Show GOVERNMENT CO CONTESTS HILL HILI t f CREEK OIL SHALE SHALlE CLAIMS The validity of of f t two o groups of shale claims in the the Hill creek creck section sec- sec lion Uon considered to cont contain some contain in some of 01 the the richest in fa the world are are- ara under attack by the government 11 a u proceedings on n which hearings hearings' were commenced last we week k at Salt Lake Lako before J J. J AI Arthur n Moore division inspector ia- ia for ifor the he department of r the In The hearing is being held heidi there because of proximity to th the the- 1 parties and i property ved it d' es i involved v lint but a transcript Is being prepared which I will will willbe be sen sent t t to this the the register of the tha V Vernal land office for his decision decision- 7 two Thirty locations Of- Of of acres aCles each e embraced tt 1 in 1 what is- is s f iI known n as the tho Keeler g group a and 1 one ono in the time H Collett i l are re- re rehe being heng he n ested tedi by the pave government oVe The harg p arc I 1 v that that- the he are not lot t iJ firma boni fi fU fe p. p since they were were m made le form no-form no lor tho thai use and benefit of tl the e cla claimants s tut but primarily for the Consolidated Oil Company and R R. R 3 S. their successors and assigns s The government also contends that the time claimants did Dol not do the the- assessment work necessary required to get patent under the placer mineral min mm eral em-al law and under which the claims- claims in question were filed in 1915 The The- final hearing will be he held today Thursday at Vernal |