Show OHIO PEOPLE IN WYOMING cleveland plain dealer A number of prominent cleveland business and professional men have interested themselves in a venture for the piping of oil from the wyoming oil fields in uinta county for the supply of salt lake city miles distant the company is incorporated under the laws of pe delaware laware with capital its incorporators are J B L dark clark richard G finley 0 A daenz J T murphy P F S masten will R english dr arthur F baldinger dr lillian G J C meader tony S deisner of cleveland george H reeves of toronto watt finley of detroit and matt A dougherty of evanston wyo the comply company has purchased acres of land in uinta county and has decided to develop the abandoned union pacific shaft which is located a few miles from laramie the wyoming wyo M ing country has been known to contain oil fields of rare value for the last thirty five years but not until recently have efforts been made to develop the resources of the field the union pacific well when drilling to a depth of 1150 feet materialized a start of oil sand twenty two feet in depth the well filled up to a depth of feet the finest quality of illuminating oil known as 44 gravity and carrying IT 17 per cent gasoline spurted forth the well was however never shot the spring valley company is not the only one in the field dotted around its location in spring valley near evanston for miles other rigs are being erected and other wells sunk the great cost of the transportation of equipment to that section has held it in the background for years it is estimated that the cost of getting the first well in shape will reach senator dark clark and senator pettigrew are drilling in the vicinity and the former whose judgment in business enterprises terp rises is always well worth following says that the wyoming country is bound to supply a large portion of the worlds supply of bating oil in the near future the company will have the first well at work within thirty days the other nine it proposes to sink are expected to be in shape for work within six months the company will place a six inch pipe in commission for piping the oil to salt lake city as soon as possible within two months it is thought |