Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1922, Page 8

| } i Ju Leeks PAGE EIGHT PRs TEAPOT DOME OIL CONTRACT metal ap. one owning a home, or con-/ ess in Wyoming, taking | id rather have he state in refineries | € an addition. | with each ad-! refineries, the state is because Okia-| Pipelines and/ pipelines | Further. when new fields have been Kansas and Oklahoma, and of men has frantically e and purchased oi We do not| jed per-acre wealth of! and to follow| ple to get the ofl mean stmply loss That means that the hasty have exhausted themrelve break in pricen and ir properties falling nto of the Standard which neither hurries nor lags. | Wyoming Gets Not a Dollar Royalty. | The article referred to at the be-| sinning of the paper leaves the m-| pression that Wyoming as a state The law under whic this contract ts made does not author-| ize the government to pay a dollar or five a gallon of oil to Wyoming as a state; nor to the building of any Unit ed States reclamation project within the state. Under the leasing act 37% per cent of the royalties in Salt Creek ko to the state of Wyoming and 50 per cent to the United States reclama- tion fund, which means Wy ing gets @ proportion of that. Of this 37% per cent, this state allots 50 per cent to our schools, 10 per cent to the state uni lie and 38 per cent to our pub-} Let us hope some of this! does drain into Salt Creek. iy uld this mountain, inland Wyoming contribute an esti- 100,000 barrels of high grade | m its natural resources to t of the United States navy, > return. The act of June 4, 1920, under which this Teapot contract was made is lim- ited in its own operations to naval re-! serve lands “on which there are no Pending claims or applications for per- mits or leases under the provisions” of the general leasing law. The Pio- neer Of company had such claim pend- ing. It followed that the Teapot oil contract could not be made because such claims were pending. The Pio- neer company is controled by a Standard group. The Pioneer agreed to step aside and withdraw its claims, and thus the Mammoth Of company was enabled to secure the Teapot oil] lease. Those who believe the Stand-| ard.steps aside for a competitor with-| out’knowing why, are entitled to their! belief. Itis-reported that certain prominent citizens of Casper had pending in the department claims under the eeneral leasing law covering the major portion of the valuable Teapot lands contract- ef to the Mammoth Of company, and these claims were overlooked at the time the contract was -cranted. Ir these are the facts. it follows thatthe contract may be set aside; for there is no authority under the law to-con- tract with reference to lands covered by pending claims. These gentlemen can do Wyoming in-general, and Cas- per in particular, a distinguished serv- ice by insisting upon their rights, and and ¢: that those right be adjudicated by a tribunal that has-not already decided a em without hearing by pre- rely awarding the lands to a pri- contractor at a greatly reduced ty. Om the other hand if these gentlemen shall waive their rights it may be difficult to find a protestant or claimant with sufficient legal stat- us to proceed against the contract. Citizens, generally, must determine for themselves whether they favor private letting of public contracts, or favor competitive bidding. the com- eastern markets will result creased sales and increased profits: | t the citizen of Wyoming, and par-! nlarly those of Casper, must know] her it is best to refine off tn| Wyoming or best to pipe ft out in the| crude state—whether digging wells and pipeline ditches is better than build inig additional refineries and increas- our population, markets and general| wealth Since writing the above paper I have| read an apology for the Teapot off con tract prepared by a representative of the bureau of mines. The gentleman says four oil companies were given opportunity to bid for the Teapot con- tract. He does not tell us who hand- nicked the four, nor why? Responsi- companies who were not let into secret negotiations express a lingness to raise the contract and y the United States a substantial in the royalty rates. 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