Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 4

PAGE FOUR PRODUCTION IN DOUBT IN WG Land Commissioner, Bureau of} Mines and State Are at Varia \ question aly producir of crude oil th not quantitie: been giv as to whether n credit for in Reports nce Wyoming r greate hat it has ev: the various fovernment reports has been raised by unnual report of the the public land In fact, says pened for dis estion of wh: 1 ul year ending June 30, 1919, bert R. Ingram in Wyoming production of the Wyoming fields 1 oF) office commis- for the ord- the writer, it on in some quar- at is the real report states that during crawn ar res put out by the bu ud other agencies, unde oil were produced year within the with- If these fig- correct, it is believed that the areau of mines r estimate the production of the state. The U. S. Bureau of Mines monthly reports on the oil industry eredit the Rocky Mountain district, which in- cludes Colorado, Wyoming and Mon- tana, with the movement of 13,698,783 of crude oil from field sources the y ending June 30. If the 1 ba produc from the withd: wn year is n in Salt lucted fro of mines figures, they leave only 4,1 fields in the 2 bar te-owned three states the produc nd patented The official figures of land board for uly, production of 109,381 barr owned lands in W inonth. Using the: “ that 1919, oming du e figure gives an approximate Creek during m the bureau including the ction from the lands in Salt the Wyoming showed a els from state- pro- cuctior the year ending June 30 of 1,312,5 from state-owned londs. In ry, 1919, K. Schuy- ler, president of the Merritt Oil corpo- rat uve out an official statement seying the production from the Merritt holding 0 1 pproxim| the ye It rel a day. il runni, 1918, with a flu bar a day ind is now 4,000 els. Givin, of only in the fis uly at of from th reek; the 1 state-owned lant trom the Merritt ),000 from the Mi 14,147,703 barrel: June 30, or 4b8 Bureau of to the entire Rocky gion embracing Wyoming, Colorado. Somebody's figur What became of th from barre endir than the U. ed mu: holdings of the Ohio Oil company, the | 8 company, the Elkhorn Oil com: pany, the Glenrock Oil company, and the Midwest in the B duction from Bik Pilot Butte, Warm and Lander fields? the production from the held which was started thru the B lilue on April 1; the Lost ‘Spider field which started runnin: out May 1, ‘nd the production from the Bouldcy | und Wlorence fields in Colorado? During the same 12 months covered Ives the rick reported the completion of 308 wells in Wyoming wit ha new produc ton of 36.454 rrels a day, The figures indicate that the true situation is not being disclosed in the | opinion of some’ of the ofl men. It is not thot like that they are being held Jack on account of the pending least bil for the reason that the revenue ceru ) the government, and there fore ts of la duction Would tend to encoura passage of the bill SS OIL EMB (By WASHIN¢ Dec lipment or elson et ux t Dlock 12 ete: in the Big Muddy wer 1,200,000 barre 20 barrels mc production from aver- equal This 000 barrels for ng practically 1er in Salt Creek on Sep- ish production and several r was ruuning better than making more is it an aver- 10 barrels for the 300 ding June 30, ie withdrawn barrels the 2,090,000 holdings; and jdwest gusher is for the y Mines c: Mountain re- Montana and st he wrong! Oil City 1 RGOIS | LIFTED IN EAST ted Press.) The em fuel oil fror lifted by rail Dambrosio fo William et ux; lot 1 ek 121 and tot sper; Con. $1 et John W. Dingman to Chas. F 8; part of lot 7, block 130, Casper; Con $1 y C. to Winnie Bucknum: pert of section 2 4, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 Con. $1 Edwin ret ux to John Vv, MeIntire block 36, N. Casper uddition: Con, $100 ete M: Edelmuth et ux to LB. Telford part of lot 5, block 52, asper; Con. $1 ete. fe era Brionrz to H. L. Lud lot 94, block 38, N. Casper uddi ; Con. $1 et Harry N. Free to Coe quis: lot 2, rt of lot 4, block 10, E. Burling’ aditio “on. $1 ete. = Harry ree et ux to Carl Mil of lot 4, all of 5, block 10, ‘ ‘ton addition: Con, $1 ete. See Ben Realty Co., to lot 98, block in Keny Con. $1 ete Sophia lots ane addition; » Butler Free et vir to block 7 Con. $1 ete. Corp. to Mike Midwest GEOLOGISTS OIL EXPERTS| Ben Sil dition; € Con, $2 E. A. Nore: Sheridan (eights Beslin; lot 2, Oil Field Maps Blue Prints Explorations Wyoming Map & P. O. Box 325. Reports e Print Co. . 10, Lyric | sallow fields of Oklahoma und Kansas 5 | Local Oil Stocks : Today’s Markets by Furnished Daily by Taylor & Clay, Building, Casper, Wy: H Bid Ask {Amalgamated Royalty -.--- $1.00 $1.12 | Amer 02.03 jAtlas — 04 | Besseme = 23 Boston Wyoming 23 Big Indian Al Burke Oil — 223 Buck Creek 1.48 Black Tail — 13 Columbine ~ 43 Consolidated R 1.35 Cow Gulch -_- 33 Bikhorn! ssc ees So 20 Great Western Petroleum — 13 Jupiter — 03 Kinney 55 Hutton Lake ~ AEs 024 | nee Creek Roy: Lusk yalty - - Lusk Petroleum - Mosher .Oil — Mountain & Northwes Outwest Picardy Ttiverton Ri Ity & Sunset Prod. Corp- 25 1.70 1.73 03% OF Rock River -.. Salt Creek Big Muddy Pilot -Butte -. MARKET GOSSIP Minnesota Western Work; Star-Bair Shuts Down for Winter The Minnesota-Western Oil compar is ready to resume work on its well on the Big Ben on its well on the Big Bend structur 10 miles south of Shoshoni, Wyo., after being shut down to cement off a wa ter flow. The well is down 1,000 feet. Star-Bair company ‘has shut down for the winter on its well 13 miles southwest of Casper and will re- ume drilling in the spring at 2,328 feet. Good oil indications have been encoun- The terec, but it is possible that the pro- ducing” sands may lie too deep. | Lane Syndicate Financed. Approxir ely the entire 2,000 units, par $500, of the Lane syndicate, cently organized by of} men closely tentified with the Midwest Refinery mpany, to test the deep sands in the lave been sulk bout finance structure eribed and the syndica Besides acreage o1 in the shallow produe- three allow pro- ate has si 8 in Step M The Mutual Refining company, which operat ‘Jenrock, probably w ducing end of t Producing a refinery at I enter the pro oil industry at an carly date. Indications of this |contained in its recently acquiring a © lease on section 2 4-64, which n the town of Lusk and the Tan kK field. The company, which i the Mutual Oil compar City, is now enlarging its Glenroc jimery. It is also extending eling facilit thru the re pur- which operates 45 tank sta- The company is also preparing jte build an oil distributing plant at liuxton, Colo. Nebraska Wildcat. ‘The Bassett Oil & Gas company com- Trenced deep test in the spring of 1/18 on section 10-30-19, near Bassett, Neb., wheih was drilled to 2,300 feet with a standard rig when the hole was |ubandoned on count of lost tools Which could not be recovered. The rig | as shifted and another hole started ‘hich is down 452 feet with 12-inch | Casing and stopped in good shale on ac- | count of coal shortage. Operations will jb» resumed in the spring. ‘The first gus pockets and ein of coal and the prospects 1, considered ‘sufficiently promis | 0 ustify anoth tempt, ‘TOM MEANEY HEADS NEW Tom EF. Meane | offic will open i » of his own to ing, will open his off of the Henning Hotel. new office. rt ok. Stal y und M. ©. Qutton. Staley main in the Mr. » building but Dutton r the broke n the in r rly Mr. i ent sings occupied | BROKERAGE FIRM He Mex 25 $208.75 The beet sugar production has dropped 3 |rewasvon etre Nun ah retary to the ministry of food. Mr. Me-| ort 4,200,000 tons in Burppe since 1914. |Sinclair Oi "43.75 44.87/CUFdY expressed this view during an| ‘The cane sugar production of the world lu. S. Ste 102.50 "97 | interview with a correspondent of the! meantime has increased but only 1,800,- | ‘countries now/ which securing ‘far below what they need in the way of foodstuffs, when the times comes for them to buy, it will he impossible to refuse them their*fair Bhare of re certainly seal 00a deal to its rarity. At one time fies (pis trees were quite plentiful in Ceylon, but only a comparatively few jealously guarded by the government. a Read The Tribune Want Ads enssion, not much that is said. re- vaplin are rhubarb what the world produces. We cannot let one part-of the world starve while ancther section bag plenty. . “There is another factor. to be con- sidered also. Where production hag been stimulated during the war it must ultimately revert to normal. It isnot Ground Floor Oil Exchange 1. He 1.44 147 4.30 Williams, E. ‘, Western Exploration - Wyo-Kans Wy-0-Tex -. 3] < . . |Matural as it. stands. In the United Keo-Hurst 12.38) 5-42 muy States, for ingtance, the meat produc- New York Curb ‘Stocks Bolshevism at One End of World| tion has been artifically stimulated, and it is hard to estimate when this tem- Open, Close and Widespread Strikes at - | porary condition will vanish. America Midwest Refining ------$159.00 $161.00 English next-year may be an importer of meat, Milwest Common -.----- 1.50 2.00 Other, a Food instead of @ big exporter. See what Midwest Preferred ---- 2.00 3.00 Expert Claims that would mean to the rest of the Merritt 19.25 19.75 world. |Glenrock Oil -. - 3.25 3.50 S “In regard to wheat, the exportable Cosden | 9.00 | 9.25| LONDON.—(By mail.)\—The world can| surplus of the world is down compared |} Okmulgee fi 1.12 1,25 |@xPect no relief from the preseht higi| with that before the war. Import re- Salt Creek Prod. Assn-. 44.50 ~45.25 | 08t of living and the shortage of com-| quirements at the same time are up. 1,50 |Modities until the widespread social and “ {industrial unrest bas disappeared and 10.75 |the war-shattered economic machinery has been put. in order, according to Charles A. McCurdy, parliamentary sec- The same ‘thing is true of butter and in some countries its consumption has been increased by the lack of margar- ine. “There is also a sugar shortage. jvcstexn, States O. & L-- > 1.25 |Prod. & Ref., 10.50 New York Stock Exchange Stocks 103.87 Associated Press, and added zhat he Was not particularly optimistic over the 104.25 |chances of any marked betterment of _$99.50}the situation in the near future. . 93.60] “We have Bolshevism at ene cnd of 91.36 | the world and widespread strikes at the 93.74 | other,” said Mr. McCurdy, “and not un- 93.50] til society resumes its normal course 000 tons, - “In discussing prices we must con- sider the meaning of the phenomenon in the United States where there is no food shortage but an exportable syr- plus. The food supply. is above nor- mal, and yet the prices have advanced almost proportionately with the increase ||] Ist 4%4's 3rd 4%{"s WYOMING CRUDE OIL MARKET ENGLIND. STIL AND FIELD NEWS Resumes | : One of Best Known English Manu- structure. | \Rremendous and a bigger surplus than any other o€ the Montana Oil company of | | of the T. Meaney nd Company. Mr. M jo has had charge of the | wir of the Dutton & Staley jcompany in. the Oi change © build-| in the lobby} He will be in|} | ange came as a result of the! dissolution of partnership between Rob-! present’ of-| company in the Oil Bx-! may Hen- CHRISTMAS TREES BUY THEM NOW Others, 5 to 8 feet; $2.50, to: $3.50 MAIL YOUR ORDER NOW! - —to——— f If 7 "He ie of course. Fat no man has iD) lived always yet. Capitglize your earning power to- Table size, $1.50 day—inerease Four cal NOW.. SIGN THAT: LIFE INSURANCE PPL SATION TODAY. | i tgr tigers fl Provide # real, Chrixtmuy present ‘aside suspicion as a policy ruinous to 4th 4%4's - 91.54) can we right economic conditions. in Great Britain which is largely an Victory Loan - ~ 98.90 “It is yery difficult to prophesy re-:importing country. This curious situa: garding the food situation of the future | tion makes one realize that in esti- in view of the fact that the whole eco-| mating food prices the economic effects | Grass Creek’ ..___. -- 2.10 | nomic structure of the world has been! peculiar to foofistuffs ure not the de- termining factor, but economic condi- "$2.10 | 8° badly dislocated. There is hardly any 5 {factor of business that is stable, and} tions as a whole. 5 | Wwe do not know what wages are to be.; ‘There’ seems to be a tendency in As a result of these conditions the reg-|many countries to expend war wages ular channels of distribution are disor-jand profits “on consumption—goods, ganized and until they are normal it|food, clothing, etc., to a greater ex- will be impossible to tell what effective|tent than on the purchase of raw ma- supplies there are as compared with the| terials for the extension of industry.\ world stocks. |it may be partly due to this that con- “While it is true that America, Eng-|5UMption goods on the whole have such land and some other countries are suf-|@ upward trend since the armistice.” ficiently supplied now so ‘that there is| one - no distress among the ‘people, yet this) The rarest of all precious woods is comparative abundance is in reality.alsaid to be-the calamander, a_ tree CHEAP’ WAGES fictitious one, and may not last. Great/ which grows in Ceylon, wiere it is held / Sena weweseecwes 13 sections of the world are actually hun-/in reverent awe. The wood is beauti- gry because of the impossibility of dis-|tuiy mottled in veining when polished, tributing supplies properly. If the! put its almost priceless value is due a channels of distribution were open and} —— the economic conditions were such that Eleven head foodstuffs could be purchased by those Black-faced Bucks; ‘shear 16 1-2 pounds countries which need them we probably would find ourselyes faced with a short- wool; weigh about 150 pounds; three years old; ex- age in many, things. ‘or example, if the peoples of cen-| cellent condition; sell reason- able. See tral Europe should be in position next! year to purchase the meat they need Care Casper forage Grocery there would be a world shortage of sey-| Yo. facturers Declares Wage Earn- ers Inherited Ideas Caus- ing Low Wages eral million tons, It is imporobable that ix suffering from low wages, declared |they will be atle to buy but it is im- Lord Leverbulime has set an example | Possible to predict so far in advance.; cnown manufacturers, on the eve of{! believe that a year from now things} his departure for the United States.| Will have been brot to a head and that, Lord Leverhullme has set an example |the world will be facing its most crit-/ to British industry by application to/ical time. ; | his own business of advanced ideas! ‘There are those who tell me that I} ‘in the relations of capital and labor. am wrong in my outlook and that there “Our wage earners have inherited) Will be no shortage, but I ‘can figure it!” SS ideas which low wages inflicted upon them and @ur manufacturers have not LONDON, (By Mail)—England_ still boon driven By big-wages to develop Will N b fe) = D Ww h t labor saying machinery,” he said. sd eas. gt 13 ryt Jay ‘it out “The era of low wages has passed, H : : ‘If our manufacturers improve their machinery and our wage earners throw 148 East Second St. Phone When you are Buying Candy there is added pleasure in the knowledge that you are patronizing Home In. dustry. 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