| Show a to a Clea e s Way y for fir Utah lt Oil Devel Bill 1 1 IrrO Of S' S St t i iR R Public Land Commit Commit- Ek tion Declared High High- evocable to Industry I Ili ills a and d Other States li raC r Ira C Tichenor GIRL L action taken in ington today insures 1 Iy an immediate devel devel- o f a number of the oil 1 f Utah as well as anin an anthe anIn In the activity of the oil of tho rho country as a a. a whole use public lands committee d da a favorable report of the oil leasing bill after Matlon g gf the section authorizing dent Brit ent to take over any or allis all aU tS is engaged in prospecting domain whenever public required It aion was taken on an the adI ad- ad I resident Wilson Nilson It is stated commandeer section section- was in the bill without having been to the president for his I n jion lion Uon ber bel of large oil companies operators have been promising oil lands ind Ind in ini d In i a number of ot instances work Vork ork has been performed ns then stopped pending jonal oval 1 l decision on sever several l pro- pro the khe commandeering section y a this undesirable feature a and d several other materially changed it is isy y d c e n that active devee devel- devel work will bo be inaugurated at several several p big interests and that thatIs r field feld s tt will ill enter the rho Utah change which a few days ago was in inthe the Is relie provision of the thc oils oil s 5 ng ng measure on which a awas report was teas ordered today VISION revision now reads d ed d That any claimant who person or through his pre pre- jn in i interest entered upon 1 lands mands embraced within the order ferder of dated r 7 1009 1909 prior to July Tuly 3 the purpose bt prospecting gas as and thereupon com com- Development development work thereon after prosecuted such work I IV cry V to ry of oil or gas shall be bet t toil lease from the tho United producing oil or br gas well resulting c from such work worl Fatty ralty alty of not less than one- one If all the oil and gas prod pro- pro d saved together area rea of land sufficient for I i- i thereof but without the rho drill ill any other or additional ereon tereon i eon except as may be bo ber boy r y the I president and no it II be drilled on ort orf lands sube sub sub- tte e terms of this pct ct within Jot of t any suet leased well f the lire consent of the lessee lessen provided further that where dent ent nt shall shan determine that It on page 8 I LEASING BILL STRIPPED I Continued from page 1 Is to the public interest he may lease the remainder of any such suds claim to the claimant upon such I terms and condition as he may prescribe prescribe pre pre- scribe and provided further that I all such claimants shall pay in such manner as the president may determine deter deter- mine to the United States an amount equal to not not- less than the value when produced of ot one-eighth one of all the oil and gas already produced and saved from such well or wells and provided further that no claimant whose well or wells may may be involved in any suit brought by the United States or in an any application for patent shall be entitled to a lease under this proviso uless less within six months after approval of this act he shall relinquish to the United States all rights claimed by him in such suit or application unless the president president president dent shall further extend such time No person who has been guilty of 1 any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of any I fraud or who has not acted honestly and in good faith shall shaJI be entitled to a lease under the provisions of oC this act The oil leasing bill as reported d today was framed to settle the longstanding disputes over government oil lands in California caused by the action of Presidents Taft and Roosevelt in shutting shutting shut shut- I ting off of from operation these lands anI an on which private enterprise had invested I millions The bill provides bona fide operators I working on the lands at the time they are closed will be allowed to continue if they pay the government one-eighth one I royalty for all oil that has been or willbe will willbe willbe be taken Out ut Under the old law the operators paid the government nothing the position being that the speculators should be given all the oil because of oC their efforts to increase the supply The lands the new bill provides will willbe willbe willbe be leased in lots of acres to one person and not more than acres to a corporation |
