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Show The Oil Fields in Wyoming Sixty Miles East of Ogden By R. E. RUSSELL. Sixty-three years ago a band of Mormon emigrants under tho leadership leader-ship of Brlgham Young, "treked" across the vast wilderness of plains seeking their promised" land ln the beautiful Salt Lake valley. Their trail led them past a natural oil spring, where they found an oil suitable for gTeasing wagons, polishing gunstocks, and an all-round good medicine for sores upon their horses and cattle. Brlgham Young commissioned some of his followers to open the spring and put It In condition to supply oil and greaso to the needy little colony in the Salt Lake valley. For years afterwards this oil well supplied their want9 In this line till the advent of the railroad when the refined article ' from the oast wa3 Introduced and operations at tho oil well ceased. Today that same well, with its timbers tim-bers preserved by oil saturation, 6tanda aa It was originally dug by the Mormons, throwing off oil and gas, a, monument to that intrepid band and the pioneer discovery of what prom-lees prom-lees to bo ono of tho most attractive end profitable high grade oil fields in the west. Known as tho "Brlgham Young" oil well, It has been visited by some of our most eminent geologists, geolo-gists, such as Stansbury, Engloraann, taceous; the formation consisting of gray shales and limestones, abounding abound-ing in fosBlls and marine organisms, interlian with sandstones from 10 to 40 feet thick, of great porosity and storage properties. The Fort Benton division ln this field show a thickness ol from -100 to 1,000 feet, with no evidence of coal being found In It at any point where oil development has taken place, the coal horizon apparently being confined con-fined to the upper cretaclous. The oil Is found in bands of threo or moro quite coarse grit sandstones; the first sand being about 35 feet In thickness; the second about 150 feet below and 10 to 15 feet thick, and the third about 500 feet lower and from 20 to 25 feet thick. It has been observed, however, that those conditions do not apply to all of the sections drilled upon, for It has been found where the strata Is moro regular ln Its continuity the sands Increase In number and thickness, thick-ness, and It Is the opinion of the writer writ-er that the strata generally comprising compris-ing the Oyster Ridge, show a much greater thickness and uniformity in the direction of the Oregon Short Line; tills Is particularly noticeable at Spring Gap, Scully's Gap and Cumberland Cum-berland Gap, places where vertical sections of the overlying sandstones are exposed from erosion and show marked Increase ln thickness Should this condition actually prevail below In the sands of the oil horizon It Is reasonable to suppose that the wells of much greater production will bo i found as the trend of development continues northward from the Spring Valley section. In a work entitled. "Geojrraphy and Geolosy of a Portion of Southwestern South-western Wyoming," by A C. Veatch, and published by the Department nf th'c Interior In 1907, tho first really authentic and reliable data was procured pro-cured and presented to the public of the Uinta oil field. Mr. Veatch's deductions are very clearly sot forth In the work referred to, and his topographic topo-graphic and pelologlc maps enable one at a glance to locate the oil bearing rocks and general elevation of the oil field. The writer was first attracted to the field in 1901 Immediately after 011 had been struck in the so-called Union Pacific water well at Spring Valley, and since then has given much thought and study to Its economic eco-nomic features. Geology Is essential ln the first place ln determining the age characteristics charac-teristics of the oil. To the operator, opera-tor, however, or tho fellow who "digs" geology and the origin of the oil cuts no figure. To him the drill Is the boy who must be looked to to tell the tale Oil getting Is a commercial com-mercial industry, and thus prosaic, but it has Its magic side. In all the world there can be no sight more fctranpo nor fascinating than the sight of a hugo gusher, sending forth volume vol-ume of oil high Into the air, which roars and rushes up through tho timbers of the derrick, and finally at , , great height spreads Into almost mis- Meek, Ricketts, Lander and Veatch, all of whom have referred to the well in tholr reports sent to Washington. The Brigham Young oil well Is sit uated in the northwest quarter of section sec-tion 4, township 13 north, range 119 west, on Hilliard Flat. Its geographical geograph-ical location places it In the southwestern south-western section of the Uinta oil field, along the western flank of the Lazo-art Lazo-art syncllne contiguous to the Abso-roka Abso-roka uplift. Eastward from the oil well Bands rise for a distance of two and one-half miles at an angle of about 22.50 degrees to the meridian or apex of the anticlinal fold, which is Just eas,t of the Oyster Rldgo. This fold has a northeast and southwest trend and has been traced for more . than forty miles north of the Oregon Short Line, a distance all told of neatly neat-ly eighty miles. Throughout Us entire en-tire length oil springs or seepages occur at intervals along the western flank; notably. In section 33. township town-ship 14 north, range 119 west, where Judge C. M. White began operations in 18C6. He dug a large hole ln the sand, exposed, collected the oil and sent it to Salt Lake City where it was sold to tanners. ! Farther north in section 31, township town-ship 15 north, range US west, is the Carter oil spring. Mr. .!. G. Fiero (now residing In Evanston) ln 1SC.S found oil in drlyinz a tunnel for coal The 011 was sold to the Union Pacific rail road and to neighboring ro?.l mines for lubricating purposes. Over $j.O0 worth was sold at prices ranging from 40 cents to one dollars per gallon. South of th" Carter oil spilng. In section sec-tion 7. township 14 north, ranee 118 west, the Union Faeif.c in 1901 encountered en-countered quite a strong soopupe In j the Aspen tunnel. After much Inconvenience Incon-venience to the workmen it was final ly closed off by a concrete and ttru-ber ttru-ber dam Oil seepaces plso occur in sections 12 and 13. township 22 north, range 115 west; sections 5 and 9. township 21 north, range 115 west, and in section sec-tion 6, township 22 north, range 115 west. The Uinta oil field, like many others, oth-ers, has been subjected to the usual vicissitude encountered upon the discovery dis-covery of oil In new fields, where with an Indefinite knowledge at first of the structural conditions and lay of the oil horizon, con?ideranlo time and money have been wasted In wlld-cat-llng. Gradually sr the conditions of the xone containing oil became unfolded, un-folded, the work reeolved Itself Into a matter of putting down boles at points where thcro can be but little doubt as to the success of the drill. Geographically, the oil occurs In the Fori Benton shales la tb.o lower cre- |