Leases Upon Naval Oil Reserves, Volume 1 |
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acres Admiral GREGORY Admiral GRIFFIN application approved Assistant Secretary FINNEY Assistant Secretary ROOSEVELT barrels of oil bids Bureau of Mines California cent CHAIRMAN claims CLAPP Commander STUART concrete Congress construction contract contractor crude oil Doctor MENDENHALL drainage drilled DYSON edge water fault February 25 feet fuel oil gas pressure gasoline Geological geologists Government HEALD inch Interior Department lease lessee lessor letter Lieutenant Commander LANDIS located MACFARREN Mammoth Oil Natrona County NAVAL OIL RESERVES naval petroleum reserves naval reserve Navy Department officer in charge oil and gas operations Pearl Harbor piles pipe line President production pump REAVIS referred royalty oil saddle Salt Creek field Second sand Second Wall Creek Secretary DENBY Senator JONES Senator LENROOT Senator WALSH shale Shannon Sand Sinclair storage structure tanks Teapot Dome tion United United States Navy Wall Creek sand WASHBURNE Wyoming
Popular passages
Page 186 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 213 - An act to provide for the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain...
Page 322 - It is also further agreed that no Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner, after his election or appointment, or either before or after he has qualified, and during his continuance in office...
Page 339 - Whereas plans for the orderly transfer of administrative responsibility for the island of Guam from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 439 - ... lost, from such land, the claimant, or his successor, if in possession of such land, undisputed by any other claimant prior to July 1, 1919, shall be entitled to a lease...
Page 189 - No contract shall be entered into for the erection, repair, or furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement which shall bind the government to pay a larger sum of money than the amount in the Treasury appropriated for the specific purpose.
Page 16 - ... will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits.
Page 339 - An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain
Page 440 - All permits or leases hereunder shall inure to the benefit of the claimant and all persons claiming through or under him by lease, contract, or otherwise, as their interests may appear.
Page 544 - I now offer it for the record. The CHAIRMAN. It will be included in the record. (The letter and statement referred to are here copied in full in the record, as follows:) WASHINGTON, DC, . October 30, I.