The thin, 17-mile-long Turner Valley oilfield (only sizable field in all Canada except the Canol area in the far north) was obviously petering out. Nevertheless, oilmen were convinced that a great untapped oil reservoir lay somewhere under Alberta. War speeded up the search for the hidden pool. This year wildcat drillers spent nearly $15,000,000 in the search.
Last week came what looked like the biggest strike yet. Out in the sweeping range lands west of Calgary, within sight of the Rockies, a Shell Oil Co. test drill ing crew ran into a terrific gas concentration (a sign of oil)...
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