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Show OGDEN PETROLEUWi CO. IS I0W VERY BUS! O. C. Childs, writing from Lost Soldier Sol-dier Oil Bauin, says tho Ogdcn Petro-loum Petro-loum company prospects are aa good or better than any in the district. Old oil heads scratched their heads and wore puzzled when they saw that in less than two months' timo a now company had beon financed and drill machinery on tho ground in active operation. All tho casing necessary for tho first well secured and on the ground. We aro pushing building operations an fast as possible, says Chlldo, as it is sure "some" cold hero below zero overy day. Wo need a garago for our two trucks, a house for our working crew, a ropair snop and an engine room, and, bolieve me, thoy will soon bo up. This zero weather is sure an lncontive to the men to work for comfortable com-fortable quarters and quit living in lonis. Our trucks bavo not got acclimated yet and it take about three hours to get them started in the morning, but at. that, they are saving ua a barrel of money. In the near future they should pay our operating cxpenseB at this end of tho line, doing custom work for some of the other companies. com-panies. It costs $20 a ton to have the auto companies here do your work, so you can see tho advantage of owning a six-ton truck and making a round trip every day. We have secured water and will bo drilling in earnest for oil in a few days. Tho Lost Soldier Oil company, which is located only a little ways from us, lost their drill tho other day, just when they wero expecting ex-pecting to bring in a gusher. Tholr field manager, Mr. Merritt, says it's vory trying, aB ho has promised his company a well beforo Christmas. I hope they do, because it will mean almost al-most a cinch that we get oil If they do. They have been working in oil for nearly a month and wore expecting a gusher in the near future. Jones, our driller, says in ninety j days he will be watering the sago brush with oil. on |