Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-01
A ROYALTY BASIS
PLANNED FOR CAS-
DEPARTMENT MEN HERE IN IN
TERESIS or NEW REGU.
L\TIONS.
MUCH secrecy ABOUT IT
Thought That apartment Intends 10
trmuNr llat Rate on Gas
Ncll-.

Just what the agents OF Secretary
of the Interior Franklin *. Zane are
doing In the way OF convincing oil
operators in the oklahoma fields
they may conserve the gas in their
demonstrations out at Cushing Is
dark, dark mystery The World was
Informed 10y the visitors that their
test would start Tuesday When the
suggestion WAS made that the paper
have a representative on the scene
the event became an uncertainty--
probably not to begin until Thurs
day"
In the meantime all the gas in the
field may have been Scaled In with
a solution of mud and water and
the operators are about AS much in
the dark as when the department of
mines men got here.
A rumor is float that the demon
stratlon Is only of secondary consider
alton and that the real purpose Of the
gathering here IS for an investigation
that viii be the basis of a report To
the secretary forccasting the drafting
of resolutions for the handling Of gas
In wells drilled on farms leased
through the department. In this con-
ncCtion 1t has been stated that the de-
pnrtment considers changing the meth
od Of payment for gas wells. Instead of
the customary two or three hundred
dollars year which the farm owners
are now getting for gas wells, 1t Is
said the substitution of "A onc-siN.h
royalty plan is "A possibility
For wears the denartment has nro-
yided a fiat rate ON nll pas wells an
Indian lands Whether a wen nro-
duced thirty millior feet or q hun-
dred million feet Tho nr,ca nrncticall.
was the same Rut on account of
representations made to him nv gas
producers Mr. Fisher former secre-
tary of the inferior believed that this
flat rate oupht ia ne abolished and
n ROYALTY paid the Indian on the basis
of nroduction So far ala Mr. Fisher
20 with the Investigation that a ten
tatiye draft of new regulations was
prenorod and submitted to the aeen-
CLOS and tho officials of tho denort.
mont put tho eIact,on cbonyed
things and nromntad b,, decent re-
gard for ,ha riebts or his srcrossor
Mr. Fisher suhuitted tho d,aft to
Secretary Ione pavond douht Mr.
Iane has conf tho coon,ission noy in
tho riold ia i,,.asti,,,to an the angles
of tbe oLlaborno gos situation ana re.
mort ia him some n,onbare of ,ba
commission has hoe, at work for mora
tb,n . month and haye ,isited oil tho
ono nroduciro districts in tho state
ono ~ tbo stnnhling hlocl,s in tbe
,ya, of a., effectiya man for tbe con-
sor,atior Of tho gas smnnlv and tha
i,,croase of tho ravar,,o to the Indian
.IIottae 10 tb. diffIcuIt,, of firdiny a
,,,o,,o, eo, mo o,as ,,r ~ ,rdncin,
nlo who ar. drilIi,o uoIIs fo, oiI IN
nn,,,aa IN tho a.e nrodrrtion ord ~
tho came Tbe oil nrodpcers corterd
,h.t ~ tho,. nov, tho rrdior horns
.,,i ,,,t,l fo,. a., I.nd a,,,I no. ,,a,
,,eIl tb,t ,ho, own tho gos ard can
IL, ., r.. ,,I,..so n.ith - II Il, +bai,.
,nioio,, ,h,.t tb,,, oa,not b., oon,noIIad
Ia. ~, ,.o,.ar,,,o,, INV st,t. 'aoono,.
., ,.,,sor,.o III. ,,s 10 t,o,. do,iro 20
l.t II yo mn In ,he air rheir thoo,,.
is that uhen tho cas comes to tho Ion
~ tha .ro,nd and is reduced tn nos
session If is ns much tbeirs IN do Win
as tbev cboose as the cIotbes an their