| Show painstaking M oil UNDER WAI IN WESTERN STATES anent the frenzied search for oil nov not under way in the states of utah colorado arizona and new mexico a leading geologist states that the I 1 irge ro operating companies will not abandon their explorations until ev LI lit nook and corner that might give forth the liquid cold gold has been thor prospected these four states up tip to this ame have not occupied the spotlight in the oil ia orld but during du ringI I 1 tha tile coming year ear they will be pains tn kingly combed and tested tented for oil igind pas gas as no states have been heretofore 1 the geologist above referred to commenting on the oil activities in these four Nek western tern states says the last five bears ears have shown neater mater advancement in the science nf f oil geology than tha preceding I 1 ears new neu facts and data have been brought out to enable the 0 operating pe rAting companies to eliminate the hazard in prospecting for oil as neer before types of structure found in other caun countries trie which produce commercial accumulations which bears ws ago were pard pa rd 1 oer oner mill ill be examined and tested formations that were acre passed oer mer with the belief that they could not hold holod hydrocarbons hydro carbons in them will be b I 1 frilled fhil di filed led in these states this ear car for th reason that they hae bae preyed prolific producers in other parts there are more scientific men of the flie geological fraternity working in hese four states at the present time hin ihan have mer before been assern alm in any territory 64 they have been sent here and have ba e been brought here by operators who have the prime object in mind of getting oil and profit from the earth and not from the people who buy stocks the last two years have hive proven to the promoters that if they cannot get oil they cannot keep on promoting the layman usually hears of fol domes and anticlines as the only producing geological structures the modern geologists today are searching for many other types of folded structures that have been proven by precedent in the many caces places to trap or allow for the depos deposition ion of oil in mother sands and migratory sands structures such as monoclines mono clines terraces fissures plunging anti clines noses structures turea sealed and closed by faults and regions where sand sands are tilted all will be carefully considered and possibly tested with gasoline being consumed at the rate of approximately nine boil lion gallons per annum what is more alluring and perchance fabulously profitable than the searching out ge ly examining acquiring and testing of promising oil fields field sT |
