Show SETS CBS r r J n ON OIL ml EXTENSIONS Information Is of Vital Interest Interest In In- terest to Utah TW O YEARS GIVEN Letter etter Has Approval of f Interior Department t 1 El Eli F F. F. F Ta Taylor lo r register o othe oj at the United States land office has ha re received revived re- re from William Spry commis- commis stoner Ioner oner of ot the general lan land office at at Washington a supplemental clr circular cir cir- ular cular letter giving ing Instructions relative rela rela- Ive tive to the extension of ot time on oil and nd gas permits under the act of ot April 5 1928 The The Information which was s stint nt out on the approval of if the secretary of ot the interior Is la declared to be bg bEr of vital interest st In utah Utah ier on account qt l soli ll a activity h ty In the state The The text of the tion follows B By act of ot congress approved April 5 6 1926 the secretary of ot the interior was authorized to grant grant extensions eXtensIons extensions ex eX- tensions of at time for an additional period of at tw two y years years on on oil all and gas prospecting permits Issued under the Uie act of at February 25 1920 This act applied al also o to the territory of ot Alaska and the act reads as follows fol lows FULL TEXT OF ACT Be It enacted by the the senate senate and house of representatives of at th the United States of ot America in con con- gress press assembled That any oil on or ot gas gaa prospecting permit under under- the act entitled An act to promote the pining mInIng of coal Ph phosphate oil oil all shale gas and sodium Odium on the public domain aln Approved ved February ebru ry 25 io 1920 or r extended Jm under the the act net entitled en en- en titled An act to authorize the secretary sec sec- of at the Interior to grant extensions ex ex- ex tensions of time under oil and gas permits and for other purposes approved January 11 1922 may be extended by the secretary of dt the interior for an additional period of ot two years ears if It he shall find that the has been unable with the exercise of ot reasonable diligence to begin drilling operations or to drill wells of ot the depth and within the time required by existing l law W or has drilled welts wells of or the depth and within the time required b by existing exist exist- ing law and has failed tailed to discover discover oil or gas and desires to prose prosecute ute further t eX exploration Sec 2 Upon application to the they secretary of the interior and sub to valid intervening rights and to the pro provision viRIon of section 1 of ot this act an any permit which has already expired because of ot lack of ot authority au au- nu- nu under existing la law laV V to make malte further extensions may be ex tended for tor a period of ot two years froth fro the date of at the passage o of this act t J YEAR TWO LIMIT FILED Under this act extensions of time may be granted for tor a period of not exceeding two years in addition ad ad- to the time heretofore authorIzed authorized au au- au- au except those eases cases falling specifically within section 2 6 of df this act net which are arc limited to extensions of or two years from the date of the act Applications for extensions hereunder hereunder hereunder here here- under should toll follow ow in form and substance the applicable provisions of circulars 50 L. L D. D and 1041 51 L L. L D D. You will give the widest publicity publicity pub pub- to the ab above ve regulations that tha may be possible without expense to the United States |