, 1889-03-03
Farmers and Miners Claim Jenny
Stockade Land.
Frank G. Field Writes of Its Great
Mineral Richness.
He Says Farm RS are Gaining Titles
for a Corporation.
Alleged Changers Have Jumped"
the Claims of Miners.

the greatest OF territories:
CUSTER Cry, Custer county, d. T.,
Feb. %, lsS9.-Hon- s. ID. Shannon,
Cheyenne, WVo.-DEAR SIR: l write
you for information concerning the
''Stockade Oil District which you de-
fine upon your last map. L have written
to Sundance, where we have our claims
recorded, for information concerning said
district, and they inform me that it was
never organized or set aside for mineral
before the survey or after. and that all
the land is subject to pre-emption and all
the other agricultural rights. There are
men going in there, and have been going
in there, taking up lands that can never
be farmed under God S sun, and they do
it in order, and in the belief. that they
will be able to hold the ground over the
original location made under the oil
placer or placer claim under chapter 6 of
title 80, revised statutes of the United
States.
Now, there are hundreds of men that
have taken up oil placer claims with all
good intents and purposes, that have done
their assessment work annually and ac-
coeding 10 the requirement. oil law tnat
10 DAY are having their claims Jumped
by men who claim to be farmers and who
claim the land as their own, while right
in front of them is oil in paying quantities
ooHing IRON oe."een tne rocks anu upon
the suriSce. oh Ina0 ~ oetter 'nan tne
nuSsia"' pu'"ah' Assan' ihuIa' 0outn
america NE" Heaiand ana lazy OILS
proven 81 oy ac'ual tests having d pacinc
Rra'i'y vi 'f'' nap'ha' nome turning OIL
~ pes cent anu Iuorlcatihg OIL 10 per
cent, not oe'ng conined 10 lus' one io'ai-
itV' out 10 several ana In wells nat nave
oeen uriiied there iateiy: IL formation
is en'rely Vi "iuerai origih' anu Win no
ghost oil snow Tor a farmer 10 raise any
klh1 OF cereais or other vegetable matter
pron'ao'y,
upon the same formation thefe Is ooai,
OIL SAT- cement IRON gore anu hre ciaY.aii
OF which are deposited In the formation
IN ABUNDANCE ana all IN sigh1 upon tne
surface. ana with all TINS staring them
IN the lace they still persist that the miner
ana prospector nave no claim 10 nor can
not holo the land Tor mineral purposes
L refer more particularly 10 townships
Al 40, 40 north,o OF ranges oil and o2 west
IN Crook county, Wyo where the COAL
oil and salt Is In
a well known railway company owns OF
processes to own mineral lands IN ana
u ina" hol vicinity ana Is having
men pre- 'empt n take up tree claims IN
order that they may buy them -
to tie exclusion OF all Others that be-
ing their AIM apparently. lhere are
hundreds oil men In this lCuster) Vicin-
lty awaiting spring time In order TO go
'neie a"u VI nine W o", u "o
now AFRAID mat 'heir oil placer claims VIII
not hoiu because ehe surveyed iahu ior
AGRICULTURAL purposes
inere are also coai companieS' 10 my
own certain kno"ieuRe' reauS W uriVe
poth the OIL ahu Goa INDUSTRY VINO are
waiting a nnai decision OF some klna' DC
1t Tor or against. H. mere nave peea
several experts on OIL anu coal iahus there
TO examine the country anu It's
and onoun the whole country IN mat
vicinity found above Skull creek down to
and below the old Cheyenne crossing
lat the old Il V ranchl "A
No. T. oil and coal lands, be