Show I 2 I 1 4 1 4 1 1 1 Colorados Colorado's Oil Boom Is like a fairy Tale 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 oJ L L L i 7 P 5 a a W TT i Colorado is Inoculated with the oil fe- fe ver er Miners are neglecting their claims and staking their all on the new oil ven yen tures Farmers are holding their ground at fabulous prices In the various oil basins Plain ordinary acres that went begging heretofore at 50 now readily bring ten times that amount Real estate has truly gone up with the velocity of a whirlwind and man woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man and child wrap themselves around a bottle of oil b by way of full demonstration demonstration demonstration demon demon- of the new product Every Everyone one is anxious to have hae a little flyer on oil Everyone Is so garrulous when the magic word oil Is mentioned the atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere seems surcharged It has transformed transformed trans trans- formed the monotonous little hamlets into places of greatly risen Importance Immigration from the whole surrounding surround surround- ing country to the oil wells has done much to swell the magnitude of the numerous numerous numerous nu nu- nu- nu finds All kinds of vehicles are utilized to convey people to the oil belt and all express faith In the new indus Indus- try It would be treason to 0 do other- other i wise Ise Over at Debeque on the western slope the swaddling clothes have been discarded and the village has assumed a most Important air of superiority for they have oil too For hundreds of miles the cowboys and the lusty farmers farmers farm farm- ers era hear of ot the marvelous discoveries and In they come at breakneck speed to swell the numbers and give a mercenary mercenary merce- merce nary worship to the oil derricks No one thinks of crops No one thinks of mines These are all past history and they all seem overpowered with the magnitude of ot the riches they they- will gar gar- ner In Archuleta county at Pagosa Springs welcome has been given the th-e illuminant and here too no on on OD can work only In sight of the wealth pro oil fields It is not expected that the men boring for oil will keep In view the Important relations to theoretic and economic geology They are too ex ex- ex- ex cited Even the first principles of ot the science are overlooked looked and the seekers after the fluid run around with witha a bobber bobber bob bob- ber to help them locate more quickly than by any other means the veins un- un un un- un This must be a most magical magical magical magi magi- cal Instrument If It does as much as the old farmers claim for It IL Surely It reads like hike a clipping from some old fairy story The contrivance Is something something some some- thing like hike the shape of ot a a half egg and it Is arranged on the top of a forked willow the ends of the fork being held hel l one In each hand and resting on on n the top of the single prong is the bobber First the ground supposed to be oil bearing bearing is decided upon and then these same men walk carefully holding aloft loft the peculiar stick and make r ready ady to obey Its antics If It rolls over toward the earth then surely oil Is there and anti the drill Is asked to do the rest Bobbers are plentiful and possibly In the hands of genii they accomplish much In lo locating locating lo- lo cating In a talismanic way the oil bear Ing veins for there Is a secret potion equal to a witch's In iii the shaped egg-shaped bobber It Is not alone the western slope and the southern sections which are so enthused enthused en en- over the new Industry The development de de- de- de of ot the Boulder oil district Is no chimerical matter This town Is re re- re rejuvenated Men are working night and day on new holes so as to verify that they too are In oil Scenes are quite lively In the old town and It Is quickly showing metropolitan tan tendencies Dele Dele- from Denver Colorado Springs and alt all outside districts add to the num num- I her ber of seekers oil and curious onlookers rs The craze has struck the whole Stat State Derricks rise like phantoms In the Denver basin a look to the east shows a great number of these skeleton like structures in course of construction the black buttes serving as a a background to display them to advantage and highet high high- er eX up in in the topmost rigging figures silhouetted against the sky are flitting here and there busily at work as time Is so valuable and all aU are anxious to tc lh i t. t th those se dilatory r o. o y m measures s-r s io often resorted t OI d t to 1 of ope one man waiting for foran another ther to 1 begin or of allowing one tomp company ny to tp prove the entire field The State seems to be on the verge of a boom if pre dictions and hopes go for anything When the hundreds of drills throughout through through- out the State begin pounding away when the earth will have given up tip barrels barrels bar bar- of ot its oily treasure then will the skeptical Join the crazed multitude and nd lend a hand In the bailing balling There Is a peculiar story told by a cowboy who started the Las Animas oil district He found that his cattle were suffering from front some unknown disease By constant watching he soon discovered ered that they drank from a spring In an arroya between two hills The trees surrounding the spring and the waters that bubbled forth Showed by examina examina- tion that here was a a. natural oil well The news spread as fast as could gallop and the punchers all an over the plains rushed In and filed and as a result the whole district was listed In the land office as oil oH claims The cattlemen and rang rangers rs love to tell of ot cowboy luck quickly turning their their their-pov- p pov v- v erty Into wealth The quality of oil oU found In the various sections Is so far of a very superior grade For a a. long while many efforts have been made by different persons to bore for oil oU but the operations have be been n carried on in such a perfunctory manner that no success attended the task Now however perseverance and the Intelligent f following llo out of data acquired ac ac- ac- ac Ugh reasonable Inquiries has about opened up the field It Is not un un- un- un reasonable to predict that in a short time Colorado will be transformed In i many hitherto o unknown sections Into a vision of ot oil oU derricks Legitimate and l level headed projects will be put forth for the development of the oil zones zones' throughout the State In one district there are two wells well's half a mile apart from which oil is taken rich In quality and in apparently unlimited quantities though the latter part will vill have to be proven by the Introduction of pumping machinery Several feet of DJ oil are st standing In hi one of these wells and In such volume that boring for additional depth Is practically impossible In this special section if the signs Signs and and predictions predictions are carried out there will within the next month eliminating all but the wells In active operation be a production production tion In value amounting to several thousand dollars per day In one particular locality there can cart be no doubt as to the existence of oJ oil The sight of the bubbling greenish fluid warm as milk fresh from the c cow w shimmering shimmering shim shim- mering with fleeting bubbles as it dashes dash dash- es from the bailer straight from the depths is rather a stirring sight even to those who are aie guided by no other motive than curiosity to make the In inspection In- In The owner of this well ell fairly jump Jumped d up and down like a year old when the bailing balling began and he clapped his hands hand m most st gleefully after having i waited for months to see and know the outcome for so often he had despaired of ot the existence of the fluid which shines and curls In a rolling course from the well wen to a little lak lake lak close by The benefits which will accrue to the State and Denver particularly are pat pat- ent The almost certainty that the oil belt will extend Into Denver will make the city the center of the Industry as It is of the entire western oil region Companies have been formed by the tho dozens throughout the State Cent sh shares res are permissible under th th laws of ot Wyoming though not under the laws las of ot Colorado Cent shares mean largely reduced government revenue tax upon sales sales and transfer of ot stocks So by this I I i. method of incorporating In Wyoming thousands of dollars were saved Unless Unless Unless Un Un- less nature Is playing a miserable joke and deposited only a few barrels of ot oil just under where trustful men have had the hardihood to erect derricks many representative and nerv nervy men of the State will vill soon be playing on velvet All will profit by the great grent enterprise In one section the oil Is so pure that there Is only a 5 per cent residuum It ItIs Itis Itis is 95 per cent oil and oil products and Its value alue is computed to be between 2 and at the well The Standard Oil company compan has secured by contract nearly nearly nearly near near- ly half halt of the Boulder oil fields Oil exchanges are springing up all allover allover allover over the State Knots of people are gathered In front of the various stock stockbrokers stockbrokers' stockbrokers stockbrokers' stockbrokers stockbrokers' brokers' brokers offices consulting the prices asked and making their comments Evidently Evidently Evi Evidently Evi- Evi dently every one has faith in the oil oilfields fields for the great supplies of lumber derricks tanks pumping engines and the various paraphernalia needed In the business are as quickly as possible possible possible pos pos- sible to the man many scenes of action There has never seemed a finer outlook outlook- for tor the of or the State in this one special direction In some localities experts experts experts ex ex- ex- ex say the oil on Is the finest In the world In t this Country it has no eq eqUal al Should hould there be a sufficient supply there will be little use to ship the product to Wyoming When Then pumping begins this can be ascertained and the output may call for a number of refineries being es es- es It Is rather ludicrous to note the epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic of experts who who- have been attracted attracted attracted at at- here already from the oil fields o of ot Ohio P Pennsylvania Indiana and other other oth oth- er oil States If If they were ever within a radius of fifty miles of any oil boom in the East they seem called upon to offer their services at per ex and give advice of the most extraordinary character Such a bore have they become become become be be- come come that In many of the oil camps camps camps' placards are posted up We dont don't want your advice Experts keep out and so on When the fever heat excitement will have abated It Is is' confidently believed that the State will settle down to the pushing of an Industry which will a greater In Income ome than Is now gained from any of of Its resources resources barring its mines The oil belt Is entirely different from that In Pennsylvania It Is a very peculiar cinder r shale and If the oil does not flow fr freely at first It can be easily blown In by a slight sh shock ck It is an absolute absolute ab ab- absolute ab- ab solute certainty that these wells are producers Th only nl Important question to be decided nOW nOt is what amount the wells will be capable of producing Although Although Although Al Al- though some sorte estimates go as high as seventy-five seventy barrels per er day the more conservative guesses which are based on careful study and years of ot experience experience place the probable output of the wells at about fifty barrels a day Even this best hopes of the promoters of the enterprise Many of th the i Innumerable companies which have been formed are offering bl blocks of trea treasury ry stock t to the public In order to procure funds for tor development development develop develop- ment meat work These stocks are sold bold by local brokers brokers' and nd are subject to rema remarkable re re- ma able and ve very y rapid change In price Offices throughout every little littletown littletown littletown town are at a premium and In some Iri- Iri stances cannot be g gained at all so great Is the demand To Insure themselves s against all wildcat schemes the committee committee com com- corn com on membership In some of the o oil l exchanges ha have hav decided to admit only bona fide and and- well-financed well companies The County Clerks Clerk's office Is kept busy I ment The machinery companies of the East have rushed their personal representatives representatives s to establish offices on th the ground It is impossible to get heavy timber in tn State for- for forthe the walking beams for tor the machinery hence there must necessarily be some delay In filling filling fill fiU ing orders A trip through the State would convince the most pessimistic of the existence of the sure thing The b beacon acon lights of J oil In In- Inmany many of ot the camps light the workers with an In Intensity intensity In- In equal to their own ardor and before two months roll by the toe Investor the speculator and the tM farmer who Wh h has s held heldon on on to 1 nd unwilling to sell at any any price and bless or or condone condone con con- done their luck luct when n oil is on the tapis Denver Corr Correspondence po dence Globe Demo I crat TO 7 |