The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-28

where is such a statement directly made
So carefully are these paragraphs word
ed that after having read them once OF
twice you are almost willing to take
oath that government biologists are EN-.
| thusiastic over these lands as a rich oil
territory, when, as matter, of fact, no
government geologist would risk 10 cents
on their oil possibilities. Notice, for ex-
ample, the cleyerness of this:
Fine Juggling of Words.
/ "sAll of our operations are based on
our thorough investigation Of the United
States government report on the Denver
basin. The governments own biologists
ought to be reliable authority on what
is in this region. They are unprecedented.
They have no axe to grind. Independent
biologists, engineers, and oil experts
agree with the government investiga-
tors. On the strength OF the information
obtained there has been wild rush to
secure land in the region Who wouldn't
consider this statement that govern
ment biologists have investigated and
reported favorably? The letters sent
out in response to inquiries contain many
such skillfully drawn sentences. In a
recent letter to sucker one of the Of
ficers states: But reports kept coming
SO persistently and always backed up
with the statement that "the United
States geologist had made investigations
and reported favorably," that finally,
after hearing all this for long time,
we were induced to look up these geolog-
zeal reports and see for ourselves, and
sure enough we found the elaborate map
made by the government experts, to-
gether with their reports OH the Denver
BASIN He neglected to state what these
maps show, but who would notice such
an omission in a letter calculated to
make man expect sudden wealth over
night? In another piece of advertising
which these men send out, it is stated
that the land lies within the United
States geological survey of the Denver
basin and is described by eminent geolo-
gists as being valuable petroleum lands
Wouldn't the ordinary reader conclude
that the eminent biologists referred to
were those of the government?
Government Report Cited Is 20 Years
Old.
"The fact is, the geological survey
made careful study OF the Denver ba-
sin some 20 years ago and published the
results in book known as Monograph
27. At that time there had been no sue
eessful oil development anywhere in the
region examined and there is no mention
in the monograph of oil in this vicinity.
Except in the Boulder field. which lies
20 miles or more from this field, no sue
eessful oil well has yet been drilled in
the region about Denver, and although
the survey has made several later geolo-
gic examinations in the Denver basin for
one purpose or another none OF its geolo-
gists believe that valuable deposits of
oil or gas are likely to be found in the
vicinity of Denver. Certainly there is
nothing to indicate an oil field east of
Aurora ON the lands covered by this com
pany. Monograph q shows that this
land is so situated geologicalIy as to
be unfayorable for oil accumulation and
directly contradicts the geologic illus |
tration published by the company, which |
shows the crest of an anticline contain
lux an VA iahc hiANNA lnN thfiti. !
their advertisements would |
convey the impression that this geologic |
cross section was drawn by government |
biologists, when pursued by persistent |
inquiries the managing director of the
admits that The geological |
drawing which you refer, showing lake |
Of oil predicted east OF Denver. to the |
best of my knowledge was not made by |
4 government geologist.' In the same
letter he says THE only government geo.
logical report that we have had access
TO has been Monograph No. ~, United |
States geological report on the Denver
BASIN Think Of the nerve of such adj
vertising on the strength of report in
which oil in this neighborhood is not
even mentioned!