Show State Seeks Land LandOn On A public meeting will be a held In Vernal Wednesday Dec 29 between utah State Land Board and the Bureau of Land Man Man- Management on the states state's request for ownership of acres of oil rich land on Asphalt Ridge The meeting will be held at pm in the courtroom of the county building THE STATE selected the land landas landas as part of what the federal government nt owes Utah in pub lie lic domain land ELMLand At the invitation of the BL ELM M Land Board Director Max lax C Gardner said he will attend the th e meeting Robert D Nielson state ELM BL M director called the conference e to obtain local points of view w on the proposed transfer Following the hearing the th e Ll I will classify the acreage o for either disposal or to be re- re re tamed retained by the federal govern govern- ment government agency OFFICIALS pointed out that tha t Continued on page 8 I Asphalt Ridge Continued from page 1 the classIfIcatIOn c son must be made before the federal government will consIder transferrIng the theland theland land Asphalt Ridge as its name implies contains bituminous sands and practically all of it itIs itis Is under lease to private oil companies which have been conducting tests on the com mercial feasibility of building oil extraction facilities at the site Odell A Frandsen Vernal District manager of the explained that the lands involved ved lying south and west of Vernal are presently ered by the HE SAID that the state has made an application to select these lands in view of the lands they are entitled to under the Enabling Act |