Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-01
NEW SOURCE OF pE7ROLEUM-REpORTE

NEW SOURCE OF FPETR0LEUM-REpORTED
with grain of salt that just from Denver
about the discovery of source of petroleum.
One dubious phase of the report is that it too good
to be true 1t promises complete revolution gasoline
production 1t seems that the mountains of Colorado
fu OF petroleum and its hundreds of derivatives that the
world will literally have these to burn for the next thou
sand years, or maybe longer.
from time to time in the past there have to the
public statements effect that the mountains of shae
in the Rockies contained OIL. We have had slight
warming of what to burst the world but the
ent is SO startling and dramatic as be
almost If not quite incredible.
The story that machinery for the extraction of oil
from this shae has been perfected and just tested by n
ent engineers from portions of country and these
reality. What adds mystery and doubt is the
declaration that the big extracting plant has been secretly
engaged in experimenting for two In these days of
and sewing societies secrets of such magnitude
are not that easily kept
At any the claim is that by system of retorts
the petroleum that permeaes the shae is extracted in vast
quantities from the rock that prisons and that
done cheaply make possible establish
mark in petroleum prices
Let all hope that the press dispatches String
u.s. nat IS an true and more For this announcement
when scientists busily debating whether the
former known of the petroleum supply not
have been tremulousy watching Baku Tampico and Long
Beach, with fluctuatng emotions We also remember how
Moses snned when he claimed have got water by shifting
the rock and may wonder whether these modern
leaders in the Colorado wilderness have actually had
stream of oil gush forth when they have sitten the rocks
Likewise there not long that
gold had been discovered in such quantities, oil is
said to have BEEN the coast Ventura and that
hereafter would be likely to find that erswhle
precious metal in the junk yards than in the ewelry stores
but not another word of since We not only wish to know
and believe that endless supply of petroleum has been
discovered Colorado but also earnestly hope the in
tegrt of be preserved for that is an in
mate family matter So we shall watch with much Gag
for additional from the Colorado strike So
far there has been slump in the stock quotations OF
Uncle John Ds and not any too hopeful
about getting the coveted information from Denver
The selection of woman on each of the school boards
10 in
the plan would the support of the people The
been good and if thing had started in the right
the results yesterday would have been entirely der
purposes in an entirely apart from school matters
and it the women themselves who revoted Womans
situation is and disaster waits for of politicians
who seek to this instinct FL Centre women
deceived by the for school boards pro
paganda and they the polls by hundreds to vote
against the candidates not because they were women
because they campaigning under false coors
Those who their politics from the republican text
book will with satisfaction the congressional returns
from Hawaii where republican has just been elected by
majority of his democratic opponent May
be ratification of the treaty and preservation Of the peace
of the Pacific have already begun to bear fruit there
We have elected school trustees their merits. Now
that all do at the city election The citizens
ticket represents the highest quality of citizenship and the
highest standard of business ability that possible 10
pick and that constitutes sufcent reason Ior the III
umphant election
Speaking OF taxes, George Anderson anu VIII rdWcett
are fellows who discovered Their tax bill amounts
to than that of the whole taxpayers crowd put to-
gehe anyone think that they will not make it their
business to that the city is run economically?
The perversity at least the popularity, of human
nature is exemped those persons who travel from the
oranges and flowers of the valleys of the citrus belt into
the cold and snow surrounding mountains defy e
rgors of winter people contrary they would
make nature over entirely if they given job at it,
Hugo SHINES, Germanys Napoleon Of finance and
business completing three big freghters to ply between
the Pacific Hamburg They all sitting up and
taking notice of California.