Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-16
NOW WATCH THE OIL FLOW
Development of One of the Fields
in Wyoming.
PLANS ALONG LARGE LINES
Scenic wonders Put Aside for the
Substance Drawn from Natures
stOrehOuseA-Bright Pros
poets Ahead.

pulled off as a Fourth OF Iuly spectacle |
will decorate the midsummer scenery in
the oil regions Of Wyoming Colonel Ed
ward H. Power has said the word. AS the
colonel is the oil king Of Lander, his word
goes.
The reason for the change from scenic
splenders to real substance is that Colonel
Power and his associates are turning the
oil into coin. How this is being done is
told by the wyoming state Journal and
some of the facts related will interest !
Omaha people in general, particularly those
who regard the region, as the fuel bin Of
Omaha industries.
Under the direction of Colonel Power,
Mr. Biliow planned and engineered TO com
pletion what is declared, by men who know
TO be the most complete system for gather
ing, pumping storing and loading OIL IN
existence
Shipments of oil from Colonel Powers
operation, the POpo Agile field were made
as early as last August, and tank cars are
already enroute to convey the immense
shipments under contract FOR Omaha' LIN
coin and Sioux City.
These cars are specially constructed and
each one personally inspected by Colonel
Power before it was accepted and started
on It's way to WyopO
trench ten miles long, thirty-six inches
deep and thirty inches wide, has been dug
between the wells and the railroad siding
at wyopo, and through this trench has
been strung and laid ten miles Of six-inch
pipe, to convey the oil.
AT Wyopo have been erected two Inn
mense storage tanks, of 1880 barrels ca
pacity each, and protective fire banks have
been thrown up surrounding each of these
tanks
a large machine shop has been erected
and equipped loading racks with ca
pacity Of ten cars at time have been
completed and still there is more to tell.
More than 10000 cubic yards of earth has
been removed, requiring the services at
times Of 100 to 125 men, and the establish
nent of three camps with the accompany
ing expense for maintainance, shelter, and
Eustenance.
Three Flowing Wells.
Since October / three wells have been
drilled on the patented lands. Each of these
wells is flowing having started at the
rate Of 200 barrels per day, gone as nigh
as 1OO0 barrels per day, and are still flow
ing, though with diminished activity.
Three more wells are now being drilled,
four complete rigs are on the field, and the
management proposes to maintain its pres
ent activity until the production has
reached such a stage to warrant fur
ther investments in the line Of extending
the enterprise, seeking wider markets than
are now available.
AS fast as the wells are drilled they are
coupled with large double disc pull power
machine erected in the center of the oil
field on a substantial concrete foundation
driven by a twenty-five horsepower en-
gine and receiving its stream from the
main pumping station 1900 feet away.
Each disc has connections for attaching
pull rods for pumping twehty-six wells, Sc
that the total capacity of the machine Il
fifty-two wells When a new well is drilled
or an old one ceases to flow naturally, 1
is Immediately harnessed up to this ma
chine by means of the pull rods operating
pumping jacks, the oil is pumped from tn
well, and only one man is required to oper
ate the whole machine.
Through the middle of the field burie
below frost, lies the extension of the pip
line running to Wyopo, with three-inc
branches registering the flow of each wei
The main, that is the six-inch pipe line
runs to and past the settling tanks, branch
ing and connecting with each tank throug
a three-inch pipe. The oil is pumped int
these settling tanks which are equippe
with steam pipes, and when the oil is clea
Of water and settings 1t is gauged an
then permitted to flow, by gravity, int
the receiving tank, fifty-two and b ha
feet below.
Just beyond, and thirty feet lower tina
the receiving tank, is the pumping station
containing three large oil country boiler
q fed water heater and. a large line pun
capable of pumping from 5000 to 60
barrels Of oil per day, against a head {
LOCO pounds 10 the square inch.
Supplies Its own Power.
All of the boilers are fired with oil an
the system of burning. that of the Nj
topal Supply company of Chicago, is ver
complete in every respect 1t has been ii
stalled without sparing expense mainl
Tor the purpose of education, as there al
no other steam plants using oil In this pa
of the country.
y The oil gravtates from the receiving tan
to the pumping station. and by means
the power generated by the boilers mel
toned above, is forced through the ma
pipe line TO the large steel tanks at Wyop
Each of the two immense steel tanl
occupies one and a half acres OF groun
surrounded by very large fire banks, wi
sufficient intervening space to make We
respectable race track. The tanks are |
Gated in commanding positions al such
elevation as TO require no rehandlng of Il
oil, as it gravitates TO the loading racks
the railroad siding extended to the tan
by the Northwestern railroad.
Each Of these tanks is supplied with mo
than 1900 feet of heater pipe equipped wi
steam connections for the purpose of e
tipguishing fire In the event OF the tan
being struck by lightning, or any other XII
OF accident.
The machine shop nearby Is the me
complete in the state, and is most fave
ably located, Adjoining the shop is lar
boiler furnishing the power for running
shop engine, and furnishing the steam I
the heater pipes IN the tanks. This sh
proposes to do custom work and TO car
a complete line OF supplies.
Wyopo, by the way, derives it's name frc
the first three letters of Wyoming and
first two of Power and is located one a
half miles northeast OF Lander on
line Of the Northwestern railroad d,
ton OF the land comprising the towns
has been surveyed and laid out in TO,
lots with broad streets and parkways. A
other portion is set aside Tor manufacture
purposes. and a stin larger portion for
= tank farm.