The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-19

GERS, ref1ners and minerabglSts that
he appeared before them as the rep
resentative of foreign capital and the
apostle of cheap transportation for
crude oils.
The cheapest way TO transport
Wyoming oil Is TO make 1t transport
itself through a pipe line" he de-
clared. "A pipe line TO Omaha is
what we need, and the oil will do the
rest IL seems very elementary
proposition. Here we are, seven thou
sand feet above the level Of the Mis-.
souri, river, and no intervening noun
tains. 1t does not require a genius
To make oil run down hill, does it?
There is an open market for our oil
We must have a system of short pipe
lines coupling up these fields, and
then build pipe line down the grade
to Omaha Through this association
we can convince the world we have a
big, bona fide oil proposition here.
Humor and romance occasionally en-
liyened the hard facts and dry figures
that occupied the convention. which
was held in the state capitol.
When Governor Bryant b. Brooks
w
"the most petroliferous state in the
Union" the colorcd doorkeeper dis
creetly smothered his laughter behind
a huge black paw
"Ah dunno just what dat pertero-
liyerous means. but All nevah did lake
this heah State nohow," he chuckled
after adjournment, AN hit done nah
heart good to heah a Gemman lake
Goy'nor Brooks speak right out in
meetiu' about dis blizzardly ole Wah-
oming."
A touch of the wild romance of the
ola frontier times was introduced by
Colonel A. S. Mercer, who was a pio-
neer in the sixties. AS soon as min.
ing was placed upon a substantial ba-
sis in the Black Hills. he told the COLI
vention, pToSpectors 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 il for the enormous price OF $2S
a barTal until the advent Of a railroad
supplied Deadwood more cheaply.
Colonel Mercer in his early man.
hood was the hero of an episode that
the old-timeTs in the Northwest de-
light to tell about him. In 1863. two
years after he had graduated from col
lege, he was elected the first president
OF the University OF the Territory OF
Washington, and a few months later
chairman of the Territorial Board of
Education. He found no unmarried
women along Puget Sound. so he con.
celyed the bright Idea of importing a
dozen school teachers from the east
Within three months they all had
married, and the board of education
was In the same fix as before, Then
President Mercer boldly launched into
a wholesale importing business and
brought three hundred young women
from the east But young men were
settling rapidly in Washington, and at
The end OF two years there was not a
school ma'am left in the matrimonial
market Mercer heaved a Sigh and
told the other members of the board
the only thing to do was to hire men
raised a crop OF girls
w. NJ. Fitznugn. of the Fitzhugh.
Henshaw syndicate, of Oakland Cal
which has been operating for some
time in the Salt Creek oil fields of this
state. startled the convention by stat.
ing quietly: I'm six months | could
show production OF ten thousand
barrels OF oil day, If we had the mar
ket for it. There are no finer wells