THE ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 27, 1919
PAGE FIVE
OIL NOTES
Output of crude oil in the United
Statca in September totaled 34,487,
000 barrels, against 33,986,000 In
August, a gain of 601,000 barrels.
This Is a daily average of 1,149,567
barrels for September. Output for
the nine months ended September
30 is estimated at 278,674,000 bar
rels, compared with 264,569,000 bar
rels in the same period of 1918, an
, Increase of 13,710,000 barrels, or 5
per cent. Based on production for
the first nine months of 1919 out
put should easily exceed 400,000,000
barrels for the year.
Casper oil and stock men have fi
nanced the Mule Creek Oil company
to drill on holdings in the field of the
same name. The company has leases
aggregating 2,920 acres in townships
38 and 39-61, some of the land being
'within two miles of production. T.
A. Hall, Natrona county commis
sioner, is president of the company;
John Bryne, vice president; F. R.
Hufsmith, secretary-treasurer; S. E.
Phippen, manager; A. E. Winter and
Earl D. Keaton, directors. The hold
ings of this company are located ad
jacent to those of the Wyoming
Northeastern Oil company, being or
ganized by Hemlngford, Alliance and
other Nebraska men.
Oil men are of the opinion that
our foreign kerosene trade In the
coming year will break the pre-war
record, which means that we will
ship more than 115,000,000 gallons
a month. In the first eight months
of this year we exported more than
SO, 000, 000 gallons a month, double
the amount shipped in the same
period last year. With the resump
tion of trade with Germany it is-estimated
15,000,000 gallons a month
will be added. The alue of kerosene
exports in the first eight months of
this year established a high record,
175.260,613, or 11H cents a gallon,
compared with $58,811,195, or 6
cents a fallong for the same period
of 1913. If the present export price
of kerosene Is maintained, our for
eign kerosene trade should reach a
value of more than' $175,000,000 a
year.
Production figures from north and
north central Texas during the past
week show little change in the daily
average, except for the Desdemona
field, wich dropped to 29,000 bar
rels daily, 8,000 barrels below the
previous week, according to a Dallas
telegram. Burkburnett maintained
its regular 85,000-barrel dally out
put. Stephens county, with a daily
production of 41,000 barrels, shows
a decrease of more than 1,000 bar
rels. Ranger production, however,
increased 2,000 barrels dally, giving
a total output of better than 64,000
barrels daily.
The week's completions In the
Desdemona pool have included sev
eral wells ranging from 1,000 to 2,
000 barrels, and a number of small
producers. Ranger has reported a
few small wells, and five or six aver
aging about 1,200 barrels all of
these larger wells being on the west
side of the field.
Recent advances in the prices paid
for Pennsylvania crude and other
eastern oils, which are acknowledged
to lead the market for prices paid
here, were reflected last Friday in
an announcement by the' Ohio Oil
company of a 25-cent increase per
barrel for all grades of Wyoming
crude oils. Thousands of dollars
added value to the daily oil output
of Wyoming will be the result of the
raise. On some grades the raise Is
the first since March 21, 1918, and
on oil from the newer fields Lance
creek and Rock river, the raise
marks the first change in price since
March 28, 1919. In the meantime
Pennsylvania crude and most east
ern oils have jumped 50 cents a bar
rel, the last increase being author
ized laBt week when the price went
over $4.00 for the first time. Grass
Creek and Elk Basin crude are now
Criticism and
Citizenship
It is the plain, public duty of every
citizen to criticize proposed govern
ment measures believed to be harmful.
Swift & Company is in a better pos
ition perhaps, than others, to under
stand the meat packing business in all
its relations to public and private inter
ests, even though the others may have
been giving the subject a great deal of
sincere attention.
Swift & Company is convinced that
interference with its legitimate business
function by governmental agencies,
however well intentioned, would be an
injury to every man, woman and
child who wants meat to eat, as well
as to the men who raise the meat and
to those who dress and distribute it.
Maximum service that cannot
monopolize because of keen competi
tion and lack of control over sources
of supply is furnished at a minimum
of profit a fraction of a cent per
pound from all sources.
Therefore Swift & Company is
taking every legitimate step of citizen
ship to prevent such interference.
These advertisements are intended
to help you, and to help Congress
decide what is best to be done. Mis
takes are costly and apt to be harmful
in these trying times.
Let us send you a Swift "Dollar."
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
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WHAT BECOMES OF
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quoted at $2.10; Buck Creek crude
comands $2.05; Big Muddy, Salt
Creek and Rock River crude la ad
vanced to $1.75, these latter being
of the same grade. It la expected
that oil from the wells In Mule creek
field will noon be placed on the mar
ket, as work Is progressing rapidly
on the new pipe line from the field
to Dakomirfg. This oil will probably
bring In the neighborhood of $2.60
per barrel.
Favorable developments have
marked operations In the Lance
creek field during the past two
weeks. The new gusher, brought In
the lower sand the Dakota, has
caused renewed activity and several
wells which had been adandoned on
account of striking water in the
higher sand will be cased off and
drilled on through.
Ground was broken last week for
the new refinery to be built at Osage,
near Newcastle, by the McWhorter
Oil and Refining company to handle
part of the production from the new
field. Milton McWhorter of Lusk Is
head of the new company, which Is
capitalized at $500,000 and which
will adopt the McWhorter process of
refining, used successfully on the
coast.
The Omaha Oil company has se
cured leases on 6,000 acres of land
south of Lusk and will start three
rigs drilling as soon as weather con
ditions will permit; locations have
been made at widely separated points
on the acreage. The company is cap
italized at $200,000 and is fully
financed.
The newly organized Enterprise
Drilling company, a Wyoming cor
poration, is reported to have entered
Into a contract with the Wyoming
Premier company to drill several
wells on the latter's holdings In the
Warm Springs field, near Thermop
olis, where twenty-eight wells are
no capped awaiting the beginning
of operations by the new Alliance
refining company. Present produc
tion Is estimated will exceed 1,200
barrels per day and the Wyoming-
Premier hopes to complete one or
two wells each month. The refinery
will have a capacity of 1,500 barrels
per day.
Alliance people were much inter
ested on learning the first of the
week that the Mid-West Oil company
was reported to have paid $125,000
in cash for the lease on the north
half of section 17-46-63, In the Osage
field. Section 18 is held by Alli
ance parties and two rigs are now
drilling thereon, under lease. This
looks very encouraging to the Alli
ance parties. Other Alliance parties
are now drilling in the field and are
expecting a successful completion of
the well any day.
We're Thankf ml
BECAUSE the boys arc all home again with us this year to celebrate the close of the great
World War. A year ago many of them were in France and Germany, wishing they
could be round the fireside with homefolks.
BECAUSE the past year has been one of prosperity for all because there has been work
at good wages for those who were willing to work all others should be sent back
to the lands from whence they came.
BECAUSE we are in the land of the living and in good health because we have the
privilege of living in western Nebraska "God's Country," where nature has
smiled bountifully during the past season and where there are huge stores of
potatoes and grains awaiting shipment to the hungry cities and the cast
BECAUSE the cattle and horses of western Nebraska have plenty to eat rich, cured grass
on the prairies and in the hills and stacks of delicious wild hay and alfalfa in the
valleys and on the farms
BECAUSE the heavy snows which have been slowly melting and soaking the rich, fertile
soils of Box Butte county and western Nebraska give definite promise of great
and abundant crops during the coming year, providing work and food for those
who by their pioneer work are changing the prairies into farms and the hills into
ranches
BECAUSE Alliance, the Queen City of the plains and metropolis of western Nebraska, is
beginning to cast aside her swaddling clothes and to take on the aspects of the city
which she soon will be, for the year 1920 promises to see the greatest develop
ment in the history of Alliance and Box Butte county.
FOR ALL OF WHICH WE ARE THANKFUL
Thomas-Bald Investment
Company
LLOYD C. THOMAS and P. A. BALD
Alliance National Bank Bldg. Phone 209
ALLIANCE BOX BUTTE COUNTY NEBRASKA
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