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Show Prospects Ot Oil And J Gas In Oklahoma II Tho work of locating places whero HI oil unci gas nro likely to bo found by mU drilling Is n task for painstaking and 'Ml scientific geology. Although goolog- ists can not positively dctcrmtno " wliothor oil nnd gas can bo found In k'l nny region, they con locate tho geol- Jifl ogic structures the rock arches and JwB domes which have a great Influonco $M on tho accumulation of oil and gas. ft m For this reason most ot tho largo oil . i'hJ companies now employ geologists to H gulda them In leasing and In locating J uxplorntory woIIh. H Tho United States dcloglr.-tl Sur- H vey, Department of tho Interior has H ii corps of trained geologists working H throughout tho country to obtain In- H formation that will usslst In develop- H lug our oil niul gas resources, but H (hell work, unlike thnt if tho geolog- M Ists In tho emplov of oil and gas com- H piuilcn Is done for the benefit of tlio H country as a whole nnd tho land own- B er "f well ns tho oil man ran make- H lire of tho Information they obtain. H In the summer and fall or 101 r. a H geologist ot tho Survey examined tho M Foraker quadrangle In northwostorn H Osago County, Oklahoma, and a ro- H port on this examination han now M been published. Tho report which 1 was prepared by K. C. lleald, do- 1 scribes numerous anticlines rock M archos somo large and somo small, H which exist In the region. Tho prob- H nbllltlcs or finding oil and gas In H the anticlines Is discussed and re- H commendations arc given for their jl systematic explntatlnu. H Tho report, which Is written not M only for tho benellt of the oil men M but for tint of persons having only jl n alight knowledge of gcolopv. Is en- H tltlod Tho OH and Gob (looloav of 1 lio Foraker Quaclranisle, Ontee Coun jl ty, Oklnhoma. and has been lsn"M ns jH Bulletin fill II A copy may ho nn- H talnod freo on application to tho TM- H rertnr IT. q Geological Survey, nt Hl Washington, D. C, H |