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Show I STATUS OF SHALE I CLAIMS UNCERTAIN ji Public Lands Committee Votes to J Validate Locations Made Prioi to January 1. J Some interesting information concern- 1 lug oil shale locations is contained in a j latter received by O. W. Kwing of Salt 2 LfiCke from Congressman James H, Mays, j The letter follows: i "I have your favor of the 20th instant, 3 and note what you say in regard to the 3 t-x tension of assessment work upon oil J shale placer claims. I believe the points ' S ou make are good and will give some j attention to the matter, and let you know " results later. J "For your information, would say that j the committee on public lands is now re-J re-J porting out the general leasing bill. As toon as it Is completed, published and printed, f will send you a copy. They ! incorporated a section dealing with oil 3 shales. In response to information regarding re-garding pending legislation, a great rush . had been made to locate oil shale lands, j Therefore, the majority of the committee j voted to validate only those claims prop-erly prop-erly made prior to January 1, 1918. "I observed that our old friend. War-- War-- ren, was especially mentioned in one of , the Colorado papers as having located fifty-odd claims during the preceding Saturday. The committee felt that a dis-I dis-I vovery could not be shown upon these claims, and theye were therefore not valid unless properly recognized by the bill. You may be interested in some such-i such-i claims, and ' give you this information for what It is worth. Personally, I was opposed to placing the shale lands of the i country under the leasing bill, because I fild not believe that a leasehold interest could be financed when so much capital would he required. T was outvoted by the commit tee, however." |