| Show TITLE TO OIL LANDS Issue Will Be Made Distinctly Dis-tinctly With U P ZEVELY PREPARING REPORT Special Inspector Sent to Make Investigation In-vestigation Between Rnilvay and Claimants to Oil Discoveries Near Evanston Will Submit Elaborate Report Fourteen Hundred Pages of the Document Completed Several Sev-eral Yseks Yet Before Any Definite Knowledge Can Be Had 0 = TRIBUNC SPECIAL Washington D C Sept Secretary Hitchcock received a supplementary report re-port today from Mr J C ievely I the special I Inspector I who was sent out lo make an investigation Into the controversy contro-versy between iheUnlonPacific railway and the claimants to tho extensive oil discoveries near Evanston Wye I Mr JJcvcly slalcs that he has prepared pre-pared over 1100 pages of his report on I the facts secured by him and has several I sev-eral hundred more pages In course of preparation It If understood lie has found that the weight of testimony goes to show the oil find In a genuine one and that an Issue must be made distinctly dis-tinctly with the railroad company as to the title to the lands Some of tho claimants have bored down over 1100 feet and claim that tluro Is even Indication that they have as great a discovery as any yet made In the Western States It will be sxjveral weeks beforo any definite knowledge can be had In regard to the actual facts By some It Is claimed that the Evanston Evan-ston find Is I as Important as that at Beaumont Tex Neither the General land ofilce nor Secretary Hitchcock Is ready yet to announce any verification of this broad estimate of the region |
