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Show DUCHESNE TO BE GREAT OIL GENTER ' Vast Area Adjoining City Leased By World Known Dutch-Shell Dutch-Shell Company - Territory Will Be Fully Developed. DUCHESNE WINS EXCITING BALL GAME Last Friday night the "basket-ball team "of the Uintah Academy of Vernal lost to the local team by a score of twenty-two to thirty-one. The game was not a great success from a well played standpoint, but exciting never-the-less and satisfactory satis-factory in view of the fact that the home team won. Lack of practice was evienced by the lack of team work , on the part of Dcuhesne, but as the score shows, they were more successful in locating the basket than t"he Vernal boys . The game was rougher than necessary due largely to the smallness of the floor and the failure of officials to stop the wrestling matches , before they went to a finish. The Vernal team excelled in team, play and the fact that they were ' used to a much larger playing space could be readily readi-ly seen.. However, the game brought out the fact that there is a good bunch of basket-ball material in Du-. chesne and the effort of the. boys to have a team that will be a credit to the town, is worth of the support of the town people and the development develop-ment of basket-ball should be en couraged. - The game was followed by an en joyable dance The Academy junioi orchestra of six pieces furnished lots of music, although , they, have practised only three week. Next Friday the Duchesne County High School will play a return game in Duchesne and the game .will . be-followed be-followed by a dance A good chance to get-to-hether.. and have . a -good time.' ' ' Oscar Johnson, of Heber is in Du-chesne Du-chesne this. week. Duchesne is in a fair way to be-come be-come one of the great oil centers of the West. Its residents have believed be-lieved for yeaTs that with all the rich oil shale in the vicinity this would some day be a great oil field, and have exerted every effort to interest outside capital but without success. The big cpmpanies have been too busy in Wyoming and Texas Tex-as to bother with new territory, and the geologists have said that the oil shales were no indication of flow, ing oil and that a fresh water formation for-mation such as we have here, would never give a commercial field. In spite of these discouragements some of the local citizens have persisted per-sisted in believing that where there is so much oil shale there must be- . some flowing oil. They staked oil".", shale claims and also organized the -Duchesne Oil and : Gas : Company which leased several . thousand acrea of patented land, but they had "no ; luck in , interesting -anybody until-geologists until-geologists of the Dutch-Shell 1 began;, to . arrive. The Dutch-Shell : is . a great world-wide organization" that rivals the Standard . Oil Company in size and power, with ships on every sea and wells in every important )il producing country on the globe, ts experts were impressed with this territory and ten geologist have . been working on the structure for about two months. About the time ' the geologist were put to work here ' the company moved an office force to this place and made an appeal . Jo the . citizens of Duchesne, ' saying that, only in case a, large block of territory could be obtained would the1' company consider further work. As usual Vhen anything is proposed for the" benefit 'of this . community the citizens responded nobly and helped the community every way they could. |