WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
Under Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended in 1946, 60 STAT. 951, 30 U.S.C. § 226 (1958), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for oil and gas public lands believed to contain oil and gas which are not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field. The Act provides that "the person first making application for the lease who is qualified to hold a lease under this Act...
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