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Show I COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFATRS. 23 I holding maximum acreage to obtain additional leases in undeveloped territory, resulting not only in the development of land in unproven fields but an increase in the revenue of the Indians as well. On June 19, 1922, a well was completed in the Otoe field in Okla-homa which produced about 300 barrels of oil a day and from four to five million cubic feet of gas. This is the first oil from the Otoe field, although gas in commercial quantities has been produced - - since 1915. - . Oil development on the ceded portion of the Shoshone Indian Reservation, ,Wyo:, is satisfactor , considering the lack of transpor-tation and pipe-lmne facilities. $iv+ new wells were completed in township 6 north, range 2 west. The production in this field has now reached proportions that will probably justify pipe-line con-struction this summer. which means a market for oil and immedinte evpansion of the field: Two oil and gas wells are being drilled on restricted Indian land on the Blackfeet Reservation, Mont., under leases approved last year. The result mill nrobablv determine ~vhether anv more leases will be negotiatrd on tKat reservation. There are now five producing oil wells on restricted Indian land in the Soap Creek field, Crow Reservation, Mont., with an esti-mated proclnction of from 2,000 to 3,000 barrels a day for some years. Enough leases have been approved in several sections of the reserva-tion to insure the testing of the various structures, but drilling opera-tions on many of the leases have been delayed by lack of transporta-tion and pipe-line facilities. Considerable trouble in the Soap Creelr structure has come from infiltration of water, and a competent petroleum engineer has been detailed to investigate this condition in the field and take whatever steps are necessary to provide for protection against damage b water. On the treaty part of the Kavajo Reservation four leases of tribal land, each covering approximately 4,800 acres have been executed and approved, three of them being on the southern part of the reser-vation under the jurisdiction of the superintendent of the Navajo Agency, Fort Defiance, Ariz., and one in the north under the super-intendent of the San Juan Agency, Shiprock, N. Mex. Test wells are now being drilled. Two "22s wells were brought in on tribal land of the Ute Mountain Indian feservation in New Mexico adjacent to the Navajo Reserva-tion, one producing approximately 2,000,000 cubic feet and the other producing approximately 36,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day. On .June 9,1922, the Secretary of the Interior held that Executive-order reservations are subject to lease under the provisions of the oil-leasing act of Febn~ary 25, 1920 (41 Stat. L., 437). Leases on silch lands will he handled by the General Land Office. OSAGER ESERVATION.-To~u~ts tanding feature on the Osage Res-ervation, Okla., has been the development of the Burbank field on the west side of the reservation. The limits of this field have not yet been determined and a number of large 1r oducing wells have been brought in yielding a high prade of oil. s a result, very large amounts of bonus have been offered for leases of tracts adjoining producing leases in this field, one tract containing 160 acres being |