Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 4

{ | -stock $1,000,000; Wyoming offices at Thermopolis. Today’s Markets by Wire Fardished Daily by Taylor & Clay, Ground Floor, Oil NEW YORK CURB CLOSING Open. Close. Midwest Refg. ~. 145,00 147.00 ‘Midwest 125 2.00 Common Pret pice). 60 3.00 Merritt —- 11.25 11.75 Glenrock 2.12 2.25 Gosden) --. 6.00 | 6.50 Okmulgee 25 37 Elk Basin 6.62 6.87 ‘ —~ Se ° 39} Salt Creek - 30.00 32.00 by gre Se “Je| Western States ‘87 62 134] Pro. & Retes, 5.25 5.50 "yo | Allen 175 (2.00 09| Cities Service “Com. 269.00 274.00 125 NEW KORK STOCKS 93 Open. Close. 07 .08| Mexican Petroleum ~-- 155.25 154.00) 25.50 25.50 10 .02) Sinclair Ol J04| Texas Oil 138 Pan American 80.75 .og/U. S. Steel 86.12 Iask Royalty - 15) U- Pp. RR . 117.50 Lusk Petroleum .04! FOREIGN EXCHANGE Mountain & Gulf. .94| Sterling — 6744 Mike Henry - .12| Franes Outwest -...... 02% | Marks -. Picardy ~-~--. +09! Lire -- G. W. Pete — 08} Call money, 6 per cent. Riverton Refg. +09) ’ LIBERTY BONDS Royalty & Producers. 21) 348% -.. Sunset ---~----~ OTlIst 4s Tom Bell Royalty.. 05) 2nd 4s. _. ‘Wind River Refinin; . 04) ist 4%s E. T. William----s-. “ 1.35)2nd 4%s ‘Western Exploration ----— 2.15 2.30')3ra 4%\s Wyo-Kans ------.--------- 1.90 -2.10/4th 4% — ‘Wyo-Tex --------.-.--------. 04.08) Victory 4%s WYOMING CRUDE OIL MARKET, Grass Creek Torchlight .. Elk Basin Greybull IMEKET GOSSIP AND FLD NES NEW INCORPORATIONS “FALL OFF Companies chartered by the State of Wyoming recently—during a period marked by a notable falling off in the filing of articles of in- corporation-——have a combined authorized capitalization of $2,310,- 000. They. follow: Oregon and Wyoming Oil and Gas Company at Oregon, capital! Agent there | the fleld to the Wypo tanks and filling; Dela-| station, so that they will not be handl- F. J. Kupfert. Cliff Petroleum Company of ware, capital stock $1,000,000; par| capped this winter. value of stock $100 per share; Wyo- ming office at Casper. Agent theré, T. E. Keefer. Producers and Refiners’ Corporation I Investment Company. of Cas:|has begun the ercction of a rig and per, capital stock $250,000, par yalué| will start drilling-a new. well in the of stock $1 per share; director$ tA: Hi/Hudson field. A crew of men are at New Rig in Hudson Field. Stewart, Robert. E, Brand, ‘Thomas | work digging “trenches 41-2 feet deep. Mills, Floyd E. Pendell and M. LL. in which the company will bury all Johnson. their pipe lines ‘and Water lines—be- Wyo-Freeport Oil Company of Gurn:| low the frost: level. sey, capital stock - $60,000, par value of a stock $100. per shang; direcotrs, Bert) Racine-Wyoming Making Progress Malott, John E. Bear, W. L. Kareher,) The Racine-Wyoming on section 34 A. J, Bauscher and J. A. Poling, all} 34-83 in the Poison Spider oil field is of Freeport, IL, and C. 0. Houser of; down 1100 feet with fayorable indica- Guernsey. tions for a big gasser. This fs on the same section on which the New York Exploration Off and Gas Report. OW company recently brot in a 20-mil- The test well on Section 27-57-61 in lion foot gasser. ( the Colony field being put down by the} The Racine-Wyoming is drilling on Exploration Oil and Gas Company is/and leased from the Fargo Oil com- expected to reach sand in thirty days.|PAany, the Fargo holding ‘an excellent The well is down 970 feet and the oil royalty in the well. sand should bé reached at 1,700 feet. The Roxanna Oil Company is drilling it jointly with the Exploration people and if it comes in at the shallow depth |g, the Poison Spider field by the mid: Gas Line Near Completion ‘fhe New York pipe line bringing gas expected, will prove up more than al * le of mext week altho the work of 7,000 acres of deed and school lands, laying pipe within the city limits will actording to a report made at the take a. little longer time. The has been laid for 19 miles of the line meeting of the company here Friday by C. C. ,Wever, general manager. ne Exploration Oil and Gas well on} section 28 in the Lance Creek fleld has} maintained a steady flow of 1,800 bar- relf a month to date, according to the) report of the company, On sections} 9 and 25 the work of cleaning out! broken casing is progressing and with) both of these wells on top of the sand,| and with showing of oil, it is hoped] satisfactory results will shortly be re-| ported by the Western States Com- pany, which is drilling these wells. | The drillers in the Cottonwood. field are awaiting delivery of casing for the} Baker well, The Exploration Com-| pany has a half interest in two sections] and in 480 acres offsetting this well, Five wells are drilling in Brewst County, Tex., where the company has 32) acres. One well is down 2,850 fei und expects sand within 400 feet. More Rigs for Grass Creek. BASIN, Wyo., Aug. 7.—Local people! who have just returned from Grass| Creek state that another rush of oll men into that field has commenced and} four deep test rigs ure already up and much" material being hauled into the! field. The new,strike is reported in the Dakota formation, a’ sand below . the producing field, and will probably| mean the drilling of the entire field to the new sand. SUALUE Value is a word that in the past féw years has:almost lost its significance. But where applied -to Society Brand Clothes it carries all its, old time meaning. And at present mid-season prices’ they are really ex- ceptional values. LL Leiner, 260 S. Center The Home of Society Brand Clothes Dallas Field Improvements. The Anglo-American Oil Company, operating the Dallas field, have decided to spend a lot more money, in order to get the operating plant in first-class shape... ‘They will start within a week to bury their pipe lines that run from FOR PURE ICE —Call——. | CASPER ICE AND COLD STORAGE Phone 493 ‘IG OIL STRIKE to Casper probably will. be completed} wells drilled in by it in preparation to connect, up at once when the New ae gets the line thru to the. week. down approximately 2% miles of gath- ering lines, Two miles of liné have been laid in the city by the New York company, it is reported by engineers. Big Well in in Carbon County, An uncompleted well of the Produc: ers and Refiners'’ Corporation in the Carbon County. fleld, is flowing hourly by heads from a depth of 3,200 feet and making better than 200 barrels of. oii daily. This well is. located on section 726-79 and lies on a so-called wildcat ‘structure lying almost directly in a line ‘between the Lost Soldier pool and the Ferris district in the opposite county: The Producers and Refiners’ flready have reported five producing wells and two gassers in the Ferris field and is operating a block of leases covering nearly 8,000 acres. | An important fact in the discovery! jis that the top of the pay was found! in a broken formation’ after the dritt! had penetrated 00 feet of shale. ‘The! fact that there is a flow of gas seems to ind e there is a big body of oil from Which to feed. The oil is #up-} posed to come from the Muéldy sand. Tanks for storage are being instnlled and rigs are being moved for more) drilling. The company. has little of off- sets since it has 1,440 acres in the} block on which the well is located. The new discovery is said to be near the pipe line from. Fort Steele to the Lost Soldier field. 1d PS | ATCA CREEK What is considered the largest well in the Cat Creek, Mont., oil field’ was! reported here today to have been brot| in last night. It is |the Decker-Collins| well on \section [13-19-29 and will make approximately 400 bdArrels flush pro- duction. The produccr came in eat a depth of 1610 fet, say reports from same source. Royalty and Producers and the} Frantz corporation own land. on all} sides of this producer.) The bringing in of this well proves up 1,200 acres of land, it is said. Royalty and Pro- ‘The “Fargo company will tput| ducers was much in demand at higher prices today. / FRANK J. WOLF Republican Candidate for Sheriff Subject to Primaries, August 17, 1920. If nominated and elected, I promise honest and ef- ficient administration of the office. YOUR, SUPPORT| WILL BE APPRECIATED Life Sketth' of Casper Refinery} tion of his employers and fellow. em- ployes. It was only at the earnest dolicita-| period in. its tife. tion of his fellow. employes 2nd of old) == acquaintances who are familiar. with his past record as an efficient peace of- ficer that Mr. Martin consented to b:- come a candidate for sheriff of this If you are in favor of a man for sheriff of this county who wil fearlessly and impartially enforce the Jaw, and’ who is under no. obligation to any clique or gang, Much of his early life was spent as a|support at the primaries August 17.—\ MARTIN FOR SHERIFF CLUB. Road Bulletin te State Highway Department—Office of District Engin Man Who Seeks Nomination at the Ptimaries 5 et 17, 19: tee , Political’ Advertisement) Lee Martin was born in Kentucky in 1867, and moved to Wyoming in 1870 to Old Fort Fetterman forty-five miles east of Casper, and has been a resident of Wyoming practically every | since. rider on the ran;te for such wéll known and “N. L” on Horse Creek, north of Cheyenne, He is remembered by many of the old timers of the early nineties as the champion rider of the world: His first experience as a peace officer Was in 1892, as deputy sheriff of Al- bany county, Wyoming, where he was active and successful in breaking up a: gang of cattle rustlers. He later be- ¢ame @ deputy U, S. marshal in Fre- mont county during the opening of the ceeded portion of the Shoshoni reser- vation and later in the same year, (1906) ‘he located in the town of River. ton, when the Northwestern was be- spring of 1907 became a marshal of that town. In 1909 the mayor and council of Shoshoni were looking for @ man with herve and ability enough to clean up the town which was infested lwith the bb cram 2 of the old “Hole it Cheyenns county, Adv. Salt very dry and dusty; ‘rough, through oil | fields, then good to excellent to Sheri- dan. Yellowstone Yellowstone eer Creek ~Road—Reported we solicit your Highway (West)—Gen- erally g00d to near Moneta, after pass- ing first ten milés of new grad! ing built thru to Lander, and in the/then rough to Shoshoni; jell in erton good; Riverton-Lander fair. Highway (East)—Good to Glenrock; then. good to exce!lent eu Douglas; reported generally good to; DENVERITI_FLIES: TO CHEYENNE, The best sluc in the world is; jthat made from the skins of fish. CHEYENNE, Wy Aug. 7.—John Mogan of Denyer flew to. Cheyenne! ‘Wednesday, arrivi 5p. m., to in” ‘spect the all-métal/ postal airplane rest- ing on Wales Field, Fort Russell. Ho- gan's fight was In a Curtiss Oriole. ee Between 9 and 12 years!of age, ‘aj child expends more energy in propor- tion to its weight than at any other ARE YOU INTESESTED , in Your Post of the American Legion— The Largest Post in Wyoming? If You are, be at the Meeting of the - | GEORGE WROMAN POST NO. 2 Monday Night, August 9, in Legion Club Rooms—Smith-Turner Building fair, \ Minutés of Second Annual American Legion Con- vention will be read and a report of the Casper Dele- gation made. FRED DRALLE, Secretary. the Wall Gang’ They offered this risky job to Lee Martin which he ac- ceptéd, “The newspapers of that day ‘will bear witness of the complete 5 cess of his ¢fforts in suppressing this “ lawlegs gang and in restoring law and order in’ Shoshoni, aad many of the old residents of that locality love to re- late the thrilling deed enacted by the subject of this sketch in dealing with the lawless element of that day, and shortly after this he retired from pub- Uc service and in the spring of 1917 he entered the cmploy of the Midwest refinery at Casper. Ever since he has been a valued employe of that com- pany, and has the respect and admira- ° HARD } when you go “West.” Phone 370 Local Fone 203 Out of every twenty, nineteen fail to provide for their old age or for their families at death. BECAUSE Fortune is fickle, today she is just around the tomorrow she’s another jump ahead. PROVIDE Life. Insurance to protect your old age.or your family C. H. Bauer, Special Represenative New York Life Insurance Co. With R. T. KEMP COMPANY - Lester Brokerage House NEW YORK OIL New Namber, 114 S. Wolcott Taylor & Clay (Incorporated) New York Stocks and Bonds ~ 6 FACTS corner, 112 East Second St. Phone Lt Oils and 204 for one. The Ford Sedan with electric starting and lighting system and oimiead baie tims with 3}4-inch tires ali around, for every day in the PApopangen city. life. Large, roomy seats, eee iat eee cee windows make it an” open car in pleasant weather, while in rainy.and inclement ‘weather it becomes a closed car, dust-proof and rain-proof. It is ideal for social fanctioris, the theatre, or parties ;. carrying the children to school, or for touring. It is not only comfortable, but really cozy, and above all, economical in operation and maintenance, and has all the Ford merits of strength and durability. Come in and see it. v Earl C. 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