, 1888-12-24
WY0MING'S OIL.
What An Experienced Expert Says
on the Subject.
Development Work Being Pushed
With Much vigor.
Railroads Pushing Into the New
Empire to the North.

Mr.. George u, Aggers returned to Den
yer Saturday night from a trip to the oil
fields of Wyoming. He is very enthsias-
tic over the prospects of that country and
in an interview with a Republican reporter
he said:
Il have been interested in the Wyo.
ming oil fields for over FIVE years and
never felt more sanguine han l do now
over the great future before that country.
There never has been any doubt in my
mind that oil existed there in large guam
titles and the development of the past
three ear has proven that L was right.
The only question has been, How will it
get to market2' and that question is now
satisfactorily answered.
THE Chicago 4 Northwestern is al
ready completed and runs a daily train to
Casper on the Platte river. and the Bur-
lington & Missouri has q force of men
surveying and laying out their road up the
North Platte, being at present at work
about twenty miles west of Fort Laramie.
l think from appearances it is their inten-
ton to emulate the recent action af the
cable company of this city and steal a
march on the Northwestern, thereby
securing the right of way up Casper creek
from the town Of Casper and right
through the oil country. They have
already outgeneraled the Northwestern on
the route to Buffalo, and when l passed
through there they had a large force of
men and about 1000 teams at work near
Fort Robinson, From that point the
Burlington & Missouri is building a road
in a northwesterly direction through the
northeastern corner of the new county of
Converse and thence through the rich
farming country laying around Buffalo.
AT Casper, the new oil town at the
end of the Northwestern, everything is
booming. The lots have been sold and
many substantial buildings are going up.
By spring that town will have a popu
lation of over 1000 souls and will be the
headquarters and supply point for that
whole oil country. People are coming in
there every day from the east and going
from there by team to the oil fields around
Ervay's. While | was there a party Of
eastern capitalists arrived from Omaha
on a special car and went on up to look
the oil country over with a view OF buy
ing up a large body of land and putting
in drilling machinery, as they realize that
petroleum is the fuel OF the future, and
they expect to ship it into Denver.
Omaha and all the large towns and cities
Of the west
The Burr well at the mouth of Poison
Spider creek has resumed work as has also
the well OF the Chicago & Northwestern
company which Is being put down near
Ervay's ranch. An immense amount of
assessment work has been done the past
summer through that whole country,
many of the companies and individual
owners improving the roads and applying
it as assessment on their claims, SO that
now the finest roads in the territory are
through the Rattlesnake district.
The coal mines at Glen Rock are
worked to their fullest capacity, and are
shipping twenty-five cars per day from
the mines, but cannot get men and cars
enough TO supply the demand. AS the
railroad builds further west all the coal
lands along the Casper creek and south
forks of Powder river will be opened, and
the coal industry alone will cut no slight
figure in Wyoming's prosperity.
Yes, Wyoming has a great future be-
fore it, and the time Is not far distant
when a railroad will be built from Denver
north into the territory, through the beau
tiful Platte valley, tapping the oil and
coal fields Of the Rattlesnake district, up
through the timber and agricultural lands
of the Big Horn, and on through to
Butte, Mont, thus giving Wyoming an
outlet to the coast, with Denver as the
central shipping point for that whole
country"