Excerpt from The Oregon Basin Gas and Oil Field: Park County Ever since the first discovery of oil in the Bighorn Basin 'vigorous prospecting for oil structures has been going on. Attention has only lately been directed to the northern and western side of the Basin, the first wells in the Oregon Basin field having been drilled five years ago. No oil was encountered, but a very heavy flow of gas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.