Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-03-17 | Page 44 | Story of Pioneer Oil Operator Reprinted

I STORY OF PIONEER OIL OPERATOR r j t j REPRINTED Salt Lake Man Gives Additional Additional Addi Addi- Facts About First Boom in Wyoming Th Tim The story In last Sun Sundays Sunday's la s Herald Herald- Telegram describing the ex experience experience ex- ex of Li L G G. G A Acocks co cIa of Salt Lake Lahe possibly the leader Jeader of the orl original oil IJ boom om In UInta county count Wyoming seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen already Is going JoinS the thc teen years rears ago l m I rounds lounds of or tho Intermountain press pres I Mr Acocks who has lived JI quietly in In Salt Lake since he with others was ousted by hy tho the Union Pacific winning Its Us Usland land suit cult against t the American OH Oil company yesterday stated that during the past week ho received a number number num num- ber r of letters containing the article Republican Tole from the gram gam and asking for further Information I I H He Ho stated that he could not give Jt the trine time to complying to the request in Ind in- in d vidual l cases but that he would be glad to give S1 any additional Information if this p paper pcr cared lcd to print what he might sa say I J Continuing he said ply My oly first attention to the the the Uinta Uinta oil oilfield oilfield field was after the oil had been struck In Inthe Inthe j the A Aspen pen tunnel situated In the big hiJ fault of orthe the tho Oyster ridge e. e My I iy work of or locating commenced from this tads point and wherever where I could find a apiece apiece piece of or land Jand open I took look It It except the Id numbered sections owned 1 by the Union Pacific through h a United Slates States and 1111 grant and which extended extend d for twenty miles on each side of the tho railroad track ck JH It It was talked of or at that time timo that it was wn possible that Evanston was over o a large lat anticline and would some sonic tIa day be he a great oil producer I worked on those thoc lines JInes and aoel located land an anywhere where between the Oyster ridge rind nd md the state boundary on the west taking in the Evanston district district dis dis- tt ct and as far north as the Oregon Short Line and Including the Fossil Kemmerer Kemmerer Kemmerer Kem- Kem Cumberland and Hear Bear River el di districts After hAfter I located as much of or this as I could find vacant as the land was nearly all an taken b by the time I got ot I started I took Professor of California California Cal Cal- to locate some sonic drilling sites Inthe in inthe inthe the holdings of the Jager Oil on company cal I Our first stop was on the southwest of oC section I 1 12 township 15 north I range US west est close to the El EI Re Rey hold hold- ings hOld I I rAfter After we had l placed three or four stakes we made ready to go o over to what was then known as the LeRoy LeHo LeRoy an and I I Bridger district but hut before leaving Jea I asked Professor how far lal in I his estimation they would have to drill j I to strike e the oil on sand and ho he said about I POO flOO feet After drilling It was as proven pro that Professor was correct We Ye thin rode over o to Leno LeRoy and he ho pointed o out t about twenty t sites for drilling I ur trove drove e all the stakes and numbered them which fact was placed on the county count r record for future drilling Tho The El EJ Re Rey Petroleum company now has lias some of this land landI I 1 left that country after the bl big lawsuit law law- suit stilt between the Union Pacific Railroad company and the American Consolidated ted Oil on company In a n. private talk with Professor he told me mo that In time the Butte Bridger-Butte Brid Butte er-Butte domo dome would develop de Into a n. far better field than the Spring Valley Va fields would ever be but hut he was satisfied that there thero would bo be nothing done til It was fully demonstrated and the tho pst side of 0 the Oyster Oster ridge bo ho proven H Tt was ryas as the result of Professor pinion opinion that I rushed into the Bridger- Bridger Jutte tte dome and took about lOO acres all aU round the Japer Jager holdings I have read rend Professor ProCessor Toules report mil r nd I find it to correspond very closely the facts which I have been told b by other experts that I talked with fifteen and sixteen years ears ago which I ma may tell about later