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Show OIL LOCATIONS HUHEROUS More Than Million and Half Acres riled On In Utah. The prospect of attain ng wealth through tho discovery f oil well in Utnh hns led to the filing of botwieu eight and nine hundred tipplio.itioiis for prospecting permits under the mineral bind lensing hiw, (lould II. Illnkeloy, rvgnstor of the United States general land oft'eo nt Salt LnktCity, snjs. Ko oxact compilation has been made by tho land office, but it is estimated esti-mated that tho penults embraeo about l,r00,000 nores of mblio land in the state, Smio tho imssnjro of tho min eral land lensmg bill applications for . prospectors' permits lmo pouted into . the bind offico nt Zton. Compnrntlvo- ly few of tho applications hao thus far been grunted by tho general laud offino nt Washington. D. C. Tho majority ot fillings lme been made in tho San Hafnol Swell in Kin-erv Kin-erv count), hold by geologists to lie the most promising struituro in the state, although many are in tho Circle Cliffs country m Garfield cotintv Other applications lmvo been nwde for penult to prospect in San Juan, Washington and in (Irand onuntias Among tho applicants nio several ' largo oompnnios, inoluding the Ohio OH, the Shell Oil, tho Midwest Oil ami the. Casper 0,1 eompnii). Tho majority major-ity of requests, havvovor, oome from individuals nttraoted bj tho oil market. mar-ket. In Soptombor of this year, as in August, tho daily output of the Un.t-ed Un.t-ed States oil wells wos slightly more than ono nnd ono-fourth million barrels, bar-rels, but tho daily coiibumption rose to ono ami fie-elghtlis million bar-nfls, bar-nfls, according to a report mndo by Oeorge Otis Smth, director of the United States geological survey. |