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Show Oil Results Under New Leasing law SUBSTANTIAL bep'nning of the c live development of vast mineral wealth, heretofore locked up In the public domain of the various wester?. , Stutes, but now liberated under the general leasing law, was recorded by . Dr. II. Foster I5aln. director of the bu reau of mines. In his annual report iibmltted to the secretary of the Interior. In-terior. Oil Is the foremost product of those lands so far, but Doctor Bain said ti nt when coal resources of the Kast start to give out, the government-owned Coal fields In the western states would bo of prime Importance. In the fiscal year ended last June there were produced from government lands other thrn Indian bunls IS.C'O-1X2 IS.C'O-1X2 barrels of o'l. of which the fe lcral government received as royalty ",01(5,-852 ",01(5,-852 barrels, worth S4.7C8.397. not Including In-cluding bonuses. I - In addition, at tlie end of the year , $14,000 a month was being received by the government from natural gas leases on public lends In Wyoming. In the Itocicy mountain field alone, there were tm government land KW It wells, of which 2(57 were In the Salt Creek (Wyo.) field. A hundred ether wells were being drilled. Under the terms of the development there bail been issued 202 nit and gis leases In foiir states and 7.727 pros-pecting pros-pecting permits, on each of which drilling la required, hi 13 states and Alaska. The largest number of p.-oduclng j wells belonging to the government Is in (he Salt Creek field, where tlie g iv , eminent btdtls title to nearly all the 'and. Such an Immense miinunt of crude petroleum was produced that the capacity of the wells was far greater tin n the pipe Iti.e facilities to transport trans-port It. In Montana, also, development proceeded pro-ceeded rapidly nnd at the end of the fiscal year there were .17 producing wells In the Cat Creek field anil nine drilling on government land m the newly discovered and promising Sun- burst-Kevin field. ! These developments are exclusive to activity In naval petroleum reserves. Final adjudication was reached In outstanding out-standing contests on such nil lauds, liases were granted and drlU'jog arranged. ar-ranged. I |