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Show T ABOUT OIL AT PRICE ! AND THAT VICINITY By Mark P. BRAFFET "None are so blind as those who j will not see." Nearly thirty years ago ! Marcus E. Jones, a reputable and observing ob-serving geologist made a study oi the earfn structure through Eastern Utah for the purpose of informing the Denver and Rio Grande with ref erence to the extent of coal deposits . adjacent to the line of that railroad He did not have to see opened seams of coal in order to satisfy his mind as to whether these passed through mountains. He identifieel geologic periods and soon learned to speak the language of the rocks Once in giving testimony upon the subject he declared that the coa'-geology coa'-geology of Eastern Utah could be in telligently comprehended through r fieldglass from the rear end of a Pul' man car. His inference and observa j tions seemed fantastic at the time and little attention was occorded to his views. In fact Jones was not regarded re-garded seriously and fuel companies had about as much confidence in tips on geology as they had on visions o! theology." After a few years the ac curacy of the deductions of Jones was demonstrated by other men anc today around thirty mines having , millions of dollars invested attest his unerring reasoning in popular i parlance "he knew his stuff." Of the ! ten to twenty thousands inhabitants of Eastern Utah eligible to obtain : one hundred and sixty acres each oi coal land about one person of each four thousand actually believed in geological inference as a safe guide and exercised the coal right then accorded ac-corded to each citizen under the law Nature's Open Book Easily Read The retrospective view reveals the fact that with nature's open book before us we were too stupid to observe, ob-serve, and with Jones' geological inferences in-ferences we would have nothing tc do. Intelligent consideration of perfectly per-fectly obvious facts would have made hundreds of residents of Carbon Car-bon county fat with wealth. The fat has chiefly passed into the rapacious maws of Eastern corporations whose stockholders enjoy the dividends while we with the obdurate eyes were permitted to witness great op portunities vanish. It is remarkable that the grea! majority of people take no interes I in such matters until the boat of opportunity op-portunity hoists its plank and leaver them. The misgivings of the populace popu-lace is only to be accounted for up on the theory that the geologist is a fake profit and the knowledge that prophets in general are after the profit. Benighted, indeed, is the individual in-dividual who confuses science with superstition and permits this golden gamble to pass his pessimistic door Sleeping on Most Perfect Dome If oil structures exist throughout 1 Utah as the ablest geologists whe ' hare studied the scientific aspects oi j this locality unqualifiedly assert to I lie the fact, then every intelligent i resident of this large area has an I opportunity to become rich. Geolo ! gical advice is obtainable and Is : within the reach of all. Infant companies com-panies possessing areas of land which i : L-pul.ibie experts declare worthy oi the drill test should receive ever encouragement and their shores 1 should be bought where the pricer-1 pricer-1 are reasonable and the money real ized from the sale of treasury stock is devoted to drilling. People 6 1 Price and vicinity if you are sleeping on the top of a perfect oil structure as some very able geologists say yor. are, and they are saying it with their own greenbacks, do not repeat the mistake you made in disregarding the opportunities for coal. The oil prospects are too well supported to be disregarded as unimportant oi too highly speculative. Get into touch with a reputable geologist anc' you will have a wonderful kunch of thrills if you will play the gam? with ordinary intelligence. These Mute Cliffs Never J ie The cliffs of the Uintahs ure sat. urated with oil, springs in various places throughout Eastern 1'tah corroborate cor-roborate the oil inferences .vhile a: your very door a natural' as wel has been flowing for two years One eminent geologist has declared thai the earth here is throbbing with oi! He has faith in the witnesses - -tin mute cliffs never lie. They may no' tell the whole story, but Lfccy revea enough that we are justified in. tak ing a sensible interest in the thing' about us which at present are at trading the attention of keen mei from Louisiana to Seattle Prit' Sun. |