Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 4

OIL SPOTLIGHT Io TURNED UPON: : WYOMING FYE f) vine Formation Crops Out in! ts | Harding County of That Developments in This State Com- mand Attention of Oper- ators with Four Points of Main Importance | } According to the Denver Post, oil men from all over the country are watching the Wyoming fields closely and at present four points are com- manding the attention. of the opera- tors. In the Lance Creek district, which is apparently the largest structure in Wyoming, seven or eight big concerns such as the Midwest Refining, Ohio Oil, Texas, Gypsy Oil, Buck Creek Oil companies are at work, some of them with wells nearly completed, others with wells started and some unloading materials for a sharp drilling cam- paign. One well in the district is ca- pable of producing 1500 barrels a day, two are practically on top of the sand and another is reported to be making some oil in connection with a heavy gas flow. According to C. H. Wege- man, geologist for the Wyoming Oil Fields company, is authority for the’ statement that the Lance Creek field comprises two or more domes, one of which will be found to contain only gas and the other oil. This theory: will be proved or disproved in a few weeks as the deep tests are finished. Derricks for twenty-five wells are up and more are being erected daily. At the Big Sand Draw structure, in which the Producers and Refiners cor- poration, the Midwest Refining com- pan the Texas company and the Oil companies are active, there wells drilling and two big gassers, one of which is capable of producing 300 barrels of crude naph- tha a day. One well is close to the expected oil sandvand should be fin- ished in another fortnight unless the her should become so cold as to freeze the water lines supplying the drill outfits. On the Ferris dome, where the Pro- ducers and Refiners corporation and West & Hazlett, Wyoming representa- tives @f the Prairie Oil & Gas com- pany have divided the acreage of 4000 included within the escarpment, there) #s one produced good for 500 barrels a day and more than a dozen wells are drilling. The oil from this field rans with that of Salt Creek. Owing to the shallow drilling this field should be developed with great rapidity and its product should be marketed within | the next six months. | Kirby Creek, east of Thermopolis, | is the latest find of importance in) Wyoming and the shallowest field in} the entire state. The pioneer well was drilled by the Ohio Oil company, | the big “wildcat” organization of the} Standard Oil group and it came in at 888 feet with a flow of 75 barrels; natural. This oil is of the same grade as that found in Grass Creek. The} Ohio company has since completed another well with about the same pro-| duction as the first and is now drilling eight others. William J. Cheeley of | Thermopolis has a well nearly finish-| ed and the Woods-Lee-Weleh syndi- cate, which has a 160-acre tract in the center of the field, is beginning the first well on its holdings. Wyoming thus has four prospective or partly proved oil fields, which should greatly ‘enhance the total production of the state in the next few months and should bring the productive areas up to eleven, the others being Salt Creek, Big Muddy, Grass Creek, Elk Basin, Rock River, Lost Soldier and Lander. RESTRICTIONS ON OL SIPPLIES NOW LIFTED The distribution of oil well sup- plies which has been under restric-; tion for some time past was lifted, December 1. The Bureau of Oil well supplies went out of commission on that date and the ruling that has kept! the supply stores from sellings goods except to oil men and refiners has passed away. The lifting of the ban will be wel- comed in Casper as many of the resi- dents of the city depend upon the sup- ply stores for small fittings and other items of hardware not carried in the} hardware stores. | The Petroleym War Service com-| mittee, which nder the leadership of | A. ©. Bedford, chairman of the board) of directors of the Standard Oil com-} pany of New Jersey, has done splen-| did work for the government in the last year and a half, will continue this work at least until the oil division of the federal fuel administration is abslished. —_—- ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF SIX DOLLARS BY ILLINOIS CO. | The Illinois Pipe Line company has declared a semi-annual dividend of | $6 per share payable December 30. | The last dividend was $8 per share which was paid six months ago. | quoted a range of $1.35 to $1.50 per and other a | erage price recoveries |have been somewhat SOUTH DAKOTA OUT FOR OIL Local Stocks j State, Says Geologist bared Bia South Dakota appears to be next} nee 3 on on the program in the oil producing | Be Pive - 02 lihe, according t@ an interview in the Hee Wy aaa 20, Oil and UGas Journal by Dr. Free-| oS'pn iyo - aid man Ward, professor of geology of ae id “008 pcoecace university and also state Gonnabinae Py, geologist. “ zie = fie In Harding county, the geologist) ©°" Sovalty, = eae states that there is a formation that, 63 is very likely to prove oil bearing. “008 About three-fourths of the county is Faslte “04 surfaced with the Lance formation nies 63 which is so prominent in the Lance Maune. & Gult__. 46 field in Wyoming. The nearest pro-| Youre & SG" 48 ductive area is the Baker gas field] Got voc “oa of Montana which has not yet been Path? aay 05 shown any oil in marketable quanti- Pre ro bres “05 ties, The Moorcroft oil field in| pinay "10 Wyoming is about 70 miles away. | hivert nm Ref. “on The structure in Harding county, | Bench ae 5 according to Dr. Ward, is a part of | Beish 4 Sages the Glendive anticline which crosses | the state line from Montana into South Dakota. | United Pe 2 Western as shy } Win River Ref. E. T. Williams Wyo-Tex. Short Week-End Review of | fruits and Vegetables | Warm Springs Volume Still Decreasing; Price Tends | Salt Creek - to Recover—The volume of all pro-| Big Muddy duce has rapidly declined during _| Pilot Butte - Furnished by TAYLOR & CLAY Room 212, Oil Exchange Bidg. ain attempted te enter the harbors of Germany’s coast line during the | latter days of the war, the Germaw fleet would have been put out of action in short order for the ships were unable to operate because of | 5 OL SHORTAGE | |half hearted defense and the Ger- | Lack of Petroleum ‘Products to) mans Bact have had to rely upon Machi: I rtant | their J-boats and these would soon Operate achinery important have fallen victim to, our destroyers. in Deciding Factors |In fact the issue would very likely | re been tried out were it not for) | the fact that the mine fields formed It ae. ietgbets that one .6f the! in impassable barrier for our ships. | ;Prime movers in making the Huns| As the U-boats were being surren- sue for peace was nothing more or | deréd and were approaching the Eng~ less than a lack of petroleum prod- lish coast under the guns of the | ucts. Their airplanes stopped bomb-| English and American battle fleets, ing towns in France and England be- e commander of the German boats cause they did not have gasolines| signaled that the pace was too fast, | with which to run their engines. The | for his boats and that lack of lubri- | Germans built great numbers of | cating oil vented them f: ke | |tanks. and then never moved them PT ateldcut New York Curb Bie ‘i : STORAGE lousehold Goods, Storage House ¢: Pianos, Ete omy Burlington CHAMB: AND UNDERTAKING co, = I WANT YOUR BRick WORK | On Contract P. for meee CLAUSEN | ———————— f . NOTICE Monumental Granite jn quarry throughout the will raise 25 per cent J If you anticipate erec stone for Memorial Da cuts and order now, al to reach the quarry be ary Ist and you will ° cent. ; Tombstone Works Opposite Pagtoffice, Cas; Robert Simpson. Phone ERLIN FURNITURE or, Wyo 665-J Stocks Midwest Ref. 137.00 : ing up. This lack of petroleum rpeotar in < 1.04 | because they did not have the neces-| products also shows why the U:boat| Midwest, pref. ___ 1.18 | Sary motor spirits. . raids became so spasmodic and took | Merritt. ~ 92/00 | It is now known that had the ships} place at longer and longer intervals Glekrotk ~ “337 | of our fleet and those of Great Brit- toward the close of the war. Cosden __ 6.87 [Sete eae | ———_— Oksinleds Ears 112 j | , We make a special of salary loans, | Sapulpa __. 6.87 | Security Loan Company, Suite 302) Houston Oil _____ 71.00 | | QS Building. 12-1-tf Oklahoma P & R_ 9.50 } aE a a a + Sle | New York Stock Exchange ly | Open Close ican Pet, _-_-- 1583 1603 Ss Oik==- 189 186 Sinclair Oil _____- 34 34 U. S. Steel -_=--- 953 968 | } * Liberty Bonds | T you are not at the pres- ent time getting the ease and comfort from the use of your glasses that they gave Attention Ladies We invite ‘every lady in Casper to visit our store this week and sample a cup of our de- licious Richelieu Coffee. _THE CASPER STORAGE GROCERY 96.60 3rd 44s 96.70 | you when you purchased 4th 43s fapdagad 96.50 them it means that your eye structure has been under- going a change—the glasses haven't changed any. Either your vision has improved and you need more youth- ful lenses or your eye mus- PURCHASE EXPLOSIVES slightly higher for apples, cabbage, Permits for the sale and purchase and cranberries. Apples Continue Strong—Northwest-| ern extra fancy boxed Winesaps fail-| ed to reach last week’s top prices and ranged $1.75 to $2 fob shipping points but ruled steady in consuming mar-| kets at $2.75 to $3.25, reaching $3.5 = in some cities. Movement again de- of ingredients for xplosives creased with 2,269 cars compared Yoked when fotice was rec with 2.981 last week. Washington! it would no longer be nece and Oregon, together, shipped one- license these ingredients. The license half the total volume and ubout half °” explosives still remains in force. the remaining volume was from New , Large numbers of people were ef- Soiis stabe: fected by the revoking of this rule. Onion Prices Fairly Steady — Prices Stockmen can secure salt petre for held at about last week’s level, eastern ‘heir stock without first securing a and middle western sacked yellow permit from the county clerk. Ma Ay stock still ranging $1.25 to $1.75 in of the comnt®nest commodities in most distributing markets. New York, drug stores make ingredients for ex- and New England shipping points plosives, such ulphur, nitric acid, » as well as many \ewt. fob. California and Australian | °ther substances. Druggists no longer Browns yemained steady at shipping Need licenses for the handling of points and strengthened to $2.15 to these ingredients, and they ean be $2.50 in New Orleans. Shipments Purchased in any ¢ again decreased with 405 cars com- p pared with 540 last week. Cabbage Markets Recover — Rapidly decreasing volume resulted in sharp advances in process at shipping points Shipping decreased fully one-half, 250 cars compared with 797 last week and 989 the week before. Wage in es to employes of the Potato Values Better Sustained—Avy- Western Union range from 5 to 15 about of: per cent, depending upon the length Eastern markets of service, according to information steadier than received Monday by R. L. Forbes, western throughout the month. Min- local manager. Employes who, on nesota and Wisconsin No. 1 sacked| October 1, had been in the service white stock recovered 10c during the six months, will receive a 5 per cent week, closing at $1.60 to $1.70 per increase; one year to three y 10 ewt. for carlots in Chicago, but sales! per cent, and over three y 15 to jobbers in middlewestern wnarkets held steady at $1.85 to $2.25. Colo- rado and Idaho shipping points quot- ed $1.25 to $1.40 per ew ked, in- cluding sales fob cash and al terms This stock ranged in southwestern markels $2.05 to $2.15 per cwt. for earlots. Shipments declined nearly one-third with 2.221 cars compared with 3,423 last week. Bean Markets Weak and Irregular— Average values remained about the same this week but declines were more frcajuent than recoveries. Colo- rado Pintos continued at $6 per cwt in bulk to growers and recleaned stock sold slight’ in Kansas City at $7.15 to $ » California small white ranged slightly weaker at shipping points at $9 to $: , while Limas were firm at $10 to $10.50 cash to growers. New Limas sold at $11.75 to $13 in eastern markets. Michigan pea beans recovered to $8 cash to rowers in shipping sectio New York and Michigan pea beans ranged nearly steady in New York City and Boston at $10 to $10.50 per ewt. Ship- ments increased to.180 cars compar- ed with 167 last week. Otber Fruits and Vegetables—Florida oranges brought firm prices at ship- ping points, closing at $3 to $3.50 per box fob Orlando. Grapefruit declined in volume with 125 cars compared with 150 last week. Cranberries movement declined to 38 cars com- pared with 58 cars last week and 68 cars the week before. Celery move- ment declined to 180 cars compared with 279 last week. 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