Show Oil 0 IL OPERATORS I RIO OlD HIGH fOR INmAN lANDS Ten Offers for More Than Thana a Million Each Are Made I for Quarter Section Near Lyman Oklahoma I P PAWHUSKA A Okla OkIa March 20 By A A. A P Oll P. P Oil operators h had d bid bida a total of pf for leases on Osage Indian land at the tho close chose of or orthis this years year's auction yesterday Five bids were for more than 1 each The Midland Oil on company created created cre cre- the greatest sensation in to today's today's tolay's to- to days day's sale when it offered for tor a tract near near Lyman the tho most that has ever ever been bid for a quarter quarter quarter ter section in the history of ot the Osage sales The Phillips Petroleum Petroleum Petro Petro- leum t company bid for a tract adjoining Other high bids were by bythe bythe bythe the Mid Kansas company and and by the Skelly Oil company Tho The three bids of ot more than 1 L- L each of fin In yesterdays yesterday's sale were those of and 1790 of Cosden Co and the 1 bid of the Prairie Oil on and Gas GaR company The Tho Osage tribe will meet to today today today to- to day to consider the bids Chief Chiet Paul Red Eagle will preside an and J. J George Wright Osage agent will supervise inspection of ot the leases The Phillips P Petroleum m company let forty-eight forty contracts yesterday for tor rigging on its new lands officials officials daIs said Throughout tho the sale more leases were passed than sold Colonel E. E L L. Walters auctioneer said last night Many of the leases drew smaller offers than the government ex expected expected ex- ex he ho added and the interior department t probably will refuse some of them |