20 WIthin Within I eighteen months the Merritt Oil 01 corporation corpora corpora- corpor- corpor tion has uncovered sixty-eight sixty ing wells wels twenty-eight twenty of which are deep sand wells wels and the remainder are In the Shannon sand The company is now en engaged engaged engaged en- en In drilling two twenty-two Walt Wall Wal Creek wells wels several of which will wi be completed within the next net few weeks if I everything goes well wel The Merritt Merrit well on section 9 of ot the Big Ig Muddy field as No 35 35 which encountered the sand on Thursday has been drilled in sixty five f feet teet et and completed at It feet The Th settled production is estimated at barels bards a c day I Wyoming Premier WyomIng a Oil 01 company has brought rought in hl the first well since taking over the holdings of the Warm arm Springs Oil 01 company in Hot Springs county count The production of the new well wel is of the same character of oil 01 as other Warm Var Springs productions a a heavy black oil oi bearing nearly e t 45 per tent asphalt ha Drilling has been resumed on the use I Glenhurst Wyoming Oil Oi company's we Il in the Big Bis Muddy field feld This Thisel well el Is now noly weI feet deep The company holds 2000 acres cres in the Big Bg Muddy Salt Sal Creek Cole Creek and Table Mountain fields felds Jupiter OU Oil company has one well drill wel ing in the Big Bg Muddy field feld and two on the Salt Creek Creak Crek pro property pert AU All three are being drilled on a SO GO-SO 50 10 basis They are aren on fields 1 n ld practically r arid and will proven doubtless g acreage cr soon r bring bring- in n both ot In some good gOd Jupiter during the winter and spring months experienced experienced a great gret deal of trouble with Us its HI wih drilling but it Is believed these have now been overcome and that its present arrangements will wi result in early pro pro-