Show Oil Directory Highlights Nebraska Gains DENVER Shades of Salt SaH I Creek and nd Teapot Dome I How flow far the oil In hr the has come since its colorful colorful color colon ful beginnings Is shown dramatically cally catly in the annual tory dory issue January of the Ute Rocky Mountain Oil Reporter Recent trends ratably notably U the spectacular success of drilling l n n Nebraska during recent years ore are reflected in the colorful maps tables and other data In Inthe Inthe Inthe the new directory Issue A tally of all oil fields In the region produced over tOO barrels of oil oU 1 lest last year shows Nebraska with 37 of these major fields Montana has hIlS 33 North Dakota 30 O Colorado 45 Utah 12 and Northern New Mexico 11 Wyoming still sUll Is the Daddy of em em all aU with 94 of the major oil oU fields Wyoming also leads the re region on In total petroleum production by a Q substantial margin Attrition Noted Some decrease ase In numbers Is evident In listings of oil and gas gaJ companies operators as welt well as ns among drilling contractors and in certain other ather categories Commenting on the reason for this trend Editor Henry Hough said sald Despite gratifying gains in domestic demand for nearly all aU types of petroleum products and for natural gas it there here Is hardship hardship hardship hard hard- ship if not despair among many people in the exploration and production end rod of the oil oU industry Industry Indus indus- try In the United States Scores if not hundreds of firms finns have gone out of business or ore goIng goIng going go- go Ing broke This distress Is due entirely to the unchecked flood of oil and petroleum products from foreign countries Including Canada The governments government's restrictions on imports imports imports im im- im- im ports are too little and too late Th The domestic oil oU industry is waging a war and it is getting licked As somebody remarked long ago War doesn't determine determine determine deter deter- mine who's right you know mow It only determines who's left Figuring Figuring Fig Fig- wring out left turned out ito be one of our most difficult tasks in compiling the new Directory tory |