The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-13
PARTY PLEASED
WITH OIL WELLS
Excursion to Wyoming Proves
Most interesting and
Profitable.
NEW TOWN is CHRISTENED
OIL CITY DESTINED TO BECOME
LARGE SPOT ON MAP.

As the guests of the Pittsburg-Salt
Lake Oil company, thirty-five or forty
of Salt Lakes best known business men
made a trip yesterday to the oil fields
owned by the company in Uinta county,
Wyoming. The party left Salt Lake at
l:iO o'clock yesterday morning and re-
turned some hours behind the schedule,
at O'Clock this morning. tired but en-
thusiastic over what they had seen.
After breakfast, served at Ogden, the
Salt Lakers and their hosts went by spe-
c1al train to the new oil camp. which
is hereafter &c be designated on the map
as Oil City. The train was made up of
baggage car. containing the commits
sary department, coach and a Pull
man. Numerous delays were encountered
in the trip over, all of them combining
to make the special train nearly four
hours late in arriving at its destination.
At Evanston the party was joined by
delegation of Wyoming citizens, headed
by Senator Clarence D. Clark.
Six Producing Wells.
Convey ances were in waiting at OH
City to take the party out TO the oil
fields. which are a little more than a
mile up Richards canyon from the camp.
They found there six producing wells,
from all of which oil is being pumped
in quantities that are filling the main
receiving tank at the refinery in rapid
order. In one of these wells the ether day
when an attempt was being made
with a baler to secure samples
of the oil, there was a gush
that threw the baler clear of the derrick
and spouted the oil to a height of nearly
a hundred feet. 1t was with the greatest
difficulty that the flow gotten under
control.
J. II. Richards. secretary of the COM
pany, acted guide He explained that
the company has another producing well.
in addition TO the six already mentioned,
three miles south of the point where the
Mr. Richards said that no attempt had as
yet been made TO measure the flow of the
oil The pumps are being worked just
enough to keep a reasonable supply ahead
time before definite steps toward meas
urements can be made. In the mean
while. the company will proceed to de-
velop its thousands of acres of oil lands.
Oil of Quality.
The oil is reported to be of the best
quality, carrying per cent paraffine and
with a specific gravity of from 43 to "a.
An idea of its value may be obtained
from a comparison of figures presented by
a government expert in a recent report,
in which the statement was made that,
while the California oil averages about IS
cents per barrel in value, the value of the
Uinta county oil ranges from $50 to s.
per barrel.
The company has completed pipe line
from the wells to the refinery, and to the
refinery the visitors of yesterday went
after they had seen the wells. The first
refinery run was made on Friday last
That and subsequent runs had re-
suited in the placing of some
hundreds of gallons of gasoline in the
tank built for il. There was also con-
siderable quantity of coal oil. For the
present the company Will confine. itself
to the distillation of gasoline and coal
oil. leaving the matter Of lubricating oil
manufacture to be undertaken in the fu-
ture The refinery is running now at a
90, arffx Of hsar- rsfsIes . n n *
probable that this capacity will be shortly
increased to 30 barrels day.
Prosecute Work With Vigor.
Already a total of upwards of 100000
has been expended in tools and equipment,
and the work is being prosecuted with all
possible vigor. a railroad rate which will
enable the company TO meet all cOmpe-
titon in this territory has already been
published. The intention is to establish
a large distributing center at either Og-
den or Salt Lake City. send the oil there
in tank cars and place it in barrels
for distribution to the trade
The return trip WAS begun at o'clock.
More veXatious delays were encountered
and it was after midnight when the spe-
eial reached Ogden Little time was lost
at the Junction City and the run from
that point Il Salt Lake was made in rapid
time
Among those who enjoyed the excur-
sion yesterday, some of whom Will later
pay visit to the vast fields of asphalt
tum. tabbyite, ozokerite, elaterite and gill
sonite owned by the company in the Tin
tab reservation and near Sunnyside
These fields and their possibilities will
receive attention later
Among those who took the trip yester-
day-and this morning-were o. X. Lewis,
c. n Strevell Sam S. Porter. L. T.
Brockman. A. V. Taylor. J. Heber Rich
ards l.. II. Curtis, F. J. Fabian, r. r.
Martin T. L. Franken, c. o. Harris, c.
w. Fifield. Z. Kearns, David Keith, X
O. Whitmore. A. B. Mosely, DR.. c. II.
Wilcox, William Sutton. 2. c., L. H
Farnsworth. George T. Odell. A V. Tay-
Tor, ]. W. Taylor Judge A. n. Sheet
Dr. W. +. Donaher, Frank Knox, Byron
Groo. B. F. Grant, r. P. Morris. NJ. H.
Walker. W. T. Browning, d. Porter, F.
A Druehl b. W. Salisbury. DR.. ]. s.
Richards. viii c. Higgins, Louis McCor-
nick and representatives of the newspa-
ilpre