| Show TO PATENT OIL OR GAS CLAIMS the department of the interior has is sued instructions to registers and receivers of U S land offices under the act of august 25 1914 permitting agreements between the secretary of the interior and cartain applicants for mineral patents for disposition of oil or of gas the instructions read as follows the act of congress approved august 25 1914 public permits the entering into agreements between the secretary of the interior and applicants for patent for lands under the mining laws which are valuable for oil or gas for the disposition of the oil or gas produced from said lands pending final determination of the title thereof it will be observed that the privileges granted under this act are conferred only on those who have already filed or may hereafter file applications for patent for oil or gas fields included in any order of withdrawal any mineral applicant for such lands desiring to avail himself of the privileges of this act must file in the proper local land office a petition in duplicate addressed to the secretary of the interior requesting consideration of this case with a view to the entering into an agreement for the disposition of the products of the lands involved in his application pending final determination of the title this petition should be under oath and should be corroborated by two persons it should show the facts upon which the petitioner relies to bring himself within the provision of the act among other things it should contain complete statements on the following points whether the application is based upon locations made by the applicant himself or upon those taken by assignment and purchase the date when work leading to the discovery of oil or gas was initiated and or of what such work consisted and date when drilling was begun date when oil or gas was actually discovered initial production from wells now producing present production from such wells whether wells are flowing or being pumped if pumped how long has each well been on pump Is well being pumped singly or in r combination if latter in what units present cost of production per barrel of oil and per thousand cubic feet of gas expenditures from initiation of work looking to discovery of oil or gas to date of discovery thereof and nature of such expenditures expenditures from date of discovery of oil or gas to date of petition petition must be accompanied by clear and accurate plat showing location of claim by section township and range and also showing location of all producing dry anci ana abandoned wells on claim or claims covered by petition and location of such wells with reference to wells on adjoining prop artles giving names numbers or other designations of all such wells so far as known and indicating whether wells are oil or gas wells whether dry or abandoned wells shown on plats have been plugged and manner in which plugged manner in which contents of overlying water strata if any have been excluded from bore of well and depth at which such strata encountered gravity of oil whether water is being produced with oil what percentage of water is being produced has there been any increase in percentage of water produced if so when was such increase noted and what is amount thereof whether casing head gas is utilized if so in what manner what proceeds it if any are derived whether production is now being disposed of in what manner if not now being disposed of manner in which production was previously disposed of cost of transportation and other items entering into placing the production on the market market value of oil and gas at date of execution of petition the data required herein should be given in detail and the items of expenditure or cost should be detailed it must be distinctly understood that the filing of an application by a mineral applicant cant entitled to do so will not in any way bind him to accept such terms as may be offered by the government after a consideration of the matter but that said petition is to be deemed only a presentation of the facts in the case to the government with a view to its making a proposition as authorized under the terms of the act you are directed to cause a copy of the these se instructions to be furnished to all persons or corporations shown by your records to have filed applications for mineral patents for lands valuable as oil or gas di and nd to take like action with regard to anyone hereafter filing such an application for patent upon the filing of such a petition in your office you will assign it the same serial number as that carried by the application for patent and immediately transmit transit it by separate letter to this office |
