Show GREAT VICTORY GAINED BY Oil SHALE MEN JU L b by L Land and Office omee Against Encroachments 0 o ft f t Homes Homesteaders cst t c n Development of or Resources A crucial victory was w won won von on by Shale hale oil interests when th the e general land office decided h in iii favor or the plaintiff In the case o of Freeman l n versus Summers News tl that at atthe the lava lane office I lias tas upheld up up- hold held the F Freeman interests Freeman eeman interests in their thor effort to have Summers restrained Ined from front homesteading their sh shale le leland land will be enco encouraging to shale men l If the lane oTIce l ha had ad a upheld the defendant Summers in his attitude it woud have been an almost disastrous blow to shale de- de an It would have been al almost almost almost al- al most impossible impassible to get a valid title to a single acre acro of or shale lan land din in ill Utah or Colorado In 1922 while the Freeman interests in interests in- in were doing work upon their shale holdings near Colo explained ed Mr Jenson fil filed filed filed fil- fil ed a homestead entry upon the ground notwithstanding Fr Freeman eman had hud compiled in every a way with the United States Jaws as appl applying n to patenting mineral ground action w was taken by Summers and anti his relatives with wilh regard to the UH Standard Shale Products company ground adjoining said Mr 1 r. r Jenson who is con consulting suiting engineer w the tho latter company a California corpor corpor- Litigation Begun A suit sult we flu fix and heard in the Glenwood Putt I land me and the neuFs entry o 0 Summers Sum mers was url J Nevertheless s th the bi Freeman reeman Interests Immediately lr ap appealed appealed appealed ap- ap pealed the case to Ui the general jeneral land and office The Tho effect of the Glenwood land office decision stated Mr Jenson was as very bad Shale companies which had complied In ever every way n with the mineral laws of the government government government govern govern- ment were harassed by Irresponsible parties who filed flied on spate shale Holdings in the hope of being able to get shale companies to buy them out It was even ven publicly stated by some of these homesteaders that they hey didn't care for the land they were riling filing ollIn only oll- in the hope of getting 1000 or r sotor so for tor their homesteads from shale shrule companies In practically all cases the land because of oC ItS us and shortness of the growing season was worthless for an anything but grazing Shale companies if iC course would not go ahead until could be Ie sure whether the government go would sustain the mineral to laud land laudon landon on which they held legal filings ana ane had expended large amounts of annual assessment mone money in doing work Now that the question has of Intermountain intermountain Inter- Inter been decided dev development mountain shale shalo resources should be bo greatly stimulated Much Work olk IJ Planned piece of oC work worl is An interesting being done clone in Ip Sanpete county countr re reported ren reported re- re D. D A A. A ported Mr Air Jenson Jenso n i where Clement Clement- Is arranging to have two diamond drill holes put putdown down upon determine the to his s1 shale i ale holdings shale shah members of the oil oU content of ot Green River formation adit has been An eighty toot foot ty-foot member to the upper tipper driven en into determine values but bur persons c in interested interested in- in development of oC this forested in th time the expending g more ground and wish before grog accurate data Tata about money to gain of the sec second or content the oil stratum shale member member-a. member a richest feet reet thick This estimated to be canon can c'an- level lovel of oC the canon can can- canyon the bed lies Tres below the first member J yon on cutting considering are people Sanpete practicability the tho said Mr Jensen Jenson manufacture manu manu- plant to ton b building a of or cooperative basis gaso- gaso cooper on a fa facture for local conn coni con con- Hn n and lubricants investigation now noVo If the sumps sUJ ion the enterprise enter being carried on proves wille will willbo o practical prise to h be e according t 11 I Mr lr Jebo Je Jei 1 bo be q subscribed development worse wort and t the son Ron and will be under under- i building o of ot f a plant taken |