Show OIL on LAM LANI STATUTES II l I Work Will Hold Five Mud tut Actual oer Point In answer to a 0 letter of Inquiry re ie regarding garding filing on oil lands the Urn local regIster re and receiver of ot the U 8 S land thIB this morning received n a communication communication from frum Washington D I C wherein the commission lol quotes a n bill Jilt on the tho subject last February Tho The bill reads rends an ai follows lie it enacted by the senate s and a house o of representatives rC of or the tho United I States of ot America in iii Congress Congre assem assembled 4 bled That where oil lands tire lire located under tinder tho the provision of title U chapter sIx nix revised statutes of or the theUn United Un lied States an fA placer pIncer mining claims the lie annual assessment labor upon such lIuch claims claim may ma be dono done upon any nn one of a 11 4 I group of ot claims lying 1 and owned by the tho same name person or oI corpora corporation corporation tion not exceeding live tivo In ull all provided That said fI labor shall tend to tD tho the development or to determine tho the I character of or such suh cantle contiguous claims claim I The fhe communication ROCS goes on to say a aTho 1 The Tho proposed net nel does doc not authorize r the location of ot any claim theretofore ro rome 1 made me where there hn has not been made mads madsan madeI I an nfl actual discovery of or mineral within the tho limits of tho the claim located ns as pro provided vided In section 2320 of tho the revised ida uta lutes It does however provide that tho the labor performed or Improvement made mado on each location luring during each year to maintain a n right I required by section e 2324 2311 revised stat statutes statutes utes ute may bo be L done dono upon any one olle of oC n II group of oC not hot exceeding five In III nil all If IC said cald labor will tend to determine tho the oil bearing character of ot such lIuch con contiguous claims and In this provision i I only does doell the tho credit for such illicit labor labord d or Improvements only 1111 when hell It Is la hown to be for tor tho the benefit of ot each ench lo In location l cation by operating to facilitate the tho ex oc extraction Ii traction of ot tim till mineral minerai front from each euch such t contiguous locution 10 I The fhe net applies s equally e lu U to 10 oil g and In quoted hy by the commission In answer to R IL i question n nil as to whether p It Is III necessary nr first t to to strike I oil before I a 1 valid location con cnn be hI made |