Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public may not know that there is situated upon the public domain in Western Colorado an immense oil reserve . . . of approximately 800,000 acres in which the oil occurs in a rock called shale. . . . This oil field contains more than 40 billion barrels of petroleum of a potential value ... in excess of 40 billion dollars, equal to about one-tenth the entire wealth...
...know until last week was that Ralph S. Kelley, author of the above paragraph, had been for six years chief of the field division of the Department of the Interior's general land office at Denver. The public may hear more of Chief Kelley and the Western Colorado oil fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter contained the germ of another national Oil Scandal...
Declared Mr. Kelley of the Colorado shale-oil fields: "This is the huge prize to which the large oil interests are endeavoring to secure titles by fraud and failure to comply with the U. S. mining laws. . . . Among those in this combination are several of the very concerns whose fraudulent practices have so recently been exposed in the investigations and trials of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair and others...
...public officials and aspirants opportunities to talk oil, to make 25%- personal-profit sales. The Fitzsimmons property became known as "the Anti-Saloon Oil Well." Last week this admixture of Drywork and Mammonwork led him, Rev. Arthur J. Finch, to resign his superintendency in disgrace. Moreover, it caused the Colorado A. S. L. to decide no successor would be appointed, to admit temporary collapse...
Louis Persinger's career holds no breathless tales of splendor or of revolution as did his aged predecessor's. He was born in Rochester, Ill., spent his early years in Oklahoma and Colorado. But his musical grounding was of the best. He studied in Europe with Nikisch and Ysaye, served as concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, gave many successful recitals throughout the Continent. When he settled in the U. S. it was as concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. From San Francisco, home of Menuhin and Ricci, spread his first fame as a teacher...