Show penalty i ender ALL alliatta 1 I tie the utah oil refining co ie pay approximately for having g built its line across public lands without first having obtained a U S department permit and in addition i to the flat fine secretary ickes stipulated that the company must pay rental for crossing the public domain beginning august 7 the date when it unlawfully began to trespass on oil government lands the rental is the usual 5 per mile or per annum the company did not escape tile taic reprimand which secretary ickes first delivered in the course of the hearing november 20 but at that the company drove a g good bargain tor for oil Is already running through the pipeline and will con continue dinue to I 1 flow all winter and forever whereas if construction had been delayed oil could not have reached salt lake city before early summer 1940 although there was careless wrongdoing wrong doing in this case the applications for right of way he states will not be denied because of the trespass committed since is appears that the pipeline is in the public interest and will benefit the people of both wyoming and utah he directed that the right of way be issued under the conditions stated and thus the f ire fire is squelched and the matter is end d 1 ed I 1 |