The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03
BYRON OIL FIELD
PROVES ITS MERIT
Splendid Producer of Wyoming
Field Promises Much TO
the Future.

Bringing samples OF ore. facts and
figures to back up his enthusiasm. w. S.
Lamoreaux. a prominent oil expert, ar
rived in Salt Lake Saturday from the
Byron oil diggings OF Wyoming. Mr..
Lamorcaux has an assortment of sam
pies from this field that would be almost
impossible OF duplication, for the oil
found In this field Is the best oil in all
the world. When asked by The Tribune
for an account OF the field, he saids
II returned from Wyoming via the far
northwest and l was told by some oil
men OF Canada that they never had seen
the water while oil. oil that looks prac-
tically like the refined article. although
they had heard much about It. i showed
them some water white oil from the By
ron field, and they were converted with
out further argument. We have a spen-
did field up there. ana we now have
three gushers. with oil demonstrated in
fourteen different places within an area
OF 300 by 240 rods.
1--WE are offered at the wells S2.70 per
barrel for our product, but the value OF
this oil can best be appreciated when
its specific gravity is taken into consd-
provement there has been In the Cali
fornia quality of product, but / know
that not long ago the California oils ran
from 12 to % specific gravity. nothing
below % being refined. while our oils In
the Byron field range from AZ TO o1 spe-
cific gravity,
mot long ago a we'll near our ground
was driven to d depth OF 500 feet and the
and the we'll was abandoned, Recently
on passing this we'll, Fred Kohler of
our company found oil running out OF 1t,
and II Is the finest grade oil in the
whole field. 1t meant that there were
500 feet OF the oil in that we'll Within
fifty feet OF this well is a gas we'll which
measured 10 pounds pressure while talk
ing out enough to run two big standard
rigs, 1t is no wonder that we strike
gushers there. having so much oil and
so much gas beneath II.
Our company is called the Utah-Wy-
omng Consolidated. and we own the
dome OF the anticline which Is the heart
center of the demonstrated area, OIL has
been discovered on three sides OF us, and
we had a well producing six barrels OF
oil an hour until a defect In the casing
let IN surface water, We are now pump
Ing the we'll out to redeem II. Within
short distance is a similar we'll, only ad-
mittedly not as good as ours, where the
operators pumped 300 barrels in seven
hours work recently.
eve brought in oil in a second we'll at
the 711-35-foot point. and as we broke
through the under casing we developed
tremendous flow OF water. The well Is
being headed for the second sands and
al this time at depth of TAO feet, the
gas pressure Is so strong that you can
hear IL boil the water,
'I asked the first man TO strike oil
in the field what he thought of the future
last to leave it II. II. Clark, known to
hundreds OF Utahns as "Bullfros' Clark,
when asked the same question, asked me
n question which was II had any ground
for him. he wanted all he could get. So
the men who are spending their time and
capital there do not hesitate to hold on.
and I sec no reason why they should
hesitate"