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Show WOULD OPEN POTASH AND OIL TERRITORY Secretary Lane Urges Unlocking of Treasure Lands by Government to Aid in Preparation for Defense. WASHINGTON, "Feb. 10. Secretary Lane today addressed a letter to Chairman Chair-man Myers of the senate public lands committee suggest ing legislat ion to enable en-able the government to unlock resources of petroleum and potash now confined on lands withdrawn from public entry. Some (i, OniOim a-'ros of oil land, the secretary said, are in such status that no ('V can he bored inxn tiicm and onlv private lands are producing. The l;uget depOMt of potasn. fundamental in msking explosives, also is withdrawn. Secretary Lane suggested that the passage of the mineral land leasing bill would unlock those resources or that there be legislation to permit t he government gov-ernment to bore wells on oil lands. He made his suggestions primarily in the interest of preparation for national defense. |