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Show 155 net tons of iron and steel pipe and fittings Western States in 1950, and states bordering on the East, States, and in the Western demand for such in or a po'rtian as a total of were pipe and fittings, 1951 and 1952, 1, 796,162 a,dditional net tons of this amount 1, 357,502 siderably an consumed in the eleven were net tons in the six 2,255,583 tons. Approximately 'consumed in the eleven Western of these six in all bordering States. 59 has expanded pro.bability, result of the discovery of several The con new oil and natural gas fields in these seventeen States. If increase of consumption 'of petroleum at a rate far alternative new reserves, tapped to supply greater than and petroleum products continue s to present production and the discovery sources of oU and gasoline will have to be these demands. 'The U. S. Bureau of Mines has estimated that the known of oil shale have ei.ht a .potential of 200 billion barrels of times that of the other U. S. Nearly oil potential 80 per cent of the known oil shale 'Source: reserves petroleum, approximately of 24. 5 billion barrels. 60 deposits are Located in Colorado, (Table 31, p.,l54) 1940 figures Utah Economic and Business Review, Vol. 3, No.1, (June, 1944), p. 55. 1 C]SO figures Interstate Commerce Commission, Tons of Revenue Freight Originated and ,Terminated by Class I Railroads - . - 1950; and, Geo. McBride, Chief, of Entineers, U. S. Arm.y, Reaional San Francisco, Statistical Office, Corps California. 59Dr. Mahoney'. figure for the pipe and fittings consumed in the Western portion. of these six States, approximated one-third of the total amount used in 194:0. The writer arbitrarily estimated this amount at .• seems 50'/0. reasonable view of many new discoveris of oil and natural gas in West Texas, the Wllliston Basln, and in other areas within these six in. the. ' States. ' 60 . . "The Oil (January, 1951), p. Picture," 66. Western Industry, Vol. 16, No.1 |
