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...bought up Colorado shale land from original prospectors on the theory that eventually a cheap extraction process will be found. Denver records show the following holdings: Standard Oil of New Jersey, 20,000 acres; Union of California, 18,000; Continental, 10,000; Texas, 10,000; Prairie, 7,000; Deep Rock, 4,000; Pure Oil, 4,000; Honolulu, 2,500. About 100,000 out of the 800,000 acres of Colorado shale land have been patented; another 100,000 acres are patentable...
Last week at Little Rock, Ark., Medicine had a chance comparable to the famed St. Martin case. Marie Overby, 9, and her mother had been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful...
...John Davison Rockefeller, 91, went a golf challenge from Judge H. C. Ward, 80, of Sterling, Ill. Judge Ward dared because last week he made a hole-in-one at Rock River...
...small new source is more important than the discovery of fields of gold. Last week despatches from Ontario announced that Canadian mine experts had found a. radium mine near Wilberforce. Three years ago miners in the district discovered traces of uraninite (uranium oxide) in pegmatite, a type of rock rich in valuable minerals. Where there is a uranium deposit, mine experts have learned to look for radium. Uranium, producer of radium, is constantly emitting rays, changing its internal structure until it has disintegrated into radium...
...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...