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Show DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR RULINGS ON SHALE LANDS The interior department has ruled that oil shale lands nro subject to valid location and appropriation under un-der the plaaer wining laws to tho same extent and subject to tho samo provisions and conditions ns if valuable valu-able on aeeount of oil or gas. F.utrios and application for putcnt for oil shale plaeer slating will bo adjudicated adjudicat-ed in accordance with Hie samo legal provisions and with reference to tho samo ruiromnts and limitations as are applicable to oil nnd gas placers. The opinion was based on a oluim for oil shale lunda in Colorado entered on n naval rrve and is predicated un tho provision in tho recent leasing law whioh provides that valid claims existing at the date of its passago and maintained in compliance with laws under wliloli initiated may bo perfected perfect-ed under sueli laws, including diseo)'-lery. |