Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1921, Page 4

PACE FouR TT MARKET. GOSSIP NEW WELL IN SALT The Blackstone-Salt Creek Company brought in a well Monday on its holding on Section 18-39-78 in Salt Creek. The production is estimated at 250 barrels and was encountered at a depth of 2,250} feet. The company has another well on this same section about com- pleted and which it expects to bring in about Monday dnd has an- other down to-a depth of 1,800 Harry Isenberg and FE. H. Smith of Denver, both officials of the company, were here this week and witnessed the bringing in of the y hh. E, T. Williams Climbs, The advance in E. T. Williams sto! following the announcement of direct ors that there would be no reduction in dividends this year ket circles, “8 rumored in mar- featured local trading v8 with the pi $1.16 after hoverinz neur « last week. Forth- er advances lieted. The recent annual meeting of the T. Williams Oj] company hela he Monday result ction of all the, old officinis and the results of tha reports he different departmen most ng. The dividend r of 16 per cent, payable quarterly, wil! be maintained. ny had a total production rrels in the past year for the alt Creek leases and » produc tion from the Strawn lea The company also has petitioned for the granting of a lease on a t of s it holds in nd there the Salt as been no Creek adverse so it is though the Williams company will obt the lease without troub| The new hoard of directors con: T. Williams, William Hines, M. irath, E. Sulli n cond Crite The officers fe the con r will be secretary-treasurer | e president, ids Elects. Western Oll Fields corporation's new | hoard of directors as announced by the | yoting trust follow: F, Stapleton, ate: hon, H. R. An jeorge T. vcd Stapleton of re retained. The resigned leat fall, but was re- spresenting, it is said, the M. large stock interests in the the old latter elected, lone Bros. comp: The new board will name officers at méeting soon to be held. ard only New Field in Arkan Palme field} a to the Denver of- that Constantine Eldorado, Union count as come in for initial pro- Idorado is about thirty miles well No. 1, at Arkansas, auction. the Constantine well is the first of any considerable production in Arkansas: Western Oil Fields has age intU mien goun OILSGOUTS ARE e acre- t CWARMIN F Hl FR fF | by Andrew Alois Matheson of Shoshoni Numerous Field Sleuths of Big Corporations on Trips to This City | DNOILRESERVE .. jclgsed in the application but its address rkansas. is oil field is promised in south-|tional bank building, Denver, where the J » Western Oil Fields cer- | ‘phis with northeast of the Homer, La., field anl|resigned several years ago. feet. BiG ESTIMATE 30,000,000 Barrels in Teapot Says Daniels, But None Has Been Located meal phus fecretary of the , in his annual report to President ison for the year ending June 30, ays naval reserve No, 3 in Natrona j}County, Wyo., is estimated to contain 30,000,000 barrels of high grade oil. This esreve, which covers 9,481 acres on the pot dome is in 38-78 and 39-78 and created by an order of withdrawal There are no producing wells on j resrve. entire reserve is er by claims none are considered yalid by the navy by the department of justice, Under the terms of the oil Jand leasing act | ‘ 25, 1920, producing wells | only lying within the nayal reserve can be leased. in view of the fact that there no producing wells within this reserve, the secretary s the navy's interests are considered very well protected. While this reserve may covered with claims asserted by the secretary, the records in the Doug- s land office do not show many filings under the leasing law. The Mary)and Ol Company has applied for a perialt ; on a large acreage on the west side | of Teapot, but this borders on and is outside of thé .reserve. *The only applications so far dis- closed consist of four filings by the Pioneer Oil and Refining Company on the northwest quarter, the northeast quarter and southeast quarter of 8-38-78 and northwest quarter of 10-38-78. The identity of this company “is not dis- have been on the sixth floor of the First Na- Midwest Oil Company has its offices. company was incerporated in Wyoming in 1914 and the directors re H. M. Blackmer, O. H. Shoup, Berne Hopkins, K. C. Schuyler and J. B. Barnes, all of whom:are connected the Midwest except Shoup, who D FIELD NEWS GREEK FIELD ER i : Today’s Markets by Wire Parnished by Taylor & DON | F ORG Ground Floor Oil Exchauge Bldg. Phedes 203-204 = LOCAL OIL STOCES 29-82 P — Bid Ask | ¥ Oil -__--_ 13.16 Amalgamated Royalty -..- 14 18) NEW YORK CURB CLOSING ‘ : American ——---—---—---. 0% 01 Bid Ask Atlas — 01 .02| Midwest Refining - 143.00 145.00 @ we rel Big Indian - 33 37 | Midwest Com. .. ~ 1.00 1.60 f Bessemer - 28.82] Midwest Pret. _ = 100 8.00 2 ; Blackstone Salt Creek — 88 $2{ Merritt -_.. - 12.60 * 13.00 Boston Wyoming - +72 -78| Glenrock Oil .. = 2.00 2.12 Buck Creek ~ Casper Ranger Burke ...- BATE § 50 - Black Tail - 6,25 6.60 : Capitol Pete -~ 600 6.60 : Columbine __ = EAT 8.62 Consolidated Royalty 1.12 a e & Elkhorn E T. Wil Frantz | Mexican Petroleum ---. 157.26 4 Gates .56| Sinclair Ou ~ _24,50 24,25 Great Western Petroleum —~ .08| Texas Oil _ ~ 44.00 44.00 Hutton Jupiter ,.06| Pan Ametican Pete .04} U. 8. -Steel - 75.75 77,50 - 83.62 CLOSING Kinney .24| Union Pacific » == 121,00 © 122.78 Lance Creek Royalty afl Tusk Koyalty ...__-_.. 08 pe ee Lusk Petroleum —._.___. 04 | Fora ig Mike Henry Mountain & Guilt — Northwest - Outwest Picardy Riverton Refining Royalty and Producers Sunset a Tom Bell yalty Western Exploration Wind River Refining Second 4s First 44s Second 4%s8 Third 4%s Fourth 445 ,05 Vietory 4%— 2.00 The J. L. Learner store will be closed Saturday night, January 15th. : The building has been leased. The fixtures sold _BEAR THIS IN MIND That You Can Buy Men’s Clothing, Shoes, Gents’ Furnishings AT GIVE AWAY PRICES We are going to dispose of the remaining stock in the next three days at the lowest prices ever known in Casper. Don’t delay, come at once, make your dollar reach farther than it ever did before. Saturday, January 15th will be the last day of my closing out sale. A visit to our store will pay you, and pay you big. It is a duty you owe to yourself, ‘ ' WYOMING CRUD E OIL MARKET -—---$8.10] Rock Creek — 2 -______ $2.5 —-------= 3.10] Salt Creek 2..2______.. Elk Basin —~'3.10] Big Muddy 22-1. Greybull een nnnnnnneea== 3.10} Pilot Butte 2. 8B Lance Creek ~--.__._.__.-_._..... 3.05 | Hamilton Dome nner fy { } Cander --.---- 22. --- 1.751 Mule Creek ~-.--....... 3.05 Grass Creek -----_... Torchlight .--.-____. | LUG PICKER IS INVENTED FOR '! USE IN WELLS An alligator ug picker,” invented has been placed on display at the lo- cal headquarters of the Oil Well Sup- Ply company and is attracting atten- n of oil,men who have experienced ! difficulty In removing lugs m wells after underreaming. The efficien he invention has heen demonstr st, it is understood, and it to come into general ase a mu part of drilling equipment. The im- plement screws on the stem, weighs 300 The oil scouts gathering many of the old-timer igain s in the hotel lobbi he Moor ot “Dint of Oil Company, is up from looking over the local fields as he used to do in| the days of in 1918 | and 1919. The Gypsy ibsidiary | of the Gulf Refining that the Mellons | of Pittsburgh have 1 and built | from a small start to of the larg: | est independent oil companies in the | world Adderton of the Producers and Re- finers is also in town and “Ad” was formerly wel known as the oil scout for the Gypsy here when that firm had lis office in the Jimmy Purcell travel togethe scouting trips “Jim Bord humorous bi Continental Building. and Adderton used to over the fields on their nd their troubles with sull ited as of history of the oil game | in these parts | Miah Miller is back ‘from the rt of th ate where he ha some looking 0 the are fields time for “his company, th invlair-Wyo- ming. Miah is seldom in town as M Algeo keeps him on the trail the great- er part of the time. Vance Roth of the Carter Oil Com- pany so in Casper for a short stay between trips and Ralph Mason of the Kasoming is also around here while the work is slack for the time being. Iph a new field man- ager now, Mr, Kneedler, a well-known oil operator from the Pennsylvania und West Virginie, and other oil fields ; has come to Casper to take charge of|€t One of the two women among the the Kasoming Oil. Company's opera-| large company of men to which his tionk: father was attached. Osborne's youth Gus Hardendorf is with the San] Was spent at Lander. He moved to the Juan now and just at present Gus| Meeteetse region in, 1884, being one of ix taking over the fishing job of the|the pioneers of that portion of Wy- lowasWyoming in the Bolton Creek] oming. are few better fishermen ————— , this section of the oil Ss O ord jobs out of Ww that were’ thought hopelessly plugge OPEN CLASSES Mr. Phillips of the E sburg Rig and Reel is a new fa the Wyo- —_ ming scout fraternity he is |,J- Waitz Buchcr, organist at St. pr West Virginia firm|Mark’s Episcopal church, plans to con- here arketing of drilling ma-|duet classes in organ and piano. He hines and ‘oil well specialties that | will teach harmony, theory and ‘tech- the Parkersburg Rig and Reel make|nie. Mr, Bucher studied technic and bp specialty of. | theory under Dr. G, H. Banker, a grad Le uate of Leipsic. He started his career Rowland Funeral to Be Held Tomorrow organist atone of th jin Lancast Pa. He played on a ——_ three manuel Boston organ of the latest The funeral of Robert Rowland will] model, be held the Bowman chapei! tmtil Mc. Bucher is able to estab: ‘Thursday a noon at 2:30 o'clock. The|jish a studio here, he will give Jes- servic conducted by the Ma-jsons at the homes of the pupils. soni lodge, the family that no flowers be sent. It has been requested by pounds and consists of a pair of huge jaws which operate automatically in fishing for lugs at the bottom of « hole. ——_—_—__—_ Osborne “No More” But Tom Turns up For Legislature CHE i, Wyo, Jan, 12.—The spot in Wyoming where Tom Osborne was born has ceased to exist—at least as 2 geographical designation—but Os- borne, whose advent took plac - two years ago at Fort Hallock, is still a might ntial chunk of human ity. from his home at Med. teetse and has taken advantage of the gathering of the legislators to renew acquaintances with a number of “old timers" he knew in his earlier years. Fort Halleck, where Osborne was born in 1869, was located in Carbon county, near Elk Mountain, It was abandoned for military purposes in the seventies and there now are compara- tively few Wyomingites who ever heard j of it, much less posses knowledge of of it, much less possess knowledge cf cout and railroad builder and his moth- under the teaching of 'M. L. Waitz, or- ganist at the St. Paul Methodist church, Lebanon, Pa, Before accepting the po- sition of organist h Bucher was ‘gest churches THE FINAL BLAST — Society Brand and Morse Made Union Made Clothes AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE Ralston Shoes - LOT 1 The kind that have been regularly sold for $12 and $13.50. Closing them out % Ralston Shoes LOT 2 The regular line that has been sold at $14.50. Closing them out SAID-TO BE SLATED FOR CABINET POSTS—(1) Charles E. Hughes, who’ may be secretary of state. (2) Harry M. Dougherty, who may be attorney generat, | (3) Will H. Hays, who may’ be postmaster general, (4) Herbert Hoover, who may | be either secretary of labor or of the interior. AUINS CLEARED AT GAS PLANT New Building Held. Probable at Salt Creek to Replace Burned Warehouse $5.95] PER PAIR | In fact he_has never missed a day dur- | ing his employment and in recognition ‘of his service, he was allowed time while on vacation. Thursday evening. nearly saw an ac- cident at ‘the boiler house when some of the men in charge of the boiters there got next to some whitemule. When another man happened to go into | the boiler house the fires were goin with all valves open and the pop valves were wide open, letting out the sur- plus with the water level pretty low. Eee FORMER COMMISSIONER . OF CROOK COUNTY ENDS | OWN LIFE WITH KNIFE RAWLINS, Wyo., Jan. 12.—While a teries in both wrists seyered, and a |blody knife lying beside it, the corpse of W. E. Tinckum, 60, formerly chair-} $4.95 PER PAIR The work atthe new gas plant of the Midwest in Salt Creek is progress-| ing in good shape, the ruins of the warehouse that burned a few days ago are being cleared away and a new building will be erected there in the near future, it is thought, as the gas plant needs a building of this kind to; house material. . In the ‘new compression plant, there are seven big units running now and the other two will be ready in the near The Famous John B. Stetson and Mall- ory Hats Have Been My Standards, I HAVE GROUPED THEM AS FOLLOWS f re. As thi: lant is Y inning smoothly. the engines. ani {Pan Of the board of commissioners of| John B. Stetsons, values up MALLORY HATS, compressors in the old plant will b@jshea at the fh of “hi |. Ralph i shut Gown’ and ives a weneral over [ehed, tt the home of is son, ain to $18.50, pee baggie Values up to $12.50 Nauling: | een started on the Wo,{PIRCS. About two ‘years ago “the de> your choice, the pick o e ceased suffered a stroke of apoplexy which resulted in a mild form of de- mentia and recently he had been de- Pressed and morose. A coroner's in- vestigation resulted in a verdict of suicide. 4 booster station and part of the big engines and pumps are on the ground. This station will suck the gas froin the field wells and shoot it along to the compressor units at the main plant where the gasoline will be squeezed out of the gas and condensed ready for shipment to Casper through the gaso- line pipe line that leads from the gas plant direct to the Midwest refinery yard at Casper. The work on the No, 4 booster sta- tion will be rushed as the plant needs badly the gas that will come thru this house |: Your choice $6.48 $4.89 pa MRE A John W. Clarkson, election ex. station and it is expected that the JUST THREE MORE DAYS At station will be operating by the end of the winter months. Many of the boys that were away, from the gas plant during the Chris mas holi are back on the job again || GEOLOGISTS OIL EXPERTS Oil Field Maps Blue Prints Explorations Reports Wyoming Map & Blue Print Co. P. 0. Box 325, Rm. 10, Lyric ex Legge was counted among,, who went out for a vacation over | the holidays this year, Tex has been | working steadily with the Midwest in/ the Salt Creek gas plant for the past; three years and this is the first time J.L.LEARNER 260 South Center St. Opposite Natrona Hotel <<. ___ Read The Tribune's Classified Ads. KAKA LAI AIA AHIAK LK EK IAI KAILA LK A LASEK ELAN He he has ever been away from the job, bis 7 RRS, SMe yA UNS SION Git