| Show April Is Record Month A At Sanpete Recorders Recorder's Office April fees foes collected at t the h e Sanpete County Recorders Recorder's office of office office of- of fice set a new high record for forthe forthe forthe the office according to M 1 Mrs r rs s. s Mae Graham county recorder During April more than items were recorded and a n to total total total to- to tal of collected for the work she says Many of the items were army discharges welfare loins leins etc which the of office office office of- of fice does free of charge In looking back over the work work- in the past Mrs Graham says they have found a month to be a good month with the average usually about to Most of the rush of business is the recording of oil and md gas leases in the Sanpete area Most of these forms call for both oil and gas rights sand nd nd some call only for the gas lease A standard standard standard stan stan- dard lease form called form 88 is recorded for a fee of This form as many of the others is an extremely long form much of it in very small type Mrs Graham says theoffice theoffice the theoffice office can type only a few of these as they consider a a. typist able to do only four a day To overcome this they have taken large groups of forms to other recording offices to have photostats made of them With the increased tempo in recordings has come an an influx of record searchers Men len and women many of whom are arc employed employed em- em by oil companies come cometo cometo cometo to the office regularly to search out information in the records They have had as high as os 5 and G 6 of these record searchers in at nt one time some of them coming coining armed with typewriter and other equipment A check chock back in the recording record shows that this record month stands ahead of anything anything anything any any- thing over done at the Sanpete office December was also a heavy month and prior to that the most recent month to go over 1500 was back in 1947 when oil leases were being taken taken taken tak tak- en up wholesale by other com eom- n 0 |
