"I have heard that there are great possibilities in Louisiana oil land."

He was interested in public utilities and the development of oil lands.

As soon as he got the Indians driven out, we grabbed their oil lands.

Buckley gave up his legal practice to speculate in real estate and leasing of oil lands.

I don't want Kewanee Springs; it's outside the oil land.

Through successful investments in oil lands, Dougherty became wealthy and spent the next several years traveling abroad.

One of the properties was a section of oil land, and the United States held the legal title to the property.

-friends who were keenly interested in acquiring those oil lands held by the government.

Paul's rich acres of oil land and the homesite was southwest of my shack.

"Those papers proving his right to the oil land, which you recovered from the sunken ship for him, must have made his fortune."

Peacock dared not let Bishop steal the deed to the Western oil land.

Today large funds are allocated to re-cultivate oiled lands.

"Well he bought, or got, somehow, shares in some valuable oil lands in Texas, and expected to double his fortune.

He was once very rich, and he invested heavily in oil lands, in Oklahoma, I believe."

He supported returning offshore oil lands to the states, and voted in favor of the non-interventionist Bricker Amendment.

Opponents say he strongly supported Interior Department decisions to resume selling Federal shale oil land for below-market costs.

In the early 1870s the otkupschina system was abolished and oil lands were parceled out under an 1872 auction to local and Russian-born investors.

His fortune had its beginnings back when the original Gundar Togelson had been pirating oil land from Mellon.

Established by constitutional amendment in 1976, the permanent fund receives 25 percent of the royalty and lease payments from state-owned oil land on Alaska's North Slope.

In direct language Tristan Marof held that "a powerful company, holds more than four million and a half of oil lands, pushed for that purpose (the war).

The partnership with Whittier lasted for five years, at the end of which, O'Donnell decided to continue alone becoming an independent driller, operator and oil land speculator.

After the bulk of his political career he became a partner in the Parkersburg State Journal and a director of the West Virginia Oil Land Company.

The executives of Gulf Oil started to doubt Thomas Frouge and the Gulf Oil Land Development Division, which was funding the project.

At the time, the two companies were among the largest independent concerns in the United States controlling wide areas of the best oil lands in the most productive districts of California.

In the narrative of that generation it was the West that had shattered the nationalist dream and then went on to give protection to those sparsely populated oil lands of the gulf.