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Show THE SUN, PRICE PAGE TWO aud two in Utah will operata Commercial basis wilh'.U the nest ninety day. Such is the information that comes to The Sun from the passenger of the Denier and Itio Orande at Denver, Cola. 1 fii-l- OIL SHALE IANDS HAY REVERT TO UNITED STATES ing on DECISION ON OIL LAND TODAY, MAT VERY FRIDAY. j GW US I PERMITS IS LATELY COALS OF KNOWN QUALITY Ott gttHc 1 GREATEST PRODUCTION OF PETROLEUM IN HISTORY or GREAT VALUE ARE During March the United States produced the greatest quantity of CLOSE HOME. ever recorded fur any one month, amounting to 49.SU2,0ll) barrels, and, although the daily rate of Salt Lake City Geologist and Engi- corns urn ptiuu increased slightly, stocks neer Points Out the Danger Con- of crude oil were increased by mure fronting People of Utah Soldier Ilian eight million barrels. The daily Summit Deposits Especially Valu- average production of 1,31(1.193 barrels 53,7t!. barrels as com-are- d able Progress In Treatment with February, and ltill,354 har-ri-- ls as comarcil with March a year For the first quarter of 1921 ago. Shale lauds of great value situated treliminary figures show a production reto Summit are Soldier near likely more a hundred and fourteen of than vert to the government unless the million barrels, which is en increase assessment worth uf dollars Lundred work necessary lor the holding of the of over eleven milliou barrels as comwith the first quarter of 1920. placer mining claims is done by the pared increased daily producSubstantia! first of July of this year, according to a, Man-- is nqiorted for tion during Lake H. Salt J. Jenson, City engineer. Kanand California Texas, Should these lands revert to the government Utah would lose the greater sas, and smaller increases are recorded for Illinois, West Virginia, Kenpart of the revenue which will some tucky, Pennsylvania, New York and of the made from treatment day be Colorado. Decreased daily average this mineral, for so many restrictions month is rethe during production the been have developplaced uxm Monment of sliale deposits by the oil leas- ported for Louisiana, Wyoming, and 'Indiana Tennessee, Ohio, tana, Jen-toto ing law that it is, according almost iinjMMsible to interest cap- - 'en thousand barrels are reported as liecn received at refineries ital in the development of any of these laving rum Arkansas during March, which areas except those to which the title constitutes commercial shipfirst the As a result, says can lie secured. from ment of that state. jietroleum Jenson, those interested in the develto for March, amounting Imports opment of the resources of the state, 2,303,114 barrels, show a falling off for the benefit of those living within daily average as compared with its borders, should take steis to see of 9705 barrels. However, that these lands do not revert to the Miruiiry the first or three months of the year government and the development of increased more than nineteen the shale industry in Utah receive a imports compared with the blow which would set it back far be- million barrels as 1920. Stocks of all similar period of hind that of Colorado. North Louisincreased, except grades For example, to hold a lease under iana and Roeky Mountain grades, the must the law now iu force, alterations being distributed as net pi pebe continuous or else the lease ran be gains ine and tank farm stocks east of Calcancelled by the government and the ifornia, 5.050,000 barrels; California property disKMcd of on the appraisal grades, 1,330,000 laurels and Mexican of a commission of three. Further, petroleum held in the United States all underground equipment and im- ) iinjKirtcrs, 1,049,000 barrels. Since provement must he lei t in the pro-ertthe frst of the year storks have inaccording to Jensen. Under the creased more than seventeen million present law it would be possible fur a barrels. company that had invested perhaw a million dollars to have its lease can DOINGS OF THE OILMEN sold on and its THOSE E UTAH NEW RULING FROM SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. oat 'all Decides Applications An Valid If Filed Prior to Discovery of Reversal of the Holding of John Barton Payne The Long Drawn Oct Controversy At Rest. m .Si Cob In a new ruling by Secretary of the interior Albert 11 Fall, made public When you buy Castle Gate or Clear Creek you get coal that always measures ast Saturday by Gould B. Blakeley the Salt Luke City land office, up to known high standard. for permits to prosjiert fur g oil and gns under the oil and gas leasyears these coals have been noted for their high heatprodue-jnFor twenty-fiv- e and bill clinkers ash. from uf February 25, 1920, which ing qualities, thine cleanbqrning and their freedom were filed prior to the discovering of oil on a structure, will be held valid. These qualities, moreover, are found in every pound of Castle Gate and Clear Applications filed after the declaraCreek coals. Buy and burn these uniform, fuels. tion of the structure to be oil or gas earing, however, will be invalid. The ruling of Secretary Fall means, brief-that the striking of oil in a field or ASK YOUR structure which has not yet been de-- ! ned by the federal government as being within a geological structure containing oil or gas, will not validate applications filed for oil prospecting Iiermits prior to the striking of oil or Exclusively by the designation by the government of the structure as oil bearing. In Utah the ruling will affect apjroximately thirty-fiv- e hnndred applications covering more than seven million acres of land. The ruling is a reversal of a derision made by John Barton Payne, "ornier secretary of the interior, which provided that applications fur for oil or gaa prospecting would be denied in cases where oil or gas was encountered before the permit was actually granted. Secretary Fall that the ruling of Payne was not issued under a mandatory provision of the statute of February 25, 1920, and cites the fart that rulings of the interior. department involving ike situation are to the contrary. Controversy At ReBt Applying the principle so ancelled approperty nounced, Bays the secretarys rilling, THROUGH EASTERN UTAH it is clear that not only equitably, praisal by a commission of three, because of a tusjicnaiou of activity reMatt Warner of Price has been but legally, qualified persons who filed sulting from a lack of demand for its granted a permit on twenty hnndret proper applications for oil and pis product or a financial depression. This and forty-si- x prospecting jiennits under the act of acres in the Swell. is but one instance of the objections February 25, 1920, cannot and should Oil The Utah Development held by capital to the working of the not be deprived of their rights, if, beloshale deiNwita under the oil and gaa jwny fired up Tuesday last at its cause of delay in action upon the apd San Gulch in the cation on Salt leasing act. With such conditions preplications so filed, there intervene!) Swell. vailing Jensen is of the opinion that designation by this department of the Matt Warner tells The Sun that some effort should lie made to hold lands as being within the geological Soldier Summit shale land for the rig from Hollywood, Cala., whs on structure of a producing oil or gas ownership by Utah residents. If this Saturday last started for Price. The field occasioned by a discovery of oir is not done the land will revert to the parties shipping are interested with or gaa subsequent to the filing of the government and the development of him in the San Rafael. application in the local land office. shale oil resources will be held back The deep test well thirty miles pas Accordingly, said regulation is hereby for years. of Grand Junction, Colo., being drill- revoked, and in future applications ed by Carter Oil company, was down will lie adjudicated in accordance with Summit Soldier o The dcositi shale are of vital importance to Salt five hundred feet on the 20th of April the views herein expressed. The ruling of the socretsry proLake City," says Jenson, from the The bore is said to be the largest over fact that they are the nearest com- made in Colorado, the hole being vides, however, that nothing in his inch dril opinion shall be constructed as modimercial Lodiea of the mineral that we started with a twenty-tw- o have. The shale, which I shoifid judge bit. The well was spudded in on the fying or affecting previous decisions 12th. of the department to the effect that has an oil content of from thirty-fiv- e to forty gallons per ton, lies in two Lease for railroad trackage at Green prospecting permits cannot be allowstrata of a thickness of approximat-l- y River to lie used by a big contractor ed within the geological structures ol twenty feet each. There are fully for oil field oKrations has been ac- a producing oil or gas field, so known twenty thousand acres uf this land on quired by Calvin Cass, who is under- and existing at and prior to the filing which the assessment work roquim stood to represent the George Mel of the applications for the pmn)oct by law has not been dune, due to the cher company of Casper, Wyo. The aing permit The ruling of the secrefaet that the owners cannot afford to Melrher company contracts on a large tary virtually makes unnecessary the the necessary hundred dol scale freighting, rig building and wel amendment to the oil leasing act offerC'rform Some men their best foot forOf course, there is no law against If yon pine for e happy home gin every claim of a hundred ant drilling in the Wyoming fields and it ed by Senator Smoot, and sets at rest ward before put and into it chickens on booze and marriage then fattening which a acres. came almost your wife an occasional opportunity is understood Cass has secured the , controversy sixty them. to complain. eating soon became the art law. as Cas-jebranch r a location of there for the he woufid shame bum a for the It ness men of Salt Lake City to allow Second One Revoked. company. this land to revert to the government, The Utah Oil and Refining com Persons who had filed applications for due to the provisions made by the pony, the Utah subsidiary of the Mid- for oil prospecting jicrniits would, oil land lease bill, development of the west Refining- company which oper- had not Secretary Fall made his rul, $100j000-0$10j000.00 shale resources of great value to the ates a big refining plant in Salt Lake ing, have lost their rights on valuable city and state would be htdd liaek for City, has entered the Wyoming fiel claims in case oil had been struck by years. Concerted action on the part to develop oil projierties. The first any of the big companies now drill- of a few men or perhaps the commer- lands to lie worked wijl be in the Ma- ing before their permits have been cial elub would probably result in the honey dome in Sweetwater county. granted. The ruling from Secretary working out of some plan whereby The Utah organisation completed Fall is in the form of communicathis great shale domain eould be sav- deal last week for the transfer of the tion to William Spry, commissioner ed for development by local capital. AN lands held by the Mahoney dome syn of the general land office, copies being dicate and will start the first we sent to the Salt Lake City land office within ten days. In another such opinion. Secretary UTAH AND COLORADO SHALE WITH THE Fall also gives notice that he has re- V BEING WORKED PROFITABLY The American Mineral Oil under the management of II. 1 voked a ruling of Former Secretar That the oil shales of Colorado an pany Roeschlaub of Denver, Colo., states l8yne relating to Sec. 19 of the oi ' ' i Utah are attracting the attention that it has recently operated a test and gas leasing act, which affects virthe leading jietruleum producing com d tually only the San Juan oil fields in in an Eastern city and a of the country ie evidenced by plant of shale has been handled suc- this state. The opinion states that 5 ' ponies their acquisition of large acreages in cessfully. It is stated that the shale there should not be a limit of one these states. The Union Oil of Cali to fifty-eigprosecting ermit on a structure an V produced from fifty-twfornia, the Ventura and Hainmnn in- gallons of oil per ton, ranging from only three in a state to the same n terests, also of California, the Pure twenty-seve- n or company, and he says there is to thirty-kidegrees Oil conqiany, the Vcrner Z. lleed es- Bourne in gravity and requir- no limitation in See. 19 as to the num tate, individuals closely identified ed twetitv-oii- e her of permits which may be obtain minutes for shn with Midwest Oil interests and tin- .to pass through the retort. The ed by a qualified person or persons rU3 wt,!ers, together with several flTnoun, of pas ol, who held placer mining claims anil are have reccutlv ac- tamed was foreign the act, all for fuel pur- - able to meet the conditions ample quired holdings aggregating all of a poes. Encourages Prospecting. hundred thousand ceres. The increas.An interesting situation hns fiove While the intent of the act is to ed demand for oil and its byproducts, in the Woodside field between prevent monopoly.' says the opinion, the foreign control of fields in our oped its primary purose was to i ncour own and other countries and the pre- - Prior and Green River and generally A Us Help You ot "l I,rom age prospecting for and the dovelo wi!h btin? dieted earlv exhaustion of the Jfexi-- ! meet the and oil of the ol: southeastern resources gas can fields, all tend to emphasize tbe.,,s"!f; Service Fht Dutch hell interests the United States. In localities remote economic importance of these dqss-- ! were active m that region soon after from transportation, refineries, pipelines and sources of supply, it may be V The first real step in their comraer-- i '.he difficult to secure the ex plum' ion of n rial development was accomplished for a prospecting on wildcat territory if the jierson or last week at IJe Deque, Colo., where cation what !ipMars to - tin- choice part of conducting the exploration one of the eninanics, employing a tin- - structure. Since the filing was and development is limited to a maxi Gim-- t retort of one unit, produced a made there has been more or less mum of twenty-fiv- e hundred acres. highgrade of crude oil at a rate of two for- Moreover, as stated above, Sec. 19 is the of concerning rights gallons the minute. With an increased number of retorting units the pro- eign coriHirntions to nil leasing privi- a remedial section, designed to tak care of equitable claims of thue who duct ion can lie multiplied indefinite- leges on t lie public domain or conhad initiated claims under the placer corthe of American cerning rights ly. At the start the output from this laws applicable to oil and gas whose stockholders not were mining porations plant is to be treated for flotation Aniprii-eR. M. MAGRAW, W. A. LOWRY matTo citizens. the deposits, and consequently no limitabring EERGERA E. butterwort pur; wes. The erection of a refinery ter to issue Col. C. I. Tasker President Vice President mnde statute in the as to the has made tion was Vice President . (t , is to follow shortly. At least t wo additional companies in the Colorado (Continued on Pare Four) (Continued on Toss Eight) y, DEALER n, 10 offl tr IT E Its A Mined and Shipped Y : UTAH FUEL CO. X I jier-mi- ts . ot de-lar- es y, Ha-fa- t - ? f? 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