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Show PUSHING OIL WORK NEAR EVANSTON, WYO. Tho Uinta oil fields aro being worked work-ed with a determination to make them a successful undertaking, says the Evanston Times. Elmer L. Blake, manager of the International In-ternational Consolidated, is spending largo sums of money and displaying a very large degree of energy in his endeavors to make his properties a paying investment. He has twelve men employed and hard at work, and the plant presents a sceno of activity that is very encouraging to his well-wishers. well-wishers. He is developing and Improving Im-proving his coal mine and he will soon be shipping a fine quality of coal to Evanston. A. J, White, who recently purchased Mr. Atkinson's plant, is drilling energetically en-ergetically and with sanguine hopes of success In "striking oil." W, M. Gibson, manager for the United States Refining & Production company, is, getting the refinery and its machinery Into proper condition ready to start into the active operation opera-tion of refining enrly in the spring, for he believes that the adjoining wells, will by that time be producing I suficient oil to justify starting up the refinery and keep it running permanently. per-manently. The refining company also I Is preparing to lease oil properties and drill wells in an endeavor to increase in-crease production. The oil men arc optimistic and are doing all they can to develop tho oil industry in this part of the state. |