Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-25 | Page 2 | [Illegible] Claims [Illegible] to Oil [Illegible]

ClAIM PE Qa 10 0 It missioner missioner S Spry pry M Makes aces 1 ling ding f Affecting Thouds Thou- Thou I ids ds s of Applicants Under P S. S Mineral Lea Leasing ing Law I IMPORTANT ruling by I. I United States Laud Land Connner Commer Commer Com Com- mer ner William Villiam Spry which I approximately mf of f prospective oil lands in in i iuan uan ian uan county has just been made Ing to Ralph S. S Kelley chief mad of Idaho alt division of the field XA permit to prospect for oil und and originally located under the l law w has been granted under sec- sec I of the mineral land leasing act ir fr s permit of the kind to be is- is this state It Is granted to of Blanding Lehi Lehl Jones l lar ar City K Jones of Bluff and th thirty other applicants and em- em 60 acres in m townships 42 ranges manges I 17 and 18 east p is the result of s started by the field division There are twenty five lions in all aU involved s oNS OF SECTION r section 19 it is provided that who rho located placer ground be- be I withdrawal acts and who on tOU 1911 was still occupying the ther r claiming l iming it it and who prior to toI aging I ng act of February 25 1920 ine no i worth of representation r nt the claim will have a prefer- prefer to to a p permit on that ground sp poet ct for oil oU where no discovery been made It was pro- pro tl that t the applications under sec- sec iad to be in before August 25 25 md pd In n the instances referred to were so made the lands under un considerate te e Just south of the San Juan md In- In Inthe the the- Plute flute reservation It Is tood Lood the applicants who have ret re- re t their heir permit have a contract he Carter Oil on company that drill- drill rations should begin as soon as mit nit was received In that case aid in land office circles It preen pren pre- pre en n immediate activity in that where v ere oil on is already known to toT toi tona i na T a number of wells that were during ring the excitement of 1908 li CLAIMS hat ia t time more than placer Were located in the San Juan Ids ds and were recorded at Mon- Mon Withdrawal orders were made president in 1910 and 1914 but butof butof butof of these claims were held b by ginal locators and represented year year ear to year in the belief that J for the ground would ultimate ultimate- That question Is now ifor the he department and it is ot patents for a large part of the jan uan county lands will issue with- with sh hort rt time or as soon as final finall l' l are i-e i submitted inactivity activity is anticipated in the thema uan Tuan ma fields as there are more tv five twenty five nty-five wells wens down in that t t the present time containing I ft s prophesied that it will be the oil field fild in the h state