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Show 2 May 2, 1032 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt TjW City, Utah Search for New Oil Fields Potential Area Opens Huge hundreds of miles off Continued from Looking Ahead the oil Page 1 possible region even mens regular beat. Operations By GEORGE S. BENSON there would be difficult and longer. President Harding College But why all the interest in Costly. Since earlier searches Arkansas Searcy, so a place far from such famous had produced nothing, the outareas as Oklaho- look was hardly bright But A SLOGAN FOR 1952 ma, Texas and California? There the basin had the main qualifiThis is the story of a little are two reasons: cations for a good field. And lapel tag The first is that the Willis-to- the need for oil was enormous. nave Have Voted! inscribed I immost oil The men decided to put the Basin passes the sevYou? was mentioned in It portant test for potential oil area under the microscope for eral columns earlier written lands it wtas once at the bot- another look. a this discusing year of Millions sea. The next the tom of article in this series years vot project developed in the ago, this (part of the country will describe the recent search, was under water water that made with the most modern Harding College Freedom Fortiie suggestions in teemed with tiny animals and equipment and techniques, that ums. One ofwas that every complants. These lived and died by led to the discovery of oil in the project use the little America in munity the billions, then sank and were eastern Montana. voters on electtags for tagging covered by thick layers of mud, ion days throughout 1952 as sand or limy material which gea stimulator to get people vote ologists (jail marine sediments. conscious. Ages passed. The sea withdrew. Continued from Page 1 Thus, this part of the continent, Zinc Company, and the Illinois Our government In America now hundreds of feet above sea Zinc Company. Success in ex- is no better than the people underground ploration ventures by these com- we elect to public office. Only level, contains half the people of voting age in the panies, some begun formed which were rorks hardly more vote in presidential sea. elections; open than a decade ago, vote 2 cent Somehow during thousands of brought New Mexico uprapidly regularly per to a only centuries, oil was formed from wartime pfeak in 1943 of nearly in all elections. Twenty per the remains of these animals 60,000 tons, which has not since cent of the people are making and plants. Geologists think been exceeded and probably the election decisions for the that bacterial action and the will not be in 1952. It is esti- other 80 per cent This is heat and pressure produced by mated New Mexico will produce neither democracy nor reprethe overlying rocks are prob- 50,000. tons this year. One pro- sentative government It is a ably the agents that changed ducer has resumed production minority government and its oil. to the animals and the plants endangers at a low rate after more than continuation mainvote found is that oil only At any rate, a years shutdown. Another re- very right tp in sedimentary rock structures. ports an expected decrease in tains all our freedoms. The second reasons for the 1952, which slight increases by ELECTION IN SHREVEPORT interest has to do with the basin the other principal producers So this is a report on how itself. It is big, underlying most will probably not offset the little lapel tag got out the of the Dakotas, part of eastern ote in Shreveport, Lousiana. UTAH Montana, and even reaching As New Mexico and Colo- The story begins with the state across the border into Canada. rado, in Utah mines their Democratic primary, on January And it has a special shape. The wartime maximumattained zinc produc- 15, at which time the tag was basin is made up of several lay- tion in 1943, 47,000 tons, not used. In this election a heavy ers of marine sediment that Tie and, as with nearly New Mexico and vote was forecast in Shreveport on one another like saucers in the country as a whole, Utahs where there were 70 local cana stack. The outer edges of the production declined to a low of didates contending for posts as surface as about layers come to thecenter 28,000 tons in 1946. Striked weU as eight candidates for the of the outcroppings. The and a mine fire in 1950 again re- governorship and a number runbasin, where the layers are duced production. If operations ning for other state offices. Vicabout thicker, lies buried under forma-tionare uninterrupted, production in tory in the Democratic primar10,000 feet of younger 1952 should approximate 40,000 ies means victory in the general The sediments are favorf about coming elections in heavily Democratic able to the formation pi oil. tons, from the district, Louisiana, and this fact, too, Bingham Certain rocks, such as sanddis- foreshadowed a heavy vote. from the Park City stones or limestones, are favor- trict and most of the remainBut the vote was disappointable to the accumulation of oil, der from the Tintic and light in the eyes of the ingly because they can hold the oil ' probUtah districts. Junior Chamber of Shreveport in the spaces between the sand ably can maintain production Commerce whose members had grains or in tiny hojes in the for the next several years at been conducting registration limestones. proapproximately its present rate drives and Hence, the basin was recog- if condi- grams. Immediately following and markets operating nized long ago as a good place tions are favorable. this election, the Shreveport to prospect. No one could be heard about the little ARIZONA Jaycees unsure where oil lay, however, e idea and decided to an tag Arizona reached uapel til he found it. Over the years, use in the it when it in forthcoming run1949, produced high quite a few adventurous souls off tons recoverable of They telephoned primary. 71,000 sedinearly tried to find oil. But the us ordered 20,000 and in 1949 zinc. Since its Searcy production, ments are far down, and it is should be noted it decline in the tags. Perhaps Phelps expensive to move heavy equip- reflectingBisbee dea here that this isnt has plug for output, ment long distances. So the Dodges are sold at the tons to each clined tags tags 53,000 selling year search was not pressed too hard. 0 since an estimated cost, last and Colleges Harding year Instead, oil men concentrated Americanism program is a nontons for 1952. on fields that were easier to profit project. find and to operate. GOOD PUBLICITY But, as known reserves of com. The Jaycees formed a Tag crude oil were used, the oil and fk) drill had deeper Day Committee and it immepanies look farther afield for more. diately visited editors of the established expenlarge, Thqy newspaipers, the Journal and sive laboratories to develop betthe Times, and explained the ter ways of finding oil and getproject. The edIn of out the it were itors enthusiastic. ground. They ting one such research center, the TONOPAH, Nev. The New-mo- began running feature stories, la n d Shell Oil Companys Exploraeditorials. Mining Corp. has not giv- photographs tion and Production Laboratory, en up on Goldfield and will Shreveport radio stations pitchin Houston, Texas, 150 scientists launch a new exploratory pro- ed in too. The Jaycees mobiland technicians have been work gram there soon, local headquar- ized a womens corps to actuing for years on the problems. ters of the big mining firm an- ally tag the voters at the voting These men have machines nounced to the Times Bonanza. precincts including their own that diplicate the temperatures At least two drill holes will be wives, members of the League (as high as 300 degrees Fahen-heit- ) put down to an undetermined of Women Voters, and other and pressures (up to 10,000 depth as the first phase of the groups. pounds per square inch) that program, which is designed to Elections day came. Normaloccur in deep wells. They furnish additional geological ly the vote in this second runstudy the way oil is formed and data on the area. The site will off primary is lighter than in the forces that move it through be in the vicinity of drilling the first primary since so rock and sand far underground. operations undertaken in 1949, many of the local races are deThey watch its behavior as it somewhat south of town near cided intile first one. Instead changes from liquid to vapor the Goldfield summit, it was of 70 local candidates there were and back to liquid again. And said. now on ylfour. But the Jaycees dewere hopeful that the little lathey devise instruments forthou-ands fields oil 7 6 The hour from to p.m. is pel tags would shame the lagtecting possible of feet below the surface. the most dangerous of the day gard citizens and encourage Record oil consumption after or night in traffic. them to vote. By noon the tags World War II spurred oil comwere to be seen on mens laNinety-seve- n panies to record exploration efper cent of driv- pels and hanging from womens forts. In the natural course of ers involved in 1951 auto ac- coat buttons all over Shreveport events, the Wllliston Basin was cidents had at least one year of in department stores, office due for another check. It was experience behind the wheel. buildings and community cen- oil-beari- oil-produc- ing lue n get-out-t- Page Predicts... s. one-hal- one-thir- d- Stock-ton-Oph- lr get-out-the-v- ote all-tim- 43,-00- New Activity Planned for Goldfield tag-the-vot- he Mines Bureau Work Helps Solve Defense Problems of the Bureau Scientific, technologic, and economic research directed toward assurof Mines during the fiscal year 1951 was critical metals, minerals, ing adequate supplies of strategic and and fuels as the nations defense program gained momentum and number of mineral commodities was added to the an annual report released totight list, according to the Bureaus L. Chapman. In addition, Oscar day by Secretary of the Interior to the Bureaus emergency manpower needs lent new urgency efforts to reduce accidents in the mineral Indus tris Bureau exploration projects Creation in the Department of the Interior of the Defense during the year outlined addiMinerals Administration, the tional commercial or Defense Solid Fuels Administrareserves of copper, lead tion, and the Petroleum Administration for Defense added to zinc, antimony and mercury the Bureaus responsibilities , as ores. Besides doubling its facilithese agencies continually called ties for producing pure zircoupon it for technical and eco- nium metal, at the request of nomic advice and assistance. the Atomic Energy Commission, During the year, the Bureau madp major progress toward the Bureau continued to seek a methods feasible method of ungrading developing economic e manga- submarginal domestic bauxites of utilizing nese ores and other manganese for use in producing aluminum. In addition, it obtained more bearing materials. Establishing redata on the physical properties the technical feasibility of h of ductile titanium and Its alcovering manganese from a steel furnace slags, loys. waste material, it cooperated Techniques for producing oil with the iron and steel indus- synthetically from coal by ditry in efforts to make the proc- rect hydrogenation and from oil ess economic. shale were developed to the point where the Secretary of ters, on buses and on the streets. the Interior recommended that SUPPLY EXHAUSTED private industry establish a few 0 all the commercial plants with such afternoon By early the which Jaycees government assistance as existtags to ing legislation permits. Gasosufficient be would thought were used voters all up. line produced by coal hydrotag to came the still voters But genation was tested successfully the clamored for aind all in military vehicles, and, for the (polls, tags. The Jaycee offices were first time in this country, shale-oi- l diesel fuel powered a passenflooded, with telephone calls from citizens who wanted tags; ger train. A second many tagless voters presented demonstrtaion plant, to use the themselves in person at the Jayprocess, was comcee offices. The young men pleted during the fiscal year. were slightly embarrassed but Continuing scientific and was technologic research on the rehappy. When the final count in is showed that an all-ticovery and refining of natural record vote 36,400 had been petroleum, the Bureau made enpolled! studies of a number gineering In a letter reporting the re- of oil fields, completed analyses sults, the Jaycee Tag Day Com- of more than 200 crude oils from mittee said The tags were in a new and important fields at great part responsible for the home and abroad, and carried record vote. We received, con- on other studies in cooperation tinually, expressions from local with industry. citizens on the novelty of the Films from the Bureaus free tag day activity. We heartily loan library of educational morecommend the use of these tion pictures were shown 9 tags to any organization internew a record. The times, ested in a proj- total attendance at showings ect. This is just one election during the fiscal year was in one town but groups of peoFive new films became ple in hundreds of .other com- available for distribution durmunities have made plans to ing the year Texas and Its conduct the tag day, and other Natural Resources (a revision hundreds of communities have of an earlier film of the same written in for details. I Have title), West Virginia and Its Voted! Have You? This is a Natural Resources, A Story of ringing challenge to all good Copper, Treasure From the Sea Americans. Lets make it a na- - (magnesium film), and The tional citizenship slogan for Melting and Refining of Stain-5near-commerci- low-grad- al . open-heart- 20,-00- coal-to-o- il gas-synthe- sis me 194,-43- get-out-the-- 12,-639,9- I 1 2. steel. GM Executive Aids Future Farmers of America ers nt manager of thMC Truck ancFcMchDi from Donald Staheli of Hurricane. Jure Fanners of America after being naCed CtodrSS? the ing Committee for the FFA Foundation Well inZn iJr i?n nd Mitaltiire, Kyee will enlut the ImriUlAnd tajli! rapport tor the FFA program, In which 860,000 natSmSidrf yXrtKpete! |