It's an idea of mine that there's no part of this country that hasn't something worth working in it if you can get cheap fuel.

Where the land's too poor for farming, you often find minerals, and ore that won't pay for transport can be reduced on the spot, so long as you have natural resources that can be turned into power.

With an oil well in good flow, we'd soon start some profitable industry and put up a city that would bring a railroad in.

Show our business men a good opening, and you'll get the money.

And there are men across the frontier who have a mighty keen scent for oil." "Have you done much prospecting ?" Harding asked.
The man smiled.
"Whenever I can get money enough for an outfit I go off on the trail.
There's a fascination in the thing that gets hold of you--you can't tell what you may strike, and the prizes are big.