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Show BIG CONCERN GETS OREGON OIL LANDS Boise, Ida.. Feb 3. A Siij.uiMi.nin, corporation has just been organic a In New N,,rk by (JM,rge Franklin Wil ley. a millionaire mining and oil up erator of that state. for the purpose 0) taking over and operating five oil and gaB wells In the uoinltv of Vale Ontario, on all of which ho secur e options some weeks ago Associated with Mr. Wlllev are men prominent in the mining, oil and H. nancla world for many year, among them being Rosecrani Fillsbury ol Manchester. N. H.. conspicuously mi n tioned for United States senator L,,,,, that state; Charles A. Towns, former I ( Sited States senator from ftfln Desots and now one of the New York' distinguished lawyers, T F Whittle ley of Toledo. Ohio, former! i eral manager of the Seaboard Line, and other fell known Boston New ork and Montreal capitalists The Independent Oil and Refininx company, organized by these people to lake over the present oil wells and their equipment near Vale, has also taken over the Ontario well anrj ' drill a new hole near the present on. on the Ontario lease. The new corporation will imme,i ately start active operations in H eastern Oregon oil field |