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Show Report Indicates Oil Leasing Dominates Western Utah Scene A tremendous surge of oil and gas lease applications in western Utah were filed with the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment this past week, continuing continu-ing the high interest in leasing activity near the Utah-Nevada slate line according to Carlton Stowe. minerals specialist w ith the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Geological iV Mineral Survey. The lease play added over 8.14. MO acres during the week, primarily concentrated in the area west of Milford and reaching as far north-northwest past the Goshute Indian Reservation in the vicinity of Ibapah in southwestern Tooele County. Largest of the recent filings were by R. C. Hoefle of Billings. His applications cover cov-er 210.100 acres south west ol Sevier Lake spreading through the Wall Wah Mountains and vicinity about 15 miles west of Milford and throughout 7 townships south of Garrison along the Utah-Nevada state line. Some 58.000- acres were filed by Trend Resources Ltd., Denver, in the Ibapah area north of the Goshute Indian Reservation and north of Garrison along the state line. Earl Cranston, Billings, filed on 124.375 acres southeast of the Indian Reservation in the Trout Creek area. Others active in the oil and gas lease play, notes Mr. Stowe, include Dave Reed. Dallas, who filed on 58.250 acres in the While Valley region between the Confusion and House Ranges about 40 miles west of Delta: Esdras Hartley. Denver; Wilfred Wil-fred Gray. Denver; D. R. Gaither. Salt Lake City; Emerald Oil, Salt Lake City; Robert Healy, Salt Lake City; and William Stevenson, Salt Lake City. William Johnson, Engle-wood, Engle-wood, Colorado, filed lease applications covering more than 173.000 acres in Kane County. They cover some 30 miles reaching south of Bryce Canyon National Park throughout the White Cliffs region northeast of Kanab. In Cache County, Dean Rowell, Salt Lake City, filed leases in 7 townships in a north-south direction in the Bear River Range cast of Logan. He also Tiled on more than 85.000 acres in the western portion of Sevier. Sanpete. Piute and several other counties. Some 52.000 acres were filed on by Rowell in the Cove Fort vicinity of Millard County. The oil i gas lease play has now reached proportions of over 1.400.000 acres scattered largely through the western half of Utah. The apparent oil discovery by Northwest Exploration Ex-ploration Co.'s No. 1 Trap Springs south of Ely. Nevada in the Eagle Springs area, is credited with stimulating the leasing activity in Utah. Northwest Exploration an- nounccd earlier that it had recovered oil on separate tests between 4.200 and 4.800 feet at the well. Dclbcrt Grotc, Denver, immediately filed oil and gas leases on 134.273 acres of federal land in Millard and Beaver counties. Then last week, more than 344 000 I acres were covered in the lease ' play. Jerry Hill. a Denver independent, filed appHca lions on 203.000 acres about 30 ( miles west of Milford. f |