, 1889-07-03
OIL PROSPECTS.
Home and Foreign Views of Our
Resources.
More Companies Organizing for
Development.
Some Work That Has Already
Been Done.
EThe Sioux city Journal.l

There is an immense oil field in Wyo-
ming. This has been demonstrated lately,
and recent explorations and develop
ments rave been such as to cause a lively
movement of eastern capital for invest
ment in Wyoming oil lands. Extensive
purchases lave been made during the past
few weeks and negotiations are now pend
ing for other transfers. There has been
some dispute whether the Wyoming oil
could be readily refined. but the better
opinion as recently formed, is that it can
be. As to its availability for fuel there
has been at no time any dispute. Rein
cries are actually to be put in operation
before long. There is no reason to doubt
hat the oil resources of Wyoming will
ere long be the basis of great industries.
1t is entirely within the bounds of prob
ability that pipe lines will be built to the
Missouri river. The situation is most
favorable for such transportation. Very
little expense for pumping would be re-
quired, as it is down hill all the way from
the oil region to Sioux City. Water flows
naturally along this course, and so also
would oil.
IBessemer, Cwyo.O Journal
The oil fields in the northern part Of
Carbon county stretching westward into
and across Fremont county, are already
a%scertained to be phenomenal In riches
and geographical extent. Practical oil
men and experts, from actual exploration
and tests, predict a product which can be
rivalled only by that of the famed Rus
sian fields. About eight miles west of
Bessemer is a genuine oil spring which
flows down the slope of Oil
mountain along the foothills
of Rattlesnake range, for 100
miles, at intervals of from a few rods to a
few miles, these oil springs are found. the
number of which with the volume Of flow,
west of Bessemer the same indications
appear on the east edge of the oil fields
known as the Salt creek fields, which
promises abundant product from the near
surface. The main oil field is shown TO
be about $50 miles long and varying from
ten to twenty-five miles wide. Large
companies of enterprising capitalists have
already secured claims, and competition for
interests is sharp and continuous. To
show hat this representation is neither
fiction no chimerical, we could
only say tests made during the last season
have justified the largest expectations.
From a well sunk by an Omaha com
pany, less than 800 feet deep, there is u
flow of 400 barrels daily. 1t is now plug
ged for want OF transportation facilities.
Tie pressure is so strong that whenever
the well is opened a column of oil shoots
steadily into the air sixty or more feet,
and the escape of gas is so strong that
work near the well is difficult. Machinery
for further tests is being conveyed over
wagon roads recently constructed for that
purpose, and it is predicted that 1889 will
record the greatest oil excitement and &C
tivity the continent has yet witnessed,
and the arrival of railroads now being
built and projected, which are certain to
come soon, will inaugurate an output of
" lnC dLnOuuI VI WhlCu thdL VI CuuSJl-
vania will hardly warrant comparison.
There were filed at Buffalo last week
ninety locations OF oil placer lands, en-
bracing las, 900 acres of choice petroleum
ground in the Bonanza oil mining district
of johnson county. The ~locators named,
some of whom are prominent Omaha cap
~italists, are: Ernest Rial, Russell j.
Straight, Albert NJ. Kitchen, Daniel II.
Dorset, Ernest V. johnson, Charles p.
Collins, Frank A. Hecht, William f.
Hawley and ?. Nj. Shannon. The same
company has also secured $1,000 acres of
oil lands in the Salt creek district, in the
southern boundary of johnson county.
In an interview Mr.. Hawley, the chief
engineer, expressed himself as confident
that the most %sanguine expectations of
the oil men who are interested in that sec
ton will be realized, and that the oil ex-
element there will equal the furore Gre
ated by the discovery of the great petro-
leum fields of Pennsylvania. MIR. Haw-
ley and party expect to visit the basin the
LIST of August with a company of seventy
prominent eastern capitalists.