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Show L-2769-5 naturally nrioos, ia it advisable to hold up oalos of land under present con- /'...,/. ....,•, • ditions whoro no deposits havo evor A "boon found. This the Offioe will havo to dotermino, and it can be done just 7 no v/oll without referring tho ooverol Bales hack here. I, therefore, rooom- .;.•. '..:"• mond that the Offioe incur no furthor delay by colling for those roports. A xn ^y jucl^ent it is more important to ' oxpodite those sales in future, for roooons set forth above. On January 23, 1912, tho Supervisor made a further report, as follows: A. A /.. Thore havo recently been roturnod to this Offioe for furthor consideration and roport a large number of lord sales. Attached thcroto, in nbout nil cases, is a report from the Director of the Geo- ' A, logical Survey nnyin;- those lands are •A A situr.tod in a general region known to • contain valuable deposits of hydro-car- . bona, end that ho has reports_indicatir,g gas and oil in tho regions. In a fow cones',./ ho has aur-gestod thoro was pospiblo wator power whore tho lands border on the Du- 7 chosne river. ;•'. .33' Undor dato of January 3, 1912, I ro- '., ported, setting forth the exigency now existing In tho mottor of land sales, and .,..'.; reporting that the information offorcd . •' by the Director added nothing to what wae known to everyone here. Sinco then I have more oarofully investigated thooo /. quootiono, honoo report moro fully. Tho hydrocarbon deposits aro found •'.' in earth fisnureo from a few inches to five or six feet in width. Thoso fis- 7.,.-... . suros run in an almost direct line for coveral milos, and all outcroppings . have been known and loontcd many years, • •';'' These fioeuron run diroctly downward with fow oxooptionr*. The oxcoptionn co for found mean that n slight dip may 't;..' ruonxoi sdto wnnowaarr dt.h o aurfnet, whon later it * • • , 4 |