Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

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o. u wv AZ Der cent OF paraffn
nM S,a shae From the Juab county
~ si,ado forty gallons Of hne par,
.e,n M 10 the ton have been secured
liz liz ,,nnerfeot dlstlllaton, while lao-
pratoyy tests gave eighty gallons TO inc
,ar Vim Illuminating and fuel gas
noraoin ammonia and tar resldluh'
tsron, tble latter were obtained anlllne
49, saocharlne. benzol and other
sroduets The Juab Oh and Coal COM
rarv owns 1880 acres Of land nino
villas from Juab City Rich paraiih
shaisa are found IN Sanpete county,
The rush TO the Green river oil fields
tas heep the means Of the organization
~ a steamer company on Greon ana
nrsrd rivers for local convenience It
4, SAID that with the development or the
Utah oil fields WIN come the neeu "
pipe lines from the teIds 70 tne rall,
road with large pumps ana tohks anu
ail the appurtenances OF a great oil
producing section v,,.,
Robert Forester divides the Utah
fields into two great districts, the
Henry Mountain Basin ana the ulnIah
Basin The presence OF so much asphal,
tum along the line OF the springs ana
seeps indicates that many utah OILS WIN
carry from Is to 20 per cent OF asphRl-
tum and analysis give light ana heaVy
oils and asphaltum IN the crude ma
terlal. There has been considerable de-
lay In getting work started In the Utah |
fields by inability 70 get machinery on |
the ground in anything Ike quick tlme' |
and II 10 urged that so much valuable |
time has been lost In getting machin- |
cry from San Francisco or Pennsyl- |
vanla that mandatory OF oil boring |
machinery should be started In Salt |
Lake CITY,
In wyoming the success Of the pros
pectors has been hardly short OF phe-
nomenal The presence Of oil, especial.
~ In the Sweetwater country, has been
known for over Afty years, ana Denver
people once took hold Of q project TO
deyelope the Sweetwater oil springs,
but the opposition Of eastern oil men
and the lack Of facilities TO work with
proved too much Of a burden, and
though sporadic attempts were made
from time 10 time 10 develop the oil,
II was not until the discovery OF oil IN
the Union Pacific well near Aspen that
the public became really stirred up 20
realization Of what was within easy
grasp. Promising oil fields have been
developed In Lander, shoshone, Belle
Fourche, In Uinta county, Twin Creek
Powder river, and elsewhere In the CEN
trail and northern parts OF the state,
but the excitement has been concen-
rating rather around southwestern
Wyoming, where the fields are Of un-
usual promise and where developing Is
progressing at d marvellous pace, The
belt lies about 1900 feet above sea level
with four distinct and parallel anti
cllnals trayersng II, with north aud
south trend for forty miles In length
and eight miles IN width, But little vas
done In exploiting this country since
1870 until L. u, Neberglll, while boring
for water for the Union Pacific Just
west Of the Spring Valley station.
struck oil at $50 feet and at Las feet
twenty-five foot bed Of good
oil sand was struck. IL Is
claimed that had this well
been shot" II would have Immediate
~ yielded 25O barrels Of oil per day. !
Then, when an analysis showed the oil
10 be Of the best lubrlcating and ilmml-
mating qualities, the boom was started
which Is continuing with an eyer-in.
creasing rush, Within an area OF thirty
miles wide and sixty-hyc miles long
extending from billiard 10 Fossil fully
one million acres Of land have been
located Wyoming western oil aver
ages 81 degrees gravity, and Is claimed >
to be the highest grade Of illuminat-
Ing oil found anywhere IN the United
States. Prominent men from all over
the Union are rushing into the western
Wyoming fields. Senators, lawyers,
newspaper men, business men, profeS.
alonal oil spectators, railroad men,
everybody. Specially promising results
have been scored at Aspen, billiard,
Fossil Piedmont Spring Valley, Cas-
par Lander. The Wyoming Illuminat. ,
ing company controls 800 acres near /,
Evanston where $4,000 has been ex-
pended for development, and two wells I
are being sunk. The lntermountaln J
company, In which are interested Sem /,
tors Elklns, c. D. Clark aud Thomas J
kearns, has acquired 10000 acres of I
land extending through the entire oil /
belt, slxty.hye miles from billiard to
Fossil, The first well Is we'll under way
and big flow OF oil Is expected b, ,
February next. The Fossil consolidate
ed OIL company with million capt. /
tai, controls 1000 acres at various /
points in the Fossil Basin and n 2.50v /,
foot well Is being sunk. AZ SIC feet /
OIL was struck with an estimated How {
OF ten barrels per day. The Wyoming ,
Parafiin company with Il million cap !
ltal, controls 1,GiO acres of land In the d
Fossil Basin. At a depth Of 1T5 feet !
strong flow Of gas was struck with (
indications OF oil later on. Then q Call. I
forna syndicate, operating IN the vi !
olnity OF Aspen tunnel holds about co.
600 acres, and three wells are to 20 down
there at once with the expectation Of
reaching oil at 1900 feet Marked deyel-
opments were reached In Fremont =
county, whore three wells were drilled !
back In the eighties near Lander. n
where II was reported that 1000 bar .
rels or OIL ran 20 waste annually One \
OF the three wells flowed 1870 barrels y
In twenty-four hours No 3, a gusher q
near Lander, when once accidentally |,
unclaimed, spouted seventy feet above n
The derrick There are twenty or a
thirty other companies doing business s
IN Wyoming. and the number Is stead \
fly increasing \
Idaho is swinging into line with in y
dications OF oil al O number OF points a
but II Is only In Owyhee county. thirty- n
flve miles from Boise where an, y
amount Of development work has been 4
done, and the Indications there ar. /,
said TO be exceptionally good. The 81
Idaho Parafiin on mpany OF Boise n
with half a million lpital IL sinking n
well 500 feet on Gao acre tract n 4
owns In Owyhee county. In ali thor. Oh
are fifteen companies organized ia ev- c
plot and develop oil properties IN that Il
state. ~
Eastern papers have frequent articles b
about the newly developed Industry In 81
the West, and the many uses petroleum U
can be put TO are attracting attention o.
scientific papers are handing the sub Il
ject In n thorough and Discrimination f,
manner, and the study OF oil stroto q
formations and the pecuiarities ren- q
orally are being written w by experts {,
for publication In the press. Prominent u
western dallies are publishing snacl,t Of
OIL editions, including exhaustive | "
treatises, California and Pennsylvania q
specialists have given Utah and Wyom. T
Ing a careful looking over and with one a
accord they state frankly that tho oll "
Hehver OF the country IS being removed o
70 these states, Il win not be long he. j
fore the intemountaln railroads nc. q
oil for fuel In their locomotive 0rc g
boxes az well as the roads on tho cooot I,
ana II IL only matter OF a short time a
before oil will be used for domestic mn
poses tugt ns gas usas A,,.g,.. vs.