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Show \r- ,7 £ 1 f Oi Salea, ^ peaAinsO8 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR .o W I> Y. UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE Hydrocarbons, Uir.tah and Ouray Agenoy, gas and oil. T/hiterooko, Utah, January 23, 1912. The CoTmnioaionor of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. 0. Sir: Thoro have reeontly been returned to this offioo for .furthor oonolderation and roport a large number of land oalos. Attaohed thoroto f in about all cases, in a roport from tho Director of the Geological Survey saying those lands aro situated in a gonoral region known to contain valuable deposits of hydrocarbons, and that* ho has reports indicating gas and oil in the regions. In a few oases ho has suggested there was possible jwator power where the lands border on the Duchesne river. Under date of January 3, 1912, I reported, setting forth the exigency now existing in the mattor of land sales, and roport-ing that tho information offerred by tho Director added nothing to what was known to every one here. Since then I have more oarefully investigated those questions, honoo roport more filly. The hydrooarbon doposits aro found In oar£h fissures from a fow inohos to fivo or six feet in witrth. Those fissures run in an almost direot line for oovoral miles, and all outoroppdnge have boon known and located many years. Thooo fissuros run di-rootly downward with few exceptions. Tho exceptions so far found moan that a slight dip may exist noar tho surfaoo, when lator it runs downward. |