Show 0 NEW BOOKS RECEIVED 0 manual for the oil and gas industry by ralph arnold J L darnell and other experts has just been issued from the press of john willey sons inc fourth ave new york and can he be obtained from the mining review the book has pages 6 by 9 inches and sells for one of the purposes of the volume is to assist the taxpayer in correctly and expeditiously preparing his federal tax returns on oil and gas property the authors endeavor has been to anticipate all questions that might be asked regarding the law and regulations to this end the latter have been amplified when this was deemed necessary the book consists of three parts part I 1 deals directly with the law and regulations ions as they relate to the oil and gas industry part 11 II takes up the question of depreciation and is included to assist the taxpayer in standardizing his classifications of equipment and to offer a suggestion as to relative rates of depreciation for different types of physical property part III consists of descriptions of methods of estimating underground oil reserves especially by means of production curves and tables covering many of the principal oil pools and fields in the united states |