Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-06 | Page 34 | Indian Lands to be Leased

I. I ii H J mAN lANDS lANDSI Hp I f TO Of BE LEASED 11 Pi 1 as Not ot Open to Usual J Prospecting Permits 11 Declared i t Oland lland gas prospecting leases J land within reservations vill be offered to public bid by the In- In 5 of the department of interior prospecting permits do doS S not pertain to these lands Ell Eli 1 F. F T Talor land of office ce register explained ex- ex Friday in the bUt bill signed by President Coolidge Tie measure neasure which passed congress con con- gress gives and assignees as- as the right to continuo continue their work ork on the lands 5 Two cases which involved lan land landen en n the the Navajo Indian reservation ot of I Edward I II I on and the Midwest Oil and Southwest Oil companies as assignees as- as signe s and the J. J H H. Pearson and Mutual Mutu i Oil company The Harrison Harrison case is now before S States supreme court to toS S r deterT determine whether Harrisons Harrison's per per- which antedates the Stone dec de- de c sion of May 27 1924 is still stin valid vaUd Th Pearson case Is analogous in points ma-points oth cases development was started including the building of roads and drilling The new law lawa a such to re- re sun sum their The govern govern- had sought to revoke the permits per per- of the Stone mils mits on the authority decision which provided for leas leas- lug iris of the lands by the Indian li e. e I