Show prospectors SATISFIED Evans toTi dec 4 the news of the action taken ty the interior department in awarding section 27 to the union pacific railroad company was received here among the oil prospectors and promoters generally with a feeling that it was the natural outcome of the circumstances surrounding the case as it was believed by those that were familiar famil far with the inside history of the case that it not be otherwise the fact that the company wa operating extensive coal mines on this section and that coro any employed emp loyes made the discovery of oil which is really only another form of carboniferous matter all went to shiow the strength of this particular section the old congressional land grant the railway company every alternate odd numbered section within a 0 twenty finues on cither side of mhd track which leaves the even numbered bechiom open for filing it is the odd numbered numo ered sections sett ions that arc now under contest the secretary of the interior is very plain in decision when hesayo that section 27 and alie other land andr con test required separate consideration and it is not believed that the railroad corn pany will hold a single section of land within the boundaries of the oil bell outside of section 27 the decisions whatever they may be will in no way affect the oil industries in wyoming the congressional kanj to the railroad company corn Ms legs than one tenth of what i known aa the oil zone all the strikes the union pacific well excepted haw been made on even numbered section and in two basei casei eliat of the jarer oil company on section 12 and the atlantic pacific company on section 22 patents have already been granted |