Show ACRES OIL SHALE LAND LANDIN IN ONE COUNTY Duchesne Plastered With Locations in ill Past Fifteen Years Since the first filings on oil all cl ci claims were ern made In 1902 1102 acres of or oil land lanel have been filed on on In the thc county clerks clerk's office of or Duchesne county which were made b follows 1902 by years ars a as 1500 acres 1903 acres 1904 acres 1905 1905 acres acre between I 1906 OG and 1915 Inclusive 3 0 acres 1916 2400 00 acres 1917 acres an and In n the month and a half hair of 1918 1915 that Is past acres were filed on on says the Duchesne Record This land Is c claimed for the most part by b the thc residents of or the tho basin baslis The Thc oil shale of the thc Indian canyon Is claimed to be the richest deposit of nil all and Is Ig therefore held In highest favor or But nut for tor all that the tho question I of preference will vIll have o to be bc len left to the future for fOl a true truc decision as the deposits on the Green river and In Argyle and other places belong to filers who ho will not riot fall to tell you ou that theirs I Iho arc are the tue best Development work is the bl big thing to be done now and a means of transporting transporting trans trans- porting its valuable products to the railroad are alC greatly needed At the pre present ent time no one is willing to say how soon favorable ta conditions for accomplishment of or the possibilities of oC tho oil industry In the basin will be blou brought ht about but thc they each cach give gl the Impression of or being alert and on the tile lookout for tor an opportunity to gain the end that Is In sight sl the sight thc ht-thc the making makinA of or ortho tho the basin basin- tho the most valuable pro oil section in tile the world Few realize that in the lie basin the they are In the midst of one of or the largest deposits of or oil shale in the world worM yet et such stich is the case casc according to tho tile development dc of the oil shale excitement that exists today While the shale hale appears most profusely in certain places It cannot be said of any anyone anyone anyone one place in the tho ba basin that It has hns no Indication of or the existence of this valuable val val- deposit In varying degrees of or richness From the mountains on the west vest to tho tIle Green River on the east cst from tho the mountains on tho the north to tho the mountains on the south the tho earmarks earmarks ear mar marks s of or an oil country countr can be found The Thc filings on oil lands made during the thc past fifteen years cars prove this state state- meat ment to be true The oil reveals reveal's Itself in all manner of forms and conditions Some ome places It Is thinly mixed In a formation resembling clay In other places it appears In solid layers of solidified oil eli which when shen set on fire tire burns and melts like e an any other oil or grease I I I |