OCR Text |
Show EXTENSION OF TRUST PERIODS. The following table shows the tribes whose period of trust has been extended, number of allotments on each reservation, the number so extended, date of expiration of trust, and length of extension: ' ! Ysarr. Modoe, Oklahoma ....................................... 68 54 1916 10 Abnentee Sh~wnee,,Olilahoma.. ................................. 519 504 1917 10 Citizen Potawatom Oklahoma. ............................... 1 588 1 503 1917 10 cheyenne snd *rap&@, o ~ a h om.a.. .......................... 3 : ~ 1 3: 164 1917 10 Ottawa, Oklahoma ............................................. 158 87 1917 10 Sen- Oklahoma ............................................ 435 ' 357 1917 10 wyandotte oklahoma ....................................... 244 118 1917 10 sac and ~ o k~, ~ n saands ~ e b r s..h.. ........................ 122 118 1917 10 Sac and Fax, Oklahoma .................................. 548 4% 1916 10 Iowa, Oklahoma ............................................... 108 105 1916 10 Oneida, Wireonsill. ............................................ 1,524 1,501 1917 1 In addition, the trust period on all Indian homesteads and dot-ments on the public domain which would otherwise expire during the calendar year 1917 has been extended for one year by an Exec-utive order. Authority for these extensions will be found in the fifth section of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), and the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 326). OSAGE OIL AND GAS LEASES. On May 31, 1917, there were sold at public auction at Pawhuska, Okla., leases covering certain Osage lands for oil-mining purposes, aggregating 9,120 acres, for a bonus consideration of $1,997,600, an average of $219 per acre. These lands consisted of scattering tracts on the east side of the reservation, which were being drained by reason of development on adjacent property and certain tracts in-cluded in gas leases on which oil wells were brought in. Leases cov-ering these tracts are for a period of five years and as long thereafter as oil is found in paying quantities, and provide for a royalty in addition to the bonus consideration of 16% per cent, except when wells on quarter-section tracts or fractional parts of quarter sections are s&cient to average 100 or more bar~els per well per day the royalty on oil produced is 20 per cent. The Osage Reservation, under which oil and gas is reserved to the tribe until 1931, comprises approximately 1,500,000 acres, of which one block on the east side was leased for oil and gas under a blanket lease authorized by Congress, which expired March 16, 1916. New leases have been made covering about 900,000 acres for gas and about 227,000 for oil. The oil leases, aggregating about 227,000 are included in the 900,000 acres leased for gas. On June 30, 1917, there were 1,234 dry and abandoned wells on the Osage Reservation, 3,244 producing oil wells, and 333 gas wells. The gross production of oil from July 1, 1916, to June 30, 1917, |