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Show URGES EARLY PASSAGE OF OIL LAND LEASING BILL. Secretary Lane has sent the following fol-lowing letter to Chairman Ferfiris of the house committee on public lands: "I trust you will press for immediate imme-diate action upon the leasing bill. It is nothing less than a national war necessity that the supply of fuel on the Pacific coast be at once Increased. I am In touch with the situation through the geological survey and the bureau of mines and the facts before me Justify this prophecy that within sixty days railroads, ships, and many Industries will be unable to secure oil or fuel of any kind if a bill Is not passed under which the producing lands will be opened tc the fullest development. If thif end can be furthered by placing the whole matter of reserved oil lands in the hands of the president I cer talnly would fight for It strenuously." |