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Show REPORT OF THE SECBETAEY OF THE INTERIOR 27 RIGHTS OF WAY Codification of the regulations under the various rights of way laws was completed and will he available as soon as a printed supply can be obtained. A right of way was granted to the railroad through the San Carlos Reservation, Ariz., as one of the steps necessary to secure the abandonment and removal of the existing railroad within the flowage area of the Coolidge Reservoir. By act af April 21, 1928, certain sections of the Code of Laws of the United States of America, in force December 6, 1926, and the basic acts of Congress cited in such sections, regarding rights of way for rdroads, highways, telephone and telegraph lines, and oil and gas pipe limes, were made applicable to the lands of Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. Much ' benefit to the Indians as well as to applicants for rights is expected to result from the provisions of this act. Although less than during the preceding year it is noteworthy that applications for the opening of more than 700 miles of public highways have been approved. OIL AND GAS Oil and gas mining leases were approved on approximately 208,000 acres of restricted Indian lands within 18 Werent reservations. A number of leases were made within raservations where there were no oil or gas producing wells and where heretofore there has been little or no oil leasing activity, particularly within the Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., where 4,960 awes were leased, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation, Okla., where 15,558 acres were leased; also 1,520 acres were leased in Montana belonging to Chippewa Indian allottees under jurisdiction of the Turtle Moun-tain Agency. There were 256 producing oil wells and 27 producing gas wells drilled during the year on restricted lands belonging to allottees of the Five Civilized Tribea in Oklahoma, whioh bring the total of producing oil and gas wells on lands of these Indians under super-vision to 5,290 and 226, respectively. The total number of barrels of crude oil produced and sold from lands of the Five Civilized Tribes was 25,854,133, being nearly double the amount produwd during the prior year. This increase in production was due in a measure to new discoveries in the Seminole country, although con-certed effort to curtail production in that region was put forth by the operators. In the Osage Reservation where an attempt was also made to hold down production as far aa possible, there were approximately 4,000,000 barrels less mude oil produced than during the prior year. The Osage Tribe received more than $11,600,000 fmm oil and gas leases d& the year, while the Indians of the |