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Show OIL tttlMHIin Mrlki Crratc Hicltciucitt At (Irccn Itlver and 1lioiiieoii. (IIIAXI) JCXCTIO.V. Colo. Aug It. on well in the (Irein Itlver and ThmniNaiiM rertlon will prohahl) l.e In the itriHPM f horlng within two weeks, according to word reielved recently re-cently In Suit take City More than fifty Ihotttmttd acre of oil lands have hieu flleil iipiiti Itetweeti Thompons ami O recti Hlver diirllig the last month. Mayor C I Cherrlngt n of (Irand Junetlon. orr J Adams IM l llaoti and II. II. Wood all of them Interested In I'lah carni'tlle mines, have filed mi 1 0.1 0k aire of the oil land and spent ennMderahte money In lonttloH work. The grand total of filings I over n hundred thousand neri-K. A not hi r group of men (oinpimed of Or P. X. Stiles. ir. J. K Creen, W II. Kelso, S IS. Wlnterhurn and Dun I'raticls have filed upon IPS.', aires. The filings are east of the tniid rn tently withdrawn lt the government hs oil hearing land, a total of 3,370.-6S0 3,370.-6S0 acres lielng withdrawn. The land the government withdrew Is wild to lie full of plaies where oil seepn out of the ground and In some phurs runs for some little distant e on the surface. sur-face. It Is understood that the Standard Oil iiunpnny has had representatives filing on nil the land that could he secured some time rcccntl). (Ireeli Itlver people and Thompsons men have not heell asleep and have added to the Hut of entrants In the lnv'sllga-lion lnv'sllga-lion probe. The Interests represent! d l) Kll-glneer Kll-glneer I', S. Piisev have secured thou-sands thou-sands of acres on the west half of the ill step dome and some on the cast side. It Is believed that a ver heavy dome holds ImmriiMi itiuntltles of oil sands under the until II .1 fold |