Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1919, Page 3

Weekly Summary of the Oil City Derrick Shows Improvement With Advent of Pleas~ The report from the oil fielsia dur- ing the past week bave noted an in- crease of activity in all divisions. says the weekly summary of the Oil City Derrick. Continued pleasant winter weather and some improvements in roads have caused operations to start new work, and have given opportunity for the completion of more wells. These com- pletions also resulted in a better av- erage as to the size of the producers obtained. Conditions in the field are much more favorable than di the last four months, or since the infu- enza and bad weather glo lown operations. Work now has almost re- turned to normal, and there is a gain in every district. Even in the old fields there are signs that more work is being planned for the coming sea- son. So long as prices remain at the present level, and material can be ob- tained with less difficulty, and poasi- expected to show an increase, Oklahoma was particularly fortu- nate in late reports, in which the wildeat’ ventures figured. The new fields of Texas have started a series of tests in the southern counties of the State. From Cotton county three good wells are reported, two of which are wildcats, one starting at 250 bar- rels and ahother at 200 barrels. An-| other producer is pumping 300 bar- rels, Many other tests are drilling along the border. There is also a small showing of oil in a test in the - southwestern part of Caddo county, far to the west of Lg ake The well has a. fishing job, but the re- ports favor a small producer being ob- tained. The location is be- cause of its distance fro mdevelaped territory. Many new wells were ch tained in old territory, some of whiely started at 8Q0 barrels or bet- ter, with a jhumber of smaller size. Numerous gas wells were reported, one of which was in Hughes county and another in Stephens:county. The small territory west of Tulsa and in the county of that name offered a gusher starting at 1,200- barrels, but it is not expected to maintain that rate. Kay and Garfield counties were quiet with no completions. Kansas reported a greater number of wells than for several weeks. The best was a 700-barrel. producer in Butler county, with a dozen others of jtoday, thereby signifying its inten- various sizes. There were also a num- ber of dry holes in the many tests completed. ing. bill. From the old districts east of the Mississippi nearly a dozen wells of | more than average size were reported | | scattered through the Pennsylvania, {Ohio and West Virginia ficlds, hut none of importance in extending the producing territory. Kentucky was zs’ active ag ever, and several of its com- | pletions in Lee county were above the hundred barrel mark. - . | Another cut was made in the price fof heavy Caddo oil, making the new {quotation $1, the decrease being 25 | cents per barrel. The quotations for fuel oil in the Gulf Coast were also reduced 25 cents. barrel, making the present price $1.85 a@ barrel, except | Spindletop, where it is $1.30. Tnis followed a cut of 30 cents on Janu- ary 14. ‘ | INCORPORATIONS “ARE INCREASING Articles Being Filed With Secre- tary of State Furnish Key to Activities ~ _— (Special Correspandence) Incorporation papers are still pour- ling into the secretary of. state’ of- fice. .Four more were filed Friday. The biggest of the quartet was} the Wyoming Commercial Co._ which} will have a capitalization of half a/ million dollars and carry on a gen- eral mercantile business at Douglas. | |Halé of the capital stock will be pre- | |ferred. The first board of directors’ jis to conajst of George D. Bercu, Ja: | cob D. Bercu and Joseph Garst. Qn. the other hand, the Thermop-; olis Chamber of Commerce, another | one of the four, will have no capital | stock. Ita officers are: Guy J. Gay,! president; €. C. Beavar, vice presi- | dent, and Peter Sill, I. W.. Wright, | Harris Woods, A. W. Harrigan and} C. E Stewart, directors. The Niobrara Lumber Company of jLusk is capitalized at $50,000 and’ its directors will be John W. Agnew, | Robert C. Ord, F. W. Chambers, R. 3. Rymill and M. A Hull It is the {third lumber concern to be formed jin Niobrara County within the past ten days An oil company which was formed lin Colorado a year ago filed its in- ;¢orporation papers at the Statchouse | ition of entering Wyoming’s greatest |wealth-producing game. It has a cap- }: lital stock of. $250,000 and its direct | f ton is temporarily closed down on ac. eae | count of the inadequate supply of o:i|crews that it is expected will be put’ his summer if the leasing bill) % to permit maximum develop-, re already being arranged. Un- orable conditions this summer | F urnished by TAYLOR & CLAY Room 212, Oil Exchange Bldg. DAY'S MARKETS BY WIRE Local Stocks + i New York Curb Bid Ask rm. Bid Ask American ------- .023 .08 | Midwest Refg. 144 145 Bessemer -_ - 18 15 Midwest Com. 1.39 1.41 Big Bear -- - 024 03 | Midwest Pre: 1.57 1.6¢ Big Five ------- 01h 02 Merritt -_ 23.50 .00 Boston Wyo. --- .28 80 © Gienrock 3.75 4.00 Big Indian ------ .25 30 Cesden ~_ 7.00 7.12 Center -___ = 00% -013 | Okmulgee 1.75 1.87 Columbine - = +25 27 Sapulpa _ 1.25 7.50 Con. Royalty ---- 86 8 | Houston 0: 83.00 84.00 Casper Embar --- 003° 008 | Oklahoma P. 8.25 8.50 Elkhorn --_ - 58 62. | Hecla --_ - 013 1025 | a bed Jupiter -- 053 063 | New York Stock Exchange Kinnef ~~~ 69. 72 Stocks Mosher Units -. B i | Open Close Mountain & 82 34 Mexican Pet. -- 166 168% Northwest 08 09 Texas Oil __ - 187% 18Y% Qutwest 1 083.093 | Sinclair Oit 844 345 Pathfinder 05 06 U.S. Steel __---. 899 893 Riverton -1j 14 | Liberty fonds Republic 02 33 Open Close Shiloh —-.- Odes! 706m) Bhas 98.92 98.92 United. Pet, ----- .11 sla = 92.70 92.88 Western Explr. -- 1.05 1.15 - 92.30 92.66 Wind River Refg. .23 26 ~ 94,92 94.92 E, T. Williams -- 2.50 2.40 - 93.90 93.80 3 1.50 -~ 94.98 94.90 50 93.90 93.90 “ WYOMING CRUD E OIL MARKET ---$1.00 [ss Basin - 1.50} Grass Creek - RIVERTON SEES SALT GREEK IS GROWTH AVEAD MARKING TIM ne i] in Fre-| Winter Season Employed in Lay-| Baom Conditions Prevail in Fre: ing Oil and Water Lines for | mont County Center, Says Reports Here Spring Work Word that Riverton is on'the ad-, The operating companies in the} yent of a boom never before attaineo Salt Creek field are’ marking .time! % by the enterprising sister town in the |as8 far as new development is con- west, is the information that has |cerned pending the return of spring been brought to Casper. Plans are | operations according to the statement! Feing made by the commercial club of J. E. Walls this morning. Larger} and other. organizations which have field crews than have ever been main- as their object the advancement of tained in Wyoming’s premier produc Riverton, to place the town in the!ing center have been at work all win-| limelight of development as soon as ter laying new pipe lines, both water spring permits an opening up of ex- and oil, to various parts of the field | . |where extensive operations will be tensive operations. e The refinery construction at River- conducted in the summer. from the Pilot Butte field owing to on + the pipeline being clogged by the Passes cold weather acting on the heavy oils, ment However steps to remedy this draw der t Accommodations for the increased North Texas was able to report a/ors sre W. E. Howe, George L. Nye,'back and open up the refinery to the Salt Creek field limits should be few gushers in Eastland county, and|I. A. West, H. E. Popham and R. H. | capacity will be made at the earliest greatly increased as well as the pro-| some freakish actions of old wells. | McMullen. Its main office is situated | date possible, as Riverton is planning | duntion results. The Markham well, which was esti- mated as starting at 600 barrels, went dry, while the Mid-Kansas test on the Carey, formerly supposed to be a small producer, suddenly started to flow at above 3,000 barrels daily. The Duke pool is being gradually defined, | and at present it looks as if the pro- ductive portion was not extensive. Bad roads are delaying work in this pool. One well was reported from Burkburnette as having increased to 2,500 barrels, and there were the usual number of smaller completions. Most of the wildcat tests in the sev- eral counties are shut down for vari-' ous reasons, but mostly on account of |Whixlwind: Finish Planned by the/Rev. R.-B. W. Hutt, the former pas-| east are working intermittently. The! | tor, resigned his charge to enter the! first train from the east to arrive) The new pastor, Rey. Phillip’ since Thursday came in on the Union| \K. Edwards, who comes to Gysper: Pacific’s Kansas City line. \fromy McAleater, Ok., wilt preside at| stalled at Russell, Kansas, for 36 difficulty of getting material to them. The Texas Co.’s Stoker, in Stephens- county, is reported good for 1,20Q barrels. The oil is found between 3,100 and 3,200 feet. Some of the wells in this county show remarkable staying qualities, The Gulf Coast pools. are experi- encing the usual dul] period which follows the completion of large pro- ducers. None of late wells are important as to size or location, but the averagé number is being com- pleted. Fair wells in the old pools maintained the output for the week, and showed slight increase ip the total. . The daily ave @ produc- tion of the. Gulf Coast f is about 72,000 barrels. - This. is - largely due. to the Texas Co.'s pro- ducer on the Arnold, which is now being allowed to flow 8,000 barrels daily, ae eta? ed wre ex- pected est Colum! 3 ic ‘excitement in North field. The Roxana Co. has purchased an interest in:the discovery company, ond will start active work there. 0) erations at Pine Island’ are lagging because of the inability to handle the. production, - prorated among the producers, and new production is not being handled: Fair producers gré! being obtainet in the Wyoming fiel2:, each week, but the work there is+routine owing to the cold weather. Wells starting bet- ter than 100 "3 are common, and| WASHINGTON, Feb. 16,—Approv- these show very good ‘staying quali-/al of the proposal -:to ¢stablish* » ties. Bach ew well adds to the m-| government price adju 8 nent? poe terest in this State 3 promise | to stabilize conditions during the’ post- of @.much. oper the coming! war period was cabled by’ President’ Seno an Rt CEEEENG at Denver, and. it> now proposes to} ‘start drilling in Johnson County. GAR RAFFLE TO “END CAMPAH | to be listed third among the Wyom- ing towns which have an actiye re- finery, REY. PHILLIP K, EDWARDS -AEGEPTS PASTORATE OF ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL Regular services wiii be resumed ‘SERVICE BEING EOWARIS RESUMED WITH BLIZZARD OVER SNVER, Feb. 15.—With the bliz- jtomorrow, after a suspension*of reg- cials: were working today for a re- ular services for several months since turn of regular schedules. Wires | “With the Colors Club,” In- cluding Program on the Downtown Streets. |‘ With a whirhwind campaign on the} \strects tonight, the “With the Colors, Cluh” will close its effort at selling jchances on the automobile which was! |\donnted to the organization in behalf | of the fatherless children of France} by Steve Tobin. The car will then be raffled off on the corner of Sec-| ond and Center streets and the holder of tlie lucky number will be given im- mediate possession of the vehicle. | Mrs, Oliver Johnson, who is chair- {man of the fund, reports that there heen a number of chances sold, but that are still several hundred tickets to be disposed of. Whether, the entire allotment is sold) or Hot, the car will be raffled this jevoning at 8 o'clock, so all holders of | ticketa are requested.to be on hand. to insure an equal chalice in obtain- ing the car. ‘A musiéal and speaking! itlined).in con-; Becton wit thetevent tonight. | BOARD OKEHED | _ BY PRESIDENT | arm tomorrow’s services. | hours. Mr. Edwards bas moved his family | hero from the Oklahoma point and just’ as soon /as the work is completed , at the parsonage. will tae up his resi- | dence here. ——__» The. Reservation i She seems a very reserved girl.” | “Yes, but whom for?”—Cartoons | Magazine, per, Wyo. GEOLOGICAL WORK Maps and Blue Prints, Surveying } Crude Oil Testing a Specialty Wyoming Map and Blue Print Co., P. O. Box Fatal Rm. 10, over Lyric h ‘ ' ‘ DEN THIS EVENING .. the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 28rd over, railroad and telegraph offi- . ee It was ern 8 = ma ma coe Ses _. In the Lusk Oil Field ; " fhe Illinois. Pipe Line Co. is from the Lusk Oil Field to Lusk. Oil Field. more. vantages, at Young Woman. for folder and particulars write To the Young Woman Townsite Co., Wilson ‘to Secretary, of Commerce “hig hy ‘Young WomanTownasite building a pjpe line Thousands of men will bo employed in the Lusk The Families of these men will mean Thousands Young Woman is the natural place for them to live, An abundance of good water, Telephone, U.S. Postoffide, on the main highway, and many other ad- All lots $100.00 each, 1,000 shares of the capital stock of the Y. W. Oil. & Dev. Co., with each lot. Send - Phone 467:W SEF VAGE FIVE | Page Three Business women of Regina, Sask., | It is difficult to realize that less! Texas has lost its only woman jail- are considering the building of a wo-|than a hundred years ago the question |er through the resignation of Mrs. men’s club and hotel as a means ot | of educating girls beyond the most|P. F. 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