Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 41 | Pay Oil is Struck in Columbine Will

PHY OIL 13 STOUCK 111 COLUMBINE MIL Operators North of Pueblo Throw Adjacent Country Into Excitement. "Stnu-k oil!" tin- rry t h u t lias set I'lU-hlo a! in' with i-rili'in'iit. o In 111 lit in oil .N. I cnfoinitiTfil tin' ' ' j my ' in the -M siiul.tono at a di'l-tli of "0 1'iM-t lat '1 hurstlay. 'I'lii" i just ton ui' iiurtliwrst nf L'm'ltlo. WhiUt t'vt'ry ft in t was inuu' to ruM-r it. up mid it 1 vi i t , tin- iu'vs broke out. A- il' lv mau', oil M-otitK appear. rJ on tin1 sriMie.'ml inanat.'s tolluwr.l tlo'in ami tln'ii things lu-aii to liappon in the otora.io l'it t r-1 n 1 frank Nyo tin1 lrill--r, an.l has put down wclU i 11 an 11 ii'ra l. 1 m in yo- min iitnl in UlJahomu,. "I have brought iiv inmiv wells,-' sn'u Mr. Nve, 'rhuwinn for ."i)iiii l.arn'ls p.T ilisy, an-i it' 1 am not more mistaken tiuiu I ever was in mv lite, this will be a O'.11") bar- , ri-1 well. ' i 'Vt huvo a niee .showing of i'iu'1 oil in our well." stati-.l T. K. liow uf l'n- ver, pri'si.icnt of the rmnputiy. ' We lo not yet know the exti-nt ni the lis-. lis-. fuvory aii'i are orv hopeful that it will prove of '-oinnierrial alue. We are reroveriiiL: the ton's atnl -;ille. j As Koon ii" they are out of tli" well, we oan tell w hat. we h:i e. ' ' j When the tools of the oluntiune .hill Outfit etirnunteret the cap ro-k on tp 1 of the siin.l, or irilli"i tlirouh the eap i ro.-k, tho enble parted, leaving lumi fret of the line, the i.'iu ami bit m the hob-. This was a fihin' jol. simple cuouyli urdiuarily, but the driller w itli that sixth m-imo that .hi Hers a--' pi ire w ho learn to feel what lias happened far down, derided to run the bailer. The bailer (.-aine im full of black oik l.iue all "ell tiained dnlleis. he kept hi I'ounsid, reported to the Io.-ai oiti-eials oiti-eials of tl:e (olumbine eoiiijany and they telegraphed to President l.nv, to Frank Bennin vi I'ri er and to Yb e lVeident K. .1. Mo-er of Tamper. They all . ante and delayed not in tlieir eomiiii;. Others came too, lor oil is like murder, it will out. Serious and deter mined looking men arrived from Denver, Den-ver, I'a-per. TuN:i and oth'T liead'pinr-ters liead'pinr-ters fiii tiie a-otine rodin-ers bolieve in urrivin-.' tpiiek when oil has been Mniek. How M'.fii me i find out N alwas one lot' tin1 mysteries bur it is their lui'-iness to find out and ther always do. It mav be only a liowin-: f "ireae" or it may lie a mislier. but in any ca it niut be invent iated. and t ho dume- and nntieline-i around (V.ebio are in lor the iuve fixation of their .areers from men who have onim to find out. and t lie t ow n is filling up w it h o' ! men, Tbo Lobiiiubiue people explained that ' t lie i e was not Ian j the mat ter out t!ieir way oulv a fi-hin job.'" Finally j the iTe-eiue ot some oil was admitted, 'but. with the reservation that tbev them-' them-' selves ,jid not know liow nnieh, ami finally under intense ero--examinat ion. .tiie stoiv earne out and adin:?ion-; were . rtiHde titat they believed they hud -truck smet is in j very, wry 'tod. i There were ttu?e present who had. not I been invited, but were none the less determined de-termined to effort an entraiKO into the i field, if field it be, and the-e adopted i the Time honored prh'-tire of the oil country in buying in. lied: books were ' in evidence- and the bidding for acreage : commenced. I A bonus of H'hOiHf tras offered for a 1 W'J aero tract favorably lorateu near the scene of the strike. That mad. ; everybody sit up and ".asp and realize j that it is a real amo .k0 per acre ! for land that only a few days ago was worth very near nothing at all. ! To sav that the people of Pueblo are ' excited is putting the ease mildly. Thoy I are enthusiastic over the reported uis-jeovery uis-jeovery of oil so close to the town, and i thev sav this i only the preliminary i to the main event as there are five ; other deep wells now froin.n down to the j sand in the vicinity of Pueblo on well i defined structures. I Kdward I.ovewell. vice president and treasurer, and C Thompson, eolo-uist eolo-uist of the Herla-Wyominvr Oil company, are in the eity from ("asper, on business connected with the company's holdings in the Wild Horse Park oil field, near Pueblo. C'olo. The Heela-W'yomin lias j holdings in this field amounting to ;20 i acres. Jf the result of their investigation investiga-tion is patisfactory. Geologist Thompson ! wilt selOk't a site and the Heela-W'yo-j minff company will move an outfit on its j lease an.l becin. drilling as soon as pos-! pos-! siblo. Miniu.ir and Financial Keeord.