The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-17
PROMISING OIL
WELLS LOCATED
Major Foote of Evanston, Wyo.,
Has Fins Prospects.
UTAH MEN ARE INTERESTED
U1NTA COUNTY DOTTED WITT
DERRIcKs AND RIGS.
Especial to The Herald,


HHETENNE, WYO., Aug. I6.-AIafor
II Frank NJ Foote of Evanston. who,
as sovereign grand inspector gen
eral for Wyoming and Utah Masons.
has taken prominent part in the work
of the Wyoming consistory in confer
ring degrees upon a class Of fifty candi-
dates here this week, was interviewed
today upon the recent strikes in the
Uinta county oil fields in southwest
Wyoming
Major Foote is taking an active part
in the development of those fields. and
is well posted on the character OF the
ground quality and quantity Of the oil
found there, and other conditions. He
is the owner of section % upon whica
is located the Union Pacific we'll, re-
garding the character of which the in
terror department is now making an
investigation His other holdings Of oil
lands amount to about %. 600 acres ana
if oil is found there in quantity Major
Foote will. in a few years. be one Of
the wealthiest men in the west
Strike in Section 81.
The American Consolidated Oil COM
pany is the lessee of section %. and is
now engaged in putting down a number
of wells thereon. The Union Pacific
and was. ii is alleged, filled with
chains. old iron and other distinctions
to prevent, il is alleged. its further ex-
ploitation- At the second sand in this
well. at a depth of 421 feet, oil was
struck which flowed at the rate of four
barrels per day. As a result of the
controversy over the well and the in
vestigation being made by the interior
department, the large amount of debris
in the well is being removed, and the
bottom viii proba bly, be reached by the
middle of next week 1t is estimated
that daily flow of twenty barrels Of
oil will result when the last of the OBJ
structions are removed.
Mr.. FoOte says the American Con-
solidated company will sink 100 wells
in the Spring valley fields and in the
vicinity of section y. The company IS
composed of five wealthy California
oil men. whose aggregate wealth is es-
timated at s5O,000,000. A. B. Butler,
president of the company, is known as
the raisin king He owns $1,000 acres
of raisin lands near Fresno, and last
season shipped 100 -trainlOads of raisins
10 market The other members of the
company are engaged in the oil and
fruit business. and it is their intention
TO spend vast sums of money in the
Uinta fields during the next few years
The Uinta Fields.
Major Foote states that there are
nearly thirty oil rigs up or in course
of construction in the Uinta fields In
the Spring Valley district there are
nineteen rigs within a radius of five
miles of the coal camp of Spring Val
ley, and five or six more have been
unloaded from the cars and are now
being hauled to their respective sites.
In the Fossil district there are seven
derrfcks, several of which are in steady
operation.
Thus far four flowing wells have
been secured IN the Uinta fields-three
within the past month. OF these, the
Union Pacific we'll is the only one that
has gone down to the third sand. The
Becker & Anderson well is down !, $50
stratum the third sand is not expected
has been attained.
The American Consolidated company
is now putting down five wells, and
has expended over $4,000 in develop
ment work.
The Horn Oil company has three rigs
on the ground. one placed and working.
The company has installed a large
pumping plant and has put up five
large frame buildings
A number of wealthy residents Of
Utah are also Interested in the south
western Wyoming oil fields chief
among the number being Senator
Kearns. The FossiI-C OnsoIidated Oil
company, operating at Fossil, is COM
posed largely of Utah men. Senator
c. D. Clark of Evanston and Hon. p.
J. Quealey of Kemmerer are also in
terested in this concern