The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-19
WYOMING OIL IS
BEING EXPLOITED
Meeting Held in Cheyenne at
Which Producers ASSoCia-
ton Is Organized.
VAST AREA OF OIL FIELDS
English Capitalist Interested in Prof
ect to Build Eight Hundred
Mile Pipe Line.
Especial to The IIeraId-RepubIican1

Especial TO The Herald Republican,
Cheyenne. Wyo.. Dec. 1S.-Besultiug
from the wyoming convention Of oil
Industries. called and presided over bv
Governor Bryant y. Brooks and held
81 Cheyenne during the last four da VS..
the newly organized Wyoming oil
Producers association today issued "a
lengthy statement that boldly raps over
The kuucllcs the powers that be at
20 Broadway and seems likely to
echo around the world. which is to
hear great deal about Wyoming OIL
I'm brief this statement sets forth
that Wyoming is blessed with a vast
area Of oil fields. $50 miles in length
and $50 miles across their greatest
width: that Mornings oil sands are
the most petroliferous i'm the United
states and are producing all grades of
crude oil. that the development of these
va luablc and vast resources has been
ignored by those highest in authority
at No. 26' and retarded. perhaps pur-
poSelT. by Impossible freight rates. and
that therefore the Wyoming OH Pro-
0uCers association Will support Colonel
y. TT. Power Of Hertfordshfre. England.
I'm his plan to build an independent
pipe line Of 500 miles from Caspar,
Wyo- into Omaha. At the same time
the association plans a steady campaign
or publicity. with the double object OF
exploiting wyoming and encouraging
foreign capital hither.
While striking a blow for indepeud-
cncc and development, the association /
declares IL will take every possible /
wildcat operations in Wyoming oil
lands and oil stocks.
supply Of OF.
Dr. Charles T.. Fauvcl ID. S. c. and +. !
O.. s.. an eminent English Ecologist and /
mimCralOEist possessing a generous in ]
come which ne has spent for some
years i'm conducting scientific research |
and tests In the salt Creek oil fields of !
this state. concluded his address 90 the
convention with remarkable state
ment. based ON his operations. He said. /
i'm part:
TO be Americas central source OF sup /
ply for crude petroleum. and in three
years we viii show the world 10 is the /
source of every kind OF oil known to /
commerce. II is the place where the /
great transCoutincntal railroads will /
get their fuel oil: also 10 Is the place /
whence the standard oil company must /
get large part OF its supply when the /
eastern oil fields die out a few years /
hence. 7 can bring SlO.nOu.ooU Of for |
ciEu capital into Wyoming the moment |
The federal government grants US leg
islatiou 60 clear the titles OF oil lands /
iu wyoming. as well as to prevent /
claim jumping."
the central figures Of the convention. /
TIE told the assembled producers. re-
timers and miueraloEists that he ap-
poared before them as the representa-
live OF foreign capital ana the apostle
of cheap transportation Tor wyoming /
crude oils.
Line 20 Omaha.
THE cheapest way 90 transport Wy /
oming ola is tu make DC transport itself I
through n pipe line he declared.
"A pipe lime to Omaha is what we
need. and the oil will do the rest. II
seems very elementary proposition.
Here we are. 1000 feet above tuc level
of the Missouri river. and no interveu-
ing mountains. 10 does not require a
genius to make oil run down him. does
itt There is an open market Tor our
oil. We must have a. system of short /
pipe lines coupling uu these fields. ana
then build main .pipe line down the
grade TO Omaha. Through this assoc
citation we can convince the world we
have a big, bona fide oil proposition
here"
W. ". Fitzhugh OF the FitznuEh-Heu-
shaw syndicate OF Oakland. Cal. which
the Salt Creek oil fields of this state,
stated.
I'm six months 7 could show a pro-
iuctiou OF 10000 barrels of oil "a day, il
we had the market for IT,. There are
mo- finer wells anywhere than ours Ia
but they are capped until we
nave good market for such heavy
production. Colonel Power cannot
build his pipe line To Omaha any too
soon 60 suit me-
ID is expected federal and state leg
slation and other important achieve
meuts will result from the convention.
which is TO become am annual affair
and promises TO bring about tremen-
lous Industrial development for Wy
lmilg. Nebraska and neighborinE ter
-itOry when supplied with fuel oil at q
cheap figure and triCkling down from
The platcaus OF Wyoming through Col
)ncl Powers pipe line system.
Governor Bryant =. Brooks was
elected president OF the association for
1911. and Colonel Power vice presi-
dent.