Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-01-19
KEMMERER DISTRICT TO
HAVE OIL BOOM THIS YEAR

Notwithstanding the cold wealth
er. snow and other physical handi-
caps, interest in the local oil fields
Is not tagging for a minute. says the
Kemmerer Republican.
Through the leasing OF over five
thousand acres of state and school
land to a number OF individuals and
companies by the state land board at
Cheyenne on Wednesday OF last week
eight more oil wells must have been
started In the LaBarge fields by June
l next. Twenty more wells will be
put down in the same district by an
other company before the project
is abandoned. Thus 2S wells will be
driven in this one field during 1917
If contracts entered are fulfilled.
The state land board at its Janu-
airy meeting leased over 5000 acres
of land to the following: Frank Bon
Of Cheyenne. Bernstein Bros. OF
Cheyenne, Joseph Bariani of Denver,
r. T. Taylor of Casper and to H. 8.
Ridgeley for the Cretaceous OH com
pany. The leases call for 500 cash
consideration, with a drilling clause
to begin we'll on each section of
land by june /, 1917, or the leases
will again revert to the state.
Continuing, the Republican says
that great things are in store for
Kemmerer. and 1t quotes an oil man.
who has been investigating the fields
in that district, as saying:
six months from now there vii
not be a vacant room In any of tn,
hotels In Kemmerer; every hous
will be taken and people will b.
turned away unless measures ar
taken at once to care for them. The
news Of the Lincoln county fieldr
has spread far and wide" said he
In Oklahoma, where recently Wis.
tied, scores Of oil men talked TO me-
Of the Wyoming oil fields, including
those here, and stated tnat early in
the spring they were coming TO this
state. Lincoln county's prospects
were a part of the conversation. the
men not knowing at the time that I
had been here investigating the
field"
Since Tho Republican spread the
news OF the Cretaceous oil devel-
opment work in the Big Piney field
early last year, and more recently
that the Plains oil company of Kan
sas had entered the LaBarge field.
1t has travelled far and wide The
oil journals and many publica lions
bearing upon the industry and de-
yelopment work have contained
lengthy articles concerning the local
oil fields. and that they will be ex-
plotted fully IL now a foregone con-
clusion. Already a dozen or more
experts and geoIogists have exam
ined the local fields and all have re-
ported favorabiy.
Kemmerer. situated an II Is, will
be the headquarters and center Of all
OpGA 0IAOhH OAt AABA1Hs w nGn Utt AE
produced this viii be the railroad
point for shipment Il n possible
that . large refinery would be erect
ed here Al ali events. Ef ehe Oregon
Short Line would not carry The pro
duct, this wouid be ne Logical place
for the erection Of the large tanks
that store the OF, ard q would be
piped distance 81 something over
50 miles 10 the Union Pacific main
line. As the market for oil woaId
probably be found II the northwest.
Kemmerer would be the logical place
for storage and shipment. ehe OF
being pgped in from the Garter. E.a-
Barge. Big Piney and Fossil fIef6s
70 large tanks here 10 he shipped IA
tha crude state. oE refined hers. =
be shipped la ths attaF fern. -