COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS

ROBERT F. WAGNER, New York, Chairman

KEY PITTMAN, Nevada

HENRY F. ASHURST, Arizona

ALVA B. ADAMS, Colorado

CARL A. HATCH, New Mexico

JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY, Wyoming

EDWARD P. COSTIGAN, Colorado

JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

PETER NORBECK, South Dakota

GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota

FREDERICK STEIWER, Oregon

ROBERT D. CAREY, Wyoming

CONTENTS

Page

Statement of:

Charles F. Consaul, of the law firm of Consaul & Heltman, Mills
Building, Washington, D. C..

152

A. T. Danaher, Casper, Wyo-

149

Hon. William R. Eaton, ex-Congressman from the First District of

Colorado..

23

Edward M. Freeman, representing the Midcontinent Oil and Gas
Association, Houston, Tex.

Robert P. Jackson, on behalf of the Oil Conservation Board of the
State of Montana, the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association,
Montana Petroleum Industries Committee, and Independent Petro-
leum Association of America, Great Falls, Mont-

Frederick L. Kirgis, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of the

Interior

65, 95

120, 124

George W. Malone, State Engineer of Nevada and vice-president
of the National Reclamation Association, Reno, Nev--

Robert L. Patterson, representing the State of California at the

Inter-State Oil Contract Conference, Taft, Calif.

Rufus G. Poole, Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Wash-
ington, D. C.

48

161

58, 146

5, 38, 55

Herman Stabler, Chief of Conservation Branch, Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior, Washington D. C..

16, 21, 179

J. W. Steele, former Supervisor of the Conservation Branch of the

Geological Survey, and now a member of the Planning and Coordi-

nation Committee, which is the code authority for the Petroleum

Industry---

163, 164

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