Show oil 01 1 and the wildcatter WYOMING OIL WORLD capital and brains that is the answer of every oil man in wyoming to the question what is wanted in wyoming for the development of the oil fields capital and trains brains have done the work up to the present and will continue to do the work in connection with capital and brains there is nerve needed the nerve needed is that which calls men to go into unproven fields spend their money sink a well and if they have a dry hole to pull the casing and remove their rig and engine to another field and go to it again these are the people commonly known as wildcatters wildcat it is a fact that some of the big companies in every field could have been classed as wildcatters wildcat in the beginning for they were going it blind to a large extent they went into a field that had been passed upon by a geologist who believed there was a dome and believed there was oil they backed this belief with money and won correctly speaking the only bona fide wildcatter is the man who any ground worth while and who is selling stock just tor for the money that he can make out of it wildcatters Wildcat using the accepted meaning of the word are the pioneers in a new territory they have not started without the advice of a reputable geologist there is the structure for them to drill though that structure may prove barren but it wont be their fault these are the men who will go to another part of the same field or to a new field and go after another hole these thebe are the men who make new nev fields and who develop oil fields they are the life and sinew of the oil industry wyoming is considered by many eminent geologists to be the future great oil state of the union it is true that the ground has scarcely been scratched the bulk of the wells are in a few sections the big 1319 addy and the salt creek being the largest with lander elk basin griss grass creek and two or three others following t in addition to these are a dozen other undeveloped developed fields and here is where capital ital and brains are needed with nerve and the e Out corne is most certain to be a second salt alt creek that one or more of these fields ivill come in big in ill 1918 is a foregone contusion conclusion cl it is reported that when the midwest first went into to the salt creek field there lere in ill S their those who laughed blied and then went on everyday ay work and gave the mid we west t no further furt ller attention except perhaps to ami n pas as a few jibes at them as the months rolled ed around its s capital and brains and nerve that will develop 1 elop new fields in wyoming just as they have developed the present fields and they will be forthcoming wyoming needs large capital to develop her rich but deep oil sands the entire state should unanimously demand that pending federal oil leasing legislation shall contain no provisions calculated to scare capital away salt creek was a spasmodic failure for many years until verner reed took hold of it big muddy burst upon the world not much more than a year ago when the nervy humphreys syndicate spent on the first wildcat merritt well to find out whether the wall creek sand over feet deep contained oil or water at that point fully one hundred millions of wealth is now proven to be in sight as the direct result As the indirect result probably a billion of investment capital is eagerly seeking opportunities to risk similar sums in similar test wells all over the state the incoming capital should be encouraged in every reasonable way it is an enormous factor to the oil industry of wyoming already its advance guard has made wyoming the most prosperous region in the whole world the widespread wide spread discoveries made by deep and costly wildcat wells has given distinct value to every acre of desert sand and sagebrush waste indeed it has turned the whole state into a possible gold mine |