Show COLD FAILS T TO STOP WORK IN WEST WYOMING i Much Activity Is Reported in Big Piney ney Field in I Lincoln County 1 The Tue fact tact that even during the prevailing prevail prevail- preval- preval I ing Ing cold weather in western Wyoming 1 there is increasing activity in the oil oilfields 01 fields is considered a positive evidence I that that the long expected boom in in that section sec sec- tion of ot the Prairies s state ac according see see-I to rank Prank MacVaugh president of ot the Big Dig I Piney Oil 01 and Refining company who I has Just returned from the Big Piney tiney district after completing arrangements for tor forthe forthe the inauguration of ot work on n the company's company's com corn pany's first well Mr MacVaugh stated a t that a delay e of two or three u weeks e had been tn ac ace caused a by byroads byroads roads made Impassable for tor heavy trucks by the melting of ot heavy falls faUs of ot snow early eary last month The roads now are fro frozen froien en and In splendid condition and various various various va va- va- va rious companies are availing themselves of or the opportunity mity of or transporting machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery and various kinds of oC material to the field feld Some of or th the companies plan to Start latt work as soon as the rigs are installed installed in in- in stalled but others Will WU get their rigs on the ground gound and be in readiness for opera opera- opera with the opening of spring It I was stated by Mr 11 MacVaugh that the first well of or the Big Bg Piney OH Oil 01 and andR R Refining company would be in bYthe bYthe by bythe the contractors before the end of oC the present week and he declared that he ha would not be surprised if i the first sand would be struck within three weeks Mr MacVaugh said that on 01 hi his way home he learned In Kemmerer of the completion of the barrel gusher on section 25 25 in the Salt Creek field and which makes males Wyoming a rival of Texas and honors Louisiana fields feldS for oil 01 production ton The new gusher which at first was permitted per per- to flow fow at full force registered register d production in twenty four hours of barrels The well is an offset to one brought in eighteen months ago with wih an initial production of barrels The well is still yielding In excess of barrels barrels bar bar- wel a day sti Tho The V Wyoming Associated Oil 01 corporation controlled by the Salt Sal Lake Producers' Producers association owns the tha l leasehold leasehold lease lease- ase- ase hold with the Verner 11 Z Reed estate the ther only wih other e stockholder 0 A 5 per r cent in interest in- in r terest Sf In the h lease is v g by the t Consolidated Con Con- Royalty c company dud and nd it is 4 Claimed the combined revenue from the two big wells wels alone Is sufficient to pay the entire dividend of ot the company |