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Show DR Oovrj Tniwwa j.T!ATNn BILL SHOWS FAVORITISM That tho oil lend and leasinv bill. iw iwinUri" before iviiistimis i. In lis nrww.pt fnrin, eslenlntml (o hinder the dsselnimient of Iho oil and oil .bsle resource of Utah. Idsho and Nevsda. U' the opinion of T)r. P. S. CuWe of Vennil. and well known in I'"ee. Tie Cot(s is inHiumer of the Ceder Hullo Oil company, the Uintah Rss'ii PlTplnrallnn iviinpsnv. and has clenslve iptoFiwits Ibniiighout Fastern Ulsli. "As tho bill now stands." ssvs l)e. Cnko. "it is (siloolatwl lo help only the development of the oil end oil slialn industry in two slate that hnveIarto arena of proved oil territory, California nnd Wvominif, and lo benefit Hi wo slato only. "It seems to mo that the prostieo-tor prostieo-tor for oil should ho onrourneod mid pot pcnnlixed There are hundreds o' honsands of acres of land in the 1 intoh Hisln that nro virtually valueless value-less nulr-M oil is developed. Uinlflr the proisised law the prospector must imv his rental in advance, expend large amount of monoY in drilling, mid then, should ho be siircnssful, secure only a Innso titlo to a fntction of tlio land that ho has proved. Colifoniiu and Wyoming nro tho only two Western West-ern Rtntos in which oil territory has ben nroved to nny extent worth considering. con-sidering. "In Utnh, Idaho. Oregon and No-v.ido No-v.ido tho oil industry is liurely in the (xperimentnl stngo. and it nnitwiri manifestly unfair to place all of H.t burden upon tho dovelopor unless be is assured of getting a run for Ida iroiiev invested. The oil shala iiidtis 'Iry, In imrtictilnr. is in n iiurcly cx-islrimeutnl cx-islrimeutnl slagc. It would require an investment of nt least Ihreo hundred hun-dred thousand dollar lo construct n plant capable of handling Iho shale on n sralo hirge enough lo determine whether or not the shale can be hniidl-ed hniidl-ed on a commcrrinl basis successfully. The measure tends lo give aid lo the big operator only." |