The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-09

oil producing surfaces, excels them all,
as shown by the latest scientific and
practical investigations and tests.
This. field presents safest and most at
tractive territory Tor investment of any
thing in the entire west. There is no
guess work about it. In central Wyo-
ming are vast tracts of land underlaid
with oceans of o.! Within this receg
n;zed oil belt not single we'll has been
put down to the adequate depth and
properly cased that is not a producer to-
day. The average depth of these wells
is about 1000 feet and their average pro-
duction about twenty barrels each per
Gay of heavy lllbricating oil. At SO per
barrel these wells are. certainly very re-
runerative. The entire Franklin, Penn.
field, the only lubricating oil basin in the
east, produces less than 1000 barrels per
day, and three to five barrels is the aver
age yield per we'll 1T is not strange.
therefore, that the eastern oil man is
10th to believe that the Wyoming wells
are SO productive.
While Wyoming contains more petro-
leum than Pennsylvania, its development
and production is still in it's infancy. The
oldest producing wells have been pump
ing for only short time, and are locat-
ed fully fifty miles from the railroad.
Only six wells are in operation, but sew
eral are now nearing completion and
many more are contemplated. Not a sin
gle dry hole has been recorded in this
basin and while they do not spout"
their yield is permanent and enduring, in
creasing in volume right along, and be-
cause of the superior quality of the pro-
duct are proving very profitable The
cost of transportation from the present
producing wells to the railroad is enor-
nous, being not less than 81 per barrel
which in the case of an Illuminating oil
would be worse than suicidal. Only the
high quality of the product renders il
profitable, and the well owners are coin
ing money even under all these disad-
vantages. The producing -tells at the
present time are confined to Natrona
county, the shipping point of the oil being
the city of Casper, the terminal railway
point of the Chicago & Northwestern
railway system III Wyoming. BY recent
discoveries, however, the oil field is
known to extend over the greater por-
ton of Converse county, and the finest
basin is traversed by the Northwestern
and the Denver & Gulf railway systems
Several companies are about to drill close
to these railroads, and, in the event of
good results it Will not be long before
the oil business will boom in that coun-
ty. More fortunes have been realized
from petroleum than from any other sin |
gle American product, and in Wyoming /
the history of Pennsylvania is to be re-
peated and rewritten. The lubricating
qualities of Wyoming oil have been test
ed by the ablest chemists OF this country |
and Europe, and have been by all pro-
bounced the best natural lubricants ever
found in the world. A barrel of Wyo- |
ming crude oil. Just as it came from the /
well, was sent 10 the Worlds fair at Chi
cSgo, where it was tested fully and
placed in competition with oil products
from all parts of the world. After weeks !
OF labor, the expert chemists awarded
to Wyoming lubricating oil the first prize
above all competitors. In quality it can
rot be surpassed, i'll quantity it is mex
and there is He doubt about
the fact that these Oil fields will be the |
means of providing large fortunes to
numbers of people in the future