Show OIL DOLLARS FROM PUBLIC LANDS HELP I 1 nver WESTERN arn f GROWTH 0 the AMY 0 0 how the oil tt industry dimpled an role 1 I d atoe west through MW aution to toi tr lr tion projects as fa aa known but factor in western pro ereo 1 6 since e ithe ow P pas fage at me manral aral leasing act of 1020 1920 oil and gaj royalties bonuses as and ries nemtala on public I 1 1 lands have uio thel V 8 reda uon tion fund and have helped make much ff this Dos elbl in five of tho the public land coledo idaho fontana Mon Xon taita tana utah and wyon Wyom ding tofi ever 49 40 per cent os of me the states total land janit area am id is F federal property it franges from 33 35 per pm cent 9 BI montana na to 72 per cent in vh A i steadily hare of this buce land area Is betoff brought to productive uso use through reclamation projects d by oil and baa royalties f ithe j industry in these five state through oil on and SM gas I 1 lecso bon artus uses an and a on federal deral lands has contributed nearly million to the fe denil government abam rincq 1920 1020 Und under erthe the terms of the Mrie mineral ral lm leasing ang act 82 52 H per pw cent of such royalty payments pay mants fla 0 to filie tile U a 5 du mu bahu oahu atu of reclamation fl also under the benns of the 1920 act 37 verc per of uch such royalty alty payments is returned to the in which the om oll and taa waa produced for cors alon and maintenance of 0 and rot adsA these ane mme five live states ha have re received an 1 agam apte of 7 11 for budh purposes Bes eln ceO 2920 in colorado 0 one of th the largest t ab c land states 38 percent ent 01 the sti satiates ates land area am Is federally owned more t than h n ohalf of the barn eed produced in tn C colorado 0 cornea from buch such f federally owned property more cant 1 la th the 0 fact A ot ahat 14 A t most of this land was valueless unita oil waa discovered arid atvas hd unworkable wb 4 waa no good 0 for hane it provided edd no I 1 revenue daame ont exea until nut a oil began begam comparable 01 situations tuat iOns exist ast 1st I 1 in wyoming utah montana idaho md other public land in wyoming largest oil producing state in the rookies more than um million in federal reve revenues nuee ifrain oil and gas have been paid out since 1920 of this nearly 78 million was paid to the tho bureau of reclamation nearly ia million was retained by the federm treasury and over 53 million was re to dihe state of W wyoming for state disbursement leiis ma 1 latter it sion awn was divided as fallows to counties for school purposes t to state highway department depart anent university common cornmon acha ol PW fund 1303 penna fund says SM he the rocky mountain oil and gas association IXon of our natural reso resources umes is af of equal and wd vital importance to the general public ab 1 to van an industries to agriculture 1 and to national in view of tm it is peru pertinent nent to recall recal that lAhat the petroleum industry Us in the west haj has contributed millions of ot dollan to the con cm atlon oc of two of ow greatest natural I 1 youth from school hm inor 10 to state treasuries and our ou rland Jand here heretofore Wor almost worthless L from lorn orn reclamation projects through gli oil and gas roye royalties Aties tio bonuses leases and rentals brorn born federally owned land in the mount lian states |