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Show jjWf GEOLOGISTS IN WYOMING FIELDS Experts Quietly Making j Scientific Examination of Vast Areas. Special to The Tribune, i C'HEYENXK, W'yo., Sept. 8. While J the attention of operators, promoters, i investors, speculators, brokers far and i . near is centered upon the spectacular -v features of the rapidly making history I f Wyoming's oil development, such as the Bi Muddy, .Salt (.'reek and other I f fields in which there is intense activity, ; j tbc attention of a little group of porteu-j porteu-j tious figures of the oil world is as J :y'kccoly following what quietly, almost! secretly, is taking place in au unadver-: : tised, wholly undeveloped and only partly geographically explored section of this state, which romc day, perhaps soon, may be the scene of developments ;i which will remake the map of Ameri-a"s Ameri-a"s most important oil sources. CnostiMitatiotisiy, geologists, said to , 'C representatives of the largest of Amprian oil producers, are and for ..'iis past, have been Examining that ortiou of Wyoming which on the surface sur-face is the most sterile and which lo-I lo-I cally is known, and so is indicated upon some maps, as tli "Keil desert." This Mk region, lying in and adjacent to the angle an-gle formed by the fifth standard parallel paral-lel north and the eleventh auxiliary meridian, me-ridian, covers some L'UMi) square miles and consists of sand and gumbo wastes heavily impregnated with alkali and dc-: dc-: void of vegetation excopt scattered clumps of sage and patches of sparse and wiry grass. Bisecting it is the Merest of" the continent the divide between be-tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which here is not the towering, rugged chain of mountains which is the parting part-ing places of the waters farther north and further soufh, but is merely a hump in the land so gradual in its rise and so inconspicuous that it is unobserved by travelers over the Union Pacific railroad, the main line of which traverses tra-verses the desert near its southern edge. In this, upon its surface the most uninviting un-inviting locality of Wyoming, astute geologists have adduced, lies the greatest great-est accumulation of oil on the American continent, the immense "mother pool" of the existence of which all other --Wyoming pools are but scattered bits v ' of evidence. That is why the attention of a little group of men of great weight in oil producion affairs is more closely fattened upon this area than upon the spectacular Rig Muddy and Salt Creek, and why expert geologists, in the em- j T'loy of these meu, day by day, week - by week, month by month, carefully, painstakingly, patiently, are examining I he surface of the desert, ever seeking tome surface indication of a geological formation wherein the "mother pool" may be trapped and contained. So quietly have the geologists been i -working that only recently was their ' y 'presence, and the purpose of their presence, pres-ence, suspected. The ' ' desert ' ' is, in vinter time, when there is snow upon -yLthR ground and therefore the moisture i.fon which animal life is dependent, the grazing ground of scores of thou- sands of sheep, but in the spring, summer sum-mer and fall its arid surface is one of the loneliest loealieties in the west. Oc- casionallv it is penetrated by sage-" sage-" chicken hunters and, it is to these that I is due the discovery that men of science j have invaded the sun-blistered wastes ' and, as thr admit, are "just looking around." Their identity, their equipment equip-ment and the character of their maneuvers maneu-vers have established what they are looking for and somebody who knows, y ?r is assumed to know, has let drop a1 bint regarding in whose interest they are working. |