The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-27
.OIL ROYALTIES
RICH HARVEST
Chief Income for Bureau
of Mines Derived From
Western Fields

WASHINGTON In his role OF
millionaire oil producer. your Uncle
sam received In August tho tidy sum
uf t77S,3TS.l1 in royalties from the
production Of oil. natural gas and
natural gss gasoline on government
iands In the west, according TO the
bureau OF mines.
Total net royalties accrulng to the
government 10 August 81 from these
sources amounted TO S7,ls7.493.77.
Of the Angus, royalties s3ss,9io.Ie
Is credited to Wyoming, t35i75l4O
90 california and $3i,sO7.25 to Mon
B. ua.
Chlcf Revenue Source.
Royalties on the production OF
o.l,' the bureau stated, constituted
by far the largest portion OF these
.lderal revenues and amounted 90
s1I5,G96.4S, royalties on natural gas
.dsol!ne t3,92i.i3."
The bureau received from tho
senearl land office In August 27l oil
and gas prospecting permits. bring
ing the total number OF permits re-
Hoivcd to S.63S. Five loasss were re-
,elvcd. making total OF 307
The governments sliding royalty
scale on oil produced from govern
mcut loascd lands, as provided hy
The leasing acts. is an important in
uoyatlon for the petroleum indus
;ry." an official Of the bureau Kaid.
Under II tho governments royalties
vary from l2h to 3S Ia per cent,
according to the rates OF production.
Sl,O0O,0OO Income.
During the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1929, the total government
royalty amounted TO approximately
$4,000, 900. Under the leasing acts
this amount is divldcd--l0 per cent
to the United States treasury. 81 "a
per cent to the state in which tho
oil and gas nre produced, and 50 y
per cent 10 the United states rocla'
nation service"
The number OF leases and pros
pocting permits lesucd up TO the
close ot the fiscal year recently
ended was az follows: Arizona, 26S
permits: California. 90 leases and
1856 permits. Colorado, 3iS per-
mits,: Idaho, 10 pcrmite; Kansas, !
permit: Louisiana, ! lease and 10
permits. Mississippi, 8 permits Mon
tann, II leases and l,l33 permits;
Nebraska, d permits Nevada, Ga
permits, New Mexico. 4b2 permits;
ANbl vi lfbkVAts If'i ililiNHF 'RihAA'
ma. permits. oregon, 20 permits;
South Dakota, 81 permits; Utah,
HAS permits; Washington. IS per-
mlts, and Wyoming, lS3 lcasee and
1915 permits.
Lots of Field Work.
Despite the business depression
and curtailed production, the bu-
roau said. field developments have
proceeded rapidly in the Rocky
mountain district. where on June 30
OF this year there we're 366 produc-
ing wells on government land, Of
which 267 wero In the salt creek
field I'm Wyoming. on that date 100
new wells were being drilled IN the
Salt creek field.
Active preparations also were I'm
I progress for the drilling program
required under the Mammoth oil
! company's lease Of naval reserve No,
/ 3 on Teapot dome. The bureau has
under construction camp adJa-
cent to the town OF Salt Creek IN or
der to maintain n supervisory force
/ OF competent men adequate for such
( large scale operations.
Developments have also proceed
! ed rapidly In Montana, whore Mt the
end of tho fiscal year 81 wells were
/ producing from government Leased
lands in the Cat creek field BY
| these developments the Cat creek
| field became tho third largest pro-
ducer of oil In the Rocky mountain
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