Show ti io M I Os DUE f AllAND LANDS irA PARTIES nf READY I I To Tn ENTER Nl ON O R RESTORED TO D DI I I DOMAIN 1 Will Cause Cuse Expenditure di ur I of Large Sums in n Oil and Co Coal I. I Areas Lying j Within We Western rn Stat States 1 I W WITH TH President Wils Wilson n sign sig signing v ing the mineral lands Jand I leasing bill today there al are e many man many who ar are arC not inactive and arid have prepared to ta take e immediate advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of ot the bill So many application applications 1 tion Hons have be been n received at t th the i local l I f r Iland land office for oil and coal land leases j I ji Il I i l that Register Gould 1 Blakely wired j ji I 1 I It i t Washington for Instructions as to th the I II I procedure that must be followed folIo T Judg Judging dg I ing from immediate indications hundreds hun bun I of ot thousands of ot dollars will be turned loose immediately jn n Utah I especially for oil prospecting Ung I I In addition t the Vernal Vern l Virgin I II j I San Juan Tuan and Malad fields in this I state the great Sap San Rafael Ratael Swell I tract lying mostly in Emery c county approximately sixty miles long by forty miles mUes wide will be thrown open I BOOM DAYS TO RETURN This tract tract was withdrawn from I entry s several veral years ago on the opinion of ot government engineers that it held II the best geological indications of or oil oilI oilin oilin in the state This country is traversed traversed traversed tra tra- I versed by a series af l folds which characterize oil producing producing pro pro- areas Th The district lies to the I east ast of ot th the Wasatch mountains south of ot SUnnyside and Price an and within I reach of ot the Denver Rio Grande railroad In Wyoming and California I J expect to see a reenactment of the scenes of ot the Oklahoma bo boomer mer days dais said Ralph S S. Kelley chief of the field di division division division di- di vision of ot the land office There are vast tracts of land where oil is known I to evist in both those states and with Ith the signing of ot the bill there will Undoubtedly undoubtedly un Un- Un I be a grand rush to pick out the choice lo loc locations first In In these states in many instances companies I have been taking oil from withdrawn I lands They went ort oct the land Y with without t out due warrant in the first place and I following the action of ot the courts they thoy have been paying a royalty to the government until the matter could be I settled by legislation which is accomplIshed accomplished accomplished by this le leasing sin bill hili ADMINISTRATION ON PROBLEM I I There is also considerable specula specula- speculation I tion in federal circles In advance of I any definite instructions from tram Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington as to which department will fall the duty of administering the leasing I bill It might be dele delegated to the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau reau of ot mines the g- g geological department department depart depart- ment meat or 01 the field division of ot the land office It is Intimated that the field division will probably be selected for tor the work since applications for leases leasE's must be made through h the land office Moreover Moreover More More- over this department has be been n exercising exercising exercising exer exer- Jurisdiction in recard to oil Continued on pa pare pace 3 PARTIES READY REDY I Continued from page 1 F lands where companies have been taking taking tak tak- tk- tk ing oil oi from withdrawn withdraw lands and payIng paying pay- pay Ing royalty In escrow f Should the field division be selected It will wi necessitate an Increase In tho the force under Mr Kelley Keley In Salt Lake since he will wi have supervision over overs this s state and most of Idaho |