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Show LGCflTII SHRLE 1 WY0MIR9 FED Tho Ogden Oil & Gas corporation has closed negotiations with two prominent pro-minent Ogden men to go up In the Green river district of Wyoming, and locate for tho company several sections sec-tions of oil shalo land, It is claimed contains from GO to 115 gallons of oil to the ton. The shale Is exposed in places to the height of 65 feet and tho property is right on the railroad, which will make it a cheap hauling proposition. The pure parafflno a quarter inch thick is exposed between the layers of shale, and this is only ono by-product found in the shale of which "there are eight, and then the residue after all by-products have been extracted, is very valuable as a fertilizer. The Ogden Oil & Gas corporation aro to be congratulated upon acquiring this valuable asset to its 2000 acres of oil and gas land here in Ogden and Utah Lake near Provo which has been passed upon as oil and gas bearing land by government experts, the company com-pany expects to let Its first drilling contract the lattor part of this month. Major Will S. White, the sales manager man-ager of tho company, has left Ogden for the east- on |