The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
WYOMING OIL
FIELDS ACTIVE
NEW FIFTY-BARREL WELL Is
BROUGHT In NEAR
LANDER

W.. II. SdlNeTl has lCtuihCu
from a trip to the Lander, Wyo., oil
field on a mission for the United
States bureau of mines, says the Salt
Lake Tribune. When e he said he
was not at liberty to talk on the gov
eminent end of the business, but he
gave some interesting information
concerning that oil field and develop
ments there.
The field about Lander is divided
into three districts-the Dallas, fif-
teen miles southeast of Lander; the
Popo Agile, but a few miles east and
Northeast, and the Little Wind
River district. to the west of north,
The product of the Dallas field is a
heavy fuel oil with an asphaltum
base. When the Northwestern road
built into Lander a few years &
a pipe line was laid from this field
to the railroad to furnish the road
a supply of fuel oil. but later when
the Salt Creek field north of Casper
was so extensively developed and a
refinery built, the Northwestern de-
cided to get its supply from that
field. This limited the use of the
Dallas fuel oil chiefly to the local
demand at Lander, where it is used
at the city light and power plant,
and at Fort Washable, to which place
it is transported by wagon from the
end of the pipe line at the railroad.
In the south end of the Popo Agile
district, which is only about three
miles from Lander, the anticlinal
fold is rather fiat and the oil there
is also a fuel oil. A man named Hud-
son drilled in a new fifty-barrel well
in this part of the field just a few
days ago. In the northern end of
this district, six to eight miles north
east of Lander, the anticlinal fold
becomes very steep, stratigraphically
higher rocks are present, and in con-
high grade of light refining oil. The
Wyoming Consolidated Oil company
has two wells in this part of the field
producing a good grade of light oil
and has the derrick up for drilling
a third well.
Mr.. Calvert thinAs the prospect for
the development of a good field of
light oil here is excellent. Owing
however, to the extreme closeness of
the anticlinal fold the productive area
will probably be limited in extent
perhaps not over 500 or 700 feet wide
and a mile or so in length on the
field is likely to be short. In spite
of these limitations, the high grade
of the oil and the fact that it is
found at a depth of only 500 feet
make the field quite attractive to
operators. There is a pipe line from
this field to a shipping station on the
Northwestern railroad.
Mr.. Calvert says there is much &C
tivity in most of the known oil fields
of Wyoming and a good deal of more
or less reckless validating. There
has been such an influx of oil men in,
to the Basin field recently that it is
the town to find a bed in which to
sleep.
AS an illustration of the extremely
wild kind of validating taht is
sometimes INDUCED in, Mr.. Calvert
relates that two or three years ago
an English company drilled three
wells west of Casper at locations
chosen on the advice of a divining
rod seer. They spent many thou
sands of dollars and didn't get even
water, to say nothing of oil.
Mr.. Calvert says two cOmmissary
outfits for construction gangs on the
Northwestern railroad extension
from Lander to Idaho Falls, Idaho,
are en- route to Lander.