Report on the production, technology, and uses of petroleum and its products . uvn^ie Showing OIL REGIONS of ^C — MICHIGAN_AND_ CANADA- Legend • Oil Wells. ? Oil Springs. ^^^^ r\ail-Roud£.Bill THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PETROLEUM. 27 northeast of the same, though I bear nothing- of them lately. All these points would strike the same cretaceous rocks, hut are too faraway from lines of communication to encourage capital to develop at present. Within the past year some coal company struck oil ina well on their property a few miles south of Canon City. In hrief, then, as far as I know, there is
Report on the production, technology, and uses of petroleum and its products . uvn^ie Showing OIL REGIONS of ^C — MICHIGAN_AND_ CANADA- Legend • Oil Wells. ? Oil Springs. ^^^^ r\ail-Roud£.Bill THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PETROLEUM. 27 northeast of the same, though I bear nothing- of them lately. All these points would strike the same cretaceous rocks, hut are too faraway from lines of communication to encourage capital to develop at present. Within the past year some coal company struck oil ina well on their property a few miles south of Canon City. In hrief, then, as far as I know, there is no actual production of petioleum in my district; it exists, however, in the cretaceous rockswhich exteud over the greater part of it along the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains from British Columbia to Mexico and in many ofthe interior valleys. Blakes map, published in the Ninth Census, will give you a rough general idea of the extent of this the petroleum thus-existing cau4)e made to pay, whether it is concentrated in sufficient quantity, or is of good enou
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