Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1920, Page 4

PACE FOUR © E. 7. WILLIAMS STRIKES WELL IN TEX. FIELD New Producer on Strawn Lease in Which Local Company Has 80 Percent Interest, Rated at 350 Barrels The E. T. Williams Oil company Mon day completed its first well on the 87 acre lease in Stephens county, Texas, held by the Strawn Petroleum company in which the Williams company 80 percent stock interest. completion of this well was received at the company’s offices in Denver in a telegram from B. dent of the company, who was present when the well was drilled in Mr. Williams wired that three more wells, offsets to wells now drilling or completed, will be started within the next ten days. He gave no estimate of the production of the new well other than to state that it is a “good one.” This well offsets a well completed summer by the Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil company on the Stewart farm which came in -with an after eight months of oper: producing 350 barrels a It is b lieved that the three wells to be start ed immedia y will be completed with in 60 days, weather permitting. 1 rains have delayed the completion of the new well because of the difficulty of getting mate! into the field from tion, is now the railroad which is only six miles distant. MARKET GOSSIP AND FIELD NEWS Western States to Sink Well on Sec. 36-19-78, Rock River, Is Reported The Western Plains Oil company to start a new well on section 36-19 Rock River field, ac nouncement from Rock River This company recently suspended operations in the Red Desert region. The Harrison-Cooper well No. 4 has been increasing its flo ly in the Rock River district. The report of 350 barrels a day has been increased to 800-barrel daily capacity. The Harri- son-Cooper well No. 1 reported to be nearing the sand at 3,050 feet. The id, but casing is filled with oll, it ts » drilling has been stopped for a few days. Vifty drilling rigs now are on the yund in the new Osage oil field ne: Thirty shallow pre In # short time drilling will be in prog: in a strip of territory thirty miles in Jength and five miles in width, The Rawlins town council has granted to the Kasoming Oil company a year franchise to provide residents of ith natural ga for 1d power purpose piped from the Dome, where tt Kasoming comp: bas a well od fo 5 00,000 cubic feet daily. Und the terms of the fran chise ivery of gas to consumers in the city must begin within a year. a 60) YEARS OF SERVICE IN Vifty ye in the oil game is the r N. Moore of the Midwest apany 1 Start Ang with oil companies in 1871, he had Oil company’s first and B in the early days. 3 he was in the emplo: of the Uni Oil company. He ha Leen with the Midwest Refining com pany during the last eight years Mr. Moore, ¢ started the first still and distil first barrel of oil for the Midwe pa That was on January 15 nee that time Mr. M the Midwest refinery her per gent in the eight with ¢h Midwest. Mr is at pre ent entgloyed us a treater at the refin ery here. —_— MIDWEST HOMES SOCIETY MUCH HELP 10 EMPLOYES Latest figures on the Midwest Homes association shows that the Midwest Re tining company has loaned to its em- ployes thru th or Vighty-three ‘ 1 little over three months old. eeripar Preident nbrot Hemingway, vice d Uurke Sinclai New geological and territorial map’ of Bolton Creel: now ready at Wyoming Map & Glue Print Co, Room 10, Lyric. (in Bg 1-20-2t “LIST YOUR “’; OIL LAND LEASES and ROYALTIES with us for quick sale. BRUNSVOLD & FUNKHOUSER Office: Taylor & Clay Oil Exchange Bldg. Phone 203-204 | -| Consolidated Royalty T. Williams, prési- itial yield of rding to an an- adford fields stillman at the time, | | the} as seen increase 300 » has been association $180,000 so they might be able to own their loans have been in Casper; eight in Greybull; and in Laramie. The association is president of the secre: Local Oil Stocks Amalgamated Royalty - American Atlas ~ 208 Bessemer “2s Boston Wyoming — 1.10 Big Indian 47 Burke Oil Suck Creek 2.05 Black Tail -30 Columbine ~ 52 Cow Gulch -.. Elkhorn -.. Elk Basin - Great Western Petroleum-.- Hutton Lake ~ Kinney ~ Jupiter - - - Lance Creek Royalty -. Lusk Royalty - Lusk Petroleum Mountain & Gulf — Mosher Oil -. Northwest Outwest - Frantz Corp. Picardy Riverton Refining Royalty & Prod. Corp Binsetyor eS ey 2 Tom Bell Royalty Gates - Wind River Re: 2.00 09 Rock River — Salt Creek Big Muddy Pilot Butte 5 2 bs to “The Midwest Review” The old ing that “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” is truly exem plified in the history of the Midwest) Refining company refining operations. | In July, 1911, the Midwest Oil company con-menced erection of a small refine on a few acres of ground which th purchased from Joseph Car Brothers company. ‘The refiners isted of three 500-barrel crude + three 125-horsepower boilers, and a few thousand barrels of tant The urst crude still was charged on 1912, During the year 1912 four 850- barrel crude stills were added and r the spring of 1913 two more 850-barrel stills ¥ 2 unkt of the Midwest Ol! compan sisting of six in operation. con inex of 19 the Franco Pe commenced the ce 850- ey boilers and In the sp troleum compa tion of a bat with four POV the minimum amount of tankage 1 s for the operation of a plant of that ¢ act charged Octo! 1, 1913. On the first of Mareh, 1914, the con- refining inter leum company was effected by the forming of The Midwest Refining com- pany, The size of a refinery is usually mea ured by the amount of its still charg ucity, together with its steam On this bi with a total still charging cv holler capacity of 1,875 he From time to time since the m of the Midwest Refining ¢ equipment has been added, until to Decembe , 1919, the total still charge ing capacity of the Midwes company at Casper is 46,900 t under construction an additiona! 12,000 barrels which. will give this com) capacity Jbarrels. During this 1 pacity has been inc When completed per of ts riod the boil nd if necessary could be used to 14.000 horsepower without in refining capacity has come nk y that ut the refinery, the and operating in capacity of the nks amounts to approxigately arrels ing rack capacit ing of 200 The pumy to permit of the pin loading ut one time ment is of sufficient fe c hortest po: time, A fully equip ped machine shop, pip shop hus been erected the making of aitrepairs to pump: machinery, the cutting of all siz pipe and the construction of muny ar ticles in the boiler shop th had to be purcha. in the : During the present yeur a modert vux and lubricating plant was put in operation. The equipment for this plant is of the very late type and is a model of neatness and efficie: At the present time the wax plant has a and SILL LEE LS ef Lae: eT : Today’s Markets by Wire : Furnished Daily by Taylor & Clay, Ground Floor Oil Exchange Building, Bid Ask [Western Exploration $1.00 | Wyo-Kans 03 | Wy-O-Tex TlLTa2as 12.25 New York Curb Stocks Or Midwest Refining $163.00 $165.00 -45| Midwest Common _ Midwest Preferred Glenrock Oil — Okmulgee P. & R. Salt Creek Prod. Assn. Western States O. & L-- Prod. & Ref., Com---.. New York Stock Exchange Stocks Mexican Petroleum $195.00 $197.00 202.00 204.50 Sinclair Oil Call money Sliver ..p— -6 per cent Victory Loan - WYOMING ORUD E OIL. MARKET $ Grass Creek EIGHT YEARS WITNESSES MARVELOUS GROWTH IN MIDWEST REFINERY HERE, PRESENT REFINING CAPACITY BEING 49,000 BARRELS DAILY OUTPUT BY L. A. REED | pressing Superintendent Midwest Refining Co., in| rels of wax distillate per day, from which is made several grades of semi refined wax and numerous lubricating The wax is shipped in the form a thousand y ed between the cities of America The lubricating oil at the present time : being shipped in tanks, but a large -! cooper shop y | struction for the making of wocd bar ana! Tels to be used in the shipment of the ;.| Mbricating oil A filtering plant is also in the course of construction, and when finished will be one of the best equipped plants of nuary 15,! its kind in the country. tween all large European cities. ° London Daily Mail delivers its various | editions in all parts of England by air-| It will permit of the making of the finest grades of refined wax and increases the efficiency manufacturing ylinder oils. The refining Gepartment of the Cas is devoted to the manufac- 50-burrel stills, was put! ture ef gasolines to meet the various rifications required by its customers: wax distillate, of which is used for the making of wax rel stills @nd lubricating oils and for delivery to the Standard Oil company of Indiana for treatment in its pressure stills. siderable quantity of fuel oi! is also The first. still was |Manufactured, which furnishes the fuel for the refinery and is also used by the Chicago & North Western and the Chi solidation of the Midwest OU company C489. Burlington & Quincy railroads for Sts and the Franco Petro. | their locomotives. re added. During the fall of | that Year what was then known as No.} phernaiia necessary to mike it an ¢| ; is being | erected on a beautiful piece of ground | thru which flows the Laramie river briefly, the hixtory of the Midwest iS operations are concerned, in as simp! a form sible, so that one may wonderful strides that | ut few short | » the Casper refin ployment to about 1,400 ting to note that men, and it is in of these men, John R. Luxon, our pres Howard Thomp ar loading foraman; Hurry Moore, is the Midwest | treater; Logan Daily, still foreman, and company entered the retining | Ac aster mechanic; chief gaug ereclion of st Oil company retinery the original of 12,800 barrels’ and with a|Midw st Refining company became in / ybull Refining com pary, and on June 80, 1917, this refinery Refining | was absorbed by the .and|company, at which tim 000 barrels, few tanks, and other equipment neces for the operation iy uw total still | sary of a plant of This plant has been in to time until s still charging 400 barrels and a boiler ¢ Ny 4,000 hors September of this struction of a new refinery w + Which will b ased to 10,500} pacity of prac addition of another boiler. With the} a still charging capacity of 4,800 barrels and will be equipped with ankuge and other para | JOYFUL EATING Unless your food is digested with- ath of painful acidity, of both eating KI-MOIDS in their help to the Pleasant to takes-relief prompt a2 BY -"sgHtSBS BY BOTT 2 some The plant is equipped with a load-| pacity to handle the products in the | shop and boiler ; unt permits of | of formerly | | ggg derful : | | stomach troubl < OSE EE LED LE EE EE bs fff) bkbed wth eres KEITH LUMBER CO. For Prompt Deliveries of BUILDING MATERIAL and COAL A COMPLETE STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND —BPIIIIP SS LSIOSISOS SS: Lk kkidk hdd did du ‘ah SAFETY OF AA TANEL BEATS A FORMER’ AERIAL NAVIGATOR SAYS That for the mileage traveled, there is absolutely no comparison between the safety of air travel and travel by either automobile or railroad train, is the state- mentiof Frederick B. Andrews, air en- thusiast, who recently came to Casper from Chicago, and who has opened an insurance business in the Townsend building. “I'l take my chances in the air every time,” he says. Mr. Andrews was in the airplane man- ufacturing business before America en- tered the war and was in the air serv- ice both in this country and in France. He was a staff officer at the aerial de- fense field of Paris, and was the offi- cer in active charge of the American air service training headquarters under Col. Hiram Bingham of Yale at Issou- dun, the largest flying training head- quarters in the world. There were 14 flying ficlds at Issou- dun and the course of training was not completed until every flyer had gone thru actual combat instruction using machine guns shooting small photo-| graphs instead of bullets. “When we closed our records at the signing of the armistice, th showed that our men had flown 109,000 hours or approximately 13,000,000 miles,” Lieutenant Andrews said today, “and | there had been only 91 fatalities. Ce: tainly automobile records can show nothing like that. In the air, practical- ly nothing can get in your way. In an automobile you never know when the other fellow is going to round the cor ner and smash you to bits. “Even the fact that an airplane en- gine may stop dead in the air need cause the flier no apprehension. Few deople ure ever injured in forced land- ing. All that is necessary is to glide jiownward in widening circles. “One of the final tests we gave fliers in France was to glide down from a height of 5,000 feet and land within a 200 foot circle chalked on the landing field. It takes fully 20 minutes to! make such a landing. Lieutenant Andrews predicts t aerial navigation, passenger, mail and freight will ve shortly be establish- it is now in operation in European coun tries. the purpose of folowing the progress being made abroad in aerial navigation | and is familiar with every phase Passenger, mail and freight service twice daily has been established be- plane. Lieutenant Andrews has pic- tures of the 30-passenger Pullman plane recently exhibited at the aero expos tion in Paris. A ‘14-passenger Farman aerial taxi is now in daily operation | between Paris and Brussels. “1 expect before Another year to pw chase a plane’ of ‘the’ fastest possil speed to use between Casper and my le honw in Chicago,” Lieutenant Andrews ———$————— ——— t plant. This refinery The writer. has endeavored to 4 fining company, so far as its refining the istence. Th that it ha su of the ente rprise large measure to the hearty co-opera-| tion that those at the head of the or have received from ex ploy best of his ability to promote the in terests of the company and for which ice and co-operation we are de voutly thankful and are glid to have this opportunity to express our appr ciation. GEOLOGISTS . OIL EXPERTS Oil Field Maps Blue Prints Explorations Reports Wyoming Map & Blue Print Co. P. O. Box 325. Rm. 10, Lyric "The distance could easily be) covered in 12 hours.” Lieutenant Andrews was out of town the airplane accident happened | investigated | an! American army expert mechanician up-; He agrees with the the the time of the acci-} ory advanced at that Miss Toomey faint or a fright “froze” to the controls. Both of her feet were found on the} rudder causing to the extreme “No doubt the control stick was also pulled to the right inevitably throwing the plane into what is called a right hand ‘vrille’ or corkscrew twist, would have been to be thrown the driver of an automobile to turn the steering wheel to the extreme same were accident is impossible with a regularly constructed passenger plane such as the Oriole in use here, and I| f ief in| the absolute safety of air travel come rigid with fright, ger of just pened here | nuse of the wi mes necessar Jin the head with the fir as you would a dr them to relax.” SS Today’s Annivers: Heir a8 Sete Susannah We tisher, | whing person, caus:| organizers of th rican Revo-| ed at Chantilly, 1820—Daniel Trowbridg: s un-) mense fortune in the West Indian at New Haven, Conn. 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