, 1922-05-27

returning from a recent trip enst
E. Richard Ship stopped in Daven-
port, Iowa. for n day. a reporter for
the Davenport Democrat-Leader spieof
the stranger with the large Stetson
hat and general western air. tackled
him and here is the result;
Wyoming Is the squarest state in
the Union" said L. Richard Shipp,
lawyer and literateur. author OF n
number of so far unpublished vol
umes OF poems regarding life in the
west, and member oi the Book Fell
lows, WHOSE annual meeting in Chi
cago he offended Saturday night. this
beirs a society of authors and book
lovers. Mr.. Ship dropped in at the
Democrat office Thursday afternoon
for n visit. He is visiting friends
here previous to returning to his
home in Casper. Wyoming.
81 live in the squarest county In
the state. Natrona county, he con-
tinued, named after the soda lakes
of which there in a great many in
that section. producing a o which
Is used as a boiler compound. Myo-
ming has fewer than 800 900 inhabi-
.ants, and in the town of Casper
W-itTt L ~ z II obDuN -JfuOv
people. II has developed from an old.
fashioned cattle town of 700 since 1
came there IT years ago from Wash
ington, D. c.. into an oil town where
more gasoline is made h at any
other polht in the world.
The Standard Oil company of In
diana turns out IS 1000 barrels OF gas
oline every "a hours, refined from a
crude oil with II paraffine base, a
crude comparable to that found in
Pennsylvania and said to be a higher
grade than the mlJcontinent crudes
The production of crude at present in
the Salt Greek field and other fields
in and about Casper is in h neigh
borhood of $50, 900 barrels n day. OF
which there is at present refining ca
pacity for but IS, 900 barrels only.
":'The Sinclair ON company and the
departments of the navy and interior
have entered into a contract to de-
velop naval reserve known as Teapot
dome, which lies Immediately north
of Casper and comprises. a vast area
Of oil land 1t is said to be the in
tention of the Sinclair interests to
spend from SO to rs millions in bring
ing Teapot dome into production. and
100 millions will be spent upon the
construction of a pipeline to h Mis-
souri, river.
The first oil discovered there was
in Shannon field. o so miles
north of Casper and five miles north
of Salt Creek field. This discovery
was made by p. NJ. Shannon Is or
80 years ago. This was a very heavy
l~ubricating oil found at a shallow
depth - from 600 to 1900 feet. The
first we'll was drilled in Salt Creek
only ten or twelve years ago. Most
of the wells there come in at about
]. 800 feet. There is a well on a school
section which when it was drilled ten
years ago came in at 1900 barrels a
day and gradually settled down in six
or seven years to about 500 a day;
but when 1t was leaned out two or
three years ago it came back to about
1,40O and is still flowing at about
1900 barrels a day. This well never
had a pump on it. Most Of the wells
in this vicinity come in at about 1900
feet.
THE of Wyoming in oil
and other minerals have barely been
scratched, and it may safely be said
tnat the VI INC 9uhto az
this respect is so years behind level
opment of resources in Colorado and
Montana Wyoming's mountains are
full of minerals. In fact. what is per
haps the largest high-grade iron mine
in the country is located at Sunrise,
1872 miles southeast of Casper. where
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
secures all its ore for the Pueblo
Iron works. No ore with a lower per
centage than SIS of pure iron is
shipped; hence there are millions of
IONS of ore bearing a lower percent.
age of iron that is not shipped on &C