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Show Dr. Cook of North Pole Fame Lauds , Wyoming Oil fields ! - " ' Predicts Brilliant Future 1 for Industry on Which I Progress Depends. ' Local Salt Laker deecrlbe a nesting with Dr. Frederick A. Cook-, the man who vied with Robert . Peary In clalma to havlnlt bean flrat In reaching the North Pole. Dr. Cook la visiting Wyoming all field,' where prominent oil mvestlga-tora mvestlga-tora of this city aaw and talked with him over the oil flelde of Wyoming In particular and the world' view of tba old situation In general. ' "Oil la the coming Induatry of 'he country, and will prove the greatest re-aourca re-aourca of the West in the owning yeara, according to Dr. Cook. "Oil is bound to be one of the flrat Industries of the world " sal Dr. Cook. "Today when we are bulldlnf mo many new ahlpa with oa) motors, the consumption consump-tion of coal necessarily la decreasing, while the demand (or oil la constantly growing. Then, too. In these daya of Increasing riches, we are all going to have automobllea eoon, and wa muet bava gssotlne to run them. "Wyoming certainly will develop Into One of the greatest ell atatea of the 1 aountry. If not the greatest. I alwaya have been Interested In oil for I was bom In New York Just across from the great oil fields of Pennsylvania. The study of geoloerlral atructurea la part of the work of avery explorer: and today It ' Is part of the work of alt cornier ne.-Tlisas companies ara hiring expert geologists to hivestlgats flslda before they drill becauee they know that wa can tell certainly where oil will not be found, although we are not alwaya equally certain where it will be discovered." |