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Show Oil Land Leasing Curb Protested VERNAL The Vernal Lions club, the Uintah county commissioners, commis-sioners, and other local organizations organiza-tions have sent telegrams to the Utah congressional delegation protesting the withdrawal of Un-compahgre Un-compahgre Indian Reservation lands from the oil and gas leasing. leas-ing. The telegrams point out that Uintah Basin is now being intensively in-tensively explored by several major oil companies and that, unless such companies are permitted per-mitted to explore Indian lands, they may lose interest in the development de-velopment of the oil resources of Uintah Basin. |