The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-03
THREE GUSHERS IN
BYRON OIL FIELD
Utah-WyOming Has New En-
enlargement for Its
Active Work.

The Byron, wye, oil field has three
gushers. and W. s. Lamoreaux, Of the
Utah-W yoming Consolidated oil COM
pany, who has just returned from the
field. brought with him pictures OF all
Of them. spouting oil high above their
derriclxs. MIR. Lamoreaux himself was
surprised at the development since his
last previous visit to the field. two OF
the gushers having been brought in
since that time. The three flowing
wells are in the territory of the Mon
tana Bullfrog oil company.
Eight companies are operating in
the field and oil has been struck in
IA wells. At Coley. on the Milwaukee
railroad, seven miles from the center
OF the field. is a refinery of It's bar
rels daily capacity. and IL is capable
Of handling only a small portion OF
the output The Montana company's
No. i well, upon test, showed produc-
ton Of 500 barrels OF oil In seven
hours. Considerable OF the oil pro-
ouced is shipped to Denver and Kan
sas refineries and II is expected, when
favorable railroad rates can be ar
ranged for, to send some OF Il to the
salt Lake refinery.
The Utah-Wyoming company IS drill
ing its fifth well. OIL has been struck
in three of them. The firth well is
down 740 feet. Some oil has been en-
countered. but Il has not yet appeared
I'm paying quantity. A large flow Is
expected in the second sand. at the
| depth Of from 1900 to 1.400 feet. It
is in line with the big producers Of
the field. and. for the reason that IT
is on the apex of the anticline, II Is
believed that an especially good well
will be brought in Water has recent
~ been encountered I'm this well, and
the gas pressure is strong, The water
is being trimmed out. and. with that
accomplished further sinking will be
pushed.
Utahns Have Strong Wen.
The No. well Of the Utah Wyoming
company at the time II was brought
144 barrels a day. which was about
double the capacity OF the Montana
company's No. ! gusher before ~ was
shot. The No. 2 well was put out Of
| business bv a flow Of surface water.
and the two other producers of the
Utah Wyoming company were incapaci-
tated by deeper flows. on account OF
| the opera tors having been new 70 con-
unable 70 cope with the water situation.
/ They have since solved the problem
and the No. 2 we'll is now being re-
No doubt is entertained by any ex-
pert who has been in the Byron field
| recently. Mr.. LamOreauN says, that "
Will make good In a large way, a a
| discouraEing air to the situation was
/ the abandonment Of a string OF wells
4 which had been put down by one con-
/ Germ. Word was given out that the
/ wells were all dry. although they were
| closely guarded and visitors were re-
! pulsed. Some Of the other operators
/ became suspicious and recently a
] party Of them paid a midnight visit
/ 20 one Of the wells They found IL
| to be filled with oil to the rim. while
/ the others which had been plugged
| are said to give forth unmistaka bic
| sounds Of OIL in agitation.
A feature OF special importance is
the high quality OF the oil produced
1t runs from AZ to 81 specific gravity
Mr.. Lamoreaux says. COMPARED with the
| II 70 % gravity OF California oil. IL
Il IS rated nominally as containing 30 pei
cent gasoline but the refiner at Cow
ley says that he takes out 40 per cent
gasoline There being a. ner cent Coa
u oil and IS per cent lubricatng oil
there Is. accordingly. no waste.