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Show WESTERN OIL MEN ARE TO CONFER DENVER, Colo., Jan. 21. Oil producers pro-ducers of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, , Montana, Oklahoma and Kansas will J meet in Donver Tuesday and Wednos- ' day of this week to discuss the Walsh-1 Plttman coal and oil land leasing bill recently pasBed by the United States senate. Announcement of the meet- i Ing was mado tonight by John T. ' Burns, western secretary of the Amor-, lean mining congress. Plans of the administration, an-1 nounccd at Washington yesterday, to change sections 1G and 17 of tho son-' ate bill brought the decision to call the meeting, local oil men predicting that the amendments to tho bill would end further development of the Salt Creek field in Wyoming and work harm to the small operators. 'Tuesday Senator Key Plttman of Nevada, one of the authors of tho bill; David T. Day. oil export of the bureau of mines at Washington, and H. IT. Schwartz, former attorney general of the land office at Washington, will be here for conferences with the oil men Local oil men express themselves , as satisfied with the senate bill as It now stands. |