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Show 1-13329 land- Baleo 2769-1912 W D V"' '< 1>: Sulno of Indian lands. jrF REFERENCE <-.O .f MAR -1191? J rV - i £ 3 " i *J . i- -. • t , ,i FEB -3.1912 ;j7 ''.'3.' I i ** '•'Wi5 •./ Tho Honorable Tho Seoretary of tho Interior. Sir: A number of roporte havo boen rcooivod from the Director of tho Geological Om*vey regarding the character of tho land on the Uintah and Ouray P.eoor-. vation, in Utah. Thooo roporto aro praotlcally tho name, that on tho allotment of Togoahnnpootd being: Thin land is oitu&tod in a general region that ia knovm to contain valuable depooito of heavy hydrooarbono, notably 7 > ' tho minerals ozocerite and gilsonite. Those minoralo havo a wide use and are of conoiderablo value in tho tradeo as fly. a base for aoid-proof paints and oomo .7 varniohcn, ao well as for othor purpoooB,'; ': An account of theno depooita by G. H, :'V,.'.'•/.• , Illdridgo io containod in the Twenty-oocond Annual Report, Part 1 (.1901), of the U. 8. Geological Survey. Other, geologists of the Survey havo eincd visited the area in tho oouroo of other investigations and report oon- '.'/, oiderablo activity and many new die- M '3377..; ft' covorioe in tho rogion. Tho exact .y •] locution and oxtont of hut fow of tho, 7,•'''* ';'-• voino oontaining thooo minoralo io ... knovm to the Survey, and it io, thoroforo, impoooiblo to state , ' ,7; , ,. |