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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1920
Page
6
Oil notes indicate development may bring first class hotels to several Wyoming towns, analogous to Newcastle where a company is organizing to build a $150,000 hotel. Buck Creek Oil company is erecting three rigs in the Lance Creek field on section eight and drilling will start once preliminary work is finished.
A large petition of men and others interested in Osage oil asks Burlington to stop trains Nos. 41 and 42 at Osage Wye. Rawlins grants Kaseming a twenty year gas franchise to supply residents from Mahoney dome with 50 million cubic feet daily as drilling expands across a 30 by 5 to 8 mile strip.
Fifty drilling rigs are on the Osage field ground and thirty more are expected soon, signaling intensified oil exploration activity in the area.
A new oil strike at Moab Utah yields a 500 barrel estimate and steady flow from 1100 feet. The find three blocks south of the Moab office increases lease values from 25 dollars to as much as 2500 per acre. Wyoming Oil News notes 1920s company dividends and growing earnings from Wyoming fields boost future production and payments to stockholders.
Mr and Mrs James Brillan visited Mr and Mrs Frank Bong on Friday. Charlie Kennedy plans a new garage and may buy a car soon. Sickness runs through the area with Loyd Kibble James Evans Henry Behm James Brittan Arthurs Rovers Howard De Shazo and Frank Doeng listed as ill. No school in district No 2 due to a sick teacher. Mr Lee Kasner expects Sterling visitors next Saturday. Evans aided Loyd Kibble with corn last week. Mrs Waumbaugh hosted the BE Pr club for an all day gathering with about fifty attendees. Mr McGinnn helps Kennedy with the garage. Rehder family coping with smallpox and Mrs Otto Becker slowly recovering from a fall.
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