Show THE PAGE MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT TWO TEXT States BILL LEASING O the of TO REERRING LAHOS OIL amount equal of an the to time all the 19 i920 value production of one-eighth gas already produced used for production gas except oil or the claim or unavoidably purposes onsuch land the claimant or lest from in his possession of such successor if by land undisputed any other Claimant 1919 shall be entit ed prior to July the lease Unites! to a thereon from period of twenty years States for per at a rovaltv of not less than 12 of centum' of all the oil or gas produced used for production gas except oil or the on claim or unavoidably purposes lost Provided That not more than at EBRUARY THURSDAY UTAH of oil or M M M Buick The M M 1 M a Measure Passed is President and Congress by Awaits Signature Publishes Portions Times-Independent of one-half of The I oil Local Interest to People for se been pending m Congress the signature is now awaiting bill which had gas leasing and finally passed last week and -oral of years was law President Wilson to become a and affect ml gas lands and winch explain Those portions of the law which order to secure the right 0 dnll for off org the stx-ps to be taken in Those by Tunes-Independent Wow The on the public domain are published the old placer-petroleum law and whose interests under people who have oil holdings leasing measure shouldread the new law will be affected by the over"The area but in no case M M to Has two thousand hundred exceed the geologic oil or gas acres within of a producing oil or gas structure claimshall be to any one field leased of this section ant under the provision of such geologic oil when the area six hundred and forstructure exceeds claimant dr his sue tv acres Any this limitation shall cessor subject to right to select and howeverthe have the in this sectionpro-vided receive lease ps for that porton of his claim or excess claims equal to but not in such 4 Law of the three M M to of one-half oil the area of the that a southeastern undeniably is and service gives that of roads It fitted best car knocks on Utah car the hard the receives car 0 said be to proven weather the life long geo-logic structure but not more than M three thousand two hundred acresand All such leases shall be be made leasingbill will become a law as 6oon as it is signed by President Wil-son paid for of royalty to M the the null apd void and under amount law M It renders the old placer-petroleum oil and gas produced except oil or gas be secured by the the title to government oil Jnds cannot used for production of the purposes on terms measure leasing on a royalty asis lost merely such lands claim 01 unavoKiapiy the government oil and of such lease shall be fixed ov to gas lands me execution Those sectionsof the leasing measure referring the apSecrtary of the Interior underPro-vided propriate rules and regulations: as follows: to all like however That as plicant for lease in accordance with claims siUmte within any naval petro-leum OIL AM) GAS wells B rules and regulationsto be prescribed producing reserve the and SEC 13 That the Secretary of the by the Secretary of the Interior thereon shall be leased together witlriB Interior is hereby authorized under the lands leased shall be conformed to an area of land sufficientfor the tipand with the legal the terms and and and in such taken accordance eration thereof upon necessary proper rules M subdivisions of such surveys deposits payment of royalties for past and furegulations as he may prescribe m shall for to cover expense of surveys ture production as herein provided to any applicantqualified under made shall claims be deemed appropriated for that purpose the leasing of No wells this act a prospecting permit which be to this drilled in the land subject the exclusive right for and any excess deposits maymaking tie shall give and sixty repaid to the person or persons provision within six hundred two years to period not exceeding leagl representatives feet of any such lensed well without to such depositor their shall prospect for oil or gas upon not and be for the lessee: Provided Such the leases consent of the exceed two thousand five hundred mresident may however That m term of twenty in years upon a orroyalty sixty acres of land wherein such deposits value his discretion lease the remainder or 5 per centum amount belong to the United States and of payment part of which any upon and geological of the productionofand the annual any such claim are not within any known oil wells m in advance a rental of $1 per such have been drilled of a producing or gas said claimstructure rental paid for any the one year the that the permitee acre event of such leasing fikld upon condition as ant or his successor shall have a preto be credited against the royalties shall begin drilling operationsthewithin the to such lease: And pro permit they accrue for that year with ference right six months from the date of the riglit of renewal as prescribed in section vided further That he may permit and shall within one year from the drilling of additional wells by 17 hereof The permittee shall and after the date ofoil permit todnll also be the entitled to a preference right claimant or his successor within wells for or gas one or more for the of the of six hundred and sixty I five to a remainder limited area of not less than hundred lease depth at for of land in his prospecting permit feet theretofore provided upon deposits feet each Unless valuable and of not less than 12 per centum such conditions as he may shall be discovered royalty terms oil or gas sooner in amount or value of the produe-1' prescribe and shall within two years from date itinH tion and under mink other nnnrl such conditions No claimant for a lease who has permit drill for oil or gas to non of the anufixed wiurt had I for kuvh oil or gas leases in guilty of not less than been as arc any fraud or who an aggregate 'depth of dethis knowledge or reasonable grounds valuable Act the royalty to be determin-posits two thousand feetunless I fixe b who has m‘ shall be cd by bnbdng or or of oil or gas sooner competitive know of any fraud faith shall the and in of the method as Sicictaiy honestly good other acted discovered The Secretary' that the such by I Probe entitled to regulations prescribe: any of the benefits tcrior may if he shall find with may I shall the the have this has been vided That Secretary section unable and acceptance I Upon the delivery this the permittee of the in section proSEC That until "ase as tiy in the time granteit tne peimn the GovernI for to the one quarter all suits by such such lease vided brought any permit for shall inply extend be setI and of the permit area heretofore provided exceeding two ment affecting such lands may time not years the shall for he shall United fled and adjusted in accordance here-in Q as he payof to upon such conditions the and all impounded Stale20 per centum ya with the lands sought m gross moneys Ivxr the Act of August lue 11 '1 Kir such suits or under uas mvuiicu any such applicationand permit are fromni the nil (Thirty-eighth 15 1914 Statutes lands embraced within his surveyed or uusuivejvu mv and sold or otherwise othuwiscdisposed disposed at Large 708) shall be paid prior to filing his application permit permit held page shall by of him for sale or other over to the parties entitled thereto niioh nnt or pvrillll inf for JOT imuLC nuiu of and case conflicting claimants form acdisposition reasonably compact the Secretary a leases under this section 01 or-u 10 That all permits ano cording to the legal suomvisions to lands containing oil or gas of the Interior is authorized the public-land surveys if the land be buses of them ued under the nrovisions of and in approximately mode grant leases to one or moreAll surveyed an IKIVl HU WV or the this deemed just leases Act shall be subject to the condias shall be vnnlnrmmlnr trnpf iflength that inure to the benefit ion thjit nn no wells snui hereunder shall tract the wp s unuvu km! Im rm Hnmirvpved 111 ftirn unil ''J ithin two hnudred feet of any of the of the claimant and all persons on or e of the claiming lands so pershall prior to Septembir 11919lease width and if he outer boundaries one-half times its leased by contract the unless the through or under him their to be erected upon mitted or cause interests patented or the 11 or otherwise as permit is sought a lands have been land for which to the four feet thereto vested in private subject however not less otherwise appear monument than mav and there and to the further condiuoa limitation as to area acreage high at some conspicuous place owners same the provided for claimant in shall post a permittee or lessee andwU m as is and notice in writing that on min-tbat this section: Provided That no claimant said monument stating conducting his explorations on or near in such all reasonable pie interest for permit will be ring operations use acquiring any an application 1919 shall of oil or gas thirty dnvs date of to prevent waste lands since September nations in the nmd within notice the after of the Jesting the on tr lam or a lease thereon under this said developed secure name drilled by h m section: no and iff through wells Provided further That the date of the notice water the oil sands or oilbearing stiita b ase or leases under this section shall such a general descriptionof the land of the oi the be granted or inure to any' person as destruction or injury to be covered by such permit by the of lor a greai-c? from deposits Violations provisions sociation or corporation to tnu distances mo Terence tn courses nnd rnnrRpq uisiunvv the this ff section shall constitute aggregate area or acreage than for mon'iment and such other natural ob-1 tor the forfeiture of the pennt or maximum in this section provided as the validity valTsonablv identify monuments be enforced through appro-ing SEC 18a That That whenever tne r Uw land stat-!he lease toproceedings in of of placer courts on-shall the any gas or petroleum thereof in acres amount the Pvr'v'i period of claim under preexisting law to land inc vi thirty days potent jurisdiction snail ihirmff during IV Ih nil nnnnnrouriated all u"aPir°p"'1 eirbraced in the Executive order order of Tko! That maridng and posting eve 1'7 SEC following such situated within withdrawal issued September 27 190!' be entitled to a preference right over deposits of oil or gas has been the land so the geologic structure of a or hereafter be drawn for known may to permit others the unen-in in United question on behalf of the judicial The ducing ml or gas Arid and applicant shall with in tt red lands departmental or after containing the same not States any the receiving perninctv days proceedings' lease President is hereby may be mit murk each of the corners of the subject to preferential time within twelve authorized at any this Act months after the aproval of to direct the compromise and settlement of in controversy upon any such and shall post filiations to qualified applicants traced on the ground hundred a such and conditions as may b place the lamb eas not cvceeding m terms upon has out by an notice that suc'h perlnit which sha agreed upon to be carried ben forty acres and in tractsand of land a or division exceed in length tiso one-hii exchange or division of descrintion of the lands not granted and be of the proceeds operation That in times them widththe such leases byto the covered thereby: Provided 19 who on payment SEC That any person upon the Territory of Alaska prospecting conditioned 1919 of such October bona fic(e ssee bonus as may be be was a nermits not more than five in number as may or claimant of oil or gas lands cepted and of such royalty be granted to any qualifhd applisuch shall not b initiated the claim while can't fixed m lease which under for periods not exceeding four than 12 or centum in amount lands were notand withdrawnand from oilhad actual drilling operations shall less value of the perproduction the years and location entry who gas begin' within two years from date to or of not be previously performed all- acts under payment m advance of rental there-hvndred nermit tJand oil and gas wells shallfive valid then to less than per acre per anftum existing laws necessary depth of not less than continuance of the locations thereof except to make had unless after during the paidcontinuance feet valuable deposits after for any and one shall be lease the rental year upon which discovery of oil or gas sooner discoverthe be credited not bet n made prior to the passage of against the royalties a ed within three years from date of Act and for that Lea this who has performed work yiar depth of1 they beaccrue fot permit and to an aggregate feet for a expended on or for the benefit of unless period of twenty years or less than two thousand shall les such locations an amount equal in the shall rightin the gas with the preferential valuable deposits of oil or four of for each the $250 locationif aegreate same for successive discoveredwithin years see to renew be sooner such of ten na-further application therefor shallthe be made date of permit: And provided periods years upon Irom within six months from passage apsonable terms and conditions as of may That in said Territory theright entitled the of this Act shall be to prospecting be prescribed by the Secretary preference plicant shall tohave permits thereon upon the same Interior unless othenvise provided by Permit for land idenand over others ot conditions and limitations and Irw at the time of the expiration terms tified by monuments temporary as other permits provided such periods as to acreage this notice nested on or'near the same for Act for in or where any Wheneverthe average daily produe marking six months following such oil well shall not heretofore made sue1 tion of any exceed such person has receiving and posting and upon entitled the he shal' be to a of ten barrels per day Secretary o discovery he shall the permit mark corners there on under such the Interior is authorized to reduce leime terms as the the in permit the upon the tract described production when Secretary of the Interior may substantial nwnuroyalty on futuru wells the ground with be cribe for receiving in his judgment the can not unless provided after Ihcnts within one year successfully operated upon the royalty in section 18 hereof: Provided That such permit That such prospecting permit establishing fixed in th? lease The The provisions where nrovisions unon land - U v shall to all within known naraeranh apply on granted upon any of the becreury oi vihf tn tbf satisfaction geologic structure of a producing oil that valuable di posits o and uas leases made under this Act the That upon rellnouishment or gas field the royalty to be fixed oil or eas have been discovered withSEC 18 all in to the in the any lease thereafter granted of ' in the limits of the land embraced in United States filed six months af the oil or gas shall be eial within produced except oil or the permittee enLand Office of used for of the the this Act gas production purposes on titled tv a' lease for one-fourth ter approval of lost: Provided title claimed ar the claim or unavoidably prospecting perperright and interest embraced embraced in the prospecting That the provisions o' continuously since prior y however mitProvided That the permittee possessed 1910 by the bis this section shall not apply to lands shall be granted July 3 claimant or hi? lease for as much (July and sixty of saMi predecessor in interest under the prelands reserved for the use of the Navy: Provided as one hundred ami law to however That no claimant for if exiting placerland mining any o there be that number of seres there a permit or lease who has been guilty The area to or gas bearing upon which oil within the pernrt of any one or more or fraud or who had knowledge be permittee sha1! has been drilled selected by the in the of or reasonable grounds to know be in embraced any compact form and if surveyed gas wells to discoveiy acted honestly to be legal subdiviExecutive order of withdrawal issued fraud or who has not describedbv the if and not good faith shall be entitled September 27 1909 within and in sions of the public-land surveys of this section to be unsurveyed surveyed by the any naval petroleum reservetheand upon to any of the benefits as royalty to United Government at the expenseof the appayment (Continuedon page three) of kind what matter whether No -dividuals road muddy conditions- sandy or I cut up- job daily stamps dependable most as the on kind the it that and always is rendering service -grant Buick the of faithful the sturdiest car the on a market a I will You Let us want talk to this new car you about spring a Buick the a ' 1 zxl-'kn In-1 COMPANY GARAGE s I MOAB Iro-permittee I Buick 5 Grand for Dealers Juan San and Counties 1 pre-Whether e n r ' I a 1 1 I n - I 4 1 -In 1 We f 1 i - - I - ' - 1 1 t 4- I ‘ 1 the Carry amous i a i 1 1 anceapplicant 66 HEISER J i t re-‘to groundsSS h Xrnl -Cm Harness Saddles i and i-riate 1 ‘ 1 j pro-Jentikd I Bridles a a ar-conspicuous 1 Absolutely the Best Our new the on Market- f i i a 1 1 occupant ac-mav a spring I and sample summer a dX ' 1 I a 1 book discovery men's for and boys' i I t e clothes is at hand Let us measure ' for an BORN M clothes Get suit of reliable quality a a ! 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