Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Gushing Oil Well in Wyoming. [ARTICLE]

Gushing Oil Well in Wyoming.

There is great excitement in the section about Cheyenne, Wyo., over the discovery of high-grade lubricating oil near Evanston, in the southwestern corner of Wyoming. The Union Pacific, while drilling for water, struck a flow of oil, and the well has since assumed the proportions of a gusher. Oil men from California, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Utah have hurried to the scene, and upward of 621 square miles of oil land have been located. Experts pronounce the discovery one of the most important made in years.