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Show the other side ci r. ancos Cmyon. ' rho re may be some hore v; ho havo not been nt tho meetings before, so I will explain the pro; o3ed leases briefly. Last f a l l about Octouer, sor. o white men cerco to Xhe office while wo woro s t i l l down In xhe old building and wanted xo- got a lease on some of Xho Uto land for the purpose of d r i l l ing o i l wolis. At tho f i r s t of the following month, I xalked thiD ovor tfixh some of you men and wo hnvo ax mosx every meex-inp, since, talked about xhese leases unxll a l l of you understand pretty well what it means. Mosx of you r e c a l l thax l a s t spring, a short time efter I came hero we hed a meoxing ar. l olectod live iron who wore to represent a l l of you in matters of i n t e r e s t to xhe t r i b e. You of course, know who xhese men aro: John Miller, John Ayres, Johnny Benou or tfroone Uxe, Allen Talk and Jack llouse. How, when Xhe question of leas in a; soma oi the Ute land xor d r i l l i ng o i l wel 1.3 cams up, I t'ilkod i t over with these five mon. finally the leases were pre? aro. 1 and three of tho on, Allen * alk, Johnny Benou and Jack House decided to si* n, and did sign. Thin lease proposes to give to you, in addition xo the cash r e n t a l , one eighth of tho o i l , that 13, the Indians >^ ct one banal and tho white men got seven b a r r e l s , The t o t a l number of i- cres in xhe leases not? jroposed is V, 600 and l i e s on tho oe3t border of the reservation near the La I l o t t a Kivor in the state ci New Mexico. This ai- oa at the eldest place is three and one quarter miles east and west and the greatest length north and south is fivo and one quarter mils3. Low, what Washington wants you to do i s to t a l k xhls over here and decide |