Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 4

i CASPER WILL GO AFTER FAR EAST TRADE IN LUBRICANTS, DECLARES HIGH AUTHORITY IN REFINING CO. Completion of Addition to the Midwest Plant to Pave Way to Commercial Supremacy in New Line and Resultant Prosperity Here In a talk with a Tribune represéntative Saturday, one of, the biggest refining men in Wyoming and probably the great-| est expert in his line in the Northwest, today stated that Casper | was just coming to a period of prosperity due to the increase) in wells drilling and the new fields of the state together with | the vast improvements soon to be placed in operation by | the refineries here. | The completion’ of the wax and lubricating oil plant at’ the Midwest refinery will open up one of the larg- est mercantile trade lanes the North- west territory has ever known. The lubricants made here will compete with the Oklahoma refinery products now being sent to China and other points in the far east and the shorter freight haud from Casper by way of OHIO WELL NOW DRILLING AEAIN Result of Lance Creek Drilling | Seattle and Portland wili permit such A products being laid down in Shanghai Should be Known Soon With | or Yokohoma for a less price than Well at 4,000 Feet if they were to be sent from Okla- homa points by way of San Fran-| The Ohio Oil company well on cisco. section 33 in the Lance field has The great steamship lines of the | started drilling again, after a week’s | Canadian Pacific and other trans-| shutdown. The hole is now around} continental lines which ply between | the 4,000 foot mark and will get the Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, and the sand inga week or so, | Far East have to go to San Franciseo| The sand is expected to lie at] for their lubricating oils or else about 4,100 feet and the work of bring it clear across the continent drilling a well at this depth is so slow from the eastern refineries. After) that while a hole 100 feet deep can| the completion of the new Midwest, be put down on the surface in a day| plant the, lubricants needed by these | or so, to go the same distance after | vessels can be sent to the Oregon and the tools are so deep as they are now Washington harbors without trouble! in the 33 well requires much time! and with verry little freight cost, and patience. t compared to the shipments from, The report that the well had struck} other parts. water was altogether wrong as there Alaska with its vast territory is has been no water show in the hole | rapidly becoming one of the great- since the casing was set several weeks est petroleum product users in the ago. Indications are that the well world. Not only gasoline for power, will be a producer alright altho the but kerosene, parafine candles, fuel, size of the production is what the oils, and lubricants are growing in| oil men are anxious to find out. If demand with every year’s passage in! the well is only a nominal producer the great north territory. To reach, the eastern part of the field would} the consumer in Alaska, Wyoming) be poor territory for the oil operator | folds a premier place and in fact) but it is the expectation of all con-! is the only producing point from| cerned that the well on 33 will be’ which petroleum products can be | even greater than the famous 36 and} sent into the Yukon territory eco-| the oil men are pointing to the gas | nomically. strikes on the west of 36 to prove Casper holds a unique position as|that the main oil body lies to the regards shipments of petroleum prod-| east. ucts. These can be sent east from} SA ee ee here to supply the demands of te MEMBERS iF SWEDISH trade there and can compete with the} Oklahoma products altho the Texas | refineries can ship by water and thus | AIKSDAG PETITION FOR i cut down the cost of freight haul. | California fields are diminishing fast | in their output and even at their! best, these districts put out only low grades of petroleum that do not make! .good lubricating grades. Most of the} } people in over-crowded London who |for amateur actors. As the crowds California oils are of an asphalt base} which makes only fuel oils and gaso-| lines. | MLIOTY OF NATIONAL AMENDMENT 1$ GALED The report has been spread broad- cast thruout the country that there was a probability that the action of | congress in proposing the prohibition amendment to the states would be de-| STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27.—(Corres- pondence of Associated Press.) —So- cialist and liberal members of the Swedish riksdag, numbering 153, have signed a petition for mercy for nine Finnish Socialists, who have been condemned to death or im- prisonment by the White Guard for alleged rebellion, They assert there is good reason for calling the recent regime in Finland a “White terror.” They were among the best repre- sentatives of the Finnish Social De- mocracy. Some of them were on their way to the opening of the diet when they were arrested. No one clared invalid by the supreme court. | here is convinced they were respons- The reason for the supposition is that! ible for the bloody deeds laid at their the proposed amendment received the door, seven out of the nine convicted sanction of two-thirds of a quorum| having against their own convictions, of ‘both houses of congress whereas, | 2d most unwillingly, served as offi- it is contended, it should have re-| cers of the Red government. } ceived a majority vote of the-entire | Yrjoe Maekeling, a veteran advo- membcrship. | cate of freedom, is alleged to have The federal constitution provides) Written agitating articles. Eetu Salin, that a majority of each house of con-| who against his will, was made edi- gress shall constitute a quorum for} tor of the Red official gazette, signed the transaction of all business. It}# Proclamation calling on the Reds further provides that amendments to| to lay down their arms. Paayo Lep- the constitution may be proposed by two-thirds of both houses. The legis- lative power of congress is vested in etiélos a majority of each house, and there |® ie is no doubt that the provision author-| to die by the White Guard. Nestor izing the submissicn of a constitu-| Aronen and five others were convict- tional amendment by two-thirds| 4 on the same sort, or even weaker, means two-thirds of that majority. | testimony. bye The question will undoubtedly be| After careful examination of the submitted to the supreme court of test of the cases, where sentences of the United States for its decision.|ftom twelve to three years at hard labor were imposed, there is a most PA SADENA COP lively impression here that the recent LOSES GUN TO | Se ae * HE’D GIVE HIS SKIN written by a London boy of 13 to one of the hospitals. rection, and went to Viborg. where he acted as an editor, and for the |regime in Finland tried to rid the MAN HE HUNTS' LONDON, Nov. 10. 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An Italian girl with a pleasing voice also is popular and successful. Every theater in London is doing a thriving business now. of men are here on leave. -Relatives| of Englishmen in London for a few days come here to be with them. Many American soldiers and sailors spend their Téave here and all try to stop in Londorrma few days if possible en route to France. Hotel and res- taurants are erowded and hundreds! stand in line fom unreserved seats at the theater because they are unable) to reserve seats ajead. ls palin Sr So a | Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Leavitt are both confined 4p their home by an at- tack of influenza. GEOLOGICAL WORK Maps and Blue Prints, Surveying Wyoming Map and Blue Print Co., Crude Oil Testing a Specialty P. O. 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Wire or write OI I IIIT ITIP IPIPPIPIPSID TD hd MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918 LARAMIE MAN PROPOSED FOR UNDER SECRETARy It has been decided that no state LARAMIE, Wyo., Nov. 3 championships in boys’ and girls’ club} st&ted here today that E. work will be declared this year. This} of this city will be made depy does not mean that there will be no|Tetary of state when W. F. Chay county champiorsnips, however, The | lected on November 5, is induc above decision has been made neces-| Wt, office. Mr. Hiskey was form president of the First State p, sary by the influenza epidemic which| this city and is now connected has prevented judges zrom visiting/ the White House. He is one of 2 all county champion pigs, sheep and| most capable and upright citi, of the poultry. Even if they should be/the state and his appointme judged at this time, the condition of} give satisfaction to a large the stock would be much different! of friends both in this cit: than it was when the contests closed} other scrtions of the state. early in October. In addition several Se ae club fairs in different counties wich were sceduled for October had to’ be Postponed indefinitely, so the county champion livestock in several coun- NO STATE CHAMPIONS IN CLUB WORK ARE DECLARED O—It was D. Hiskey LANDER JAN. 9 Entertainment of Visitors at Fifteenth Annual Con- vention Next Month Blas Vucurveich, a well know ure in the local stock world, }, turned to Casper after spendi M% ck Springs 1M in advance of the national or- Stee er ee! Ro o Sdees es to the Salt ‘om Salt Lake, eo So<So<§ Ro re om soo 2. > Ro st We have several cars Rock Springs Coal i — Fill your coal bin with this good oal.. Keith Lumber Co. Phone 3 LPL POD oredr deeded re ates ro 503 CommonWealth Bldg., Denver, Colo. RS o 0 Se ef eS 6 es ee$ Ro oe! ra Me “os so 2 es > Ro ‘st — B3 : ' \ ; \ . Oil Well Supply Co. Our new Forge and ~ Machine Shops are now in operation Come and Visit Us “We make a specialty of Repair Work.and will give you-- well” Service B. F. Zeigler, Foreman ; : \ \ \) \ . . , 4 . N \ \ \) ; \ . \) \) : \ : * \) % Telephone 195 \