The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29
LIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY
WYOMING WON WEALTH IN PAST YEAF
VARIED INDUSTRIES ALL SHOW GREAT PROSPERITY

10 be doubled. In the other oil 1elds OF
the state there was little activity. the
Salt Creek field producing about 1--WE
siHths OF the states output for the year
OF S2.si1. 900.
The development during the year OF
the Salt Greek fleld was spectacular.
That the field was rich In oil had been
recognized for twenty years and numer-
GUS wells had been sunk. But what
might be termed boom" development diu
not begin there until January OF 1917,
when the Midwest on company, a CoIo-
rado concern, drilling on j. section OF land
Leased from the state Of Wyoming.
brought in a susher which during the
next eleven months produced sZI0. .VUV
worth OF oil. on this output a royalty
OF $4,000 was paid to the state. The
bringing In OF this well caused a rush 10
the field and leverish activity, with the
result that the pipe lines 10 the railroad
were built, the rehnerles az Casper
erected and that section OF Wyoming
provided with new Industry.
DurinS the last month OF the year the
Md West company closed a contract
road company TO supply H. with from 1900
70 $500 barrels of fuel oil per day al
Casper. and the railroad corporation i'm
medlately thereafter announced that IT
would abandon coal as u fuel for its loco
motives on lines west OF the Missouri
river and would use Wyoming oil in
stead. This one contract represents more
than $4,000. 600, which will be paid for oil
from the Mid West concerns fields.
This concern and others are now ship
ping Natrona county oil 10 a score OF
states aud solid trains OF tank cars are
being run out OF Casper. The whole de-
velopment Of the field possibilities has
taken place practically within the past
year As yet the reservoir may hardly
part of the area which 1t covers has been
Withdrawn from entry by the federal gov
eminent in conformity 70 the "conserva-
ton, policy. Recently .prospectors went
n 81 flE =, ,~f, 4
survey experts had designated as possi-
bly, containing oil, sank a well and devel-
oped a gusher as great as any in the
officially recognized field.
While the oil fields OF Fremont county,
known as the Lander fields. rival the
Salt Creek field in value and productive
ability. they produced little oil during
1912 because the majority OF producing
are capped This field, the developed
output OF which is estimated to be
100000 barrels day, during the year
produced only $4,000 worth OF oil.
One notable strike was made in the
Spring Valley field, in the southwestern
corner Of the state. during the year. a
gusher which spouted the purest llluml,
reservoir being brought In in April 1t
was promptly capped and like the large
number OF other wells in that field was
Spring Valley field Is controlled by nom
resident capital not at present interested
I'm seeing IL steady producer. During
the year probably 800. 900 worth Of oil
was drawn from the wells Of the district
The year was notable In the Greybuli
field In Big Horn county because OF ap-
parent development OF the fact that the
great nautral gas reservoir from which
the towns of Greybuil and asln derive
gas for heat and light is failing. At
teInpts to enlarge the supply OF natural
gas failed. Gas and oil taken from the
field during tho year approxlmated
$3.50 900 In value.
Near the end OF the year drilling was
resumed in the Moorcroft field in Crook
county. and extensive prospecting Is 10
be carried on there during the coming
year.
The states production OF precious met
ais and copper during the year was prac-
ticaly negligible. During the last four
months OF the year several once famous
gold mines of the South Pass district
resumed operations and obtained
satisfactory results from shipments OF
hiGh-g grade ores taken overland to the
railroad at freighting cost prohibitivc
for low grade ores. Development con-
tinued throughout the year in the Sun
light. Bear Lodge and other metalliferous
districts. but on limited scale.
The Iron mines at Sunrise. which are
open-cut workings, during the year con-
ton. 500, 900 tons OF herlatlte ore wort h
$500. 900 being taken out.
An estimate of the states production
OF mineral wealth during 1912 prepared
by the state immigration commissioner
follows. detail OF the coal production be-
ing absent because OF the lack of official
figures from the northern district.