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The Times

December 17, 1919

Nazaire LaFlamme in Sundance this week stated that interest in oil propositions is very apparent and on the increase in the county north of Aladdin according to reports. Oil has been known to exist on his ranch near Oak Creek since the ingress of the first white people, but no effort to speak of in the way of drilling has ever been made to determined the amount or exact location. Mr. LaFlamme now, however, has two propositions to lease or otherwise dispose of the ground and it is not unlikely that active operations will be in progress at no far distant...