Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1920, Page 4

ISIGE WELLS to 100 Barrels a Day on the Pump, Operations: in the Osage field continuing steadily with frequent com- pletions. No. 1 of the Sinclair Con- solidated Oil company on section 19-46- 63, the deep sand discovery well In thé field, has been cleaned out anc put on the pump and is now mal.ing 80 fo 100 barrels 2 day. It is also supplying sufficient gas to run two boilers, The well continues to Jd up after pump- ing for the week. . Sinclair has com- pleted a shallow well near the center of the SE of section 19 and another on the NE\ of the NE of the same lease, The Burlington-Osage Oil company has a well on the SW% of section 16 4 which threw oil over the mast when it eamé in, It is on a Mike Henry Of] company lease. The Glénn Oil company and the Ju- ns Oil & Refining company lius “Wil on the of the NE of section . have 1,000 feet of oil in the hole at 1,430 feet, aleo considera) laggar. Four wells, One jn each corner, are now producing on this section, k Bosin Consolidated Petroleum com; has a half interest In the lease, The (Midwest Refining company is starting a well on the SE% of the % of section 24-46-64. On section the Midwest is down 900 feet. Both © on Mike Henry Ol] company leases. The Quinn Oil company. had 800 feet of oil in the casing at 1,380 feet on the NW of the SW% of section 29-46-63. The Midwest well drilled on the C. B. Foster lease on the NE% of the NE% of section 24-46-63, was epened for 30 minutes and flowed six feet over the Jt was again capped awaiting ‘and it was opened to see it had settled. It is not’ yet completed. Foster has spudded in on 4 of the SE of section 13-64-63, Five shallow wells have been completed eqsing. tankage whether on the NW% of the SW% of section 22-47-63. A standard’ rig is up and will soon t drilling on the NE4% NW sec- A new standard rig is up on the SEY% NE% section 92-46-68, and a standard rig in the NW% SW% sec- tion 1-46-64. They started drilling this week end are now going with full force. Some rigs have been placed on the SW\% SE\ section 2047-6 by the Clay Spur Oil company. The Bonney O| a rig on the N 63. There are shallow rigs placed on the tion 26-46-64. company is placing 4 SE% section 22-46- SEY SW section 20-46-63, and’on the Ser section 34-46. also on the § E\ section 1-45.63. Two ve been placeé on the W% NW% 63; also on the NW% NE and on the NW% SE and on the SE4% SW% rij section 1 section 2-45-63, section 2-4 section 3-45-63. The Teaver Oil company, or New- castle Oil company, is placing a stand- ard rig on. section 19-44-62 and will commence @rilling in the near future. The Tom Dome on the SW% SBY% section 20, are dgwn about 800 feet with their standard, PLACED ON PUMP Pioneer Well of Sinclair Makes 80 are | Great Western Petroteum_- G. W. Pete ---..-. Hutton Lake Jupiter ---.. Lance Creek, Royalty -llj} Sunset Tom Bell Royalty Western Exploration -03 1.95 The Ace Oil company on the NE% NW% section 32-46-63 is down about 900 feet but have been held back wait- ing for casing. On the NE% NE section 36, Burke &> Clarke, have spydded in with -their}.- standard rig. SLAYER IN OIL FIELD DISPUTE MAKES ESCAPE NEWCASTLE, Wyo., Aug. 24.—Wal- ter Simm, c ed with the murder of IT 4 Walker by shooting last June as the result of a dispute over of} land in the O: ze field, escaped from the Wes- ton county jail here and has not been apprehended. ‘Two bars were sawed from the win: dow of his cell, apparently from the outside, and other prisoners relate that at about the time the escape must have occurred they heard an automobile en- gine just outside the jail, Friends on the outside, therefore, are believed to have cut the bars and to have taken him « ay in a ca The isoner’s absence was discover- kfast hour, probably sev- P the bre: 1 hours after he made his getaway. er The killing of Walker, who was shot from a distance of a quarter of a mile djed after lingering for —sveeks, sed intense feeling here, which has centuated by the escape of the alleged yer. Simm was an employe of Freel Bros. in the oil fields and his employers were arged by Walker's widow, Mrs. Ger- trude Walker, with complicity in the assassination of Walker in a suit for $100,000 damages which she _ filed against Simm and Freel Bros. The shooting, Mrs. Walker alleged, ber! thy result of a conspiracy. FLYERS JAILED, GIRL’S FATHER MAY PROSECUTE a CHEYENNE, Wyo. Aug. 24.—Cap: ain Colin Mackenzie, pilot of an air- ne owned by the Southern Wyom- ing Aircraft poration of Cheyenne, Edward Maroney, secretary of the cor- poration, and “Bud” Ramsey of Shert- dan, Wy are in jail at Sheridan charged with disorderly conduct, but probably facing a more serious charge, according to a message from Sheridan to which Mackenzie and Maroney flew from Cheyenne recently, the 2,.600-foot mark. The entire 640- acre tract is looked: upon as proven ter- ritory and all wells are to be drilled as rapidly as possible. State Production Takes Jump. Three -wells were reported io have been completed by the Oil Oil company Saturday in the Rock Creek field, two of them coming in with a flush pro- diction of about 200 barrels apiece. One well was shut in pending laying df a pipeline and the production is not kriown. One producer appears to have 08 'Texas Oil -. 08/Pan American Pete. 01% lo. -04/ Union Pacific R. Kinney — --.- 32 | Lusk Royalty -. 35 |Sterting x Lusk Petroleum reEnnes Mike Henry o9| Marks - Mountain & Gulf 1,07) Bre Northwest 226 | COM Money --2-—- Outwest 02 LIBERTY BONDS Picardy ~ 08 /3%'s - Riverton Refg. .. 09 list 4's Royalty & Producer -21% [2nd 4's O9/ist 43's OA; 2nd 4%4's 2.40/3ra’ 44's WYOMING CRUDE OIL MARKET, --$3.10) Rock Creek ~~-.------------------$2.7i 3.05 "Hamilton Dome -—~-..-.-.-_..... Lander Scatgadehaahietsianesteeemmnneer aed 1,.7%5Mule Creek --. HP. WELL REACHES i ae THREE ROCK GREEK COMPLETIONS Royalty and Producers Officials; Rock Creek Completion Record Broken by Ohio Company ae Farle Day by Tp & Gay, Gromnd ot, Ou change Building, Casper, W: LOCAL OI STOCKS Wyo-Tex 0s 05 Ba. Ask. | Western O01 19 26 Amalgamated Royalty FREE RS TET | - 09 10 Atida —. aaasefeapee 08 4 NEW YORK CURB CLOSING eri eennmncwnmcemon= 0 1 Open. Close i engaged bss Midwest Refining -----$148.00 $150.00 Boston-Wyoming - 1.08) iawest Common’ —.----. 1.25 2.00 Bessemer - ----. +29 Midwest ‘Pret. -. 1.50 ~ 3.00 ‘Big Indian ~.--.. 2 0 | Merritt. --- 13.50 14.25 Buck Creek 19 x) E Petes Sep on . 2.37 : losden oa. 7.60. Burke -- -- 4 1s Sait. Creek 4330 Black Tail - = 04 06/58 of Casper Ranger COTE ER aceoterst piaths Cafjtol Pete = | 04 OR Seams a OLR = Columbine --~. Be eeecy Fits Pain Consolidated Royalty 128 1.01] mulgee Cow Gulch - _ 10°) 18) Allen: <<. - Belo ~ ‘67 140 |Cities Service Com. Elkhorn - 09 -10) »NEW YORK STOCKS BT. Williams - 1145 1.09 ‘Open. Frantz 2 1.45| Mexican Petroleum ----$157.00 $163.25 Gates | —. 87 | Sineldir Of -. 27.00 28.00 48.00 89.25 S. Steel FOREIGN EXCHANGE 4th 43's Victory 4%'s mannnwe STF 2.76 76 2.05 The Royalty and Producers report their No. 4 well on section 16- 39-79, Salt Creek field, drilled in with an initial production of 300 barrels, which indicates that it may be the largest producer on. this lease. The company reports that the No. 1 and No» 3 wells‘of the cdmpany, together, are producing about 200 barrels. The No. 5 well is down 2,300 feet and is expected in within the next two wieks. Wells on sectfon 16 come in around, the transfer agents of Reimerth & Van Denberg at 306 O. S. building: All units must be surrendered within 90 days of August 20. The firm of Reimerth & Van Denberg have been named as transfer agents. Ohio Starts Montana Wildcat. ‘The Ohio Oi! company is starting an- other wildcat operation in Montana. Camp has been established and derrick is being erected on section 6-11-30, on the. Howard Coulee anticline in Mus- selshell county “6n land leased from proyen up nearly half a mile of the |the Kerr Oil company. The location is field to the southeast. The No. 2 and 3 wells of the Onio on section 2-19-78 came in with 200 barrel production according to report. The other well-came in on section 2 20-78. ‘The Elk Basin Consolidated P. troleum company. has 22 per cent in- terest In the sections where the new wells were reported in. All ofl is now being treated at the Laramie Midwest refinery. The produc- tion of the field is more than: 4,000 bar- rels daily at present with several wells shut down while being deepened to more productive sands: Briggs Issues Stock in Exchange. Notice has been given that unit hold- ers of the Osage Drilling syndicate near the town of Melstone and the site for the well was selected hy C. J. Hares, gedlogist for the Ohio. Pure‘\Oil Co. Invades West The Pure Oil Co., formerly the Ohio Cities Gas Co,, said to be the third country, has purchased several M. Uv. D. McEniry, been. scouting in Montana, units can be exchanged for capitul Sigpke of the Brigks Oil company. thru OOOO T IOI TOIT OOS M, New York Oil Co. Our gas will be on sale in Casper soon. President Wilson has signed our first lease on Salt Creek and others will follow rapidly. This means the release of im- pounded money. An 8 per cent dividend will be paid at an early date and dividends will be continued Our income. will soon be over $20,000 per day, which is about $8,000,000 Per.) year, which is about our issued and outstanding capital stock. Our prospective oil fields at Bell Spring s and Boone Dome are due in any hour. If both come in, as they bid fair to do, they’ together, will be. worth $50,000,000. Our proven oil, gas, iron = soda properties are worth tions ‘ The three men, the message says, 18- r-old gir All, the mes- ares, were intoxicated and the vas nearly The girl, belongs to a respectable fam- unconscious nid and her futher the me Macke: dian Royal well kno®&p and prom: in a veteran of the Cana- lying service. inent here. eae ey has signified his in- tention of filing a felony charge against Maroney is & * N) N N N N N \ N : ; N \ ) Hold New York Oil for ae FRANK G. CURTIS, OPI D LDL IMM: MDM LL Me IS DIM LM OD Xe largest independent oil company in the thou. sand acres of oil shale land in western Colorado, according to reports reaching division chief of the S. general land office at Denver. ‘This company has a large acreage in New Mexico and recently its represen- tatives headed by F. W. Higgins have Last March this company acquired a con- ‘trolling interest in the Altitude Oil Co., 921,750. This is.a gain in yalue of 260, per cent. This remarkable showing is mostly due to the increased price of oil which was quoted at $1.50 per barrel in Sati Creek in June, 1919, as compared with $2.75 a barrel in the same month in the following year. Another remarkable feature of these figures is that in less than eight which was subsequently turned over to-the Gates Oil Co. Last year the Pure Oil company’s. net earnings were in excess of $10,000,000. Riverton Refining Elects The board of directors of the River- ton-Wyoming Refining company, the affairs of which have been in dispute WATCH | THE BIG 4 Stomach- -Kidaeys-Heart- -Liver between stockholders and officers at monthd the Rocky Mountain district several times sirice the organization of produced in value more crude oil than | Keep the vital organs ee, the company, received a vote of con- Colorado produced in gold, silver, cop- regularly taking the the world’ fidence from ‘stockholders in ite reelec- ‘per lead and gine during the entire year| prd. remedy for kidney, liver, on at the annual meeting of the com- pany held in Riverton. directors are: W, A. Ensinger, Greeley, pregi- | dent; A. W. Mihor, Greeley, vice presi- dent; P. J. M.phy, Fort Collins, treas- arer; “Charlés _Preston, Fort Collins, shtirman; Arthur Streng of Greeley, and» J. G. Gogsweil and C. J. Speer of Riverton, Wyo. ~ Reporis were made showing a large supply of erude contracted for opera tion of the refinery and good_returns from recent Operations. _New Test for Waterfall The Bankers’ International Oil com- has erected a rig at Waterfall, Lincoln county, Wyo., on holdings jy; leased from the LincolnIdaho company ark will spud in for its first well within a few days. Two more other rigs en- route to Opal, the shipping point for this field, and will also be placed in op- eration, one in the Piney field. In the Cat Creek field of Montana both Decker-Collins company wells are full of oil, but will not be drilied in until completion of the pipeline. The Frantz corporation well is rot yet fully under control. It is reported to be still doing better than 2,000 barrels daily. Boston-Wyoming and Mountain & Gulf both were higher on the local stock market yesterdiy,’ Boston selling up to’ $1.16 and Gulf to $1.14. The 1 o'clock ‘quotations were 2 cents lower than thé high sales. Prices on the rest of the list were close to Saturday's quotations, of 1919. These minerals represented! peader and Licks acid. trouble the finished products while the ofl is in the erude state, ‘The value of gold, sil- yer, lead, copper and zine produced in Colorado in 1919 was $34,160,000. Out of the crude il produced in the dis- trict in June thére will be manufac- tured at least $5,000,000 worth of gaso- line alone, not taking into account the kerosene, lubricating oils, waxes and other products. ‘The National Remedy of centuries and by Queen ¥ Jeon Withe- mina. At all cosee, three sizes. Looks for the same, Woon foam oad bea Sg Work and win*out—wish and “wink | HEROIC ‘RESCUE MAY WIN BACK FIREMAN'S LOST JOB—The heroic rescue by ex-firenan Louis Tischler of} New ¥ ‘of séven persons imperilled by a fire may secure for him his old job in the fire department. He was/ dismisised for punchiing his battalion chief in the nose, it is stated. Tischler, it is expected, will. get a rehearing of his case and be re-instated, PRODUCTION IN JUNE 1S RECORD Government Figures on Actual Oil Produced Largest in State’s History The Independent Torpedo Company Manufacturers of N itro-Glycerine and Oil Well Supplies Office—Henning Hotel, Phone 45 Residence—142 N. Park, Phone 1177-R ‘Lester Brokerage House NEW YORK OIL New Number, 114 S. Wolcott Phone 1142 Producers & Refiners, Producers & Refiners corporation at the Wertz camp, in the new district be- tween Lost. Soldier and the ‘Ferris fields in Wyoming, on section 7, town- ship 26, range 79, in Carbon county} is drilling at 3,310 feet. andl is expecting to pick up the Big Muddy sand within che next seventy-five feet. With drill- ing in progress, the well is slopping ver at the rate of fifty-barrels a day, the oil coming from the shale. At Rock River the ‘company’s deep” test. in section 36 is drilling in sand Wyotmmk and the Rocky Mountain district exceeded all past records in production in June with an output the largest in their history{ according to the U. S, Bureau of Mines’ figures for the month. The Rocky Mountain dis- trict,’ embracing Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana, produced 1,643,000 bar- rels of petroleum in that month, an average of 54,767 Barrels a day, as com- pared “with, 1,181,000 barrels in June, 1919, Wyoming's output was 1,626,000 barrels, or an average of 54,200 barrels a day, as compared with 44,129 barrels a day in May and 43,438 barrels a day in April. The Rocky Mountain ‘district's pro- duction for the first six months of 19207 was 8,044,CO0 barrels, ors daily aver- ege of 44,201 barrels as compared with 6+722,000 barrels during the first six months of 1919, an average of 37,415 harrels a, daly. Thesé Tigures, while exremely inter- esting in showing the steady increase in the output ef the Rocky Mountain fields, do not disclose in full the freatly increased strength of the oil in- fustry in the district last June as com- pared with the same month 4 year ago. ‘The value of; the output at/the well for dune, 1919, using the Salt “reek quo- (ations as an average for the district was $1,696,500. The output in June, 1920, on the same basis, was worth $4,- 5)8.250-at the well, an increase of $%,- Taylor & Clay | (Incorporated) At Sand Draw it has started on its deep test in section 14 and has set its surface casing, sixty feet of 20-inch pipe. In the Osage field its No. 1 well in section 25 is pumping regularly fifty barrels a day. In this district, No. 1, section 14, is underreaming at 1,170 feet; No. 2 on section 25 hds spudded in and No. 1 on section 15 is getting ready to spud in, In Routt county, Colo., Producers & Refiners has part of the material on the ground for its test near Hayden, having been’ delayed in hauling by a two-day downpour of rain in that lo- cality. Local Oils “New York Stocks and Bonds Fone 203 and 204 ea er gtr ELECTION BOARD BEGINS PRIMARY CANVASS TODAY The vote in the primary qlection of last Tuesday is being canvassed this afternoon at the county. court house. The canvassing ‘board censists of Jus- tice Perry A. Morris, Justice W, E. Tubbs and County Clerk Helen Carl- son. The canvassing” board work at 1 o'clock, and will probably be in session until late tonight, Sey ra ts ce ———__——_« Road Bulletin | ne State Highway. Department, Office’ of District Engineer. Salt Creek road—Good, except where new construction. 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