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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
6
The Centennial Drilling company reports its well in the Goshen Hole south of Torrington has reached 850 feet. The Standard rig can drill to 3,500 feet if needed.
Charlies C. Jameson of Denver heads Richards & Comstock and visits Alliance Inst week. The firm owns the 77 ranch north of Manville in the Lance Creek field where drilling continues. Jameson also backs a Wyoming-Northeast ern Oil company planned with headquarters at Alliance.
John Adama and Alliance associates move their rig from Pilot Butte to Osage six teen miles northwest of Newcastle. The Mike Henry Oil Company completes a commercial well at Osage showing 100 barrels per day from a 318 foot depth. Denver operators report a wild drilling surge with at least fifteen rigs in two weeks. C. M. Looney and R. M. Baker of Alliance holdOsage interests alongside Adame and partners planning rapid drilling.
Thirteen wells have been completed in Lance Creek to date: seven oil producers, four gas wells, and two water holes. Oil output is about 4,650 barrels per day with some wells pinched. Gas capacity is around 150,000,000 cubic feet daily. Fifty-two wells are drilling, with twenty three below 3,000 feet, and several more in various completion stages having water in the first sand and being drilled deeper.
The Penn Oil Company of Philadelphia paid 10 000 dollars for 800 acres in the Split Rock field eighteen miles west of Sand Creek and southwest of the 8 000 acres held by Alliance parties on the Cheyenne river. The price was 12 50 dollars per acre and no drilling is currently taking place in the district. The Wolfrang Company controls the greater part of the dome.
F A Bald of Alliance will preside over the Wyoming Northeastern Oil company now being organized. He and associates spent a day in Mule Creek field eighteen miles west of Edgemont across the Wyoming line. They hold 3400 acres in Mule Creek.
The Star No. 27 drilling rig is being erected on the west side holdings. C. A. Titus, who drilled the Sterling well, is superintendent in charge of camp buildings and rig erection. Drilling to begin after supplies arrive and a new pipeline will cross Wyoming- Northeastern Oil company lands. Other Mule Creek holdings to be leased and drilled within sixty days. Output and consumption data for 1919 show large increases in gasoline, kerosene, gas and fuel oil, with lubricating oil down. Kerosene stocks fell due to strong exports.
The Wyoming state land board awards crude petroleum rights for three years to Midwest Refining. The bid equals posted market price and requires a Wyoming refinery of 3,500 barrels daily capacity at Laramie, later 5,000 barrels, plus at least $2.6 million for Casper enlargements, a $300,000 state highway donation, and refining all Wyoming oil except a small amount to Utah. Royalty currently 17,000 barrels monthly and rising.
Notices from the recruiting office at 101 Box Butte Avenue announce that men who enlisted before April 2, 1917 and are discharged to re enlist will receive the bonus and mileage pay. The regular outfits formed the nucleus of the national army that drove the Germ through. the army today is a modern force with schools and civilian instructors from top universities, evidencing high government efficiency.
Police investigate a spree of forged checks with many stores in the city affected. Vogel declares all presented instruments as counterfeit while the department works to identify the forger and bring them to justice.
The Grand Island College outlines three standard normal certificates from its Academy and College courses. Second Grade County Certificate requires completion of the Standard Normal Course at the Grand Island College Academy. First Grade State Certificate requires completing the four year College proper courses in Freshman and Sophomore years. University State Teachers Certificate plus Bachelor of Arts in Education are awarded after the four year course. Dormitory for girls and private rooms for boys are available. Catalogues and information: Arthur T. Belknap, Pres., Grand Island, Neb., Phone 1204.
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