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OS a a PAGE FOUR ' a : | Uteh. The drilling has been contract-| School of Citizenship CAPTA IN ARCHIE i N E ed to Scott Mills and the contract) | VELT ILL ‘ calls for a hole 1,500 feet deep. This | Over five hundred women from all! ROOSE 1 4 well is towards the Big Horn moun- parts of New England are registered } seal picts aoe oe " bind soups GAL h S. BO D RY at the Sencol NE Citissnship re (By United Press.) ? M tren @ amon; e oil operators ew Ham: re | —The condition Furnished by TAYLOR & CLAY has been to take “up likely looking | . cckece ‘ender is. Sammie of these Gusset £ychie ded at ty } : ‘ territory nearer this range of moun- (Special te The Tribune.) . women of that state. e main sub-| ench fever at the Room 212, Oil Exchange Bldg. tains than ever before. Many struc-' BASIN, Wyo., Aug. 5.—Upon com- a jects considered at the first session | tng tpospital, wid iubhenged : tures are reported to lie in the foot- plaint of Lou Blakesley, water com- People Who Sell Liquor to/}’" it politics of the different pol-| Pres Seen ee Ba daninihere H — |hills and on the terraces that form missioner of this district, those who| Americans South of Bor- itical parties, parliamentary practice | ‘oday, Lhe See tc. the arene { Local Stocks , Williams, E. T. _. 1.50 1.55 |the upper benches treminating in the had been appropriating water on the der to Get in Trouble_ and contemporaneous world history | yesterday bee any, Amalgamated Rity i 1 oo Western Explr. ~ BO 3.90 lower rises of the mountain proper./Greybull unlawfully were brot before yt oe as it affects the future. women’s vote. Refining company, Aue : ‘og. | Wyo-Kans. 2.75 8.00 | In the Byron field the Carter has Justice of the Peace Robin Bonwell, MEXICO CITY. (Correspondence |" Good principles, good men and) aNeee "99 Wy-0-Tex. 23 +26 a gasser that is one of the largest! yesterday. of the Associated Press.)—Thirsty| good government must be women’s) ostoneWvoniltis a Units. in the field, although it cannot equal! Eight residents of Otto and 38 from residents of the United States who! sim, according to the speakers, and I Den ver Sack’ Crock Stauley, Green - 50 75 | the big fellows that were drilled in| Burlington entered pleas of guilty hope to find an oasis in Mexico may! the women were advised to “carry n B Tail Mosher zs 500 700 when the gas was first discovered.' and were fined $1 each and costs. be disappointed. A cabinet mem- your gossip into politics that the ills assccner mee Club - 200 400 | This well is making about 28,000,000 | Water had been appropriated accord-| her whose influence will be felt in the Uf our politics) life may be cured.” Big Indi * eapot - eee 90 100 | feet Bee, wy enc ihe mand pipe ifouta ing te Priory ot right ang the above drafting of “dry” regulations was re- ae ERE Seiya low Curb jat 1,900 feet. In the same district) number had taken water after it had cently quoted in The Excelsior as pa AGS pags | Midwest Refg. -- 175 177 jthe Allen 02 Go. has a dry hole for| been denied them. saying that it may be necessary for) Women Must Enroll Make your Sees gare Sree | Midwest Com. -_ 2.26 2.50 No. 1 on the W. L. Linton ranch, al- a the Mexican vernment to estab- & neues | Midwest Pref. - 3.00 3.50 | though the hole only reached a as | lish a “dry” i at least ten kilo- In Party of Choice HOME Casper Ranger _- Merritt -__--_._ 25.50 26.50 j|around 550 feet. The Jones well LABOR SHORTAGE CASED meters deep along the entire length 3 t the Hiner ee | Glenrock Oil - 6.37 8.50 [of the same company, in the same = of the United States boundary. ‘ That women’ may not be barred al Great Western Pet. Cosden _____ bis 3 11.37 | area, is drilling at 1,689. ] Intimation was also given that the|from casting their vote for the nom-| Hutton Lake — Okmulgee P. & R. 2.37 2.62 | Over in the Sunshine Valley the BY HEAD TX Ig CLAM government is prepared to move im-|{nation of state as well as lesser of- Miks ‘Heavy Sinclair Gulf _-_ 57.00 57.50 | Sunshine Valley Oil Co. is shut down. nA, mediately against persons who are|ficials in 1920 Mrs. Arthur Liver- A LBAN Y ee | Salt Ck. Pr. Assn. 57.00 58.00 | at 1,450 feet and on Spring creek reported to be selling liquor to|more, state chairman of the New) Kiney = r Sts. 0. & L. 4.00 4.50 | the Midnight Oil Co. is drilling. The LAREDO Tee Aue ~ Unites Americans, using Mexican territory York Women’s Executive Committee, | Tales Greck Rity | Pr & Refg. Com. 8.75 9.00 | Ilo Ridge well is also shut down for | , LAREDO, bie ee ocar, putes | as their base of operations. is calling attention of the women vot HOT E L Lusk Pet New York Stock Exchange a short time at 2,500 feet. On the + TeSs:)— any y aosicus? Tlabotert A question which is said to be giv-| ers of the state to the fact that they Task Rosaity Open — Close| Wagonhound the Midwest is 650 Keeping ing officials here much concern is| must enroll in the political party of | Li Dateolenni ‘60 Mexican Pet. 189 189 | feet with its test there and the scouts roi He pone averally Ties cnetere | whether United States brewers and| their choice eee they register for; q F 3 | Texas Oil - 2 26 | i i Shae Athi aoke SNe | disti tion. j Mountain & Gulf 43 REE E von Ls a Ferprrntatanatre oiceme ete farm labor shortage on the ranches| distillers oat be Cus bee. pap tala bral ae RSHeAl Dery lait Atte Oe a0 cee enteel eee a Pee gate ta of the Rio Grande Valley, that is Port their plants, together wi : pare peieicet Percy ert Northwest __ .65 | U.S. Stee -- 111 109 | 900-foot level. This well is located Saratan wakes their stocks of goods, to Mexico. No| year does not m per | Outros’ - an a Liverty — Be sa ce eee ects ere devel) Since passage of the draft laws,|fficial action has been taken on that|Tollment in that party,” says Mrs.| icardy ~~ 07 8is _- ~- 99.56 99.5 when thousands of Mexican laborers Phase of the question. Livermore. “To be effective it must} Riverton Refg. | Ist 94.50 94.40 |the same size as the Grass Creek Ini State Mexico to! Prohibition as a nationwide meas-| be repeated every year. The Repub-| Rity. & Pr. Corp 154 | 2nd 4s 93.66 93.66 | field and the well is expected to show oa ane See Theap labor | ure is commencing to attract atten.|lican party in this state should have Susie =. { ist 43s 94.96 94.96 if the Wagonhound will turn out a has been at a premium without the }tion. General P. Elias Calles, gov-|® far larger enrollment this fall than Buck Creek - 5.60 i | 2nd 44s 94.06 94.06 | field like the Grass Creek operation. Texas cotton belt and in truck farms /(ernor of the state of Sonora, recently |it did at the special enrollment in Tom Bell Royalty .56 -60 | 8rd 4is 5.14 95.10 |The latter field is producing a high and construction camps. " {revived several “dry” laws end an-| May, 1918, when women were per-| United Petroleum .09 11 4th 44s __ 94.12 94.14 |grade crude from about 900 feet. With the war over, employers im-/nounced they would be enforced.| mitted to enroll in order to vote in Wind River Refg. .41 -44 | Victory Loan ____ 99.86 99.86 [pee a) eeolests Cre that a still mediately took steps to secure return, These regulations provide severe pun- ee aye LA sie pee were $1.50 to $2.00 | larger body of oil underlies the pres-|4¢ the Mexicans, but the Unitec|ishment for persons convicted of the| they are enroll side by side wi Per Da Warm Springs SRE CRING Soot Ee Besa ae jent producing horizon and a deeper | States Immigration Service refused Allegal sale of liquor. The legisla- of the party, just as they! y 5 ee will show an even larger field’ to lift its ban. An $8 head tax is ture of the state of Campeche has dis- |’ them Fe |than the present one. the first and most serious problem cussed “dry” measures for some time In the Salt Creek field there F<) confronting the Mevican who wants!“ it is improbable drastic action = 125) several wells drilled to the cap and| to come back to his old job:in Amer-! will be taken inasmuch as Governor |shut down and the reports from that j¢. ¢ x a. Eight dollars to the average | Joaquin Mucel has asked that instead operation are routine. The deep) Mexican laborer, in Mexico, is as|of a “bone dry” law there be enact- well started by the Del Monte Oil Co./much as eight thousand. He hasn't |ed measured regulating the manufac- i gn} section 6-40-79 has reached a) that much and there is no way to get ture and sale of intoxicants. |depth of 3,663 feet and has a bit in| jt 2 ne ee |the hole. This well is being drilled f Hl BARRELS IN JULY HEP LT ees Brie Saag, the reports have shown a general av- WHEAT RECEIPTS i) 5 1 : . ze of one of four completior for a test of that horizon. The Wall |™@8° 2 : ; for a text of that horizon. The Wall| Sry" Subtracting ‘the fataces ant SHOW BIG GAIN m-| 828 wells from the total leaves 1,808 Completions, Wells Drilling and General Results OF re hon ote thar wane ZOM-| productive oil producers. In both FOR PAST MONTH ° c May and June this figure was 1,902 : : ie at 1,920 feet and the Eureka W. - * Past Month Show Big Increase in Wyoming Fields _#%,':22° feet and the Eureka Wyom- oy Pa more! tian) in She present TS mWiy ORK NASP IEA can inereass 1: . |. In the Sand! Draw field: south of/Per™, ..7ne.dncresse in’ the | actual ee ala’ halt nile i 3 : ber of di s has b d-|of two and a half million bushels in as Shown by the Oil City Derrick jRiverton) the! Producers’ & “Refiners;iti veo; cach amonth, froca the lev] {he country’s ‘wheat ‘receipts! ftoni {has four wells under way. The deep-| "2" intlanuaty, y-|farms for the month ending July 25 New production for Wyoming, which showed a decided | °St hole is 3,080 feet, but the rotary pa A ai ite Hina ae compared with the same month in 4 slump for the month of June, went to the other extreme during | oe ae robbing & one of pine to| vas a little more than 180 barrels,|1918 was noted in a bulletin issued July with the result that almost 6,500 barrels have been added | fore the swell nee ioe eae ee safle in June it was a fraction less| today by the United States Grain to the daily quota, according to the Oil City Derrick. Some Of| Oil Go's (welll ini ithe ‘came: field ig than 122 barrels. ; line inser ‘aerioite eduction it is shut in by reason of location but the figures are considered | 2,000 feet. - The Carter is drilling a, sane reper bat Pte pork HEN AEN nearly a million barrels: conservative with respect to settled production when storage or|deep hole in the Maverick Springs pide necorae Se ee fing x =e 3 pipelines are provided. This record compares with less than) field and has the tools working. at Walls ‘of 7,608 me Eonitdred with the!, Nobody objects to Germany com- 1,800\barrels forthe month) of, June, |__| the 2;400-foob laveliinow. |The Sher) te 2 Cs anal nerations. The | N&, back. It's the kind of Germany when completions, while numerous, somewhat quiet, due to the moving of | dan, Wyoming has two wells drill- eeceeaerin Figs was 165 and_32 in| thet comes back that causes the wor- Te rrchee eeeqiinal figures: | Two drilling equipment to the southern | {i® in the Maverick, one at 1,800 and/ Voie drilling. The largést gain in|7—chsrleston, (W. Va:)| Mail. big gushers, credited with flush pro- belt and antral’ diateic | 100. Sheed pat Sam bd alee 3 at ia Sa 5 dco af hare each rane egy’ sen cee emer eer Alia! Butte the Iland te comes trom Nor Text Teibane Want Ads Pay Big Prot the July average to 326 barrels. In-| with a report of considerable activity |Oi! Co.'s deep well is close to 2,000 | tho, the previous. month. North| == a - creuse of production in the Big znd several of the large companies |{°et #nd the No. 2 of the Cheno is ka | Muddy also was a considerable are active in the wildcat districts in| #P0Ut' 900 feet, with a hole full of Louisiana shows a gain of 54. The tor in swelling the general results. Park and Big Horn counties. oil. largest decrease was reported from a : : the Gulf Coast of 57. Wyoming is The latter led all others in the num- ‘The Ohio Oil Co. and the Midwest| Summarizing developments in all ber of new wells, being credited with have been at work steadily in the de-|fields of the country for the month Salt Creek ---.-..-..----.-. 1.60] Grass Creek .._ Big Muddy -----.-.--eeg--— 1.50] Lusk -.___ Pilot Butte -__--._---.--____ 1.60] Lander —.. WANTED: To borrow $3500.00 for five years. Have 480 acres near Casper, fifty-seven acres cultivated, thirty alfalfa. ADDRESS BOX 124 CASPER, WYO. J. J. GIBLIN All Local Oil Stocks Bought and Sold - We represent the Equitable Life Insurance company of New York and several excellent Fire and Automobile Insurance companies. If interested call at the office and talk it over. also more active, with an increase of - 5 ; 29 in new work, which is the same five completions with a gross produc- veloped territory around Byron, Elk| the Derrick says: | tion of 1,060 barrels and two dry) Basin number that Kansas decreased. The c i and the other fields above “During July in the oil fields east changes in the other divisions were holes. Twenty-five rigs are drilling Basin, but of late the Allen Oil Co. | of the Rockies 2,618 wells were com-|not important and most of them on the structure out of a total of 27 and the General Petroleum Co. have| pleted with a new production of 326,- | very small.” , erected. entered the field and are now en-|805 barrels. Compared with June this Salt Creek reported one lone pro- gaged in drilling wells. The Carter| was a decline of 34 in completions ducer during the month, rated at Oil Co. is also numbered among the|and a gain of 94,817 barrels in new 500 barrels a day. A marked in- newcomers and has one rig up and| production. In new work under way crease is shown in the number of one string of tools drilling on another | at the close of the report there was wells being drilled. Twenty-eight are location at present. The Carter ex-|as increase of 197 in rigs and wells being worked and 17 other rigs are pects to drill through the heavy gas drilling. The figures for new pro- | up. pressure in an effort to reach the|duction and work progressing make | Two wells of a flush production sands below the gas horizon. This a new high record. The increase in of 4,000 barrels were completed at! operation is confidently expected by| production from the fresh com-| “Watch the Elgin Movement” Lance Creek, One hundred and ten} prominent geologists to result in the pletions has been so rapid during the | rigs were up the first of the month'discovery of a new oil producing | months of this year, and reached such und 46 of these were drilling. | horizon. |enormous figures that it does not| In the Warm Springs, Grass Creek The success the Hope Gas Co. Seem reasonable to expect that this and Thermopolis region 10 comple- has had in the Bryon field with the|¢an be maintained. New work, how- tions were reported with suce absorption process has led many Ver, will probably increase as many and failures evenly divided. The e other firms to investigate the possi-|"€W companies are entering the field new produce have an aggregate bilities of the process and the Byron|€ach month. The gain in completions production of 315 barrels. Out of a and McMahon gas; in fact all the gas|Came from North Louisiana of 18; If you wish to make a fav- total of 21 rigs up, 19 are drilling. fields on the northern part of the Gulf Coast with nine; Central Ohio orable impression, anywhere In the Big Horn Basin oil fields, in-| Basin have shown in tests that this|With 20, and Lima with a gain of | and everywhere,—wear the cluding Elk Basin, Tensleep, Washa-| process would be profitable and es-|16- In the other divisions the changes | right clothes. kie and other structures one well of pecially where the gas produced is Were slight, except for a drop of 50 i se ere are the suits that will 80 barrels was completed. Thirty!too dry for installation of com-|in Kansas and 48 in Kentucky. Ok- Betevatethel spies give you the right appear- rigs ¢ up and 23 are scenes of ac- pressors, lahoma and Illinois each reported anon tive operations. The Allen Oil Co. is starting a plant |four less, and Pennsylvania, North ; ; Rock River and Medicine Bow to teke care of the gasoline content| Texas and Indiana one less than in Waist seam models in plain fields were credited with three com- of the gas from its wells and the|June. The heat affected the work in shades of flannel: and fancy pletions during the month, all of General Petroleum is considering the |5°me districts and probably accounts worsteds. cas a which were failures. That these re- plan also, The Hope Co.’s plant at|for the fewer wells completed. Smert styles in two and three 9 nce on erms sults had little or no effect on other Cowley is reported to be paying good| “Included in the July completions | jutton sack models in a wond- operations, however, is shown by the interest on the investment and the|Were 620 dry hole: erful assortment of patterns. fact that out of 41 rigs up 28 are ers of gas wells increase 50— in that part of |#nd 190 gas producers, an increase of drilling. tate would naturally like to ob-|ten. Oklahoma reported 234 fail- Summer suits $21 to $60. Lost Soldier shows an increased tain some benefit from their invest-|Ures, followed by North ‘ s with Silk shirts, neckwear and production amounting to 430 bar- ments which at present are shut in| 94, Gulf Coast with 63 and the Penn- socks, soft collars, belts and rels from four completions, all of and profitless. sylvania division with 61. The small- straw hats. ‘ which found the pay. Eleven rigs Over the line in Montana, the well|¢st number of ten wes reported from White flannel tecuskcn, are standing and 16 drilling in the being drilled in the Crazy Woman|Wyoming. The number of dry holes same region. Pocket by the Tri-City is expected in|to the totel is almost 24 per cent., . ry Fremont county rang the bell once the pay next week. The gas show has |Which runs true to form, as for years during July with 100-barrel well. brought a number of representatives | Eighty-five rigs are up in the various of the large copper companies to the | fields of which 68 ure pounding away Vicinity and the big corporations in-| toward the sands terested in the Montana metal mines this constituted all of the new oil are looking over the properties in the GEOLOGICAL WORK Mapes and Blue Prints, Surveying Crude Oil Testin; Specialty Don’t wait. The McPherson is going down deeper every day. ells but miscellaneous operations! Byron and Mahon fields. Just be-|| w, i . . on % account for three other completions, fore the United. States entered the| | Smee wag oad Blne Print Co, bE ble for you to buy lots in this addition after the well comes in. ull of which were gassers. war, a deal wes about to be consum- | Casper, Wyo. tae Cine In al wells were completed, as mated by which one of the large cop- ! ‘ Impossi- against 30 in June, and new produc- per firms was to take over some of! tion totaled 6,500 barrels against the Byron field territory with a view 1,300 for the previous month. Ten to laying a gas line northward into dry holes were encountered, two Montana to take care of the metal | TAYI OR & CI A, Y. Inc. more than in June, and three gassers refining and also for domestic uses. | 9 ° There are rumors of Big Things doing an THE EAST SIDE. So don’t wait. I have only a few lots left. were uncorked, a falling off of four This also involved the establishment STOCKS AND BONDS Mor the month. Approximately 420 of an extraction plant for the gaso- rigs «re up in Wyoming, an increase line, but due to the war measures Daily telegraphic quotations from New York, Denver, ana of 30 over last month and the pro-|the proposition fell through and it other markets over our private wires. St. Phone 968W portion of those drilling is approxi- is now being revived, according to| Place ths convewient facilities of our office at your dis mately the same, 275 being in opera- reports from that district. | posal to buy, sel lor obtain the best markets and up to the min- tions on the first of the month. East of Basin, on Paintrock creek, | ute quotations. A new phase in the recent oil de- near Hyattville, a wildcat is starting Information and quotations furnished upon request on velopment of the Northwest is the that is attracting attention. This weil i y Local Oils, New York Stocks, Liberty Bonds and other issues. wildcatting work that has started in is being put down by what is termed the Big Horn Basin within the past|locally the Mendenhall syndicate, Phone 203 Casper, Wyo. 212 Oil Exchenge Bldg. few weeks. This district hitherto composed of men from Springville, | |