Show rides riches in oil shale well old scout scouts how are you know you are alive as we get tho the herald regularly and it la is sure welcome as our old home to us ye tand our friends there this country is like the casper wyo oil country only it has beti ter prospects but lacks railroads which the governor ol of the state slide la is pushing to the limit and has new york and other eit eastern stern backing and expects to start this spring to build we ve were told recently by oi or r state representative that mr air J 13 owens a nationwide authority on f oil formation had been employed to 1 start drilling in our valley in fact joining our farm where owens said 1 iwas was the richest oil pool in the state ewhen tw I hen owens died there are quite W a few plugged wells from six to 50 miles from here and they are owned ly by large companies who have leased all the land joining one of our friends told us of 0 one lease on SOU acres where they were to get st 2100 00 for it if 1 oil was struck another was to get 4 00 00 for or acres note ote the difference in price an outfit irom from new york offered a friend of ours a two thirds interest in a large plant it if he would put in his 2400 acres of oil and oil shale C lland land we are awaiting oa 03 a slL similar nIlar deal we to get cash and a fone ne third interest we to put in acres ot of land and they to put in fa R plant we are too far right now from railroad to move this stun stuff but things will change this spring and a lot ol of good friends at williston wont even send a man here to look things over when there are millions to be had for a song oil shale land 60 feet thick in sight that will run un 60 to gallons of oil to the ion ioa and will produce otio P per acre can he be had for an offer the big oil companies have acres acres and stealing more all the time they get when the getting lg is good then the public wakes epand up and their heads off about the monopolies ono getting the whole thing when hen they had a chance but went to leep on deck S some people here filed on an 15 to acres some acres they y can sell tor for a few dollars an ere and be rich some have been differed very cheap but it was with brawn rawn land and they had no claim in it congress has been toying with the ill I 1 bill tor for a number of years and a yet but we have it shaped up to uit us and our senator smoot is beering it clear of the shoals and brill ill get by with it any day now hats chats when the fireworks begin in rnest lamest icil oil is oil nowadays they struck ill 11 and gas at moab utah a short alme me ago and I 1 know of 16 outside artles leasing there inside ot of ten bays aya the outside public dont know now and but few here realize ahat hat this valley holds in the way t f minerals gold copper iron as halt and any substance formed of 0 11 Is here gypsum phosphates of 0 I 1 kinds as aa well as a rich farming antry they recently round a otal substitute for platinum and I 1 nang ing tor for big guns but I 1 cant think f the name just now there Is no abt george in my mind but this auntry has the goods and the pars pairs will be full of it before long I 1 the pikes peak highway P passes air r door and it if wo we had NJ williston ri 11 nd her people here this valley uld be the talk ot of the united ties tes the people here are not ive they know the stun stuff is here it t dont consider it much in tact fact 1 one even filed on oil shale until 10 0 years ago and they burned it to 0 coal in the sheep camps for sars ars there are places here where runs 1118 out of a cave 12 barrels per jay Y and it was used in a car lor for 15 af 0 miles and is still being used at as it came from the ground it I 1 could just talk to you folks at 0 ll liston I 1 could tell you more in a ly Y than I 1 can write in a year and ow you the goods we have oil nd d here that you put ta in a bottle til 11 a little gasoline and let it set two hours pour dour in a lattio water a the oil comes to the top and the d la is pur ewhite we have doun ris ns of this also alao in tile the oil adale lands this dope im givin giving you ms 1218 too easy to be good but could be here and see and hear bear what PO you would not stay there th ere and K bet et in a or on tt it I 1 you fellows had a real honest to sll man there who knew all there Is to know about oil formation who would come out here and let us show sho iv him alia what we know then he could see just what there la Is here hell must have been pretty warm at times as it lifted moun mountains tallis and bacod them at 45 degrees arid and thaia where the pools of oil are asi as tile oil shale Is above and the surplus seeps down into the cavities we want a real big man here who is used to very largo enterprises enterpriser to handle things on the morgan stylo and believe me he ha would ha liae hae e plenty to use high flud finance lice on here it he be knew how low we want push and backing not a mint but some money and the one who puts it in will sure get his back with interest a plenty I 1 could write for a week and not tell halt half I 1 would like to see you and all ill the e other good fellows of f williston interested out here and it you do not publish this letter I 1 would like to have you show it to a lot of them thein any way with best wishes I 1 am yours sincerely I 1 BILL SCACE published in the herald williston north dakota i |