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Show OIL LOCATIONS 1 BREAK Mil III JIEl'nPOI Twenty-seven Applicants File on Ground at Junction Junc-tion of Green and Grand Rivers in North San Juan )D REARING out in a new spot D on the map of Utah, twenty-seven twenty-seven applicants for oil prospecting prospect-ing permits appeared just before thiiclosingliourjitlbcJaudpt. flee yesterday afternoon and took up 70.000 acres. They ar locating Just east of the Junction of the Green and Grand rivers In the northern part of Ban Juan county, in townships town-ships 30 and 31 sooth, range IS eaat. In a territory not heretofore Invaded by the ubiquitous oil hunter. WILD 8P0T. Thla la one of the wild and rough portions of the state and Just why this sudden activity there Is not explained in the absence of any geological report re-port heretofore tending to show that this part of Utah contains a likely oil atructure. Locutors, however, having plastered most of the rest of the map with their applications are now, perforce, per-force, driven far afield, evidently In the belief that any ground will become valuable when the coming oil boom gets well under way. LARGE TOTAL. With approximately 2300 applications filed in the Ka.lt Lake land district alone, .nearly 7.000.000 acres have now been taken up for oil within a year, to say nothing of the applications in the Vernal land district and the teases on state lands and private holdings. Oilmen pronounce It the greatest movement for the securing of oil lands in the history of the United States. So great has been the flood of applications applica-tions received at Washington, most of which have come from Utah, that the land office at the capital Is still far behind in Ita granting of permits. Out of the 2100 filed here, hardly more than 300 have yet been granted. |