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Show U. S. ROYALTY OIL BRINGS GOOD PRICE WASHINGTON', Dec. 15. The government gov-ernment win receive one dollar mor per barrel for Its royalty from the Cat Creek. Montana, field than it has b en getting under a contract with th .shlpplnir board, which recently expired. ex-pired. . Beoretary Fall of the interior department announced after accepting a Bid from the Lewlston Oil A Refining Refin-ing company of Lewlston, Montana, for purohass of the government's share of the output of the Mld-Oon-tlnenl wice pIub 40 cents, amounting to $2.20 a barrel. This, he said, will increase the revenue from the Cat Creek field by $182,500 a vcar. ! of which Montana will receive 87Vfe .per cent, the reclamation scrvlco 62 i per cent and the federal treasury 10 i per cent. Secretary" Fall added that he still I was eonsldealntr 13 proposals for pur-Chase pur-Chase of royalt oils from the Salt Crock, Wyoming, field, which amounts I to S200 barrels dally as compared ( w1 1 h BOO from th Cat Creek wells on |