Show OI RUSH 7 LIKE YUKON DAYS DAYSI 1 I Signing of Lease Bill Was Signal for Stampede April T. T Hundreds T. Hundred of of oil on claims embracing thousands of f acrea acres of S land It-ad along alone the Alaskan coast cout from 1 Mt lt St St. on the boundary line of Yukon territory to the th Alaska peninsula in the west have here been staked by locators locator in the few week weeks since President Wilson signed the coal and oil land leasing measure according to report reports from Seward Cordova Cor- Cor Cor Cor- dova Anchorage and otter other cities in the North News New of the th bills bill's signing eagerly ear waited awaited for weeks started a stampede which old timers said ald rivaled the gold rushes of ot earlier days Seward stain stam- peders peden Hocked flocked to the oil re regions ona of the Kena peninsula to cold old bay on Shell- Shell strait and to other districts along the southwestern coast From Prom Cordova th the rush v.- v. was wa's s In the direction of Katalla Katalla Ka- Ka talla taU and at the bases bues of the Bering Berine- and Malaspina glaciers Elaborate preparations had been made mado to relay word that the bill had been signed At KodIak locators were noti noti- tied fled by wireless from Seward and left In gaa raa boats that had been chartered for weeks bound for the oil regions Cordovans Cordo Cordo- I vans also had kept high powered launches under charter that no time might be lost In making locations While many indications Indications' of rich oil de deposits de- de posits had been found along alone the coast the only development of ot any importance had been at Katalla where an English company drilled Into oil an 1 secured a fractional claim ot of about thirty four acres Discouraged by conservation orders order from Washington the company after alter pending expending Pending nearly nearly half hale a million dollars In drilling and development abandoned work ork and sold put Out to a a. holding corn com I party any A number or of wells upon the one patented claim h have ve been producing oil since 1912 1911 the product being chiefly com I dIe dis by fishing boats |