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Show .The company's . representative ro-fused ro-fused to talk for publication, but it is understood that the company now has leases on practically every acre of. private land in a strip four or five miles wide, running just south of Duchesne from Antelope tQ Avintiauin. Other large oil companies and capitalists and many local people have also become interested in-terested inHhe developement. The Duchesne Oil. and Gas Company haj leased a considerable part of its holdings. Last February, Congress pased a bill providing for leasing of government oil lands and a large number of locations have been made under this bill by moneyed interests from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People connected with - large commercial com-mercial enterprises in Virginia have located; also people prominent in California oil, ami Colorado. Montana Mon-tana and New Mexico oil capital is also represented. The Standard Oil Company is also interested. Reports Re-ports come from Price that the Standard is behind some of the lo cations on the southern edge of tha field. Local surveyors in a position to know say that there i3 not a single acre of vacant land left in the oil belt. The law provides that everybody, every-body, that gets a prospecting permit must start a well within six months, so that it is easy to see that th area is going to be developed. The entire territory covered by the excitement is tributary to Lu-chesne. Lu-chesne. The leases and locations come to the city Imiits and the whole boom will be centered in ihU city. The; Dutch-Shell geologist? r.dniit that they have covered the v hole Uintah Basiii and found nothing noth-ing that interested them excepb this. It, looks as though Duchesne would tt the oil center of the Baslv and perhaps of Utah. , Commencing with Monday, December Dec-ember 13, 1920 and continuing until un-til Christmas, the Golden Rule store will stay open until 8 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown were .dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Workman. . |