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Show THE CLOSEST YET A final agreement on the oil land leasing leas-ing bill has been reached after three months in confrence by house and senate conferees. I As finally agreed upon the bill is strict- f ly a leasing measure and affects only oil, i gas, coal, sodium, phosphate and oil shale lands. It is similar in detail to other pub- lie domain leasing bills that have -been i pending in congress for about ten years. This is the closest yet that the west has j come to seeing oil land leasing bill passed which will open vast areas for develop- ment. I It is expected that the bill will become a law this spring, but there are those who have been waiting far years to see such a measure become a law, who fear that it will not do so until well after the presidential presi-dential election. The west will hope for the best however m Fa Pi |