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Last year at this time there were still many vacancies, according to McLoughlin. Under the first-come first-served basin this year, he stated, the dormitories filled up right away. He feels that the waiting list system which caused the trouble last year was unfair to the University...
...They would yield about 6,000,000 acre-feet and bring another 2,000,000 acres into production, perhaps in the Mojave Desert or the Imperial Valley. And above this ¼ladder¼ of rivers, as the bureaumen call it, lies the Columbia, the biggest prize of all. Its basin and adjacent "water surplus" areas now waste into the sea 300 million acre-feet a year. One-fifth of its flow would fill all needs of the Northwest, leaving an exportable surplus of 240 million acre-feet...
Food for 75 Million. To reach such dry areas as the Lahontan Basin of Nevada or the Mojave Desert will be a long, costly job. But the Bureau of Reclamation is forced by the nature of its job to look far ahead. It takes years of exploration, surveying and figuring to find the best course for an artificial river. More years are needed to design and build the dams and pumps. So the bureau feels that it should plan for a time perhaps 50 years hence when the growing U.S. population will really need more food and will...
...Railway in northeastern Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike in the entire Williston Basin was made four months...
Taken together, the two wells led some geologists to believe the basin might hold a big new oil pool. They think it may hold as much oil as Canada's fabulous Leduc pool in Alberta. But no one will know the size of the field until many more wells are drilled. Wall Streeters are not waiting. On the New York Stock Exchange, Shell Oil common jumped six points in four days to 64, the year's high, while Northern Pacific climbed five points to 47⅜, highest in 20 years...