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Show BIG SALE OIL LANDS American Consolidate Oil Company Breaks All Records in Purchase. Uip-s Over One Hundred Thousand Acres in California, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming Fields-Consideration Nearly Six Mil. lion Dollars Utah Property Not to Be Worked at Present. TRIBUNE SPECIAL 1 San Francisco, Cal , Teti IS The gigantic dent In oil propertied which has Just been undo public here between the Chanslor 4- -f Cnnfleld cominny and A t) Duller on the one side, and the Amerlein - -t- Consolidated Oil company on the other, Is the largest transaction ot Its kind on record Ihiciugh that transaction, the one company transfers to the 4- f American Consolidated 10SOOO aues of oil land Bltuatcd In Callfornli, 4 4- Utah, Colorado and W)omlng, for a consideration of 5,S75 0OO. Ot -f t- thin linil i'tdOO acres Is nearly nil In Wyoming 4- Speaking of the traneact.on this evening, A. 11. Uutler, one of the pirties ho, together with CantMd and Chanslor, soil his Interest to the sjndlcalo suld. Machinery In large quantities has been shipped from California 4-- 4-- to the new oil fields, In competition with Cleveland, rittshurg and -f -f other oil well supply centers In the Hast. The machlnerv was shipped -f -4- ir m here lo Ulntn' county, Wyoming, where the company has (He 4- dillllng rigs at work, and the prlnclpil developments arc being made 4- with ullsfnctnry results The tompiny has considerable holdings t- In adjacent counties, hut considers them of less Interest 4- ' J he lands of the company In Utah and Arizona nie not to be de- v eloped tt present, nor can It be said how soon tho company Mill pay 4- iny attention to undeveloped land. The bulk of the compans hold- t Ings are In W)omlng. while In the other teriltorles the land Is scat- tcred, considerable of It coming from the public domain ' -f 4- 4- f4-4- f -f-f f-f f-f--4- f t |