| Show I Five Fave Steel Rigs Being eing Shipped in i to F Further r Develop the Harr Hamilton 1 lt ll Dome I. I h Th That quality ty as as well as as quantity q Y characterizes zes petroleum from the U the t Craig oil field is is' is shown by tests of oil taken from the tho Ham Hamilton n well wall of the Texas Production company and the Transcontinental Oil cO company which was was brought h i in at r feet ton t on January 15 A analysis made bythe by bythe bythe the the Transcontinental b company company Lit LitUs at Its Us r refineries fineries at at Boynton Okla la showed the g gravity to life ii which is the highest em of of anything found in Colorado and perhaps anywhere inthis inthis in inthis this part of the cou country says tl tha Craig Empire This sort sort- 0 of of crude oil always brings a premium of c approximately approximately ap ap- proximately 50 per cent The full result of the analysis made by the Tr Transcontinental here follows Gravity Be gasoline 37 per percent percent percent cent kerosene 15 per pel cent gas oil oU suitable for cracking vel per cent wax distillate 17 per cent cylinder stock 11 per cent There will be he little doing at the new well until about March 1 Tanks to hold barrels have been ordered from the east and will vill be erected after arrival Then the tanks will be filled and If the well wen Is not flowing too freely it will be drilled still sUB farther into the Dakota sand which at present I Ihas has been penetrated ted only one foot As the Dakota sand at this point is approximately feet thick there Is every reason to expect an ImmensE Immense immens Im im- mense mens reservoir of this high grade oil oU Many experienced oil men are predicting that when drilled in this will make at least a barrel barr flowing well Five ste steel l rigs are being s shipped In for use in further development of the Hamilton dome by the T Texas Production company Steel rigs ar are moved with comparative ease and at minimum expense from one Site to another I so so It appears appears certain t that at the Texas Texa p people ople will will give ive their ho holdings dings dings' a thorough prospecting Meanwhile oil scouts from all aU parts of or the country are flocking to Craig attracted by the marvelous wildcat well that promises to become become become be be- come come one of the worlds world's le leading pro pro I I S. S F. F Eshelman driller r who struck shale oil in the H Hamilton well arid and now o interested wIth with local local local I men meni in l the the Hinl Salt Hamilton t Salt n-Salt Cr Creek k Oil company came In last Wednesday A. A J. J Cunningham of the Richmond P Petroleum tr company company was In yin last I week This company put d down wn three holes hol holes s in in the Wilson creek country six six years ears ago ago abandoning the quest when when wat water r was str struck at feet in the last Fred W. W Kampf of the Producers rs Refiners Is endeavoring ing t to secure secure acreage In to Inthis inthis this vicinity He was here last summer summer summer sum sum- mer with a corps coti corps s of geologists and nd but they ero suddenly Y ailed back to Jasper Gasper as as h head aa m ri men g n of f the company arrived ion con con elusion lusion that the Craig field Craig fi field id w 0 v lever leyer amount t to anything C. C q I f. f i Coates Coats o of ot the tho the W hit ef I t Company n of Kansas an as peI t 1 la a lin in Craig s. s l. l studying the situation t W m sey an Oklahoma J ope operator p at r fc is s t tying in u up considerable le acreage age l and d eXP expect expects ci i ito to drilling in in the ahe early spring Roy I Hall all t. t J tho the Gypsy Oil on concern of an 3 and Ok Oklahoma spent last week week hO hon 9 in v the interest of oJ his firm k t J J JH JIl H. H Parker f an anI I operator in in the i r po I t field north north of of Rawlins is in Craig arranging g to o drill on n Big g gulch ul leases he acquired fired last fall fall J J. J E Et i of the Midwest est st has b been be e F Fest i spending a fortnight Jn In n Cr Craig aig r ranging for the reception of three t. t drilling outfits ti which v are are to toy be t 16 o- o at once Th The Tho M g comp company company ri f r. is now in the astl buying machinery for use on the f. f lies Iles ranch and there are doubtless gs many others arranging t to start d drillIng drilling drill drill- Ing operation in various s sections ori of Moffat county just as soon as weather Reather Reath- Reath eath er conditions pe permit aMany a Many Moffat county landowners have haye during the past week sold sold interest in interest in- in r terest In the royalty they exp expect t to receive from oil during the next year Several of these checks runN i t well into the thousands thousands and in ev every y case the seller seUer has retained at least half of his royalty Interest ConN Con Con 1 4 eluding a splendid story of oth r. r the I rV N w cent oil find here the Na National nai- nai Petroleum Pe- Pe News says r The territory is somewhat Isolated isolated isolated iso Iso- and the most feasible route for forgetting Q getting the oil out seems to be by pipe line Une northward to the Un Union on Pacific and tank car shipments from fromi i some soma om point near Ra l Rawlins ns s rf about 1 miles miles The Denver Salt I Lake Lale railway so-called so Moffat r road road- has Craig Crai as western terminus This 11 is a standard rd guage road a and d with l t r the completion of the Moffat tunnel wi will willbe be abl able t to handle a great deal more ore traffic Some oi oil may a beed be i ed Via Denver over this this' road of the ot fl refinery of oC the Texas co at ht t Casper j of 4 M There is is also the possibility that i. i the Union Pacific may build a a line I from the the north to to Craig and and it is reported that t rights of pie men nien a are e. e alre already already ly at nt work wort A big big volume of of bu business siness in moving g machinery as aswell we well l as crude crude- oil crude oil will result Prom from r this strike strike- as tile the the discovery t that at the the a Dakota sandstone is productive on ondie the die Western slope of ot the Continental divide wall l lead ad to extensive e c drilling ill n throughout t tn n northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah h |
