Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-14 | Page 8 | Many Locations in New Oil District

MANY LOCATIONS IN NEW OIL DISTRICTj CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 18. The) Alkali Butte Section, a few- miles east of Lander is attracting the attention of oil men and during the past week claims covering more than 6000 at res Of this section have been filed at the Lander land office. The decision of the district court of Natrona county awarding Frank G. Curtis a commission of $11,479 for sp11- ing the property of the Hjortfa Oil company has been confirmed by the Wj oniinc supreme court. The recent report that the deep well which the Atkinson xiros. company Is I sinking on section 16. In the Big Mud dj field, had penetrated the Wall cieek sand is denied. The tools have be.-n lost at a depth of 2860 feet, it Ib stated, and mav not be recovered fori several weeks The well is expected to reach thp Wall creek sand at about! 3200 feel . The Jupiter I il rompanv's well in I the Powder river field has run into water at 1 H 1 6 feel and the borp now I is filled to wiihin a fev hundred feet of the top H. L. Hahn. representing a Sheridan, Wyo syndicate, announces that this Syndicate will resume di iiimu within a i few weeks with a rig which was set up U".u Lovell last fail The El Basin Refining and Producing Produc-ing company has selected Greybuil as the location of a refinery which it will . erect this year, the first four-still unit of which will cost $i(Mi,oou. The com- : pany has placed an order for $42,000 worth of material with the William j Graver Tank works of Fast Chicago The roltec Oil and lias company j has let a contract to C. O. Dean to 'drill two wells near Toltec, in northern north-ern Albany county. The contract calls I for 4000-foot wells, if it be necessary j to drill thai deep in prospecting the field. The Laramie Oil Development com- pany is receiving casing and other 'supplies preliminary to th resumption j of drilling in ihe Big Hollow field of j the Laramie plains.