The Cordova daily times., 1922-11-03
OIL ROYALTIES FAT REVENUE
 FOR NATION

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. - In his role of millionaire oil producer, your Uncle Sam received in August the tidy sum of $778,37811 in royalties from the production of oil, natural gas and natural gas gasoline on government lands in the west, according to the Bureau of Mines.
 Total net royalties accruing to the government to August 31 from these sources amounted to $7,187 ,439.77. Of the August royalties $3S8,819.46 is credited to Wyoming, $354,751.40 to California and $34,S0925 to Montana. CHIEF REVENUE SOURCE
 Royalties on the production of oil" the bureau stated, constituted by far the largest portion of these Federal revenues and amounted to $745, ,696.48; royalties on natural gas were S28,- 76O.2O and on natural gas gasoline $3,92143"
 The bureau received from the Gen. eral Land Office in August 271 oil and gas prospecting permits, bringing the total number of permits received to S,53S. Five leases were received, mak- ing total of 307.
 "The governments sliding royalty scale on oil produced from govern ment leased lands, as provided by rhe leasing acts, is an important lnnova- tion for the petroleum industry" an official of the bureau said. "Under 1t the governments royalties vary from i121a to 33 1-3 per cent, according to the rates of production.
 $4,ooo,ooo INCOME
 During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, the total government royalty amounted to approximately $4,0OO,G00. Under the leasing acts this amount is divided-1O per cent to the United States Treasury, 371a per cent to the state in which the oil and gas are produced, and 52R per cent to the United States Reclamation Service.
 The number of leases and prospect ing permits issued up to the close Of the fiscal year recently tnded was as follows: Arizona, 269 permits; Cali fornia. ninety-nine leases and 1856 permits; Colorado, 34S permits; Idaho seventy permits; Kansas, one permit; Louisiana, one lease and ten permits Mississippi, eight permits; Montana, , eleven leases and 1,133 permits; Ne braska, six permits; Nevada, 614 per mits; New Mexico, 452 permits; North Dakota, two permits: Oklahoma, two permias; Oregon, twenty-three per permits; Oregon, twenty-three per bits; Utah, 1,478 permits; Washington eighteen permits, and Wyoming, lS3 leases and 1915 permits.
 LOTS OF FIELD WORK Despite the business depression and curtailed production, the bureau said 1 field developments have proceeded rapidly in the Rocky Mountain dis trict, where on June 90 of this year there were 366 producing wells on gov ernment land, of which 2G7 were in the Salt Creek field in Wyoming. On i that date 100 new wells were being drilled in the Salt Creek field. Active preparations also were in progress for the drilling program re | quired under the Mammoth Oil Com pany's lease of Naval Reserve No on Teapot Dome. The burHau has under construction a camp adjacent to the town of Salt Creek in order tc maintain a supervisory force of com potent men adequate for such large
 scale operations.
 Developments have also proceeded
 rapidly in Montana, where at the enc of the fiscal year fifty-seven wells
 were producing from government
 leased lands in the Cat Creek field
 By these developments the Cat Creel
 field became the third largest produc
 CT of oil in the Rocky Mountain dis
 trict
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