, 1921-09-22
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ACTIVITY IN OIL FIELDS
Continued from Page One
! high wind had the big derrick rival
In the hanging lower" for a time,
but volunteers bucked the guy cables
and saved it from destruction.
Over thirty truck loads of lumber
left for the field last week and all
of the twenty-inch casing in the
supply yards was cleaned up. Sew
eral cars Of this and smaller sizes
are expected to arrive yet this week.
The Continental Supply Co. report
an extraordinary movement of ma
terial for this season Of the year.
which Is due in a large measure to
new work.
Mr.. l.. F. Fletcher. an old time
Rawlins oil operator returned from
New York yesterday and will review
field developments hereabouts.
Mr.. ]. c.. White of Kansas City IL
In Rawlins awaiting the arrival of
New York capitalists who will ex-
anime oil leases northwest of Raw
Inns with the idea OF investing. Pro-
posed plans the installation
Of stills for the extraction of oil
from the heavily i~mpregnated oil
shales over in the Red Desert
country.
Geologist Russell F. Collins leaves
today for the Lander country where
he has been called to report on the
holdings Of Greenough Brothers's Of
Spokane. Wash. wealthy oil and mine
operators. They hold patents to
several thousand acres upon which
oil seeps have been discovered.
The Wellington OIL Co., a Pekin,
ILL.,. concern. have taken over the
Mines Development Co.. property To-
Gated In the Lost Creek country.
northwe of Rawlins. Holdings
consist Of about ten thousand acres.
MIR. Dean Tanner Is manager In
charge. A standard derrick with
oak stills has been constructed ant
the we'll spudded in. Casing and
winter supplies are being hauled in
and the camp has every indication
OF being there for real results, oil
being expected at about $500 feet.
Bair Oil Co., well on 14-26-sO has
resumed and owe 600 feet of 20
inch casing has been run. A deep
test we'll Is planned-unless the
Company run into another gusher In
some OF the upper sands.
: The Columbia Oil Co. is running
ten inch casing on its No. l we'll 80
l "a @ aud v1ftt~~ 49, $1,000 T. ---
10 II all winter II necessary.
Wyanna we'll on 26-2s-ss, Ma
1 honey Dome has passed through the
oil and gas sands recently e%ncount-
cred and making splendid progress
each tower.
! The Ohio OIL Co. is still fishing
on the O'Briens Springs we'll.
! The last word from the Midwest
we'll on 4-26-S8 ia to the effect that
the tools are within a few feet OF
where they we're last fall.
Newt Wilson, as he is familiarly
known. general superintendent Of
the Midwest is visiting company
holdings in these parts with a party
OF friend
The Kasoming has completed IA
20-inch assessment we'll 500 feet on
26-26-89.
There have been so many oil. gas
and pipe line people in town the past
week that the town looks like old
times. All the hotels In the city
hoyn honr oyoFDrtn hl,, P,,lI SDr c,,n,
time.
Mr.. u. S. Waugh, field manager
for the Red Desert Oil & Exploration
Co, has fuel and needed equipment
on the well site in Red Desert Basin
and expects to take the drilling
crews and cook out to camp tomor-
/ row.
Contractors Wilcox & Baroch ex.
pect to complete a 500 foot assess
! ment well and a water well 100 feet
deep on 1858 the middle OF next
week and move to Section 1861.
where they have another contract to
fill.
II oil men generally understood
that town people appreciate every
bit of camp news from spudding in
to production. from fishing jobs to
dry wells and that such news was a
sort OF stimulent to boosting for
better roads, better service from
merchants and professional men,
they would each employ a press
agent. For instance. AS an indirect
result OF the news furnished by the
several camps for several weeks
past, the Rawlins citizens are bend
ing every effort to have the roads
north OF town thoroughly overhauled