The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-09-01
NEvAOANS VISIT
CASPER FIELDS
PHIL BLUME DESCRIBES SCENE
OF LATEST OIL EXCITE
MENT

Phil Blume, manager OF the FL
Dorado hotel, and F. E. Gorham,
owner of the Double Square horse
ranch. returned a few days ago
from a trip to Wyoming, where they
inspected the Casper oil district. In
speaking of the trip Mr.. Blume said:
ION arriving at Casper, which at
present is the center of the oil in
dustry, we found a thriving city of
some 10000 people and the city fill
ed with oil operators from every
country in the world. 1t brought to
mind the most active days of Gold
field, which was looked upon as the
Invest spot in America at that time,
but l find that II was as a county
fair compared to the battle of the
Marine, in comparison with Casper
today.
I'VE arrived there Saturday night
at S:45 and to get a room or even a
cot at the leading hotel was out of
the question, and we were finally
taken in at a private home.
Ill INC HOIcl SNCIy IOOlh "oo ~
with cots, as many as six cots in one
room and the halls and mezzanine
floor were lined with cots, bringing
from two to three dollars each per
day.
1.-The streets were crowded as
Broadway ever is and the curbs were
lined with the finest makes of auto
mobiles, and on the streets and in
the Hobbies there was but n SUBJ
ject of conversation, and that was
oil.
1.-The first to recognize the import
ance of the Wyoming oil fields were
government biologists and upon
their recommendations the secretary
of the interior withdrew 255,00O
acres for the future use of the Unit
ed States navy. The next to see the
! possibilities of the field was the
Standard Oil company, represented
by the Ohio Oil company, and fol
| lowing them came the Midwest, also
the Merritt and many other COM
panies.
Some six months ago the Stand
ard Oil company bought h Mid
west and on August / took over
the Merritt at a price given az
$4,000 900. The oil industry is not
confined to this section alone, but IS
scattered from the southern to the
northern part of the state. Wyoming
.-.. l,c oi,+ht rafinnrinc two at
Casper. The capacity of each is nov
being doubled and when completed 1T
is said that Casper will have the
lirgest refinery in the world.
The oil is a paraffine base, run
ming from 40 to 67 per cent gasoline,
said to be the richest ever discov-
cred. The pipe lines entering Cas-
per are being enlarged and the two
refineries are sending out $4,000
barrels every day. The receipts of
the Casper offices of the Burlington
and the C. & N. w. for the month of
June were 100000.
1--WE found the road leading from
Casper to the Salt Creek fields al
most impossible, owing to the heavy
traffic on the road, as they have 90
five-ton trucks in service, besides
hundreds of teams of every descrip-
ton and the caterpillars each trail
ing six large wagons, loaded with
pipe, lumber and machinery, were
not an unusual sight. What i'm
pressed me most was the fact that in
conversation with dozens of oil OPP
orators and biologists, it seemed to
be the understood opinion that the
oil territory of Wyoming had been
scarcely scratched as yet and all pre-
dict that it will be the greatest field
vet discovered."-Humboldt Star.