Show Oil FIELDS THE GOAL Foreigners Build Railroad in 1 Wyoming CONNECT CASPER TO LANDER Will Open Up a Great OilS Oil-S Country Money Voted by Belgi American Drilling Trust nnd Surveys S Sur-veys Made rlnJnU IO SPECIAL Cheyenne Wyo Xov IJ t H Lo bull I American director I of the Belgl American t Drilling Trust which Is bucked buck-ed by wealthy Parisian and Dutch capitalists cap-italists and is Incorporated with 10 000000 capital announces authoritatively authoritative-ly hal I the trust will begin the construction con-struction of ft new railroad from Casper Cas-per the termlnuy of the Fremont Klkhorn to Lander a distance of 1HO miles before January 1st White It was nnnouncnd several months ago that I the DelgiAmcrlcan company proposed to construct this line to open up communication with Us vast oil llelds near Lauder the company com-pany has been working quietly since then and now gives out the Important information that the entire route has been surveyed and construction contracts con-tracts already awarded The capital for the work has been voted by the stockholders and awaits draft Mr Lo bell leaves this week for Europe to complete the final arrangements but in the meantime the work wIll he commenced com-menced under the supervision of the engineers Not only will the line connect with Lander and Its Immense tributary country but numerous spurs and branches will be built t one of these to the Salt Creek oil Holds also owned by thu BclglAmerlcan company and another to Thermopolls where the famous fa-mous hot springs owned by the Slate are situated The road will be of standard stand-ard gauge and thoroughly equipped In every particular Contracts will be let next year for rOiling stock engines the conslruction of depots shops and station sta-tion houses and It is stated that the road will be In operation by January 1 190G Last spring the BelglAmerlcan company com-pany purchased the oil HeWs In the PopoAgle district near Lander known as the famous Hen crson wells for half a million dollars There are now thirty flowing wells but the fields arc located it long distance from any railroad point At first it was proposed to construct a mammoth system of pipe lines to transport trans-port the product to the railroads but when it was found that thin would be almost as costly as a railroad owing lo the necessity of erecting numerous pumping plants to convey the oil over mountain systems It i I was decided that a railroad opening up a virgin country could be made selfsupportingat least the construction of the present road was determined upon The BelglAmerican company has been steadily buying oil lands In Wyoming Wyo-ming until now its holdings aggregate thousands oC acres of the best oil lands in the State The company Is preparing prepar-ing to enter the Ulnta county fields ann has already secured options on valuable holdings there |