Bulletin, Utgave 6The Survey, 1910 |
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amount anticlines Arbuckle Mountains Ardmore asphalt Atoka Bartlesville Beckham Beckham County beds brick building stone Bulletin Caddo cent Chas chert Choctaw Cimarron River Claremore clay coal color Commission contain copper Crushed limestone Crusher cubic feet deposits Director drilled east eastern estimate extends feet thick formation fuel gas field glass sand Gould granite greater gypsum Gypsum Hills Hartshorne homa iron Kansas line known L. C. Snider land lead and zinc ledges of limestone lime limestone line of Gypsum localities located McAlester miles mines Muskogee natural gas northeastern novaculite Nowata occur oil and gas oil or gas Okla Oklahoma City Oklahoma Geological Survey Ouachita Mountains outcrop petroleum Pittsburg plants Portland cement present quantities quarries railroad Redbeds region road material Salt Plain samples sandstone shafts shale southern springs surface tion Tishomingo tripoli Tulsa United States Geological usually Wapanucka western Oklahoma Wichita Mountains
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Side 21 - ... region. During the past two years petitions, properly signed and certified, have been received from the localities listed below. In each case an examination was made and a report submitted to the interested parties. Afton Mangum Antlers Mead Ardmore Mill Creek Bartlesville McAlester Bennington Okeene Caney Pawnee Chickasha Porum Comanche Poteau Cowlington Roff Davis Sapulpa Drummond Sallisaw Florence Stigler Grove Sweetwater Heavener Tahlequah Howe Tishomingo Inola Vinita Long-dale Wagoner Madill...
Side 62 - Many of the dikes, chiefly those of biabase, cutting the granite have been prospected at various times for the precious metals without any show of profit, and the sum of all information obtained gives no assurance that ore or metal deposits of any value can be found in the region.
Side 69 - Cimarron, and extends for 8 miles or more along the river. In width it varies from half a mile to 2 miles. On the south bank the bluffs of red shale and sandstone capped with gypsum rise directly from the edge of the plain to a height of 100 feet or more. North of the plain these hills are not so steep and are at a distance of half a mile or more from the plain, but even here the sinuous white line of gypsum may be traced along the tops of the bluffs as far as the eye can reach. In other words, the...
Side 12 - Act, it shall be lawful for any person employed hereunder to enter and cross all lands within the State; provided, that in so doing no damage is done to private property. SEC.
Side 11 - Members of the Board shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. (e) The members of the Board shall not, by reason of such membership, be deemed officers or employees of the United States. b...
Side 23 - Section 6. In order to carry out the provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for all persons employed by the bureau to enter and cross all lands within the State : Provided, that in so doing, no damage is done to private property.
Side 12 - Section 8. The sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to provide for the payment of actual expenses of the Commission, and for other epenses authorized by them, and for the salaries or other compensation of the director, assistants or other employees.
Side 70 - A number of primitive salt plants have at different times been located along the edge of the plain. The methods employed in securing the salt are extremely simple. A well is dug in the sand of the plain and the water pumped by hand into vats and evaporated by boiling. Fuel, chiefly cedar and oak wood, was formerly obtained from the canyons near by. It is stated that three buckets of brine will make one bucket of salt. The capacity of one of the plants is said to have been from 500 to 2,000 pounds...
Side 49 - For just as sure as the sun shines, and the sum of two and two is four, unless this insane riot of destruction and waste of our fuel resources which has characterized the past century shall be speedily ended, our industrial power and supremacy, will, after a meteor-like existence, revert, before the close of the present century, to those nations that conserve and prize at their proper value their priceless treasures of carbon.
Side 69 - ... discovery of extensive beds in central Kansas did this industry wane. "The Big Salt plain proper extends for eight miles or more along the Cimarron river. In width it varies from half a mile to two miles. On the south bank the bluffs of red shale and sandstone capped with gypsum rise directly from the edge of the plain to the height of 100 feet or more. North of the plain these bluffs are not so steep, and are at a distance of a half mile or more from the plain. Even here, however, the sinuous...