Show Oil Shale Plant Not Included in inAn Expense on Claim ClaimAn An Important ruling of the tle U. U S. S commissioner of the general land office which will have a big influence Influence influence ence on the future cf tile thE shale oil industry in th of ot oil 01 operators operators oper oper- ha has be been n received by hy SurI Surveyor Sur Stir General I. I C. C fur for Ut Utah h The decision provides that I m money mey a a. plant for the extraction of oil from shale cannot be Included h in inthe the amount rie necessary essar es- es sar sary to be exp expended on each ach claim for tor the e ot a patent pat pat- ent eat The rhe decision was handed down by Commissioner Clay Tallman In answer anser t to a question from Edgar T. T U U. U.- U. S. S mineral surveyor surveyor sur sur- bf f Roosevelt in the Uinta basin The Inq inquiry was sent to Mr Thores n and forwarded to Washington In his communication n Mr HarmSton HarmSton Harm- Harm Ston said that an association with Roosevelt Roos velt held two groups of oil oll shale claims aggregating aggregating gating acres taken up under tinder placer pla er mining locations prior to the passage of the he mineral land leasing a trig bill February 25 25 1920 He declared that th the association planned the construction ot ofa a plant for forthe forthe forthe the extraction of shale oil and de- de deI I sider aider to know if it this money could be applied under patent expenditure expenditure expenditure expendi expendi- ture for one group or both In case patents were applied for tor Commissioner T Tallman replied that he fall failed d to see s e how the value of- of of-a of f a reduction pl plant nt can be applied at as a patent expenditure on any of the claims I Expenditure on or for the bene- bene a 11 mining C n b bG be y applied applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied as as' patent expenditure only when made In fn connection with an Improvement which has to do with the excavation or r extraction x r 1 of t th the th mineral from the ground or which I aids or tends fends to aid in such excavation exea- exea or r extraction n. n The Ther r reduction duc- duc tion plant nt treats the mineral miner l after J It has been extracted from the ground and comes within the same category as a lime kiln on a limestone lime Ume- stone placer c considered d by the de department department de de- In Schirm Carey Schirm Carey andS and S other placers 37 L. L D. D where such was held not av available as patent expenditure It Is therefore there here fore necessary to do worth of ot work on each of ot the claims inthe in inthe inthe the abstraction of ot the mineral I |