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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from U. S. Geological Survey 



WASH DAY IN A U. S. GEOLOGICAL, SURVEY CAMP 



Campers and hunters in the West long ago discovered that oil shale would burn. A few rich 

 samples are here supplying the heat for the camp laundry. 



tillation is well established iri other coun- 

 tries is tremendously to the advantage 

 of prospective development in the United 

 States. 



Unfortunately the discovery of the im- 

 mense oil resources of America, contained 

 in its oil-shale deposits, will doubtless be 

 attended by misfortune for the unwary — 

 those who invest carelessly in the stock 

 of fake or "wild-cat" oil companies, or- 

 ganized by get-rich-quick schemers who 

 are intent upon exploiting the gullible 



public rather than the development of oil- 

 shale properties. Such schemers, like 

 camp-followers, appear in the wake of 

 every great discovery of mineral wealth 

 and they have always found the "oil 

 fields" a particularly lucrative one for 

 their operations. 



AMERICAN OIL-SHALE INDUSTRY WILL EAR 

 OUTSTRIP SCOTLAND 



The success attained by the oil-shale 

 industry in Scotland indicates far greater' 



