Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-29 | Page 24 | Activity in Fields of Wyoming is Increasing

THE SALT LAKE rE IELE E ACTIVITY IN FIELDS FEDS OF WYOMING IS 0 INCREASING Many Operators Are Installing Installing Install Install- Install Install-I ing Small Skimming Plants at Wells CASPER CASLER Wyo 18 May ay The Th S.-Th Thi annual report report re report re- re port of the Midwest Refining company was made public the past week The of ot othe he the firm show a a. total of which la Is an Increase of about ever oYer list last luti i year The company paid dividends In 1820 1920 amounting to nearly J The west also holds stocks of other firms valued at about Ouge Onge Wyo had bad a a. disastrous fire last lut week that destroyed much of the oil town and the damage is estimated at The village tillage Is mainly constructed of frame buildings and without any organized fire lire department Frank V. V president of f the Producers Pro Pro- and Refiners has promised the city of that natural gas gu will be ready tor for use there this summer from the wells of the company at Sand Draw already has a JI refinery that is la coming along alone fine after a period of depression and with 1 the nearby fields In active operation the city will likely see aee better I times In the near The rho Producers rhe Producers and Refiners has ha sent out notice to its Ila stockholders corporation ot an annual meeting to be held In the of the film fum at room 40 OS Hynds building at Chevene on cn June Jun 2 At this meeting the questions of Increasing the capital stock of the company by shares chares and also alao to change all the stock of the Iron from its present par pa of dUO 10 to company compan 50 50 per share will be considered de T The meeting will aleo 10 elect eleven directors for the comIng com cern ing year and review the general business of the firm for tor the past season The row rew well of the Salt Creek ConsolIdated Consol Conceit that found a fissure about 1400 feet down In section 40 31 is still gushing oil with no sign of abatement The well Is estimated us as making I day The high wind Ird has spread barrels the oh oil per far tar out nut over the country and well up on the big cliff that forms the Sh Shannon escarpment escarp escarp- ment In that part of the field The well has not been placed under control field and and the workers have named flamed it the Crazy Woman from Its eccentric behavior The Evans OH Oil corporation has hac been granted a permit from th th government to operate upon several sections of land In the southern part art of the field and the company expects to start work In the near neaP future now new that lIat the he he red tape has been done away with situ The holdings of this firm aro are along the southern withdrawal boundary bound bound- ary anc and below the R B. T T. T Williams VI leases I where the nearest production Is located The d f permits ml mw were e granted upon o 1320 2 acres and the firm la is also taking I over v several e I tracts of patented lands lI in that that part of the field The Ne New York OH company has I received notices of tho the granting of gov gov- p permits upon two valuable tracts I in the field I A rumor was received In Casper yester ester day that a 8 firm made up of women and known as the Women's omen National Oil and Development company had found a how how- howIng Ing of oil in a II well about forty-five forty miles north of f Douglas Wyo Thes couts are looking into the matter now and a report will reset reach P CAn n n- n nay A. A Another attempt lit p-i-lit Is to be be made this i summer sum sum- m-I m mer to drill a well ell on the Coal Creek dome north of ot Glenrock This structure la is I I well defined and is thought to contain oil but It Is also considered ed so deep that all nil of the larger I companies have passed It up op A recent attempt to show the structure as being worth per acre and containIng contain contain- ing log man many producing wells well has given that whole territory a black eye and the oilmen are not giving the rumors of the coming drilling rations op-rations much consideration I Six miles north of the discovery well at Hardin Mont the Western Vestern le is startIng start start- Ing tog a IL test that f It proves up as expected expect expect- ed will III show the he Hardin field to cover considerable territory The second well as I I about 1000 1500 feet deep and the fishing job that delayed P. P e operations t n f for a time Is I cleared up op and out of the he heay way ay i il One rc result of the tho present situation is the I l consideration on en the r art Dart of many oil op 01 op- op 0 of installing small skimming plants I and refineries to take care enre of their own I production In the Osage field the Upton i Osage Oil company has started the erection I of a small refinery In the field on their 1 holdings This plant will b b used to skim off oft the lighter products of the oil 01 from I the lease and the heavier parts will be sold I Ito to the othern earby operators for fuel oil This plant will be placed on section see see- I tion 20 20 20 63 46 and the example of the Upton O Orage age is expected to be followed a little later by several other small firms who hope I to market the gasoline in their Immediate vicinity vicinity Oil Oil and Gas Journal