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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...
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...
...most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
...manufacture of gasoline from petroleum with a consideration of the fundamental scientific principles involved. In connection with the economics of gasoline, Professor Conant will discuss the future supply of petroleum, conservation of petroleum resources by development of high compression gasoline, and the possibilities of motor fuel from alcohol, shale, and coal...
Bones. Old bones, so old that they have turned to stone, excite the lay imagination more quickly than anything else the diggers find. Students of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...