Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1920, Page 4

4 4 i ) i ES ed ek ERAT SSH aee ae meee enone” et OED) Peel PS —— r r EE Bn a PAGE FOUR WARKET GOSSIP- AND FIELD NEWS The complete financing of the Ogallala Oil company, which was organized by Victor Ziegler, former professor Of oil; 4™lgamated Royalty Beology at the Colorado State School of American ------ -------. Mires, was announced on Wednesday |Atlas --- by Pettigrew & Meyer, New York brok-|Bessemer_ + ers, who have contracted to underwrite | Boston Wyoming - the entire 1,000,000 shares of treasury |Big Indian stock at a price which will give the|Burke Oil - company ample funds for prosecuting |Buck Creek its development program in Wyoming, | Black Tail — Kansas, New Mexico, Te: and Lou-|Columbine isiana. Payments will be distributed |Consolidated Royalty over the next nine months by the ex-;Cow Gulch piration of which time it is believed some|Eltkhorn —__ of the properties will have become!Elk Basin earners {Great Western Petroleum -- To make the financing effective, J.|Hutton Lake I. Carper of Denver has been made| Kinney - chairman of the board of directors of the| Jupiter — - company and will give much of his time |,Lance Creek Royalty to the company’s interests. Under the|Lusk Royalty direction of Mr. Ziegler, the Ogallala|Lusk Petroleum company, which was organized as an|Mountain & Gulf — exploration concern, has acquired about|Mosher Oil 140,000 acres in more than a score of|Northwest structures in the states named. On | Outwest =. these lands or In close proximity there! Frantz Corp. are six producing wells and many more] Picardy —.___ a wells drilling. On one structure, in Elk|Riverton Refining county, Kansas, Benedum & Trees, big}Royalty & Prod. Corp. oil operators of Pittsburgh, have ‘com-|Sunset : Today’s Markets by Wire : =—_—_ i Furnished Daily by Taylor & Clay, Ground Floor Oil Exchange- Building, Casper, Wyo. Willams, E. T. --.--. 1.90 1.95 | Western Exploration ~ 442 4.47 Wyo-Kans -----. .----.--- 1.80 | 2.06} Wy-0-Tex Ceo-Hurst Midwest Refining -. Midwest Common - 1.75 2.50 Midwest Preferred — 2.00 Merritt 20.25 | Glenrock Oil 3.87 | Cosden ..- 9.25 Elk Basin — 8.75 Okmulgee P. & R- 1.00 | Salt Creek Prod. Assn 50.50 | Western States 0. & L. 1.37 | Prod. & Ref., Com_-- 9.75 . , New York Stock Exchange Stocks Mexican Petroleum $194.50 $198.00 | Texas Oil - 197.50 198.50 | Sinclair Oil 43.00 43.75 U. S. Steel — 104.87 106.00 Call Money -6 per cent ~---135% pleted a well which is standing full of|'rom Bell Roy ct leased by the Ogallala]Gates _ nd are prepared to drill two] Wind Ri In Wyoming the company Y Refining — more well: h age in the Lance Creek and WYOMING ORUD O1L MAREET » fields and on the Dewey struc-|Rock River $3.95 [Grams Creek. 6 ture’ near the South Dakota line, on|Salt Creek — Elk Basin s which the Midwest Refining company /Big Muddy Tusk is now drillir wildcat. Negotiations Pilot Butte vanare ame in progress for the dey opment of a 1.25 the company which is said cp in the 30,000-acrr lease which holds in British Hondurs to show the largest oil world. —_—_— At the annual meeting of the Moun-| ¢,— e A A i tain & Gulf Oj! eccmpany held in Ch 5 enne on Tuesday, the following directors | y were elected: R. M. Aitken, L. L. Ait- SpA rdner, Thomas A. Dines, Ritter, Ralph John Merritt, first peace officer in , rona county and to whom there | belongs the ‘distinction of being the | man whose perseverance and contfi- dence resulted in interesting eastern capitalists to drill the first oil well in the Salt Creek field, is visiting in Cas- per for a few days. His sojourn here has been the occasion for a number ,,of gatherings of old-time residents, | featured with recollections of days j ne by. Mr. Merritt was scouting around in this country as early as 1876. He is id to have been the first actual set- tlar in Casper, having camped on the banks of the Platte river and what is board of directo used larg: in proven districts. posed by the new stock will be quiring propertic A seat on the w York Stock E change was sold on Monday for $115,- 000, the highest pri¢e ever paid. Two ts were sold as low aoe ROYALTY GATS BENG SECURED BY NEW YORK now known as Riverside drivé, two blocks from the former home of | Charlie O’Neall which is now the Drilling operations are veing contin: | residence of John Daly. ued with little ruption on tk In the early '80's he was.appointed York Oil company propert The New| deputy sheriff under Sheriff “Bill” | York company announc tentative | High of Carbon county, Natrona co: rights but ' 4, mount of thus transaction for more r the terms of the deal and royalty has not been announced far. being a part of Carbon at that ume. He circulated the petition ap plying for the incorporation of the | town of Cz nd also participated nt proceedings making the a eS 1 division of Natrona from Carbon. AlG HEALS PENDING RY } William Hawley, elected as the first mayor, left town shortly after his ¥ and absent from = the PORT nearly all the time during . | incumbenc Mr. Merritt is given full eredit for ihe effe he put forth in interesting TIE sting of the Fargo Oil - The nnael m aa ier red sail M nnon and associates of Pitts. company was held here J ws was | 2UreL, in drilling Shannon well No. 1, Tyeuday. A board of directors was) north of the present home camp, and | elected. The report of the company Was] wich ein gusher. nnon said to bg satisfactory in all Eateected at that time was reputed to be the | Several b deals by the 30 a A largest independent oil producer in > discussed in the meeting but] i. United State nent of them has not been In the fall of '88 the town of Ca No statement regarding the de c of Cas. per was found and a healthy boom velopments of the company will be The townsite was dotted made public until a later date, s ts and such old-timers as eS en, A. J. Cunningham, Eads und daughter, Fannie, PIPF 1 INF Til fANN ih elson, John Johnson, Dan I Robert White, and oth ame in with the rush, a great m. A During his residence here up until SUR ane Tesienee, UNE NORWAY GOAL FIELD MAY SUPPLY TWO NATIONS CHRISTIANTA.—( acted from A pipe line is to be com the Mav k Springs oil field in the southern part of Wyoming to Rock River so as to provide an outlet for the oil from this field, The Midwest is said to be back of the project. The district to the north of this field in the Red Desert country has had wells all wor ing and these have been kept in opera mail.) ~ Coal fields are the most valuable tions in spite of the recent storm. 1 for which the aris hus given 1 here that if they will pro- grade of hard coal, Mining for ore — | present is not mueh b experi- Further development of the Bolton | mental stage in § n. The fish- ing about the islands is very poor. Nor- + | wegian expeditions have done much ex- the | p' tion work und the largest cow Ids have been uecquired by the Nor- weglan mining compani . southeast of Casper, reported to » largest tentative field in the sta ted in the possibility of Carter Oil company bringing in its ink | ¢ tial producer in this region within the next two weeks. It will make the third oil well in the Bolton field, the Poison |COMMON WITCHHAZE Spider-Bolton syndicate and the New Wore ON ‘company having’ the” ale FINE FOR SORE EYES wells. \ It is surprising how quickly eye in- flammation is helped by common witch: hazel, camphor, hydrastis, etc., as mixe? in Lavoptik eye wash. One elderly lady who had been troubled with chronic LW BARGE FIELD SAID » inflammation for many years, war greatly helped in two days. We guar- untee # smal! bottle of Lavoptik to help zZ ANY CASE weak, strained or inflam ed Aluminum FRE. eye cup The La Barge field north of Kemmer- er is reported to be a good field with rromising future in Wyoming's oil velopment. Two wells with indications of a fine grade of ofl were brot m within the last seven Jays and u third one ip) being drilled in this field, located in the | extreme southwest part of the state, LIST YOUR OIL LAND LEASES and ROYALTIES with us for quick sale. BRUNSVOLD & FUNKHOUSER Office: Taylor & Clay Oil Exchange Bldg. Phone 203-204 }GEOLOGISTS OIL EXPERTS ~ Oil Field Maps Blue Prints Explorations Reports i Wyoming Map & Blue Print Co. P. 0. Box 325. Rm. 10, Lyric NG OF FIRST WELL “OFFICER 15 HERE ’97, Mr. Merritt was at that time one of the stockholders of the Natrona County Tribune when M. P. Wheeler was editing it for “the good 6f the Republican party.” A. J..Mokler pur- | chased the paper shortly before Mr. Merritt left and diryeted its destinies | up until 1914, when it came into its present ownership. Mr. Merritt is located now in Phil- lipsburg, Kansas, where he is engaged | in wild-catting a promising dome of 50,000 acres for ofl with a 12%-inch hole now down to a depth of 700 feet. | He is here in connection with some holdings. he and Robert Taylor have in the Salt Creek field and to pur- ch easing for the well being drilled in Kansas. SAILORS HELD | FOR ASSAULT ARE RELEASED (By Associated Prens.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Harry | Learned and Harry Martin, sailors of the American submari chaser Poko- his |moke, who were arrested at Mazatlan, | Mexico on a charge of assaulting a Mex- ican citizen and who were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, were re- the state department guest navy ck QUE IN CHOPER IN NEAR FUTURE The the U Under the immediate direction cf N V. Kurtz, Supervisor of the Firs! cen sus district of Wyoming census enurn- erators will call at every dwelling house in thi mation necessary to fill out the ques-| living in it. itions contained on the printed census! the next ten years will be det schedules. ; Que points will be the U Cok Age Whether single, married, | divorced; : Birt ) birthplace of father and mother, giv- ing ni ince i Occupation, specifying trade or pro-| fession, also industry in which em-} pres you a idea how ‘ahe ed and felt. By ta ployed; | Gitot Korein ana’ following Whether attending school; | ee ‘Korein Whether able to read; 1 1 pa ea aeeaet Sree aise Whether able to write; | agile "attractive. mene Whether able to speak English; | Beane Rettabe antiofoe Whether home is owned or rented, sit and if owned whether home free} Bia! of encumbrance or is mortgaged; | _‘Hlender and mndorsed by Persons of foreign birth will be asked, Oil of Korel (uestions concerning these points: Sex; JELLICOE IS GUEST OF DANIELS IN WASHINGTON—The admiral of the secretary for the day, inspecting the staff d and the Washington navy yard and gun works. culture schedule. concerning the acreage and his farm; whether he owns, value Fourteenth Deceftnial Consus of nited States is on! | raised on his farm during the y cover ull possible fam operations. census vitally concerns the welfar this community and of ev ‘The offictal popu is community to secure the info-- | by the census of covering the following Pa ked of every person in’ sage PENALTY / (By Associated stions nited Stat widowed or} ‘ hplace of person enumerated and james of both country and prov- peta Poth | She was Fat Tho shadow on this picture comes tp soa tn plain additior in Co. ND-301, Station ¥, New Fork city HOUSE FURNISHINGS ‘THE KIND THAT MAKE WORK EASY The careful housewife who understands how neces-’ sary it is to have only the best cleaning helps and appli- ances to perform her daily tasks around the house, will appreciate the complete assortment of such things which we have to offer. Holmes Hardware Co. Phone 601 Second and Wolcott / @ a b a SENPE a the telephone. ~ the household. A Drop in the Bucket Every householder’s expenses are divided into a number of items; food, rent, clothing, fuel and light, house-furnish- ings, insurance, education and amusements, sickness—and Of all these items of expense, the telephone bill is one of the least, being a very ‘small per cent of the total cost, For a trifling sum at most you have constantly at your command millions of dollars worth of property and the service of skilled workers. F In businéss the cost of the telephone is frequently an even smaller proportion of the overhead expense, than in It only needs an emergency to bring it home to any subscriber that the telephone is worth many times its cost. In the face of today’s high costs the telephone is a bar- gain; and a daily economy for every subscriber. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph + , | Joe E. Denham, cashier; R. F, Kamman, aa ot Year of immigration to the United! Census enumerators also will call at every farm in this community to se-| cure the information necessary to fill out the questions contained on the agri-| Whether naturalized, and if so the F | Each farmer will be asked questions| Syed wae i : i of . He) rents or Dealers in Petroleum Securities partly owns and parey rents the land |he farms; the value of the buildings, | semen * | Machinery and improvements belonging y to his farm; the quantity of all crops! r 1919; and many other quetions whtch An absolutely accurate and complete of il | LONDON, Jan, 15.—Virtual abolition ion of the death penalty against all non- Be aarp ngays Bolsheviki in soviet Russia was an-! |nounced by wireless from Moscow to- axed fassistant cashier ,and ‘T. C. Daniel, as- sistant cashier, e TWO NEW DIRECTORS . tad ty 0 Mrs. C. E. ‘Wisner’ returned this | morning from a week's ‘visit in Denver, ADDED T0 PERSONNEL OF BANK OF COMMERGE <== eee mm en Oy CASPER BATTERY CO. L. R. Earnshaw, Prop. 515 East Yellowstone Ave, Phone 907 One block east of Oil City Filling Station VESTA Double Life Storage Batteries Guaranteed service on all Storage Batteries Free testing and distilled water } The annual meeting of the stockhold- ers of the National Bank of Commerce was held in the directors’ room of the: bank Januaty 13. | The former members of, the board Were re-elected and the names of L. G Murphy and George B. Nelson were added as additional directors. | The directors chosen for the ensuing |Year are Hugh L. Patton, T. Barl C. Boyle, John McFadyen, Jce E. elson, 1. A. Keed. hur K. Lee, Ira G. Wetherill and Thos. Kenney. | Officers elected were Arthur K. Lee, |President; Ira: A. Wetherill, vice-presi- jdent; Hugh L. Patton, vice-president; Sede Work & Company 222 First ‘National Bank Bldg. Phone Main 6219 Denver, Colo. c ANNOUNCEMENT: Under the management of Thomas H. Work, we announce the re-opening of our Denver office in the First National Bank Building to deal in Petroleum Securities and to do a gen- eral Brokerage Busine: Our former well-known and _ satisfactory service to our clientele will be maintained and all our facilities are at your disposal. The previous established policy of specializing in high grade and meritorious petroleum securi- ties will be adhered to in.a manner as conserv- atively as ever. An efficient trading department for the bnying and selling of securities onthe Denver market will be conducted under thd direction of Mr. Walter E. Plettner, where all orders will receive immediate attention. ¥ An invitation is extended to our old clientel- as well as the buying public who are interested in the purchase of meritorious Petroleum Sec: ties, to call upon us for advice, information or éstment. WORK AND COMPANY, IN Lester - Brokerage House Specializing in NEW YORK OIL 156 N. 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