Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 23 | Maximum Output of Oil is Urged by O'Donnell

i MAXIMUM OUTPUT i OF OIL OlLIS IS URGED I ODONNELL O'DONNELL BY Ii 1 i I Finds California i J s Producers Willing to toI J Aid Government I Thomas A l ODonnell O'Donnell director of oC pro pro- ro- ro for the oil administration Is re- re 1 turning to Washington after successful successful- Cul- Cul r completing his work In rn C California f J Director ODonnell O'Donnell went to Call California Corn 1 bout out a month ago o with the comet commission 1 rom rom Mark ark Requa administrator a of oC the F a oll 1011 it division dl of oC the Cu fuel 1 administration remain there until whatever needed r r Adjustment o in tho the operation of oC the Cal Calif Call Call- ornia oil fields to bring them to their t- t and dis- dis highest point of oC development de dc settled should be he satisfactorily 1 The production director considers that thal M r the situation there is In such condition L to r that he could return to tn Washington 1 l Mr O 0 ODoni ODon Doni Don Don- r There Is no question said i tt nell Dell before leaving lea Los Ios Angeles that the till i Q oil men of oC southern California arc dolnEy doing dolnE y their best bet to provide the government Jo be absolute essential in the conI con con- with that I t duct durt of oC the war war fuel fuel oil There Is not notI r understanding here o of the only complete I and at a aI 1 vital needs need of oC the Jo government nt 10 I t patriotic disposition to supply them If ItIs It Itis is humanly possible but also a complete s comprehension of oC the problems which the oil administration must race face ace and a n t readiness to help solve sol them business Here was is to t Impress My r particular upon the claimants to to lands In h. Inthe the oil reserves eR that nothing can cani be bethe stand in the way of bringing bring i 11 to bring oil production to the m max California kin ing These claims have been pending their adjustment was not nota nott and for years cars of oC such supreme t a 1 matter for Cor demand and the began an until the war I level le reached ched Us its present highest oil Wl history Conditions became to that the government o could not aCford afford arford ar- ar such that hat a foot Coot of oC available oil land ford remain Idle and undeveloped eloped no rio should matter what the rea reasons ons actuating the situation situation- found Coune Happily ap as rs I knew I should I to todo todo todo the oil oU claimants ready and willing do thc their r share sharo In closing the long lone quarrel quarrel quarrel rel with the national government over o these disputed lands All Alt of oC them c ex expressed x pressed themselves as willing willing to lo meet the he government 10 on a any ny ba basis ls that could p pos pos- and to conI consent con con- construed AS fair sIb sIbbo bo be the development of oC the disputed to sent ent would lands under any arrangement that I actually compel production at a loss not Louis P I Sinclair president of the Independent Inde- Inde Oil Producers' Producers exchange e with withA pendent Los Ios Angeles Angels oil another f A C Derrick promptly a agreed eed to go 0 to lo AN W ash ash- higton operator and confer conCer with Mr IU ReQua with l the th members of the hou house c and senate nate of oC the nav navy Daniels and with Secretary department and endeavor to reach each an agreement Their success Is written into the mineral leasing bill which h ch Is s IIO now pending and nn satisfactorily adjusts adjusts ad arl- jU justs tR the question Of OC labor conditions In the oil fields ODonnell O'Donnell declined to speak he be her could properly felt saying In h ho he the that r referred to the tho patriotism m of or both op operators op- op and workmen