Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-04 | Page 36 | Gas Fields Are Drawing Notice

GAS FIELDS ARE I I DRAWING NOTICE I Eastern Capitalists Visit Natural Natural Natural Nat Nat- I ural Product Wells Wels in Wyoming Efforts are being made to Interest officers of ot the tho Butte Dute Superior mine nine at Butte Butto Bute and all al other zinc producing producing pro pro- mines In uI the western United Slates State in tho the new natural gas as fields which have been discovered near Casper Casper Cas Cas- per Wyo o Natural gas Is the only fuel b by which zinc ma may be smelted cheaply and under present conditions S zinc areIs ore are Is sent to the tho smelters from a distance nce of ot 1400 to 1600 miles mUes Tho The Utah Utah- Consolidated Oil Wyoming Utah 01 company compan which has a large acreage near nar Casper struck a gas ga well wel last lat week which has been flowing at the rate of ot cubic feet Ceet dal dally daily This with tho the wells well vell in fn conjunction wela wil Southern Oil which aro arc owned by the 01 company compan a subsidiary of ot the tho Standard will ill be Able to furnish cubic feet of gas as each ach day E. E A A. A A president of ot the Wyoming Utah Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- Oil 01 com company pan asserted yesterday yesterday yester yester- day that negotiations are arc being being entered 1 into with lh eastern capitalists to build zinc smelters smelter noR near Casper Zinc ores of ot the west arc are now smelted in Oklahoma and West Virginia two large gas producing states While hia tho the contracts contrat g the smelters In those states have with the tho zinc mines do not expire for Cor some ome months it I is asserted by officers cers cen of tho company having tho the big gas gaswell g well wellin In Wyoming that list a a. smelter nearer to th the mines would earn carn more mone money as it would save freight on ore Casper Casper Casper Cas Cas- per is about OO miles mies from fro Butte Butto Buto and andI I it t is estimated It I would cost to build a a pipe line Une the distance Other Works Work ork Planned In addition additon to the smelting of zinc ores ores those thoc who are aro interested in the company are seeking to interest capital capital capi capi- tal In the building of a brick plant and anda a gas factory Within a short distance of Casper it is said Balt there Is IK plenty of ot brick making clay and there Is glass sand in man many parts of or Wyoming It I Is proposed to utilize tho the gas ga from the tho crude oil 01 in the tho building of a glass plant along along the Union Pacific west est of at LaraJe I believe beleve that it is possible to sell sel gas as for or 4 cents a thousand as is done in West Virginia for tor manufacturing purposes and make mako bl big mone money money said Mr Col Cot J. J M M. of ot Pittsburgh head of or the Philadelphia company compan which supplies Pittsburgh with cas Jas as from the tho Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania anla and nd West cst Virginia felds fields visited d the fields recent recently and looked over tile the ga gas fields He asserted it Isone is isone isono one ono of oC the te best fields in the world and gave havo us Information concerning the uses to which we c can n put the gas ga