The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-11
MUCH ACTIVITY FORECASTED IN
 KATALLA FIELD

o. L. Willoughby of Seattle, for merly of Katalla, where he has been interested in the oil fields for many years, is in Juneau taking steps to protect his holdings. MT. Willoughby has 27 oil claims which he possessed before the withdrawal of the oil lands, and to which he has priority rights under the new law He is in Juneau to take the necessary steps to protect his interests.
 MT. Willoughby is a pioneer Alas kan, and in his early years was en- gagged in the newspaper business at Port Townsend, Washington.
 Increased activity in the Katalla oil district for the coming season is indicated. The Chilkat Oil Company has filed applications in the Juneau land office for three patents; the Alaska Consolidated Oil Fields filed for patents on six claims; the Alas ka Petroleum and Coal Company for O'hS while Mir. Willoughby and James A. Hagan of Seattle, each filed for a leasing and prospecting permit A total of 6,560 acres is covered by the applications.
 The Alaska Consolidated Oil Fields, managing director B. L. Thane, has many prominent men on the Pacific coast as stockholders, including for mere Judge Frederick Bausman of Seattle former Gov. Gillette of Cal fornia, the Johnsons of the Union Construction Company of Oakland, Cal, and several others rated as wealthy business men with ample capital to finance extensive opera tions. That company has already made application for number of oil leasing and prospecting permits in both the Katalla and Yakataga fields. II. L. Faulkner, attorney for the com pany, has filed applications for pat ents on five Katalla claims contain ing 1,760 acrss.
 To increase their holdings in the Katalla fields, Falcon Joslin and as sociates of the Chilkat oil Company have asked for patents on two claims containing 320 acres each and for leases on three claims, one contain ing 960 acres and two for 500 acres each. One of the claims for which lease is sought surrounds the pat ented claim on which the company now has several wells producing oil from which it's refinery is operated. The other claim lies near the pat ented claim and to the east of it.
 The Chilkat Company had a drill at work last summer making further explorations on it's holdings, one well being driven through the shale and to a depth of 1,600 feet This well, it is understood, did not meet the expectations of the company and the results of the test is said to have decided MT. Josliu and his associates to confine their drilling to shallow wells which can be put down at com paratively small cost
 Mir WiIloughbys permit covers five claims under the preference right provisions of the leasing law and he barely filed in uuder this sec tiOn of the leasing law before it ex- pired. Under the leasing law eff fecive February 25, 1920, persons claiming preference rights to lands restored to entry were given one year in which to make their applica- tions. MT. Willoughby's applications cover 4,000 acres of land in the Ka- talla field. He also filed for a per init for the Alaska Petroleum & Coal Company, the old Lippy-Davis com bination which started a railroad pro- ject in the Katalla disrict prior to the land withdrawals. John w. Dudley, of Juneau has also filed for a permit on 1,2S0 acres and James A. Hagan for one on GAO acres in the Katalla