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Show 2,000,000 acres oil-gas leases 30,100 acres; and Wiii Schicktanz, Denver, who filed on over 17,000 acres. Many other applicants Include Wallace &Brownlee, Denver-Mobil Denver-Mobil Oil, Cities Service Oil, Amoco Production, Del. bert Grote and Jerry Hill both of Denver, several Silt Lake City Independents and other Rocky Mountain region oil and gas leasing operators. the majority of lease applications appli-cations have been made In the past few weeks. The original lease play started about a month ago with the announcement of an oil recovery by Northwest Exploration Co., Salt Lake City, south of Ely, Nevada; east of that State's only oil field EagleSprings. Earlier Earl-ier this week, Northwest announced an-nounced the well had been completed successfully and that new drilling In the area was scheduled. Recent lease applications Include Wm. J. A. Johnson, Englewood, Colorado, who filed on more than 71,000 acres; Margaret Coombs, Salt Lake City, on some Another 360,000 acres were covered with oil and gas leases this past week, bringing bring-ing to nearly 2 million acres of Utah lands subject of recent re-cent leasing activity, notes Carlton Stowe, minerals specialist, spe-cialist, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey. Mr. Stowe reports applications for oil and gas leases were filed on 248,000 acres of federal land with the Bureau of Land Management. And, a statistical statisti-cal compilation of State of Utah lands show leases have been Issued on 112,000 acres. ac-res. Of the 360,000 acres, 249,626 acres are located in western Utah's Beaver, Millard, Juab and southwestern southwest-ern Tooele counties where |
