I found it interesting that those people who wrote the article tooting the horn for the prolific Wattenberg Field didn’t really spend more time doing better research for their article “New tricks for old wells,” calling it Colorado’s oldest gas field, being discovered in the 1970s.

I wonder where we really belong? The Rangely Weber Sand Unit has been producing since 1946, but maybe because it’s here on the Western Slope it’s not in Colorado. After all, most of the new production in the state is coming from Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa and other Western Slope counties. and has been for longer than that little field in Weld County.

I’ve been working the oil and gas fields here on the West Slope since the late ’60s and have continually sent water, money and people over the mountain. I’d like to see a new state created and stop sending money over the hill and wasting it. I’m sure we could do a lot better on our own. At least we couldn’t do any worse.

SID LAWRENCE
Rangely

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