Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1917, Page 3

—~ | SHORT OIL ITEMS CENTRAL WYOMING'S ACTIVE FIELDS Speculation in Oil C./L. Wallace and L. E. Wallace, representing producing interests of | i, GLEANED FROM | gressing without mishap during the past few weeks and they are expected to report something before very long. five states and who reside in Cali- | Other companies drilling on the same fornia, have been spending several ;Come, including the Selish and the weeks inspecting the oil fields of Wyo- ming with a view to making purchase fer Operating purposes and were re cently compelled to abandon their ca on account of bad roads after trips to ‘Senter Oil ccmpanies, have good rea- |sons for being confident of big things ;8S reports on the Pilot Butte Dome by : noted geologists are very flattering. Manager Nate Wilson, of the Tyn Basin and Thermopolis. dad-Wyoming Oil and Gas company, Speculative interests are not con- «pment of local fields, according to Mr. Wallace, who ations in some instances are higher than for proven land in states where ernde vil commands a better rrice than in Wyoming. However, he is de- cidedly interested in the development that the syndicate which he repr will be listed among the preducing nts concerns of this section at some fu ture date , Steel Plate in Merritt Well ‘ The Merritt wells are making fairly ood progress toward the lower sands cf Big Muddy, altho it is reported that work on the hole on Section 9 hus again been retarded by the lodging of steel plate in the hole. It is ne - ary to drill it to pieces before active} reports his compa ductive to securing the ea:liest devel- ed in on See. § ernment Draw section this week, R erts that val :-|C- templating drilling on Sec. : s having spud in the Gov Heslep doing the drilling The tockholders of the company a son- The third well on Sage Cree ing drilled by the Ohio Oil company, was shot the latter part of the week of Wyoming fields and it is possible |2t @ depth of 715 feet . ported to be 75 feet of oil in the hole. Ins hooting the first well the casing was shot out and the second well j said to be a 15 or 20 barrel well and there is r They wave now moved the rig and are drill ng the fourth well. Joint Committee to Establish Standards for Making of Butter work can be resumed. The well is the | Ry the United Press ame that was delayed thru the burn-| “CHICAGO, June 12—Just ho ing of the derrick two weeks ago /much butter fat and mo shoul! Interest in Merritt and Midwest be in genuine country butter will be stock is active, due to the fact that|decided at the Hotel Sherman either the wells are fast nearing the 9 |today or tomorrow. The question will sunds. Reports of strikes are now) |e decided by the Joint Committee on expected daily. Earnings Boost Midwest Shares Midwest Refining took an upward t leap of $3 on a share on the an-| nouncement that earnings for the | repres month of May were in excess of any}, ever made by the company. Ie ments regarding these earnings were | { published in the Wall Street as follows: Sherman ~ourral) Food and Drug Officials, \ciding the |Cefinitions and Standards which has asked the public to call at the Hotel and express their views > he matter. The “joint committee’ consists of atives of the U. S. Depart- nent of Agriculture, the Association »f Official Agricultural Chemists, he Association of American Dairy, Besides di- fate of butter the commit “Net earnings of the Midwest Re-|tee will also conduct hearings on ter ining company were in ex $1,000,000 in May. This is the best showing ever made by the company, which has been in business only three years. This showing will be bett-red in succeeding months, judgin: from the rate thut new extensions to .« + ing capacitv are being complete “The Midwest refineri ure hand- -ing mcre than 30,000 barrels of oil a day and by the end of year tty vill er 50,000 barrels tay. The thre r record of the Midwest company in building up one of the big- rest independent achievement in the cil refining business in recent yea:s Its growth was hastened by the rapid development of the oil fields of Wy - ming, which, because of the high gas line content of their oil, nr neces Laramie Starts claring that light district in Cheyenne is causing m he cf this influx of wmen is demoralizing, ss_ Of tative standards for milk and milk rroducts, Drive to Banish Segregated District from the City LARAMIE, Wyo., 12—De of the red June the closing of that city the subsequent inmates and that to come resul the Laramie newspapers, claiming +o! be backed by a well-defined movement of the “better element” of L mie, | have launched an editorial attack up- sary to help meet the gasoline situx.'on Laramie’s segregated district with tion “tu Two Companies Chartered | “The Triangle Oil and Gas Compa filed articles of incorporation with} state yesterday. Tne 90,000 and the dir- cetors are J. R. McMinn, Robert A.| Hocker and M. S. Reynolds of Kem-| merer. | The Boston Petroleum company, | capitalized at $50,000, also was in | corporated. The directors are E!- mer Merritt, L. A. Merritt and J. T.) Macey. Cheyenne is named as the | principal place of business. Merger Is Held Up ‘ed announced intention of clesing it. | > attack already hi aroused | widespread interest and ral meet-| ings, it is said, may called soon —_ Fourteen Christians Are Numbered Among ° | Nipponese Lawmakers I.y the United Press TOKIO, June 12—Fourteen of the 581 members of Japan’s newly elect- House of Representatives a:e} Christians. This is an increase over the number in the last Diet. The num In a telegram received by Otis & |ber includes Saburo Shinada, former Co, it was announced the Metropolitan Petroleum Corpora- tion to the Island Oil & Transport company, which was set for June 23. had been postponed until June 25, inj Richmond, Va. Until this case is set- tled there can be no merger of the two corporations, Oil in Fremont County The Reserve Oil company this week moved a star drilling rig and all othcr necessary tools and camp supplies to their holdings in the Dry Creek sec- tion. Fremont people generally have much faith in Dry Creek and the re- sult of operations will be anxiously awaited. The small refinery on the property of the Hall Oil company in the Pilot Butte ‘fiéld, which was destroyed cy fire some time ago, has been repaired during the past week and is again in operation. Drilling in the Hall Oi: company’s deep well has been pro- that the president of the House, who has beei hearing of the injunction case brought |a member to prevent the sale of the assets o |since its organization. of this Four of the Chrisians won their seats for the firsi time to the recent election. “TRENCH TALES 1 t 0 LONDON, June 12—An instance o. German “Kaiser hatred” was describ- ed by a wounded engineer. “In a house in one of the villages we captured a few days ago, that had evidently been some kind of a head- quarters, here was a large picture of the Kaiser on the wall. Several Ger- man prisoners were brought in the house. One of them on seeing the Kaiser’s picture spat on it. We asked him why ‘he spat on the picture, and if he was a Saxon. “No Englishman,” he replied, “I’m a Prussian, but I’m fed up, and he’s the devil who started this.” Young Men. OF ONE THING YOU MAY BE SURE: Any suit we make —at any price—will be service-giving, shape-retaining, and satisfactory in every way. The measure of clothes at but on QUALITY. See our fabrics at their best n All work done in our own shop. 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To have would have sed the gates in May 2en disastrous—not only for the present year, but for succecd- ng si The work of years would have been wiped out. may hay al associa iz in these ni these excellent t sball towns if 1@ opportunity pre President Thoma com mitted a rrave error 1 the opinion he dropped with whi-b Regardless of | con are laying plans now to grab to solv ue arted th > well know eastern base » plead-| ed with Hickey endanger the s in the fairness of ball g: socia tion by making one decisions. Hickey maintained it was to cit expenses, but one conservative umpire a veteran in the harness, recently de- clared that economy practiced along man handle al! |this line is the worst sort “It was impossible,” he said, “fo one man to get all over the field. Im- agine a double play, one man out ar} second base and the other at the home plate. It’s killing for a man to plung all over the field in a fre test. Hickey should have taken other step.” Hickey’s faint heart is winning a it deal of criticism in the east. His statements have bee imistie in If the yn deems stop it is safe to say the de- ome pe the extreme. t wise to claration of this fact will influence maller organizations to take HAGENS & STAN LAWYERS Mokler Building e-hitting con- | ‘HERBERT HOOVER, FOOD By the United Press SALEM, Oregon, June 12 lem—a good office boy at that. Dr. J. W. Minthorn, head of the company. he was worth more uncle thought Or. Minthorn didn’t Hoover wandering south into California President Wilson announced that this same Bert Hoover, ex-office boy, s to be “ood dictator” of a nation of a hundred million. Sut fornia to go back Ho entered ford Unive course the sc An water Arizona the without d plac mines water 1ob much The mine owner s r problem, T er. 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