LEASING BILL
IN HOUSE IS
UNWORKABLE
In the opinion of men who have
made a careful study of the proposed
legislation, the coal, oil and mineral
leasing bill now before congress, in
its provisions for the leasing of Alaska
oil lands, is entirely unworkable, and
will cause no development in that ter
ritory.
Chairman Curry of the house com
mittee on territories is one of those
who hold this opinion* Falcorf Joslin,
president of the Bering River Coal
Company, who is also interested in
the oil properties in the Katalla field,
is another.
This bill has passed the senate and
is now before the house committee on
public lands. No hearings are to be
had on it but briefs may be filed. Mr.
Joslin is presenting the objections of
Alaskans to the bill to the committee
through Representative Sinnott Of
Oregon.
Can’t Tell What It Means
“The senate tried to be liberal to
Alaska and sought to benefit the ter
ritory,” said Mr. Joslin, “but there
were too many cooks engaged in the
work, and the result is a sad mess. I
defy anyone to tell what many of the
provisions of the bill, as they affect
oil leases in Alaska, mean.
"In the original draft of the bill it
was provided that prospecting perriiits
would be granted in the States for
640 acres and in Alaska for twice that,
or 1,280 acres. Subsequently the pros
pecting area in the United States was
raised to 2,500 acres, but no one
thought to change the Alaska figure, so
it still stands at 1,280 acres. The bill
permits a man to take three leases
in the States or five in Alaska, but it
is provided that in Alaska he shall
have no more than one on the same
geological structure in a known oil
field. What this rneaps precisely I
have found no one who can say
Provision for Leasing
“Leases in Alaska are to be on a
basis of 1,280 acres, but it appears that
one may not g<?t the full amount. He
may lease, as the result of his discov
ery, only one-fourth of it on a 5 per
cent royalty. The remaining three
fourths of the area are put up at auc
tion, the discoverer having the prefer
ence right, but the royalty on this re
maining three-quarters ranges on a
schedule from 12% to 25 per cent, sub
ject to higher bids.
“A comparison of these provisions
with those prevailing in British Co
lumbia is interesting. The British Co
lumbia royalty Is 2% cents a barrel
straight, no percentage system being
used. At prevailing prices 5 per cent
royalty in Alaska means 75 cents a
barrel.
“The Alaska provisions of the bill
constitute a maze of contradictions
and blind limitations. Unless these
defects are remedied either in com
mittee ‘or on the floor the law will b£
quite useless in Alaska. The oil de
veloper would far better operate in
California than in the territory.”
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