Show I LOCATING OIL I Under the caption Co Oil Shale Locations Locations Lo Lo- an eastern Journal tells of what is considered the legality of locating lo- lo lo locating cating oil and shale lands under the placer law However It fails falls to go into the tho particulars Tho The method Is generally as follows Eight names are used on the location notices and each cacti location covers acres That I makes twenty acres or a regulation claim to each United States citizens citizen's name on the notice The boundaries must conform to the regular subdivisions subdivisions subdivisions visions taking for Instance a section corn corner or to tie to In this way un- un and bituminous ous lands to any extent may bo be ed cd However Just how much may maybe maybe maybe be held beld is at present a mooted quest quest- ion The number of acres to be he held heM heldi i hy by v any one ono company soon may be limited by statute The notices must must be filed flied with the district recorder or at tho the county scat cat the same as on regular placer pIncer or lode lodo claims Work must be performed within the year and fraction The work worle Is supposed to be done on each acre claim But Dut an effort Is la being made so that as in mining for ore a shaft or tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel strategically located may answer answer an an- for tor the entire contiguous tract Technicalities of finding pay vay oil In order to hold a claim no longer maintain maintain maintain main main- tain in the courts which have haye dropped dropp dropp- ed their arbitrariness and now oil lands land may be held under a reasonable showing that the lands are probably or bituminous and more valuable for oil oU prospecting than any other purpose according to authorities 0 o |