The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22
Shutdown Committee Asks
for Resembling of Order
ia Usage
IN OSnqe

Members OF the shutdown and
storage committee capitulated yes
fsUlay IN the face OF the roar that
WAS let ont by Burbank producers
over the Usage shutdown order. The
committee drafted a resolution ed-
dressed 20 tho department OF tho
,.terior. stating that, In Wow OF the
hct that shutdown order cover
.0r other government lands had not
been obtained. the shutdown body
believed that tho order was unfair
fo the operators within the limited
area OF the Usage nation. Tho rcsO-
M,l1n asks that the same policy be
applied TO the OsaEe as has been
gpplled to the lands OF the Five
CIVILIZED Tribes and other govern
,uent and Indian lands under tho
Jurisdiction OF the department
The resolution, however. urges the
department OF tho interior to con
flnus 20 use It's best efforts to in
duce and assist operators In cur
failing new development wherever
possible" AS applied to other In
dian and government lands, the de-
partment Of the interiors policy has
been merely TO call the attention OF
its agents 10 the overproduction and
low price OF petroleum and 10 urge
them to cooperate with producers
with view to preventing unneces-
sary drilling
Text Of Resolution.
The resolution, which was adopt
81 yesterday morning and immedi-
ately forwarded 10 J, George Wright,
superintendent OF the Usage Indian
agency at Pawhuska, for transmits
sion 20 Washington follows:
To the Secretary OF the Interior,
Washington, y. c.
Tho shutdown committee OF the
M!d-Continent field, with whom you
have had certain correspondence
relative TO n shutdown Of operations
in tho oil fields, begs leave 10 pre-
sent 70 you the following resolution
hy way OF n suggestion and as COR
rectly stating the present consensus
ot opinion among the members OF
that committee.
Resolution.
Whereas. on the 25th day OF Sep
tember. 1929, tho shutdown COM
mittee OF the Mid-Continent oil
Producers, acting upon a communi-
cation received from the superin-
tendent OF tn Usage Indian agency,
and after consideration Of conditions
IN the oil producing fields, and the
crude oil markets OF the United
states did pass a resolution which
was forwarded 10 the said super!n-
tendent and by him TO the depart
ment Of the Interior In which reso-
luton u was recited that the price
~ crude oil has been reduced 10 n
point below cost Of production and
considerably below the intrinsic
value thereof, and that there wa
an excess Of oil being produced, thus
constituting an economic waste and
creating at least temporary con-
gestion which could only be relieved
by a curtailment OF drilling opera
tons. and
Whereas, IN order 20 remedy this
condition and 10 assist the commit
tee IN bringing about as nearly a
I, universal shutdown as possible, the
said resolution did express the be-
lief that the secretary OF the interior
by exercising the powers that the
committee then believed did reside
in him. could bring about a smut
down Of drilling operations not only
in the Usage nation but upon re-
sS.cted Indian lands and upon pub
lie lands OF the United states gen
e1lly, including the Teapot don't
and the Fields of Wyoming and Call
f0rna, and
Whereas. the said resolution dlC
ask the secretary OF the interior e