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Show 12 REPOR? OF $HE COMI~ISSION&R OF INDIAN ABFAIBS was dismissed by the court June 8. 1WZ5, as wlthout merit. the couH holdlng that the only right powsPd by thew Indiana in rrnd to the quarries was Illat of u*cr. which rich1 they still exercise. Ap~)eahl as been taken 10 the rui ted - - States supreme Court. . . . . . . ... ... , , . . . . . .. . . . Improved m*?kit conditions prpqiling in the oil and gis industry resulting from the constant increase in the use of petroleum products naturany served to st@nulate,gr$ater interest m the leasing of Indian lands for mining of these products. ' During the year' 205,958 acres. were leased for oil and gas mining purposes,, being ag increase of a little more than 40 per cent over the acreage leased during the prior, year. On the Osage Reserva-tion, Okla., 45,874 acres were leased, making a tota! of 556,662 acres now under lease for oil-mining,purposes on that reservation. Ne* leases were approved on 96,572 acres: belonging to allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, making a total of 785,535 acres of their lands now under. oil and gas mining leases: The Indians other than the Osage and Five Civilized Tribes rece~ved an income during the year. from 011 and gas leases of more than $1,000,000. The Osage Tribe received as rentals and, royalties from oil and gas leases a revenue for the year of $10;487,943; and the leases of the Five Civilized Tribes Indians produced an income of approximately $4.425.213. The eross oil wroduction for the vear was a~~roximately A A 41;907;021 barrel: Within the treaty portion of the Navijo' Indian Reservation, ,N. Mex., nine wells were completed .during the year, seven of whlch produced oil. There are now t9. wells on the Navajo Reservation producing oil of about 62" A. P: I. gravity. The second sale of tribal leases within, that reservation was held June 23, 1926, at which time 12 additional leases were sold embracing 18,160 acres. The bonus received for these leases amounted to $62,400. A t the same sale two exploratory leases on approximately '9,300 acres on the Ute Mountain Reservatlon weresold for which a bonus of $2,400 was received. , . : . . A p i p line has'bken'constiu&ted within' the Navajo Reservation by the Continental Oil Co. from the Rattlesaake and Table Mesa structures to Ga1lup;N. Mex., a djstance of 97 miles. Several large storag? tanks were also built in connection with itspipe line by that company which i s the owner of a.n interest in the Rattlesnake lease. .This a d d i t i p ~ml eans of transporting and mrketinp of oil &ill ho dohbt .stimulate a grist&=i.h terest in 'this' field and result in increased. oil runs f r om ~ $ 1 a1ke~a dy producing,,.yme. of which have probably not been operatedto their full, capacity. A sale of Osage oil leases was held' March17 and 18, 1926. Leases on approximately 46,3312acres were sold for a bonusof $3,998,485. By an act of Congress @pproveZ"~pril1:7 , 1926, ' authority, was anted to lease for mining purposes tribal Indian lands reserved %r Indian agency and school purpases. An act approved Juz1e,,12,,:1926; authorizes the est&blishment of a trust fund to ,be administered for 'the ben4fit of the' Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache 1ndians::of the. Kiowa 'Reservation, Okla., and their unallotted children, from certain oil royalties received from leases in the bed of the Red River adjoining the Kiowa Reser-vation. |
