Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-18
PIPE LINE FOR OIL TO OMAHA
Independent Line to Be Run from
Casper. Wyo.
NO END TO THE OIL SUPPLY
Fields Are Three Hundred and Fifty
Miles Long and Hundred Eighty
Miles Wide-Brooks Heads
Producers' Association.


CHEYENNE. Wyo,. Dec. 17.-Resulung
. from the wyoming Convention OF oil In
dustries. called and presided over b. Cow
s--a- E--art e Brooks and held at Chey-
snre during the last three days. the newly
Organized wyoming oil Producers associa-
ton today issued lengthy statement that
boldly raps over the knucRles the powers
tbat-bc at "a6 Broadway" and seems likely
10 echo around the world. which Is to hear
a good deal about wyoming Oh.
In brief this statement sets forth that
Wyoming is blessed with a vast area OF OH
fields go miles in length and 80 miles
across their greatest width; that Wyom-
ings oil sands are the most petroIiferous in
the United States and are producing all
grades Of crude oil that the development
Of these valuable and vast resources has
been ignored by those highest in authority
at No. IS and retarded. perhaps pur-
. pCsely. by Impossible freight rates. and
that therefore the wyoming oil Producers
association viii throw down the gauntlet
by supporting Colonel E II. Power OF Hert-
Yorkshire. England. la his plan 20 build an
Independent pipe line Of 500 miles from CAS-
par Wyo.. into Omaha. At the same time
the association plans a steady campaign OF
publicity, with the double object Of exploit
ing Wyoming and encouraging foreign cap
ital hither
while striking a blow for Independence
and development. the association declares
F it will take every possible means 30 protect
/ the unwary against wildcat operations in
/ wyoming old lands and OIL stocks.
Vast Fields Of oil.
Or. Charles J. Fsuvel y. s. c. anc
r. G. s. an eminent English geoIogist and
minerologist. possessing a generous income.
which he has spent for some years in con-
Quoting scientific research and tests in the
salt Creek oil field OF this state concluded
his address to the convention with re-
markable statement based on his opera
lions. He said. in part.
/ Geographically Wyoming is destined to
be Americas central source OF supply for
crude petroleum, and in three years we
viii show the world Il Is the source OF
every kind OF oil known to commerce 1t
is the place where the great transcont-
mental railroads will get their fuel oil: also
it is the place where the Standard Oil COM
pany must get a large part OF its supply
when the eastern oil fields die out a few
,. years hence. I can bring $4,000 600 OF for
SAeA NaklLa4 AlAA0 W DLLl4IlE Lle moment
the federal government grants US legisla-
ton to clear the titles OF oil lands in Wyo-
ming, as well as to prevent claim jump
ing"
Represents Foreign Capital.
Colonel Edward H. Power was one cf
the central figures Of the convention. He
) told the assembled producers, refiners and
mlneralogists that he appeared before them
b as the representative Of foreign capital
, and the apostle Of cheap transportation for
! Wyoming crude oils.
The keapest way to transport wyoming
oil is TO make it transport itself through a
pipe line" he declared. "A pipe line to
Omaha is what we need, and the oil will
do the rest. It seems a very elementary
proposition. Here we are 1000 feet above
/ the level OF the Missouri rifevr, and no in
tervening mountains. II does not require
A genius to make oil run down hill, does
IT? There is open market for our oil.
We must have a system OF short pipe lines
coupling up these fields and then build a
main pipe line down the grade to Omaha
) Through this association we can convince
) the world We have a big, bona dde oil
proposition here"
A touch OF the wild romance OF the old
frontier times was introduced by Colonel
, A 5. Mercer. who was pioneer in the
sixties. As soon mining was placed
upon a substantial basis in the Black Hills.
he told the convention, prospectors in the
Big Horn basin began to skim the rich
green oil from springs along the Belle
FOurche river to burn in their lamps, or
to haul it with sixteen-mule teams and
wagon into Deadwood, where they sold It
for the enormous price OF s2s barrel until
the advent OF a railroad supplied Deadwood
more cheaply.
Governor Bryan B. Brooks was elected
president OF the Wyoming OH Producers
association for 1911 and Colonel Power vice
president
Bigger, Better Busler-That Is what
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