Excerpt from Preliminary Report on the Mineral Resources of Oklahoma, 1908
Few states have either as many kinds of mineral or as much mineral of a kind as has Oklahoma, but at the present time not one half of one percent of it has been developed. The state has deposits, which for all practical purposes are inexhaustible, of the following valuable minerals: Coal, oil, gas, asphalt, gypsum, salt, lead, zinc, shale, clay, glass sand, granite, gabbro, limestone, sandstone, building sand, gravel, and Portland cement rock, besides smaller deposits of iron, copper, tripoli, novaculite, volcanic ash, and a little gold and silver.
So little has been done in the way of the development of the mineral resources of the state that no one can yet even estimate either their amount or their value. This is the work which the Geological Survey is now attempting to accomplish. It endeavors to locate the various valuable minerals in the state, and to determine as nearly as possible their amount and approximate value. It endeavors in every way possible to bring these minerals to the notice of investors and to interest capital in their development. To this end the Survey most earnestly invites the aid and co-operation of the people of the state, in calling the attention of capitalists and manufacturers to our vast undeveloped resources.
Another thing which the Survey endeavors to do is to discourage useless prospecting for minerals in regions where geological conditions are such that no mineral need be expected. To cite a single instance, during the past ten years at least $50,000 a year has been spent in prospecting for oil in the Redbeds of Western Oklahoma, where the conditions are such that there is not one chance in a thousand of finding anything of value. The members of the staff of the Survey are always glad to advise with anyone who plans to undertake drilling or prospecting in the state, as to the advisability of their action and their chances for success.
This bulletin has been written for the purpose of calling attention to the state's dormant resources. It is issued in response to requests which are constantly coming into the Survey office for information regarding Oklahoma's minerals. Its aim is to present in the briefest possible form a bare outline of the subject.
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