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u eee ee int RH, > a . ja The “death plant” of Java ha: | SYNDICATE FINKCEDB ein it Dl i ' ‘ } perfume so powerful as to overcome. ce : . if inhaled for any length of time, » i A TOWN PARTIES DRILLING cuit growp mn, apd pick kill al 8 : Ame ’ ! i forms of insect life that come under i Furnished by TAYLOR & CLAY OIL P RODUCTION TO START. BOLTON FIELD TESTS STARTED 10 Birman 3 Room 212, Oil Exchange Bldg. —_ |. Set moro Tai gs in Capital and Plans for : mas eye June Send Month- JS = aS Gerard & Summers Spud in on Increase in Capital M s i Local Stocks Wyo-Kans. 500 2.50. | _ ly Total over Seven Million Coe, is os a tA ayes Large Structure 70 Miles West Building Coming up at Meet- ¥y-0-Tex. , a: recto: e Poison Spider-! 0) x ; 6 5 es Ta ae tare enn | Wy-0-Tex. 24 28 Barrels syndicate that a deal was’ consum- for Deep Test ‘ing ‘Soon = Amalgamie: y- D114 018 Dalts. {mated last Thursd4y With a grou; x 5 r . American 03 | Stanley Greene..-.. 100 125 (By Staff Correspondent.) | of lowe: capitélists headed ay Evel Number 1 rig of the Gerard & aS a. mmectinests amr ceo Atlas ~~ 2 | Mosher ._ 4 100 FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 12.—| Meents, of Meents & Johnson of Ida] S¥™mers company in the Richards|at Riverton, s' @ Bessemer af | 200 Club - £00 400 Texas produced*7,151,000 42-gallon!| Grove, whereby the syndicate became field has been spudded in after go- erton-Wyoming Refining es Boston Wyoming | Teapot -_ - 90 100 | barrels of oil in June, according to fully financed and discontinued the|i™& down more than 150 feet and}will vate on a proposal Levees Big Indian | New Y. | the official report of the geological) sale of f, i Thi ..| arrangements were completed so that|the capital stock ¢rom R : r | lew York Curb | a ; sale of further uni Magnes F Ay, 50,000 and to change the par Subscriber. f Burke Oil __ | Midwest Refg. 164 | survey just issued. The figures show] nation of the syndicate holdings and|‘illing could start early Monday|$1,260, s c Buck Creek ___- | Midwest Com. __ 1.75 {that Texas now leads the United) a¢fairs occupied over a-week. The morning. The, rig is located .on 15-| value from one cent . ‘$1.a share. AND Black Tail — : | Midwest Pref. 2.50 States in established production. Cali-| eastern investors were represented by | 36-89, which is about six miles south-/At ee on S$ ie < Columbine _ = Merritt —_ 22.00 fornia has an estimated production|B W. Baker and the syndicate by| st of the town of Richards on the the capacity af the Stockholders 7 Con. Royal = 2 | Glenrock Oi _ 5.00 of 8,062,000 barrels for the same| Gao. W. Jarvis. North Western. The field is located |be discussed. 9 Cow Gulch Saas | Cosden —— --___- 10.25 10.50 | period. Texas will probably exceed) 4 new National drilling machine| out 70 miles northwest of here. a henge we in Peso i Elkhorn _____-_ 47 50 | Okmulgee P.& R. 2.00 2.50 | these figures when the vast quanti-| and complete new equipment has been| The process of spudding into the|aged with ils ‘= TAKE NOTICE 9 Great Western Pet. .19 .20_ | Sinclair Gulf -._ 52.00 52.50 | ty of oil now in earthen reservoirs) purchased and is now being hauled to| 20-inch hole has been going on for/finery started to operate on oils con- : Huton Lake ---- 023.034 | Salt Ck. Pr. Assn. 50.50 51.50 | in Burkburnett and Desdemona can! the Bolton field by four trucks work-| #bout two weeks, the work ending|tracted from the Pilot Butte and ; ; y Jupiter 02 04 Wst. Sts. 0. & L. 3.90 4.00 | be carried off by new pipe lines. ing night and day. Drilling will start| Sunday. The work was in the blue) Lander fields and ae in —! A special train of Pull- Kinney —- 65 3 | Pr. & Refg. Com. 7.873 8.00 | The Texas company, Magnolia, Em-| just as soon as material can be as-| Shale when plans were being made|board of directors ga man cars and diner will t Lance Creek Rity. .75 | New York | pire, Prairie, Humble, Sinclair, Tex-| sembled. Sunday to put the well on the beam./and ‘substantial interests into! the leave Denver, Colorado, c Lusk Royalty -.. 48 } - Stock Ruchange as Producing & Refining company,| Owing to the fact that two tof the| With a standard rig and modern|company. Among these was the elec-|] (Vo, she Burlington at nine a Lusk Petroleum 40 . Open Close and a dozen smaller companies are) origi ; ieee “| equipment and outfit costing approxi-|tion of J. “A. Delfelder, wealthy bord . a a € Mexican Pet. - 178 1743 n ny original directors were unable to give ry ident. o’clock in the evening of Mountain & Gulf 40 * pee rushing work on new pipe lines to) al] their time to th mdicate’s af.| mately $30,000, the Gerard & Sum-|stockman of Riverton, as presiden ii ton 4 Mosher Oil Texas 2011 —— 2538 253 | the Burkburnett, Desdemona, Ranger, | fai 7 lst hae cntil mers company is prepared to go down! Improvements contemplated by the August 24th, bringing only Northwest = : ari. | Sinclair Oil 55 554 | and Stephens county fields. ‘ Heite Brite & mare ont ee 4,000 feet, according to Malcolm! board include the installation of a} Pan Motor Company sub- H -- | a0 Romi sest fee 103 1082 | "The northwest extension of Burk-| rectors with Geo. W Servis, come “1 Scott, field superintendent of the|score of new tanks. ranging from | scribers and stockholders ° 3 a5ae5 | |burnett has an estimated daily pro- cee tol ey company in this field. But Mr. Scott) 250 to 10,000 barrels capacity, the/{ and representatives to the & Riverton Refg. __ .20 | Sis --. 99.80 | duction of 50,000 barrels, awaiting said yesterday that he expected the|construction of additional trackage to|] Second Annual Stockhold- Rity. & Pr. Corp. 49 | det a 94.10 | pipe line facilities. The state rail- . first oil sand at 1,600 feet. the amount of 300 feet and new, ers’ Meeting to be held at Gunset —_ 2. 22 | 2n@ 4s 93.00 | road commission ordered this field te} The Gerard company only last week stills to handle larger production. — | ete) Claud om At ¢ Tom Bell Royalty .50 | Ist 4is 94.10 | shut down for five days recently; this leased 640 acres of additional land —__—— i th ugus United Petroleum -07 | 2nd 44s 93.30 | was done to prevent a panic in prices. | close to the present location) ‘Venezuela received its name from | 26th. ! Wind River Refg. — .31 3rd 4is 94.96 Dozens of new refineries, from ten where drilling was begun yester-|the early explorers. Its coast was| This train 1s scheduled t Williams, E. T.-- 1.50 1 4th 4is __ 93.44 | to one thousand barrel capacity, aud day. This land on 22-36-89| visited by Columbus in 1498, and the! 4 St. Cl e { Western Explr.._ 3.80 3.85 Victory Loan 99.82 |at least six casing head gas plants a south was leased from the Camel-| following year the name Venezuela, | to prrive at St. Cloud at WYOMING CRUDE OIL MAREET are now in course of construction in | =— Butte Oil company. The two closest| or “Little Venice,” was given to an}J seven o’clock in the morn- L: Warm Spri $1.00, Elk Basi 1.85| Burkburnett, Desdemona and Ran- Building of Lovell Plant Marks Ex-] wells which appear to be progressing | Indian village built on piles. if ing of August 26th. 1 PF oan een tae BT TT eaecewnsconm <"on|ger. Every little town on the Texas ; f I q with the work in this region are those t : : 2 Soe aaa 185) & Pacific railroad from Ft. Worth to pepe oteccsisen of the Rydeout company about six : ' Subscribers and stock- Piet Bate See Ey Lander 1.26 | Abilene, is promoting a refinery or a This State miles due north of the Gerard & 4] holders, dealers and other H 3 : nanan nnn 128) casing head plant. OF the 7,151,000 —— Summers location and the Ohio rig, In Denver | representatives in Wyom- t credited to Texas for June, the North, The erection of a small plant at] which is said. to be in the horseshoe 4 ing, Utah, Colorado and t { Central Texas fields produced 5,000,-, Lovell for handling crude from the] structure of the region four miles ‘| New Mexico enema ts ; 630 barrels, or an increase of 4,516,-| Byron field marks the entrance of the} southwest of this location. It is also 'f Saint Cloud to attend th { ( 000; this is an increase of 400 per- General Petroleum company into the} understood that the Gerard & Sum- t 1 om . cent over the production in June,,?éfining business in Wyoming. Con-| mers company proposes to drill on! Make annua stockholders’ ; ° ° > ¢ ° ° ° ° ° ° 1918, which was 1,114,000. |struction has been started and the] 15-37-90. you meeting should arrange to f } $M3| Big and little companies share in first units of the refinery will have} ‘The Gerard-Summers rig and outfit HOME \] take this train. } this tremendous production. In the! # capacity of 250 barrels a day, rep-{ looks to be one of the best in this { ‘ : | ‘Burkburnett field, the Gulf produc-|tesenting the present production of] young field which Mr. Scott, superin- atthe | It will cost one hundred t tion is running 3500 barrels; the Tex- the Allen Oil company for which it] tendent of operations, says is the larg- \{ dollars per person for rail- od lVaenan? AAV Popn as Producing & Refining company, as contracted. . ; est area with structure surrounding it \]f road fare, Pullman fare The latest fairy tale of the oil | 6000 barrels; Magnolia 4000 barrels,|__ The Allen company is developing} mown to him in Wyoming, On all J and meals while on the ‘ world comes from Nebraska but it and the Texas company 3000 barrels | the Sarber lease on the Jones ranch] sides the structure is visible. Work Al BAN Y 4! train from Denver, Colo- t had its setting in Wyoming. As such} jaily. Miscellaneous companies in| in the Byron field, a tract which al-]on the rig started in April and now 5 do, to Sai t Cloud, Mi the following from an Omaha paper this field are running 69,000 barrels, teady has nine small pumpers. A operations are on in full blast. . ty | TREO, SO Caney p seeknn- r Svalll Gitereat ilnibane seadenas | daily. |deep test on the same ranch is now] The working crew is housed in a HO I El esota, and return on the ‘ “There came a drouth; the creek} —— Burkburnett is known as the “poor | own 1,750 feet and the sand is ex-| new bunk house, three houses making s fame train to Denver. All { was dry for the first time in remem-| ‘an’s field.” Oil is found here at|Pected within the next 150 feet. The} yp the main dwellings of the camp. those who desire to come ‘ brance of white men. Three hundred | 4 1700 feet, and wells are drilled for {cation is about 1,400 feet from the] 4 private electric light plant furnishes) A.ROOM —_ - on this train will please head of cattle on two Omaha boys’ | J $20,000, ‘In Eastland, Stephens and Pi gasser brot in by the Carter Oil! clectricity for the camp which is elec- A roe telegraph me and send in } ranch in Wyoming were wild with| ee Comanche counties, the oil lies much|"0™P&ny, which is rated at 60 million} triq lighted thruout. An artesian cer een at once one hundred dol- ’ thirst. , f ._| In the Big Hollow field near Lara-|deeper; they drill from 3000 to 3500 rs a aay, sand well and pump provides the complete BATH ae ; The boys drilled a well in a futile! mie the Kasoming Oil company is| feet, and the holes cost from $80,000 fining operations by the General] water supply for the drilling and for f search for water. At 200 feet they| drilling on section 12-15-75 and is| to $75,000 each. | Petroleum company are looked upon] the camp. A large tank holds the| ‘ struck oil. Samples of the oil were|about 1,000 feet deep. They will] ‘The Oil Investors association of #5 Significant in view of the com-} oj] supply while at Richard, six miles S. C. Pandolfo, 1 sent to laboratories. It tested 60% |probably get the Harris sand, where| Wichita Falls, headquarters of the|P2™y’s extensive drilling operations.} away, the company has a 250-barrel Presid. gasoline, more or less, Geologists oil has been found in this district,| Burkburnett field, has just issued a| While its tests in West Salt Creek) tank so there is little delay expected xppidenk ? were called in. ial jin a few days. The firm however, | list of 85 dividend-paying companies| W¢T¢ Unsuccessful, it is entering all} in waiting for an oil supply with} t “I believe this oil field is the big-|has built a standard rig and expects|in that district. Most of these 85| Promising fields and in the further-| which to operate. Pan Motor Co gest in Wyoming,’ one geologist told! to put down a deep test. ‘They have| companies have already earned their|®"°¢ of such a policy is certain to] Mr, Scott has been in the oil game $1.50 to $2.00 sf them. They plastered the country established a camp and have laid} griginal capital stock. The Marine develop big production at some fu-|as operator and superintendent of - Saint Cloud, Mi ‘round about their 4,500-acre ranch pipe Jine to supply the operation | Oil, for instance, paid 500 percent! Ure date. It has oil production in drilling operations for the last 25 Per Day SIRs ene with oil claims. One week ago the|with water from the water well about| on $200,000, and the Burk Waggoner | C#lifornia amounting to 12 million} years, He only recently came from : f cattle were shipped back to Nebraska four miles west. has paid 8,383 1-8 percent on $60,- barrels a year with refining capacity | the west where he has been in charge : at a heavy loss. No rain had come. The same firm is also drilling =|000. The Texas-Pacific Coal & Oil,|S¥Micient to handle 27,500 barrels a] of active operations in Washington 3 ii fat “But the Omaha boys are not in well on section 32-15-75 and is down] which operates in the Ranger field, is| 4¥- i and California. Mr. Scott has at) 4 mourning for their hard luck. The bout 600 feet with a mudhen. The) now piping 11,600 barrels daily out A Sues jeast one of his old men with him ; ; drouth that killed their hopes to be-|first location is on a smaller roll of¢| of this territory. , T.N.T.SHIPPED and reports that he has a crew of utton, ey mpany i come cattle kings has opened the! the main structure and is becoming The Prairie Oil & Gas company, unusually efficient drillers and tool r ‘ He road, they believe, for them to be-| known among the scouts and geolo-|which is operating on Texas & Pa~ TO BIG HORNS dressers. : “Casper’s Pioneer Brokers” } come oil millionaires. \gists as the Kasoming dome. cific coal acreage, reported a daily _ The Gerard & Summers syndicate) ‘ * : “These Omaha boys are Ed and Al! On the Sodergreen ranch to the| production of 8800 barrels last week.| 210 BUILD ROAD|'s @ Detreit, Mich., company, and is Daily accurate quotations from New York, Denver ‘ Shurig, electricians by trade. Ed was southy ext st he} mains aastare: the |The Prairie has a 50-50 arrangement | $ cpieneer outfit in the Richards and Lusk over private telegraph wires. in the army and Al in the navy. It Producers & Refiners is drilling with) with the Texas-Pacific coal. ea is 2 ield. r 1 was while in Uncle Sam's service that a standard rig about 1,100 feet and siees eas SIOERDAN. Mivlos 2038. 12-4 Taped her ga Domenh, 201 B03. auefed, 4 bhag they decided to become cattle kings.|12 miles north the Carter is below shipment of sixteen tons of the fa- t EU PeeV ice: your stocks with us, we will “With Jim Wilson and Art Briden-|1,100 feet on section 32-12-75. FOUR CASES OF _' mous explosive, T. N. 7, hus been get you the highest possible price. 1 feldt, of Wyoming, they purchased) In the central part of the field the| ¢¢ 9 | Sent to the Big Horn Worest for use Ask for our-Market Letter at 300 head of cattle and took them to|Big Hollow Drilling Syndicate has| “FLU”? REPORTED | roeds and trails, anys) the Jatest 411 Oil Exchange Bldg. se their ranch to be fed. completed its rig on section 18-15-7b Feports 0 aor eee SUPCEVISOr ees P} 1 5 | | Meethere was ite snow last winter and J. W Crapsey, in change of fila = FROM LARAMIE Palins, this exposive x some tha aaa Solem, iromine 7° and. the sk that runs thru our|Perations, reports that spudding will} was left after the war jand was ranch went dry,’ said Ed Shyrig in| commence in a day or two. This last} 1 ,pamip, Wyo, Aug. 12.—Dr,|Conated by the war department to] Aches, pais, nervousness, diffi- = 1 Omaha today. ‘It was the first time | Well is to be a deep test of the main| » “Tq rier reports four cases of |te joven: reserves to be used in the! culty in urinating, often mean 3 in history that there was no water in| Structure to see what the Muddy sand)" 1)" geaheg’ ita in. the city, | Work of salvaging. Twelve tons will! serious disorders. The world’s f 1 the creek. The drouth extended from |Contains. The Muddy is the produc-| 101. o¢ sehteh honaias: sak ey | be used on the Buffalo-Tensleep road.) standard remedy for kidney, liver, TAYLOR & CLAY, Inc. 1 the Big Horn Basin into South Da-|ing sand of the Rock Creek field, eee very merious. “Wines fae bear | While the remainder will be utilized] pioqder and uric acid troubles— STOCKS AND BOND; 1 kota and southern Montana. The|lying to the northwest of the Big Hol-) (oe 0s tree which the phy.|fn ‘he ene creek road. Ss eattin iatermenicd inal thatitee fe [low miegctare:| RR Pe ee ee ESE ein, ae, GOLD MEDAL Daily telegraphic quotations from New York, Denver, and and a neighbor drove the Well on) ee ae eee eee ollow” the wrork| B€W cases, he says, leave no room for| js said to give one thousand and fifty, ‘ other markets over our private wires. the boundary between ouE ie ae faaditse dceclatine ca tala eas doubt. All the patients are receiv-| six puffs shai) eas 2 . | Place the convenient facilities of our office at your dis- ae ete she mouatruck site oil 1 \portance: At grésent thete are ony | Oe caret nursing and medical at-| — UTE jase) sel lor obtain the best markets and up to the min- ’ : - T te |five wells delivering oil to the pipe 3 | LCADSULES | : old oil man. Together we put up/|)/¥° - . i bring quick relief and often ward off Informatio; our claims on the best looking oil ines Pat the poleneet Den ot drilling operations eyer started along | GEOLOGICAL WORK deadly diseases. -Known as the national Local Oils, ‘New 7 reeraly io ad poet oe t land around us. Our land is at a|{6 tleld, as slown by ihe ple ted. 4s the southern belt. The Ohio Oil com-|| Mepe and Blue Prints, Surveying | | remedy of Holland for more than 200 J ‘onds and other issues. ey higher elevation than any other oi! ete ian Baa nds oe etna’ pany is shipping in 60 carloads of |] Crude Oil Testing Specialty years. All druggists, in three sixes. Phone 203 ‘Casper, Wyo. 212 Oil Exchange Bldg. field in Wyoming. The geologists ®™C4*er ey re miinthe ace equipment to Rock River station and || Wyoming Map and Blue Print Co., | | ‘ook for the name Gold oer ben 1 told us the oil under our land sup-| eae teetiiey eRe Fee pues eeraipi7 go to sections 2, 3,|] P. O. Box pee Rm. 10, over Lyric i 1 plied one of the other fields. : t a fal | 10, 11, 34 and 36. eae ai “The big company that is back of |e down, as far as construction) _ a : = |S MIO III OO OOOO OMI LD LS OGM IS SMOG Ni us’ plans to put a pipe line into our) | oo4. 2 oat . Th j 2 i level if the preliminary tests of the supply and this means that the oil & & & K » t geologists bear up. must either be piped from Rock River “There has been no rush to our!to Laramie, or in case the refinery & & & & 1 region, because no one knows of the was built at Rock River, a pipe line @ ouse > 4 } & discovery except the five of us that’ to supply water would have to be Q : 2 j drilled the well for water and the|laid from Laramie. & I & « Sa & company we are dealing with. The Rock Creek field. is soon to nec. 2 ‘ I “I'd rather be a cattle king, but I see one of the greatest booms in y Yh the present business we look for, but the future as well & 1 don’t suppose I'll mind being an oil AA A ‘ w® 2 Boe ¢ Mme bela a 7) Specializing in | —that is why we build on QUALITY. Our reward & e es Ta Casper Loan Office |!& wie is & pleady growth in the solanse of cir hus ‘ HUTTON LKEWEMRING «| a‘Ree eeamae: |S NN ady growthinthe volime of ourbusines. ? your Wardrobe Trunk, Hand- z Bog, cod Bulteew st 1 iN ) In all of our manufacturin, ict 8 4 | ja ~ ¥ ROCK RIVER OIL SAND | evens so4.. tH 2, canter] 156.N. Woleot Phone 1142 ie digi i Grpastinsnts the strict ia fUEsene 200. cat |b NS lie est sanitary conditions prevail throughout, and the t Jae Xe | OOM LLL DI LI LIS ST IDS SST Sea DM: S ; ® most modern fa ili is for h : 2 . , Hutton Lake Oil & Gas company | F"" - = —— = : a cities tor andling and preparing & .3 is down over 2,350 feet with its weil | Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate |! goods for your table are employed. i Y By on section 4-19-78 in the Rock Creek | np! yed. , t field and the result of the test should Greater » :f be known in @ short time. Consid- 1? | $ . t ; crable delays have resvlted from lost 4 All Local -Qil Stocks Bought and Seld Use BO-KA ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA—either ‘hot or iced— ® 2 tools and other drilling trouble but) asper ro erage | toc ug t as your summer bever: . % c the men are now making hole stead-! | Mette ay y' age. ad & du ily and the formations encountered | "@ 7 * * : 4 1 of bpm es tier me Cm ompany We represent the Equitable Life Insurance company of N 4 z tion. A maetiaor ie went heiae New York and several excellent Fire and Automobile. NO-VARY PRODUCTS 60 ‘ ) =e SS a ; * . a 4 ao BAGaTian a Gt kaaaa book, Paine Tnvarane scomipenie- If interested call at the office Is % and the motion picture theatres is . and talk it over. ® i blamed by an English bishop for what\{ List Your Real Estate Wants F ona: MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. te he terms the deterioration in the mod-] . With Us for Quick Action 312-313 Oil Exchange Building. Phone 117 . & A A NRE ESS