Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-04-12 | Page 7 | Wyoming Oil Field Attracts $200,000

I I WYOMING OIL FIELD I ATTRACTS An Investigation of tho Moorcroft oil oilfield oilfield 01 field eld twelve miles mies north of Moorcroft Wyo 0 by V. V H. H Barnet of ot the United States Slates geological survey suney to determine as tar far as might be tho the possibilities of or ortho tho the field feld is reported In iii the Surveys Survey's Bulletin C. recently published Th The Tho presence of oC oil 01 in this field elt has been known tot for tOl at least leat a quarter of a cen- cen and many man wells have havo been drilled dried In n the hope of developing a commercial pool jool but in only seven sovan of these wells wels has hns oil 01 been found in appreciable amounts The amount of mone money which has hns been invested in prospecting and trying to develop tho the Moorcroft field is 18 K estimated at nt about which Is s perhaps more than has hns ever been realized from sales of or the oil 01 As the field feld has been hl thoroughly prospected prospect prospect- ed It probably will sill wH never ne er have any great production A COP copy of the report mn may be he obtained free on application to 0 the director of ot the geological survey Wa Washington D. D t C. C