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North Dakota Went Boom

nytimes.com -- Long before the full frenzy of the boom, you could see its harbingers at the Mountrail County courthouse in Stanley, N.D. Geologists had pored over core samples and log signatures and had made their educated guesses, and now it was the hour of the “landmen,” the men and women whose job was to dig through courthouse books for the often-tangled history of mineral title and surface rights.

Apart from a few fanatics who sometimes turned up at midnight, the landmen would begin arriving at the courthouse around 6 a.m. In the dead of winter, it would still be dark and often 20 or 30 below zero, and because the courthouse didn’t open until 7:30, the landmen would leave their briefcases outside the entrance, on the steps, in the order they arrived. And then they would go back to their cars and t

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honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,580 Points:1,605,520 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Feb 5, 2013 3:54:54 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse and eventually it'll go bust.
honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,580 Points:1,605,520 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2013 4:01:31 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse dcox: good one. But very true.
KAR120CSII Champion Author Oregon Posts:3,167 Points:617,895 Joined:Apr 2010	Message Posted: Feb 3, 2013 2:55:07 PM Ignore KAR120CSII Report Abuse Boom and doom time. Doom for regular folks there.
nb52 Champion Author Grand Rapids Posts:7,760 Points:1,542,850 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Feb 2, 2013 7:18:03 PM Ignore nb52 Report Abuse Ah politics.
dcoxdcox44 All-Star Author New Hampshire Posts:617 Points:197,960 Joined:Aug 2011	Message Posted: Feb 2, 2013 8:19:24 AM Ignore dcoxdcox44 Report Abuse and their well water went fizzzzzzzzz!
NHLiveFree Champion Author New Hampshire Posts:11,070 Points:1,619,180 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 9:04:40 PM Ignore NHLiveFree Report Abuse Much like jackals descending on a new carcass! How many land owners were vicitmized and huckstered in this moving feast of the hunt for mineral rights in the underworld nether regions? [Edited by: NHLiveFree at 2/1/2013 11:05:40 PM EST]
Marson Champion Author Scranton Posts:8,927 Points:2,074,160 Joined:Oct 2006	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 8:45:03 PM Ignore Marson Report Abuse Interesting.
teafortwo Champion Author Washington Posts:22,065 Points:1,381,910 Joined:Feb 2009	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 8:30:16 PM Ignore teafortwo Report Abuse Glad to see a number of you also appreciated this article ;0} Interesting to learn about how some of this process is accomplished.
cutter1330 Champion Author Oklahoma Posts:8,020 Points:1,690,440 Joined:Jul 2005	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 7:28:18 PM Ignore cutter1330 Report Abuse Energy is BOOM and Bust....Boom and Bust, that's life.
GoGoGoodyear Champion Author Los Angeles Posts:2,048 Points:505,360 Joined:Mar 2010	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:36:25 PM Ignore GoGoGoodyear Report Abuse All this new oil discovery doesn't seem to be helping keep gas prices down.
CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,444 Points:1,561,975 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:28:35 PM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse Wow! That article was great reading. I don't know how much of is is true, but even if none of it is, it's still a great read.
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MRHONEST Champion Author Illinois Posts:2,212 Points:1,674,080 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:12:06 PM Ignore MRHONEST Report Abuse OTAY?
hallows Champion Author St. Louis Posts:4,678 Points:2,800,620 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:12:00 PM Ignore hallows Report Abuse Good point, LQQKGAS!
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agent0077 All-Star Author Colorado Posts:674 Points:475,670 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:09:29 PM Ignore agent0077 Report Abuse Interesting
carefrey Champion Author Orlando Posts:5,515 Points:1,155,485 Joined:Sep 2009	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:08:55 PM Ignore carefrey Report Abuse Someone's lining their pockets deeply!
LQQKGAS Champion Author Phoenix Posts:2,652 Points:1,192,095 Joined:Oct 2009	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 5:01:54 PM Ignore LQQKGAS Report Abuse Boom is great! Be aware of the ghost town after the Bust.
Romey08 Champion Author Virginia Posts:6,311 Points:1,436,490 Joined:Apr 2008	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:56:38 PM Ignore Romey08 Report Abuse huge windfall profits for energy companies
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bigLtowing Champion Author Columbus Posts:2,819 Points:588,565 Joined:Aug 2011	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:55:08 PM Ignore bigLtowing Report Abuse interesting but where are the lower gas prices?
floridakeys All-Star Author Columbus Posts:666 Points:269,105 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:54:14 PM Ignore floridakeys Report Abuse Great for ND ,I was thinking about going there to work in the oil fields. It's just sooooo stinking COLD there in winter.
rodzilla123 Champion Author San Diego Posts:4,380 Points:1,030,365 Joined:Jul 2008	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:44:44 PM Ignore rodzilla123 Report Abuse Interesting story!!
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listerone Champion Author Boston Posts:3,365 Points:874,990 Joined:Aug 2008	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:33:06 PM Ignore listerone Report Abuse Osama Obama has a white hot (no pun intended) contempt of the energy industry,except for his donors in the wind and solar sectors.That contempt will result in the whole thing being shut down by the EPA...or the DoD.
TXHUNTER1 Champion Author Austin Posts:2,711 Points:294,460 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:29:50 PM Ignore TXHUNTER1 Report Abuse With all the energy production in this country, we still have high prices. Something is not right.
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MotoDad Champion Author Phoenix Posts:1,106 Points:811,565 Joined:Sep 2006	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:28:44 PM Ignore MotoDad Report Abuse exporting our oil and importing foreign oil. Doesn't make any sense.
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rjoeh Champion Author Michigan Posts:7,066 Points:2,466,440 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 4:04:51 PM Ignore rjoeh Report Abuse Its a speculators world and these are some of the examples of the lengths they will go through to get land that they think is the next gusher.
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MadFueler All-Star Author Winston-Salem Posts:900 Points:168,510 Joined:Sep 2012	Message Posted: Feb 1, 2013 3:51:03 PM Ignore MadFueler Report Abuse Of course, we still need more pipeline and refining capacity to take advantage of all this oil. It strikes me odd that the writer seems to classify all seeking of opportunity as "avarice" when I thought it was just folks wanting to take action to better their lot in life instead of just waiting for it to come to them.
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