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Show OGDEN PETROLEUM COSCREW SPENDS IAS HERE Christmas fever hit the hard-working crew of the Ogden Petroleum company com-pany Sunday night and the whole bunch arrived in Ogden to spend the Yuletide with their families. The men reported great activity in the field and were pretty well puffed up by the nt-I nt-I tention that has been shown them 'by I representatives of the big eastern oil outfits like the Ohio, U. S. Petroleum, Funk & Bair vand other largo cor porations working in the same basin. The Ogden Petroleum is recognized as the llvost outfit in the field, it having been only a little over two months ago that their officials first saw the Lost Soldier oil basin and in that time the company has been successfully organized, organ-ized, drilling machinery placed on the ground, houses built, casing bought, water well secured and actual drilling J operations commenced for oil. All t the district is enthused over projects, j says Ado Farr, transportation man- j ager, and the indications are that we will be working in oil before the middle mid-dle of January, and that we will get a shallow well. Our Mr. Jones has had many flattering offers to lead the drill outfits of other companies and is conceded con-ceded as good or better than any head driller in the field. There is also much coal In the district. dis-trict. We have our choico of burning oil or coal, but the roads are better to the coal veins, so we are using coal at $2.50 a ton. That's the only thing in the country which is cheap, though all other commodities being way up. Says' Big Oil Companies Hog Basin.! Continuing, Mr. Farr said that a big boom was on in the basin now and would be larger, and that more activity activ-ity would be at Rawlins than at Casper' if it wore not for the fact that the large oil companies above named have secured nearly all the land exceptthat segregated by the government. The big fellows move quietly; they bring in a well without any publicity and then start a new one just a cold-blooded business proposition, just as though a million or two more dollars today is iust a more trifle. |