Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-10-24 | Page 20 | Oil Boom for West Wyoming is Predicted

lOL OIL BOOM FOR FR WEST EST WYOMING IS PREDICTED I It t I Purchase Made of Land and I II I Lease Holdings in Big Piney and Fossil Fossi Special Dispatch CASPER CASPER Wyo Oct 24 interest l. Interest among oilmen generally Is Increasing In Inthe inthe the th Lincoln county fields felds j A number of or good purchases of ot land and lease holdings In tile the tle Big Piney and Fossil fields felds recently havo have been made and it I Is la freely predicted that tat western I Wyoming will wi experience a genuine oil 01 boom with te to opening of ot the new year The second well wel of ot the Lincoln-Idaho Lincoln Oil 01 company compan drilling In the tho Dry PIney field high up uv on the Great Divide Divide- DIvie slope hit a sand at nt feet teet and a u gusher her re resulted reo re- suited suied that flowed owed Intermittently for several several sev sev- eral hours hours This field eld because of ot its Is great eat from any town is seldom in the news and but little attention has been paid to It I since the first well wel was drilled dried In nearly a a. year ear ago However the new strike appears to have found another sand Band and at a much shallower depth or else elso the structure rises sharply to permit of ot the finding of ot the same sand at the above depth The first well drilled by the tho firm found the pay around dried 1500 feet teet This is la some of ot the finest oil 01 the Northwest North North- west vest can show The new strike of ot the Ohio Oil 01 company company com corn pany in the Rock River field feld that started off oft at barrels last week is II still sti makIng making mak mak- ing close to that figure and Is the best well wel In the field feld so far tar Southeast of ot Rock Stock River in the Big Hollow field the work ls l's I. I progressing but the field eld Is quiet The well wel of ot tho the Big Hollow DrIlling DrillIng Drill Drill- Dri- Dri Ing syndicate Is being watched closely cosely as It Is expected to tell tel the tale In this district because of ot the superior location