Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-02-04 | Page 8 | $3,000,000 Oil Land is at Stake at Grass Creek

OIL LAND LANDt t IS AT STAtE STAKE AT GRASS CREEK State of Wyoming Acts Acts' to o Protect Its Title to Eighty Acres CHEYENNE Wyo Feb 4 A A bill has been Introduced in the Wyoming legislature by Representative W. W E. E Hardin of ot Lander which has an ImM bearing on the interests of or the state of ot Wyoming in litigation in- in eighty acres of or land In the theeart I heart eart of ot the Grass Creek oil field which It is estimated Is worth more than The title to this 1 eighty acre tract is claimed by both I the state and the federal government Some months hgo go the tho federal government government govern govern- 1 ment asserted Its claim through action I In court intended to compel to vacate lessees holding possession of the land under a lease granted by the state The decision was adverse to the federal federal fed fed- eral government but the matter of or orl l title has not been Leen settled and this question still is In court Representative Hardins Hardin's bill house 1 of bill No 44 is designed to confirm the action of or state officials in making an appearance in the litigation on behalf of or the state It provides That the action taken b by Governor Frank L. L t Houx and Attorney General D. D A. A Preston in appearing for the protection protection tion of the interests of or the state of r f. f Wyoming in the district court of the r United States for tor the district of or orV V Wyo Wyoming o ming in that certain case brought by bythe bythe the United States of or America against II H. S. S RIdgley and others and in submitting submitting sub sub- on behalf behal of or the state of or Wyoming to the jurisdiction of ot the courts to which the said cause may maybe maybe be transferred Is hereby ratified I confirmed and approved