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Show I U i:si W M.I. RULE THE WORLD I'lie world consumption of oil has reached 7nil,OUO,000 barrels and experts say this will go to 1,000,000.-iiiuu 1,000,000.-iiiuu barrels in five years. W hile other nations are struggling in corner the oil supplies of the world the fact remains that our -oiiiii i-y is producing 70 per cent i' Ihe total. rapiial by the millions each aiioii h is searching for new oil wells ui all the possible producing ter-lilory ter-lilory from ..Mexico to Alaska. The west also has ninety percent if ihe potential hydro-electric energy if ihe world and capital is begining id turn attention to that. The west has great riches in animal resources of timber, oil, nines, and undeveloped agricultural Winds reaching into hundreds of 'iiilions. Who is so blind he cannot see thai the west is to have a future wealth and manufacturing power mi only of our country but of the world? With lumbering, paper mills, Irrigation, Ir-rigation, power development, ship-l ship-l ing, sugar factories, precious met-ils. met-ils. potash, fisheries, fruit growing, md agriculture going forward by nps and bounds, who can overestimate over-estimate the resources of the country vest of the Rockies? Let us be proud of our country md not handicap its growth with 'unnecessary restrictive legislation i ml taxation. |