TIIE ALLIANCE HERALD. ALL1AI E, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 6, 1920.
HIRES
OIL NOTES
Garretson, Ward Hlldreth, W. O.
Eaton and W. D. Hays.
capital stock, $25,000; headquarters
at Laramie; directors for the first
year, W. II. Owens, H. M. Barnhart,
I William T. Corbett. H. A. Brookhart,
H. M. Jenkins, O. D. Snavely and II.
L. Davis. '
The starting of drilling by the Wyoming-Northeastern
Oil company In
the western, side of Mule creek has
stimulated activity in that section ot
the field. This company has 3,400
acres In that portion ot the field, on
which they started their first well
Saturday. The McNalr syndicate are
planning to start drilling just south
at an early date with a standard rig;
the Mule Creek 'Oil company will
drill adjoining them, while the Minnesota-Wyoming
and the Lusk Mule
creek companies will drill adjoining
on the east. Two new wells were
expected the first of the week by the
Mid West Oil company, drilling on
the east side of the field.
The Wyoming-Yellowstone Oil
company, drilling on te Golden
Eagle dome, twenty-eight miles west
of Thermopolls and lying between
the Cottonwood and Grass creek
fields, has completed Its first oil well,
a fifty-barrel pumper, at 1,100 feet.
The well was shot and oil rose 400
feet in the twenve-lnch casing. Bring
ing in this well Indicates the field
will be productive of oil In commer
cial quantities.
With the completion of several
new and successful wells In the
Lance creek field, stocks of com
panies have taken a strong upward
trend. The Buck Creek Oil company
has led the list, having jumped from
41.00 to $2.65 within six weeks.
The' Wyoming Premier Oil com
pany shot its No. 9 well in the Warm
springs field early this week and the
-well is showing up aa a good producer.
The small McWhorter refinery be
ing erected In the Osage oil field
near Newcastle is nearing comple
tion. The McWhorter Refining com
pany expects to have the refinery in
operation by January 1.
A teletram from C. M. Looney,
field superintendent of the Wyoming-
Northeastern Oil company, to tne
headquarters of the company at Al
liance, announced that well number
one was spudded in Saturday in the
Mule creek field,- west of Edgemont.
The company has the finest equipped
drilling rig in the field and are mail
ing progress while the good weather
lasts. A' new two-ton Denby auto
truck was purchased last week from
Schwabe Brothers of Alliance and
Chadron. The truck reached the
field on Monday and was put right
to work. The smaller Douglas truck,
owned by the company, which has
been haulllng fuel oil, overturned on
a bad road the first of the week and
spilled a tank of oil. Because of the
distance from town the company is
using oil for fuel for both the drill
ing rig boiler and for heat In the
camp.
A new under-reamer recently
placed on the oil suppy company
market appears to be a solution of
the troubles of drilling companies in
Wyoming. Where this under-reamer
has been 'tested near Casper It has
proved a better Instrument than
many of the under-reamers In use at
present. .
On account of the shale encoun
tered In the Wyoming fleldunder
reamlng is quite common. Many of
the under-reamers now used cause
trouble because the ' cutting bits
break off and plug up the hole. This
difficulty Is said to be practically
eliminated by the new under-reamer
Invented by Grant. It is a light tool.
It can be placed in use by one man
instead of four to sit men required
to place the present under-reamers
in operation. ..
Three new oil companies have filed
Articles of incorporation at Cheyenne
during the past week. They .are as
follows:
Wyowo Petroleum company, cap
ital stock $1,000,000, headquarters
at Cheyenne; directors for the first
year, Walter S. Brown, Charles F.
Maxwell and Frank J. Champ.
Western Royalty & Oil company,
capital stock, $500,000; headquar
ters at Cheyenne; directors for the
first year, Claude F. Palmer, O. E.
On account of the railroad legisla
tion, which occupied the attention of
congress prior to the holidays, the
passage of the leasing bill, which was
expected by Christmas, was delayed
until after the holiday recess of con
gress. Reports from Washington in
dicate it will be taken up soon after
the 'first of the year and its speedy
enactment Into law may be looked
for early In January.
The Standard Oil company of In
diana has commenced Improvements
at its Casper plant which, with the
cost of the land acquired, will cost
close to $2,000,000. It has purchased
165 acres on the north side of the
Notice to Boys!
In order to encourage Scientific Farming in Box Butte,
C. A.-Newberry, President of the Newberry's Hardware Com
pany, Alliance, Nebraska, will send at his own expense a boy
from each precinct in Box Butte County to the Short Course
in Agriculture at Lincoln, Nebraska, beginning .January 26th
and continuing four weeks. All boys making application
must be between eighteen and twenty-one years of age and
must have completed the eighth grade. Selection from the
applicants will be made by a committee consisting of County
Superintendent Opal Russell, Ex-County Agent George Neus
wanger, and "WYE. Spencer, Manager Alliance Creamery. In
deciding what boy shall go from each precinct, the committee
will take into consideration successful farming experience and
scholarship. Boys interested will fill in the following applica
tion blank and mail same to Coiinty Superintendent Opal
Russell not later than January 10th.
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1. Name . ....
2. Post Office Address , ..
3. Precinct in which you live
4. Age .
5. (a) Are you an eighth grade graduate t.
(b) If a county eighth grade graduate, give name of coun
ty and date of graduation .
(c) If from the eighth grade of a town school, give name
" of town and date of graduation ......
(Send with this application the report card showing
the county eighth grade examination grades; or if a
graduate from the eighth grade of a town or city
school send report card showing your final grades, if
you have them. If you do not have them the com
mittee will write for them.)
6. Have you done any High School work? ,
If you have, state how much, when and where-
7. Were you raised on a farm? -...,
8. How long have you farmed! . , ' '
9. Do you intend to make farming your permanent business!
10. Do you intend. to farm this year! ,
11. To whom do you refer as to your ability as a farmer f
12. In what type of farming (farming, stock-raising, etc.) are
you particularly interested! '
13. Are you interested especially in dairying! '
Platte river, across from its refinery,
upon which it will build Immediately
six 55-000-barrel steel tanks to be
followed later by the Installation ot
other tankage until the entire site is
occupied.
In the northeastern corner of
Crook county, Wyoming, a few miles
south of the Montana state line and
a few miles weBt of the South Dakota
state line on section 1-57-61, the Ex
ploration Oil & Gas company has be
gun operations on a wildcat which is
being watched with interest in the
three states. The company plans to
start the hole with a twenty-inch
casting and sink to 3,000 feet If
necessary.
NKiGitnomioon news
Mr. and Mrs. Walker entertained
abdut fifty of their friends at a
dance Wednesday evening. A pleas
ant time was had by all and a dainty
luncheon was served.
Mr, and Mrs. Rogers spent Thurs
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Evans.-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boag and fam
ily spent New Year's day with Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Cutts in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Behm were surprised
Tuesday morning when Mr. Behm'a
brother and sister from York came
on the morning train.
Mr. DeShazo hauled hogs to town
Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Evans spent Friday
evening with Mr and Mrs. Boag.
Mrs. Otto Becker is enjoying a
visit from her sister for a .few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Behm and family
spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs.
Seidler.
Mrs. Evans called on Mrs. Brlttan
Friday afternoon.
Most of the schools will open again
Monday after a two weeks' vacation.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Real estate transfers in Box Butte
county, Neb., as reported by J. D.
Emerick, ' bonded abstracter, First
National Bank building. Alliance,
Neb.:.
Wellington Lyon and wife to Hat-
tie J. Shelter, lot 4, block 30, town
of Heralngford, $2,000.00.
Beatrice Ellis to Harvey J, Ellis,
tract 5 by' 25 feet of lot 1, block 9,
original town of Alliance, $1.00.
Louis Lahoda and wife to Nora
Peterson, lot 9, block 1, Falrvlew
addition to Alliance, $3,300.00.
N. P. Dodge, jr., and wife to John
T. Capps, lot 259, Belmont addition
to Alliance, $160.00.
C. L. Drake and wife to R. E.
Knight, tract of land 300 by 826.05
feet, in NE4 of SEtf 36-25-48, $1,-
136.00.
Jay O. Walker and wife to ErneBt
Radenbaugh, NE4 of 6-25-47. $5.
600.00. William Leslie Shoemaker ana
wife to William S. Shoemaker, NE4,
of 9-25-47, $8,000.00.
William J. Earl, single, to Michael
F. Nolan, NW and Sfc of 10-24-50,
$5,750.00.
Ida L. Hann and husband to
George M. Jenkins, SW4 of 11-27-
47, $3,200.00.
F. W. Irish, county treasurer, to
H. J. Ellis, E of SWU of 4-26-49,
tax deed.
. F. W. Irish, county treasurer, to
John O'Keefe, NEU of section 23-26-52,
tax deed.
. F. W. Irish, county treasurer, to
John O'Keefe, lot 11, block 25, orig
inal town of Alliance, tax deed.
Summer L. Hlmes and wife to
Box Butte county, Nebraska, on
NWU of 14-24-18, easement.
BRITISH MANUFACTURERS
WANT LIBERTY MOTORS
British manufacturers of airplanes
have Indicated a desire to purchase
In this country a moderate number
of Liberty motors for use in com
mercial types of aircraft. These man
ufacturers are making favorable
comparisons between the Liberty en
gine and the Rolls-Royce and Napier
Lion, which cost considerably more.
ARMY ALTOS SELL -
VOIX fill APIECE
The sale of 3,021 unserviceable
motor vehicles to December 15
brought a total of $981,533.60, the
war department reports. Of these
1,924 were trucks for which the pur
chasers paid. an average of $411.79.
The average price paid for 847 tour
ing cars was $210.77.
A committee, chosen by the com
pany to call on the top kick and ex
plain how bad the army food was,
prepared a careful memorandum of
grievances, arranged like a lawyer's
brief. The sergeant listened to sev
eral points and then Interrupted Im
patiently. "Why, there's nothing wrong with
the food. I've eaten It for twenty
seven years myself and look at me
now."
"That's it, sergeant," replied
fearless buck, "that's our ' next
point." American Legion Weekly.
He (with newspaper) Here's
prophet who predicts the death of
one of our greatest men within th
next few weeks.
She Is your Insurance policy all
paid upT Boston Transcript.
COUNTRY'S WEALTH IS
NOW $47.08 PER CAPITA
The actual money wealth of the
country amounts to $47.28 a person,
according to the federal reserve
board, which announces that money
in circulation, that held by the treas
urer, and that in the federal reserve
amounts to $15,409,000,000. .
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To All
Contractors, Carpenters
and prospective builders
Geo Fowler & Co.
wish to announce that they have secured the services
of Mr. Floyd Lucas of Iiussel, Kansas, to manage their
interests in Alliance.
Mr. Lucas comes to us very highly recommended,
having been very successful in his previous locations.
"We would like to ask that whenever convenient you
step in and get acquinted.
It is our desire to carry a very complete line of build
ing material, and should there be some things which
we do not have in stock at this time, if you will let
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