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Show iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH U. S. Supply of Oil 1 Held Near Half Gone S Washington. Forty per cent E of the tot 11 1 known oil supply In s H 1 1 1 o United States, exclusive of s oil shale deposits In Uireo Ktiilfs, luia been exhausted, lie- iE cording lo estimates transmitted li.V Secret iiry Lane ?o t lie sen- E nte commerce eominiltee In com- E E' pllanee with n resolution pre- E E senteil by Senator Hnnsdell of E r.onisiiiiiu, mid made public by E E tile committee. : l.'p to hist .rnnimry I, Mr. I.nno E E sn III, n totul of 4,r!8.0)0,000 E E hiirrels had been produced, while E the known avnlhible oil re- E sources, not count lug the shule zi E deposits, In the ground iind In E E field storage were estimated ut E E (1,710,0(10,(1(11) bi.rehi. Distilla- -E lion of shule deposits in Coloru- E do, Utah nnd Wyoming, how- ever, would produce 70,000,000,- E E 000 barrels of oil, the secretary said. iiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiii!7 |