Show UINTA COUNTY COUNTS OIL FIELDS press evanston wyo the most productive part of the wyoming oil field is that portion of uinta county lying between the oregon short line railroad and the utah boundary on the south F K 7 A P 7 7 Z AR THE NEW ONTARIO MILL PARK CITY photo by S L and extending a few miles in width from east to west like many of our important oil fields oil was discovered here by accident but from that time the fall of 1901 development has been very rapid already discoveries have been made in some twelve or fourteen wells and it is said that there are eight wells in this district that will produce better than twenty barrels per day and some of them are claimed to be better than fifty barrel wells the oil from the majority of these wells is of a base and has a gravity of 46 degrees baume but sometime last august a well was developed in the southern portion of the ahe field which yielded a 32 degree gravity oil which seemed to contain neither nor asphaltum buta but a considerably consider abl abI amount of re I 1 together with wi th a very large amount of lubricating oil and kerosene it was claimed at the time that the well veli would do better than barrels a day but is de nied by those who are in a position to know however the company drilled the well to a depth of some 1680 feet passing through five stratas of oil sand yielding grade of oil as the first another well put down some twenty miles to the west of the development struck a thin sand at feet which yielded a very superior grade of lubricating oil but not in commercial quantities the majority of the wells in this district yield the high gravity illuminating oil mentioned above running over per cent in light products having less than 1 per cent of residuum the companies who have done the major part of the development work in uinta country are the american consolidated atlantic pacific standard reserve and jager and bettys companies the standard reserve strike is one of the latest and is claimed to be the best well in the field and the well is in good shape free from water it is claimed by those well versed in oil formations that the indication for some twenty miles directly north of the present producing wells is the most promising no wells have been put down on this territory it being simply natural that part of the field nearest the railways should receive the first attention oyster ridge a formation which guides oil prospectors in this district passes directly through it and is practically unbroken As development work will naturally extend along in this direction it is very likely that mapy good wells will be brought in here the coming season the average depth of the wells in the uinta field is about 1200 feet and the formation is somewhat difficult to drill in requiring extra heavy tools and boxes there is also scarcity of water that is corn com mon in most of atour our western oilfields oil oll fields there are good springs within two or three miles of the present scene of work and water Is transported in pipe lines but owing to the extremely gold weather in these parts cannot be utilized ini in the winter therefore practically all development is at a standstill from the first of december to the flie first of may each year so naturally a good deal of timers tim eis lost owing to the short drilling season no oil has yet been shipped from the uinta county field although it is claimed it would be possible to deliver about or barrels a day of the 46 degree gravity oil at the present time several 1000 barrel tanks have been set up on the flat north of spring valley and are being filled from two of the atlantic pacific wells on section 22 15 from present indications there will be about a dozen strings of tools running here in the spring and it is probable that the output will be increased to a sufficient amount to warrant the standard or some other purchaser coming after it |