Show major oil cos co s work in uintah reported diligent dili 9 rent by office united states geological survey has determined that oil corp los angeles has to date been diligent in its operations on the big ute trail unit in um till county frank allen alien director of the utah state land doard board released correspondence between himself and the oil firm and the thurs day mr allen alien said that ted led parties in utah had call ed cd the attention of the land board to allegations that hav had been dilatory in ili its developments or on tile CO 68 plus acre unit scene beene of apparent major natural gas discoveries mr allen alien said the state of utah lias has a real interest Inte est iest lit in diligent development of tile the area by reason of state lands comprising some 0 per cent of the total of tile the big unit lie ile asked both havenstrite und the for In fornia tion as to intuitions arid and for a promise of ren renewed ived drilling activity in ili the re future death of a principal havenstrite the operator in reply stated that tile death of it II C E havenstrite a pal in ili what appears to be a limited partnership has li a 8 made it legally impossible for HM firm fiani to proceed with a commitment tills situation will be over come after tile the first of tile year tilt the company stated the company also said that it actually had not taken all the time permitted by in ili proceeding with d develop e celop 1 merit ment of the area J A regional administrator at C casper a s p e r wyo for the wrote that havenstrite had presented a proposed plan of de and that so far as the unit agreement Is con berned the firm had more than fulfilled its developmental program mr brow said that had agreed to start on or before fob feb 1 1959 a wildcat in ln the north west quarter of the north east quarter of section 17 rown township 10 south and range 22 tast east tile the project involves only an eight month delay lie he said considerations in grant of delay among considerations taken into account by in ili pr the los angeles firm a dclay lit in iti IN proposed devel plan were I 1 thi alleged legal lems lit in connection with mr death and sub probate of estate 2 tile the tact fact that there was tit at pre ent no pipeline available in the fields to transmit ni mil iral gets gas I 1 work to dite date mr wrote tile the land board in reference to tills this matter that some of this material Is and open I 1 to 0 public inspection some arts arid and corres pon dence are arc restricted avid and not no t open to public inspection lie did riot not say that specific rel reports orts or correspondence were rest restricted riched or by what law agency rule or regulation of the federal government such prohibitions against alq di closure were imposed |