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...geologist for 32 years and a onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often...
...more they surveyed, the more beautiful it looked. Ziegler borrowed money from friends and relatives, dubbed his enterprise the Bonanza Oil Co., in five years leased some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there...
...first two wells were flops. Last year, as he reached the end of his resources, he brought in a gusher. As he started drilling new wells, other companies, including Phillips and Stanolind, rushed to the Worland area, sank eleven wells of their own to cash in on Bonanza's bonanza...
With five University students, Bille C. Carlson '45, Peter W. Fay '45, Wilfred M. Kluss '42, Wareen D. Andreson 1GB, and Franklin H. Worland 1L. selected for Rhodes scholarships, Harvard yesterday tied Princeton University for the greatest number of successful applications...
Kluss, a resident of Boston, was granted a war service scholarship from the State of Iowa. Anderson, of Brooklyn, New York, a graduate of Harverford, and Worland, of Aurora, Ilinois, a graduate of Coigate, were also selected for war service scholarships from their respective states...