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Show tney won't last long. QiS ond gos loosing interest continues acres in the SanRafaelSwell vicinity north of Hanksville; Robert L. Healy, 9,000 acres west -northwest of Cedar City; Carol Hatch nearly 10,000 acres in Iron and Beaver Counties, and Cities Service Oil Company, 9,000 acres approximately 25 miles east of Kanab and 3,500 acres just south of Escalante. The past weeks filings mark the fifth week in a row where oil and gas lease filings recorded at the Bureau Bu-reau of Land Management in Salt Lake City exceeded 200,000 acres , notes Mr. Stowe. Land interest stays high in Utah. This week participants partici-pants involved in oil and gas leasing in the state filed applications on federal land numbering more than 241,160 acres, according to Carlton Stowe, minerals specialist, Utah Geological & Mineral Survey. Largest of the applicants, ap-plicants, Earl R. Wilson, an independent headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, filed on 126,865 acres. Some 71,-000 71,-000 acres include lands east of Brigham City, north to the Logan vicinity. In Millard County, Wilson's lease filings fil-ings covered 50,000 acres west of Delta, southwest of Milford and northwest to the Utah -Nevada line. He also filed leases in western Juab County. Several Salt Lake City oil and gas lease individuals indi-viduals are active including William A. Stevenson who filed on 45,000 acres in Washington County in the vicinity vi-cinity generally west -northwest of St. George; Neva Henderson, 16,200 acres in the Garrison area of Millard C ounty; Dorothy Jones, 8,000 |