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Show T RU T H 12 at feet, it penetrated the sands pany, a concern organized in Boston, were glad to content themselves wr--, held the main deposits. They had Mass. that a single claim. The matter of WYOMING. an inexhaustible quantity of tapped For a year past oil rigs have been ing once settled, a big movement petroleum of a high grade, a lubricat- coming in almost daily, and many good commemnced to develop the land T' (Continued From Last Issue of Truth ing and illuminating oil that is worth strikes have been made, most notable larger concerns have from six to Edward Shattuck $8 a barrel at the well. Profesor Dan- of which is that of the Atlantic & Pa- teen standard (By Eastman.) drilling rigs each o' Evanston, Wyo., Feb. 12. While al iels, the despised geologist, was en- cific company, at what is known as the way to the field, while dozens cf this litigation has ben taking place dorsed and Hardin was happy. He the Ellis well. This strike was made other companies will start up wjrV. had given Wyoming her first oil well, in September and it is a wonder, one or two. The. Knickerbocker coi prospectors and investors have been located on land with a clear title, early Practical tests show it to be from a pany and the company busy. Notable among these was the that yielded oil in paying quantities. 50 to 75 barrel producer, and the qual- will each commence drilling nevt Jager Oil company, formed in Chicago. The news spread rapidly and the solid ity of the oil is better than any month.. A. company is being formr This In Cincinanti, Ohio that will be can This company sent their general man men of Wyoming came in pairs and yet produced from this field. to fours find. the Inspect by company has filled all available tank- italized for $20,000,000, and negota" ager, a Mr. J. J. Hardin, into the field All the available tankage at the age and capped the well until spring, tions are being made for to look over the situation and take Jager well has been filled, and the hole at which time a pipe line will be corn, of 24,000 acres of land uponwhtS whatever steps in the line of location itself capped, pending the construc- structed to Spring valley, about a mile they will commence operations at and development he might think best. tion of a pipe line and the erection of distant. The Groshen & Carter com- once. The near future will, see our fields Mr. Hardin arrived here in early win- a refinery that will be located near pany also made a good strike in No Evanston. This oil, while valuable as vember, and the a few bristling with a forest of derricks So ter and was dumbfounded to learn a natural lubricant, is of much more days later in the Fossil district. The ar as known every foot of oil land in value for refining purposes, as it con- many rigs that commenced drilling in the Uintah field has been filed upon the extent of the field. Instead the early spring wfll bring scenes finding an oil field of a few hundred tains an unusually high percentage of the summer and fall are rapidly ap- ind of shows d excitement. oil the and Analysis products. producing strata, proaching this can be acres, where a person could easily lo- 33.4 per cent kerosene, 27.1 per cent the next few months will doubtless seen in the air Already of activity , that per! cate a favorable site, he was confront- signal, or headlight oil, 17.1 per cent bring many more good strikes. ?ades the .whole country from Spring to Evanston. There is a boom ed with the fact that the Wyoming gasoline and benzine, and 20.4 per cent valley to 1902 As the year a close a drew in the atmosphere, but It is One appreepidemic paraffine. quality greatly over fields embraced an area of 2,50( peculiar combination of circumstances disciated refiners is the will be none of the wild there that it hoped by existed in the Uinta county fields square miles, and that as far as he tills without foaming or kicking, as There here so common in some inspeculating was a suspicious amount of could tell one part of it was just as it is called by the trade. The specific , other and it is believed this activity among the big concerns oper- will be fields, of at for crude the In rush mad the in as the another. check as conditions are gravity petroleum kept good ating here; from which there was but not. G6 of favorable.. The whole degrees one conclusion to be drawn and that claims Mr. Hardin succeeded in locat ordinary temperature and this is encouraged by ourtendency Fahrenheit is at and flashes the it .47, was some wished on to locate that ing several which since have proven same temperature. These are the of the theytracts of land that would and business .men, is to promotebankers legitithemselves to be among the best in things that have made the people o: be openlarge for relocation and meanwhile mate development enterprises only. the field. It was then that a happy Wyoming enthusiastic, have removed wished to discourage individual own : cloud of doubt from the minds o: ers from their claims by the OIL NOTES. protecting thought struck Mr. Hardin. He woult the geologists in general ,and are inducing necessary assessment work required have a friend of his, a Mr. P. E. Dan- scenes of excitement that will outriva law ,and although over f 200,000 was This week shows but little change iels of Chicago, come out and locate a anything that ever happened at Beau by in this work, January 1st expended well site and commence work. It was mont. found nearly of the oil belt in the oil situation generally from that d Meantime other concerns have no open for relocation. Then the big fight of a week ago with the when Mr. Daniels arrived exception of been idle. Capitalists and promoters began which nearly resulted in blood- the arrival of he in and when it was announces that the rigs Spring valley ?ame in by hundreds, aud prospecting shed. For nearly every claim there fields and the was going to tell Mr. Rarain where to parties left preparations being Evanston daily. Your cor were a dozen eager locators, each indrill for oil with a certainty of finding respondent accompanied one of these tent on securing it first by fair means made for a start in the spring. It Is on an extended trip through or otherwise, and in many instances reported that the Atlantic & Pacific it, a guffaw went up. The thing was parties oil field and secured some valu an attempt was made to keep oppos- people have the too ridiculous for serious considera- able information already got their new and excellent photo- ing locators off the ground by the use on the tion. Allowing that a geologist under graphs. While accompanying this of rigs ground, and several other firearms. In the Aspen country, are oi out scent companies could conditions I preparing to ship theirs learned field the is Uinta that Colonel Ketchum with twelve desper- to party ordinary same the Over at Debeque point. a Drivwith too soaked was ate well armed cowboys carried the the fairly big petroleum. territory, which in itself well shallow, idea has taken posout from a Evanston few miles field by storm. At 12:01 a. m., on the morsel to be swallowed, how was Pro ing we selected a spot where the forma- first day of the new year, they rode session of the oil men, and deep drilllessor Daniels going to tell anything tion was favorable, and commenced to down the section ing will be a thing of the past until lines, setting their the first oil sands of the surface the have been exhaustwhen a n it hole about the ground wtih shovels location stakes as they came to the ed. dig There are abou ten companies we nohad gotten very deep we corners. As they drove the first stakes ground was covered with a mantle of Before in this operating ticed oil field, and all of them in over the entire they were greeted with a peal of de snow, that made all land look alike. area of theseeping which was some six risive yells and a volley of gunshots are preparing to put down shallow hole, wells during the coming season. The As subsequent events have proven, or seven feet in diameter. We con which, however , owing to the darkto Professor tinued digging until we had a hole ness, went wide of their mark. The Debeque, Curtis and Home company is all land didnt look alike Daniels. He went carefully over the about six feet deep, then we ceased determined men swung into their sad already drilling. work to eat dinner. Returning to the dies and charged down the line, locat J jit ground with Mr. Hardin and made his hole about an hour later we found, to ing on nearly every section in the As In the Fossil field, which has had a selection of the spot where he was our great surprise, that it was nearly pen country which had not been prodeserted appearance for considerably full. We could hardly believe that it tected by assessment work. The positive oil would be found. , plan over a was one of and month, the the prospectors was well laid and executed by the Coloil, Standing on the top of a long ridge we that throw a lighted pa- onel who knew every foot of the coun- Consolidated will be working during or hogback, Professor. Daniels said: suggested into it and watch the result. Talc try. In other parts of the field there the per coming months. This rig is the Put your drill down here, and you Ing a newspaper from my pocket, were scens of great excitement and will strike oil at 1,000 feet," and the lighted it and threw it into the green- fights with fists and clubs were com- only one which is likely to be put into commission in this field until prophecy was fulfilled almost to the ish liqufd and sprang back, none too mon. The camp fires of the thousands soon, however, for with a terrific roar of locators scattered profusely over the some show of warm weather is in eviletter. Taking the spot selected for the the flames shot two hundred feet in field made a scene never to be for- dence. In Green River only one rig. first boring while the snow was yet on the air. Fortunately no one was near gotten who saw it, remind- is at work, if the Dairy Fork canyon those by the ground, he piped in a water supply enough to be injured by the explosion, ing one of a bivouac in war time, and syndicates rig is excepted. This latter from a spring some three miles away, but it demonstrated clearly the large the feeling of antagonism manifested rig is so many miles away from Green amount contained in this helped stimulate this picture. Large River that it is doubtful if it can be erected quarters for his men and oil. We of napthanear this place that tracts of land were secured camped some classed in the Green River field. graded a road over which the drilling night, and long after the darkness of the big concerns. IsadorebyKastor outfits could be hauled from the rail- came the fire from this oil seepage financed three expeditions, one in the The English-Belgia- n Oil syndicate way. It was well into the summer be- lighted up the prairie for many hun- Fossil fields, one in the Round moun- has dred placed eight rigs at Salt Springs; During the night the fire tain coutnry and another in the Spring fore he was ready to begin the actual burnedfeet. all oil in the hole and went valley field, securing the and will drive a number of work of drilling his first well, and he out, and next morning we found the acres of land. M. F. altogether 40 000 Wyoming, wells during the coming summer. White secured approached it with reverence not un- hole again full of oil. We repeated about 30,000 acres, which, together Jl Jt this experiment on several occasions with the 25,000 acres which he covered mixed with dread. The pluck and push of the managers during our trip, with the same result. by assessment work, makes him the All too slowly the drill went down This of can be readily accounted for by largest Oil City Oil company is filling the r, and the fact that to suit Mr. Hardin, who was appre- the fact that the upper strata of oil le all oil men with admiration. The compersonally financed the entire hensive lest he had made a fatal and sand crops out at frequent intervals shows his unbounded faith In drill-n- g to throughout the an es- he field. W. J. Cashin, one of Evans-on- s panys rig is in commission, costly mistake. Everything tended country, making at the bottom of their 1820-fodelay. Tools broke, the hole went cape for the oil and gas forced upbusiness men, percrooked and had to be refilled and the ward by the water pressure from be- sonallyenterprising headed a party that secured ile is already under way. Though drill started over again. Necessary low. In many places in the Round n the neighborhood of 10,000 acres small flows of oil have been met with supplies were away behind time in ar-of mountain and Medicine Butte coun-r- y of choice land. Mr. Cashin has been n sinking thus far, the start was made these oil sand strata can be traced one of the foremost in riving and it was after the firstwas oil Wyoming or This was truck. oil 'or hundreds of feet where erosions development and his 3,000 feet or August before untiring efforts and the intentionsbetter last summer, at a depth of 815 feet, and the sight of have occurred. The party whom I ac- lave done much toward of the managers bethe dark colored fluid smelling strong- companied on this occasion secured a fore the public the great bringing not lave richness of changed. At this depth the ly of gasoline was a glorious one to arge area of land which has since .he Uinta field. Many other concerns lest who have been over the experts the superintendent. He kept pushing been proven to be invaluable. is secured from 1,000 to 5,000 acres each It declare ground that a veiy heavy oil :he drill deeper and deeper and finally, now owned by the Wyoming Oil com while individuals, for the most part) sand is to be encountered. This oil PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT IN 1,000 ! . Ohio-Wyomin- Utah-Wyomi- g ng high-price- . one-thir- mid-wint- er . . Idaho-Wyomi- hg ! ( . . land-owne- en-;erpr- ise a-n- d ot . . |