Show oil rich rangely langely grows steadily oil rich rangely langely Ran gely colo or merly aly a wildcatters wildcat wonderland in remote western colorado is today a steady stable production town and a place to live war boom days brought every sort of speculator and character to the district if I 1 they parked their truck pitched a tent or built a house tea ten miles up the basin or in town it make much difference because the town have 1 much I to a offer it was almost as big a problem to drill for water as it was for oil the thirty inhabitants of the sleepy ranch community given much serious thought to expensive water and sewage systems in pre oil days drilling proved costly in the tight hard rock formation and even though the field was soon shipping over WOW barrels a day many of the fly by moved out it was taking big money to reach feet and over into the weber sandstone and the most prolific oil pockets on an the colorado plateau at times the population swelled to and over today it is 1200 with that many more in sur founding rounding camps the boom settled to a roar pioneers who first called attention to the fabulous field are now using the same competitive spirit to build a community they recently completed a addition to a water system which can ean service triple the present population A sewage system capable of handling more than a population of was completed in 1953 another cooperative project is the MUM h hospital and too there are now eight active churches in the immediate area but almost every visitor Is impressed by the sprawling ultramodern schools A new addition has been added every year since 1950 and right now worth of construction is going into expanding high school facilities rangely langely citizens have found oil and progress go hand in hand in the last ten years the areas cumulative production has been barrels of oil rangely langely is growing it will continue to grow so long as the nation needs its oil |