Show IMPORTANT RULING AFFECTING OIL LAND prospecting where commercial oil is discovered on land embraced in a prospecting permit granted under section 13 of the oil leasing act and other applications for prospecting permits have been filed for lands in the immediate vicinity and such other applications have not been granted prior to the discovery of oil such unapproved applications shall be immediately rejected according to a ruling by the interior department made on the where applications for adjoining lands have been filed and prospecting permits have been issued by the secretary of the interior even though drilling operations have not begun under those permits the permits will stand notwithstanding the discovery of oil and those holding the permits will be allowed to proceed as though no oil had been discovered in the immediate vicinity whenever oil is struck in commercial quantity by anyone operating under a prospecting permit a representative of the geological survey is at once sent to the well to make an investigation and ae determine termine the area which probably will be productive and this area will then be designated as proved oil area the size of the area designated varies according to the geological formation and other natural conditions which the geologist takes into consideration and his recommendation ommen dation is accepted by the land office in designating an area surrounding a producing well as a known or proved oil area there is no standard size of such designations |