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Show he personally knows of 1415 no other acreage in that section . He knows that there are very extensive deposits of oil shale in the Colorado River basin , and there are Government reports that indicate the estimated number of barrels of oil in that section of the shale region . ( R . 5462 . ) He has one with him , Bulletin ( 691-B 691B ) , Oil Shale of the Uintah Basin , Northeastern Utah , being a document of the United States ( Geo- Geo ) logical Survey , published April 30 , 1918 , and on top of page 28 of this bulletin is a statement of the barrels showing that there are ( forty-two fortytwo ) billion , eight hundred million barrels of oil contained in the shales . He ( hasn't hasnt ) personally investigated whether or not the oil shales extend southwesterly from the region ( indi- indi ) cated in the report . ( R . 5463 . ) There are a considerable number of veins of ( gil- gil ) sonite in the Uintah basin , and while there may be other deposits he ( doesn't doesnt ) ( kn'ow know kiyow ) any place else in the world where gilsonite is found . This material was named for Mr . ( Fam Sam ) Gilson , who was prospecting in there . ( R . 5464 . ) He knows of coal veins in Grand County north of the railroad point of Thompson , at the mine of ( Sego Serro ) , some five miles north of Thompson . He spends seven months during the irrigation ( sea- sea ) son on his duties of water commissioner , and his ( winters win'ters winters ) are more or less free . He has been in that section during the irrigation season for over two years . ( R . 5465 . ) |