Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 14 | Ogdenites Are Elated over Wyoming Oil Field

IOGDEHHTES ME ELATED 1 OVER IMIi OIL FIELD Geo. J. Reeder. L. Pruett and Roy Allison of The Tub Oil & Gas Company have Just returned from a visit to fheir property and are full of oil and oil talk. The boys took twenty -seven j pictures of adjoining wells, tanks, j drill rlpi and oil pools and stream which stand a ;i rati evidence that j Wyoming Is an oil country. They also I photognrphed the coal mine on the property. The last well brought la by their ' nelRhbors. the Bair Oil company, a week ago. flowing at the rate of 50" ' barrels per day and Is only 600 feet j deep. J When this well rame in the oil got , away from the drillers and filled up J i the creek for miles and caused the j! company to lose $12,500. 'J The boys brought baek with them jj; samples of oil taken from the creek i and sump holes. 1 Three of these bottle? were labeled j and signed by prominent business men I of Ogden and photographs were Jaken jj of these same vessel being filled at J the sump holes, j Tlx pipe line i nearly ill laid and j the Bair companv expect to he pump- Ji ing oil through the same in the next , week. This pipe will carry 5000 bar- J rels per day. A telephone line is also I h. ing put In alone this pipe line of i 43 miles to Ft Steels. Jj While in Woinin:: three ton truck j was purchased and another bargained j for to haul pipe and material to the j fields. Ray Allison will have charge of the truck work. ' "The excitement in Rawlins can jjl only be appreciated by a visit," says i I Mr. Reoder. as near! erery oil com- H pany of the east Is now represented l" in this district. 3 The air smells of oil. The ground u is so covered It is hard to walk with j cood clothe ovr the Bair Oil com- T pany's propertj 1 While away, a rlsll was marie to, J the U. s. Petroleum, the The Last Sol- I dler Co.. and an Ohio oil company's' li properties, also Ogden I'etroleum's p; From rtie property of the Cub Oil, Bj & Gas company ten drill rigfl can be II seen strung along the horizon. H The company expects to begin drill-! H lng operations within the next three weeks and Mr. L, Pnictt says he ex- I pects to hae oil to sell within slxt I days from the time the rig is set up.1 I no