, 1921-05-26
SHOWING
News of Oil
Fields of This Section
Wyo.lu has ExCeIIent:
Showing in Well.
Sand Hills Bar
berque Sunday
(Ry GEO. A. DEATON)

(By GEO. \. DEATON)
The Bair Oil Company this week
has q large force OF men at work
~excavating and making arrange
ments for the erection OF a large
power house at Lost Soldier. The
present power plant has proven too
small to develop the necessary pow
err for their present needs. This
company is also doing considerable
work in the line OF burying pipe
lines from their numerous wells to
the storage tanks in order that there
will be no danger of them freezing
up during cold weather.
The Producers and Refiners cor
poration in the Lost Soldier field
are now down about $500 feet with
their well No. 2. which is about 1000
feet southwest of the Wertz No. l.,
which also is further down on the
structure and was located with the
idea of missing the big flow Of gas
which was encountered with the all
in the first we'll. Work on this we'll
is progressing very rapidly and 1t
Is expected that the pay sand will
be reached during the next few
hundred feet.
The rig of the Associated Oil CO.
on Section 2. near Rock River was
destroyed by fire the first Of the
week which. started from an unknown
aus The fire totally destroyed the
rig and tools. Arrangements have
srm dr;,,,no onornt;ons onno
xUord u,, rooo,,oa l., ,h;s o,t,,
,,as+ordov ~ tha assoot +hat 40 uv,,c.
Bair on Section ii. at 141O feet had
encountered considerable oil The first
day oil filed the hole over 500 feet
and the second day to over 100 feet,
This well Ia being drilled for the
Wyo-IIl neople nv the G.. p Corpora-
tion OFFICERS Of the G.. p. state that
tered the oil sand IA vet Indications
are that thew will within the next
few DAYS and that a goodly quantity
vii The secured estima-
ted that the oil sands would not be
feet had been reached, but the oil in
the hole now goes to show that a
sand will probably he struck within
a short distance further. It is i'm
poss;ble to toll. however. whether
oil in commercia %nuantities will he
struck, The is now maxi
off and drill to a deeper depth with
the intentions OF striking a better
producing sand. A small storage
tank is to be moved to the company
property this week and erected in or
der to have it in readiness when the
sand is encountered.
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The Hughes Oil Company, drilling
on Section 2. township 2G, Range.9O
in the Lost soldier District. are down
1888 feet n are now setting casing
weeks As soon AS the casing it set
drilling will he resumed.
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The Fremont Petroleum Companv
have esume drilling near Crooks
Mountain after being closed down
for the winter and the work is pro-
crossing very nicely.
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Mr., High of the Columbia Oil Co..
weeks ago and ia making arrange
ments to start drilling operations on
the comnanv well in he Ferris field.
The comnanv closed down last win
$500
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