Show JD QUITE ON T ia HAST ast of OP ir III t I 1 datul litcy 4 colossal col oskal sur suncy ey 01 data datta just compiled tuil published by government K ix ltaif arts along tills thim urn line I 1 net 4 that mn lim illino ln few c ot t the thousands if f automo bila dri drivers era and gasoline engine operators llave have more than a 9 faint idea of the extent ot of the oil fields which I 1 11 supply their gasoline the recent rise in thy the price of gasoline has it in formed d them in ft a most moat emphatic way that either the price of oil has been raised arbitrarily by those controlling the supply or that the supply la is los aa than the demand though possibly sibly both bath conditions influence the price the latter exerts the greater influence at present the supply 1 la not diseasing but the tile demand tor for petrol petroleum etim products has indrea increased ed so enormously that oil on experts are being bent to almont 0 every very part ot of the world to locate possible oil fields this search 1 is especially active in the united states both private a d government geologists are examining various arf parts of the country for oil fields the vie private geologist reports only to the company which employs blai him but the government expert prepares a report which Is published and distributed free so that everybody Is equally favored by hia his v irk debeque fuld kit hi de il one of the email small fields re centi described by a government geologist la I an area known is a the debeque 0 field in mesa and garfield counties colorado this field has been sup up posed to cover a larg barea but B G woodruff who made the exam examination con conclude cluder that only a few square ineice in the vicinity of de joque are possibly bly oil blaring in this vicinity there Is 1 a email small antl anti clino in come some oil oll and gas have beba found at the time the examination waa was made ton wells ranging la in depth from leas lem than four hundred feet to a thousand and sixty six su feet had been drilled but recently othera others have been started from the ton wells ells ithe the flow of ou oll Is only a few barrels a beir and the production of gas Is small in act nothing more than a trace of oil la Is a ian in elat of the aielli and the ninth contains cont aLna only a mod orate quantity gas flows from most of them however and from ono one the product Is used for or illuminating and as domes tie fuel tho the oil 11 la Is greenish bror moderately vis viscous cons and contain contains a high Pere of gasoline and from 7 23 to 9 65 6 per cent of 0 par paraffin alfin graat luib of Sl shale astle in the same region there are be bas of carbonaceous stale which have beon mistaken for asphalt these beds io do not contain asphalt but do bear paraffin end and other valuable hydrocarbons dro carbone carbons which can be extracted by distillation it is I 1 possible that this material may be the busts of a future Indu industry str rho data obtained by woodruff are presented in bulletin C js published by the united state states geological geologic k 1 eurey y copies copl ee of thia report can u obtain abr tle 1 ed free from the director of the survey at washington D C I 1 geology little 1 the principle principles governing the orl ort I 1 gin on wad and mode of occurrence ot or pe p uni and natural gas lire tire r yet but f arof tart tartly grasped by geo every oil field examined in n detail de all contributes its data for use in the eventual interpretation antol of the problems aal an each pool is stud led with ith keen alertness for the dis covery of some hey lwy that may aid in tho the ordination coordination co of the data which sometimes according to the region and conditions mem on account of bur lack of knowledge even to be in conflict the observations made by the cho geologists of the united states geological survey la in the oil and gas fields ot of california and kentucky promise to further the solution of some of the grobli me and by pointing painting out he the fors of oil all and gas 0 occurrence to the geologic structure of tho the regions examined artil ned bey they ho baic h o rendered important scientific as well as economic aid ln in oil and aa gas development but the me basic principles controlling the varied mode mod of ot curree and accounting for far the differences in 14 hinds kinds of the oils in idely apar ate d regions are still far from view |