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OIL STOCKS HOLD OWN DESPITE DISTURBING INFLUENCE IN MART Trading Shows Spinted Revival 2 Revival as Result of New De-| velopments and Moderate Reaction from Slump of Past Year Is Setting In The oil stocks of the different oil companies operating in Wyoming fields are experiencing a period of high levels in spite of the deadening effect of the Liberty loan, the coming Red Cross drive and other causes that are putting a damper upon other Issues. This speaks well for the! oil operators of the state and their estimation of the future. The, > 5 Today’s Quotations || Fe IE AS Soe EER Ss 6 public is seemingly certain that Wyoming stocks are a safe bet and are taking them on while attending to the larger issues also. Since the flurry that was on last winter and Stock Bid ». | the year ry the chien dee, Allen Gilec <== 25 82. | rices in almost every ca! > ms = has reacted within the past few American 2008 01 weeks and a gradual rise in prices Bessemer --_--~ -05 .O7 may_now be looked for. Boston Wyo. --= .20 The large companies are of course Black. Bear 02 the first to feel the inffmx and this| Big Indian ase 18 was shown in the recent rise-of Mid-| Big. Five. ._ 013 west and kindred shares. Others of |Columbine — # 10 the smaller firms are bound to follow| Cente --~_~_. 008 and already the Wyokans Oil com-|/Cons. Royalty —- .67 pany stock is hard, to find, altho a Elkhorn - 74 year ago it was almost a drug ‘on the | E. T. Willia: "4 2.40 market. This firm thru, the able | Glenrock Oil ~~~ 3.37 management of Leon J. Phillipot has |Helca-Wyo. -- 30% traveled from a nominal security to | Jupiter -- 2 02 one of the best buys on the Wyom-/Glenhurst - 07 ing stock boards today. Kinney 228 :-. .b7 Because of the recent strike of the Merritt 24.50 Picardy in Sale Creek, which makes|Kinney - =i 60 it seem that this firm nas a good Midwest com. -- 1.08 chance of finding a shale oil field be-| Midwest Pfd. --- 1.12 sides their regular chances in the Midwest Refining 126.00 sands, the Picardy stock is also ex-| Midway ------- 015 pected to show a rise soon. Should Northwest - 50 the well now drilling at Salt Creek|Out West ----_- 014 find a producing formation in the Republic Pet. -- 02 Wall Creeks, this stock will likely hit Shiloh ~-----.- 003 the high places. | United Pete. -_- -06 ao | Riverton Re. 10 |Shiloh 01 HEROICS ARE NO PART = unease ' | Wyo. Blackfoot 008 -0028 } Western Ex. ~-- 60 -65 OF THE GAS OFFICERS esate 3,38 | Young aes -20 inited Pres: oR, ay OST AE EY TO DRILL AT MONEEA «—The gas officer is one man in the | American army who has 0 idea of romantic ,heroism. . Every one has ‘een congratulating the chaps who jerked their gas masks off to do dif- ficult jobs when the boches were! heaving gas over in volumes, and the | French awarded several boys the Croix de Guerre” for their spunk. Now comes the gas officer, taking all the joy out of being a hero in a gas attack. He says men who take eff gas masks because they cannot| do their work with them ought to} be court martialed jnstead of croix| sand and expect to get the heavy oil | de guerred. The men will have to! that formation usually produces. learn to work and fight in their) The Ohio Oil_company drilled a well masks, he says. 5 |in the Dutton basin about a year The gas officer hands it to the|ago, but got nothing except hot water. boys who work right thru with their) As the Embar only lies about 1,200 Sbpaeed a Bec aie gga feeb 38 ae Dutton en id Castle of the hospitals. anyone gets arden Oil company will drill with | ere of sae, ne eg Get . oe rig instead of a standard | at man ought to lie right dow errick take care of himself, which doesn’t sound brave or heroic at all. It sounds like quitting, the doughboys The Castle Foray Oil company is} starting a rig in the Dutton Basin} rountry, south of Moneta. This firm | is managed by Sumes Rousch who is/ in the field looking after the moving} of the machinery to the Dutton dome now. The Castle Garden Oil company is going to drill a well to the Embar At A necessity is what we' all need— pay. jsity. Harris, phone 271J. But the gas officer points aut that| = the man who quits and takes care| HELP FRENCH SISTERS of himself gets over his gassing in| Socinl welfare huts have been es- three or four hours, and can go back| tablished in France by the Y, W. jnto service again, whereas the chap! C. A. workers. who sticks it out to the last falls ex- hausted and needs a lot of hospital treatment before he is good f6F work | again. This is how the gas officer} figures the man who quits is a hero. | He says the boches would like to have doughboys stay in the gas until they get whiffed good, and move around a lot until it is all thru their | bodies, for that puts a doughboy out | of commission. { Of course; the gas officer, doesn’t ‘want anyone to be a quitter when he | has -an important post..to hold, for he says of the doughboys use their masks quickly and correctly, the boches haven’t any gas that will bother eprigualy. COUGHS AND COLDS (© QUICKY RELIEVED, Dr. King’s New Discovery used | since Grant was President _ Get a bottle today It used to look di ugly, “bot 4 ae coats of It did it for your grandma, for} your father. For fifty years this} well-known cough and cold remedy has kept ‘an evergrowing army sy | friends, young and old. For half a century druggists every- where have sold it. Put a bottle in your mediciné cabinet. You may need | it in a hurry. Sold by. druggists everywhere.— Adv. Hard-Drying FLOOR PAINT amade it look like another sad And’ it’s 50 ‘easy to bright and clean. e recommend Harp Dnvixo Fuoor Pawr for all floors where a solid color is desired, ‘Very durable and Sanitary. Colors ‘to ‘suit your taste ask for color card, Bowels Acting Properly? They ought to, for constipation makes the body retain-waste matters | and impurities that undermine the! health and play havoc with the entire | system. Dr. King’s New, Life Pills are reliable and mild in action. All! druggists.—Ady. | HOLMES HDW Co. Phone'601 ; |running a survey to Manville. from jof the oil. 2) drilling close to the, Altmetal Weatherstrip is the ae PIPELINE. FOR ‘> pes | Jhio Strike, Characterized ‘a as One| of Best in State, Starts Rush | to the Field i The big well of the Ghio Oil com- pany at Lusk is still keeping up to its reputation. Lusk and Mancvil'e| are both experiencing booms and hotel accommodations are hard to find in |either town. ‘The new Silver Cliff Inn | is to open'teday and already its rooms jare all booked ahead. |. Manville is coming along fast. The} jtown has an excellent road to the field, land it is a much shorter haul than} {from Lusk so Manville is getting a} large share of the excitement. The latest. .reports- from , the: Ww!!! state that the coulee that was dam-| med to form a storage for the oil, is} {fast filling up with the crude «nd | from the way the well is producing |the coulee will be full of oil inside of a month. r Surveyors, said to be employed by the Illinois Pipeline company, were the field and it is thot that this com- |pany wili Soor start construction on a pipeline to the railroad to take care MANVILLE SOON <2 SFT Ts 4 West on Verge of Greatest Boom Country Hai Ever Known, ' ‘Says! Denver Journal My According to the Daily Mihing and| Financial World, of Denver, the west is on the verge of éne' of the’ great- | est ‘6ilbooms the country has ever known, ‘and Wyoming’ is ‘té come “in for her share of the eginecee? ‘The World says: “We aré%on the verge of one of the greatest oi] booms the country |has ever ‘seen. Wyoming is one of the statés that has ‘already felt" the |effect of the world demand for oif, |and well balanced companies operat- ‘ing.in the new fields of that state are daily méeting with success. _Of course there are some dusters and water holes drilled in, but taken as 6 whole, fine. sugcess has crowned the work, that. has ber. done., After oil 3s struck ‘the. cost. of operating. 9 coh- pany is low, while the market for the product is ynlimited, Rapidly | expand- ing. use of internal, combustion en- gines, on Jand and sea and in ie air will keep, supplies. of gaspline down, SHOSHONI WELLS NEAR North of Shoshoni the Northern | Wyoming Oil company and the In- diana Oil and Gas\company are both spay sands and the town itself jis. feeling,the effects of a small boom as. the oil, men are taking that point as.a.place to stop off and get into the Maverick Springs and other fields adjacent. The Northern Wyoming expects to get the pay within a week or so now after drilling.all summer. They have j had some bad-luck that held them | up for sometime but. the work is now | going smoothly and no further trouble is eRe a OE: aa for. CO-OPERATIVE. GHINGES <> LOSKTION OF OL: Al | The Wyoming Reve Oil |company is moving. its rig from the | old location near the railroad to quite |a distance back in the country,to the south. The Weaver. Rig. Biulding company has .charge,of the work and |have the rig down and partly moved. | The new location will).be | situated }more in the center,of the Richards field than was the old;ene and geo- logically is a better spot than the PAY SAND, 1S BELIEF}: while Kerosene, which has in recent years, been somewhat of: a drug on the ‘market, is coming into_its own rapidly.for heating purposes _ “A-solid foundation underlies the market for petroleum shares. In war or peace the oil shares will continue to,hold the attention of shrewd invest- ors. -In the big Eastern markets there has. been a, burst of, enthusiasm, for shares of Mexican Petroleum, Texas Oil, Midwest Refining, and, stocks of this class, while the, man. with a few hundred di to invest. has.. care- fully selected, good prospect. shares of companies actually drilling in,the newer. fields, as. he knows that. .the drilling in -of-a good weil will put the company in line to share in the great prosperity that: « continues to rail about the 1s same esas ss - INTEREST CENTERED CENTERED It i ~ POWQER RIVER RESULT At Powder River the Ohio Co. “kg got. thru ‘with its fishing job in the wellynow drilling south of the station and is drilling again. They expect to reach the pay soon. . This well will bear watebing ‘among the oil men, af it is located by one of the best geologists in the State, and indications from, other wells. near Powder, River,show that. there is a pool of,,oil somewhere Bround “2 There have Been several, e at- tempts made_ to reach pay at Powder River, but those have failed former eapcation: “THE HENNING | BETTER SER’ sane TSCIVE US The new Oil F. W. D. | ‘ NOW OPEN Fi “i errr SERVICE. ? At Popalat Prices Merchants’ Lunch, 65 cents Five-Course Turkey Dinner every Sunday from 12:00 to 230 p. m. Now hs the tifne to Buy Trsckal ‘invites a large haulin business: ©“ We have for Immediate Delivery Pierce Arrow, Service, Stewart and Call and Investigate Our Truck Ptoposition. Shockley Service Sales Corp. so far. The well of the coed will A TRIAL! Schulte Hardware ‘company has jnst received a carload of, Cole Hot Blast and Great Western Heaters. It will be to your interest to look these over. before purchasing. . 10-15-6t ens ett a ‘Liberty Bonds wanted. Highest cash ‘price paid... Room 4, Kimball Building. Security Loan Co, -phone 702. to- 12-t£ ee 8 SES * Expenses of the dry forces in Wyo- ming have been high,.and many have) not-had an_opportunity to give toward these expenses. We will give all a chance todo so by sending a sabscrip- tion as soon possible to the County ‘Treasurer of the Central Anti-Saloon committee. id to. Mrs, M, Ella But-| roghsdrmorel SAFE, a REMEDY. _ ‘: | “BRINGS SURE RELIEF i j Fér 200 years GOLD SSERDAL | Haarlem on ae 55 tad +. a Haarlem Oil hhs enabled’ suffering is aes pTekethyee or fou, 3 > g® il soaks huinanity to withstand attacks Ribs 8 a aoc iddney, liver, “bladder and stomach neys and ate oe out the poisons. New tfoubles and all diseases‘ connected |life and health: will’ surely 01) with the urinary ‘organs, and to build / When your »normal vigor has ber: up and restore to health organs weak- | restored continue treatment f.. si These most import-|while to’ keep yourself in: cond: n be watched, because |and prevent a return.of the dis they filter and purify the blood; un-/ Don’t wait until you are incap. less they do their work you ‘are |of fighting. . Start taking Go doomed. MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules ‘Weariness, sleeplessness, “nervous- day. ,;, Your. druggist will cheer: ness, despondency, backache, stom-) refund your,,money, if you are ach-trouble, pains jn the loins and |satisfied with results, ut be cure lower abdomen, gravel, difficulty|to get the_original imported Goi) when urinating, rheumatism, sciatica | MEDAL. and accept.no substitui.. and lumbago all warn you of trouble |In three sizes. Sealed packages. \{ with your kidneys. GOLD MEDAL |all drug stores.—Adv. 5. N., retired, who is again” ‘on Fh yet 18%, or call st 14F cs ive duty ‘with the bureau of navi- GEGLOGICAL WORK appreciated. It takes money for a| gation, born at” Lancaster, Pa., .69 Maps and Blue Prints, Surveying big fight. ,, 10-16-8t| years.ago today. . - 4 otal) Wyoming Map ind Blue’ Print Co, Today’s Birthdays - Thomas. Fo: e Ryan, eminent capitalist; now. head of the U. S. Air- craft Production Board, born in Nel- son county, Va,,. 67 yeats ago today. ‘Crude Oit Testing | a Specialty P. O. Box 325.’ Rm. 10, over Lyric » W: | Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States, born at Water- town, N. Y_, 54 years ago today. Robert Alexander, one of the oat reazor-generals of the United) State: Army. born in Maryland, 38 pokey ago today. Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoptkk: pay director of the United States Navy, barn in Towa 42 years ago_to- day _. a Admiral Willie A. Marsholi. .. Ear] .of Selborne,..celebrated. 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