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Show SAN MI! OIL LEASESJELD OP Companies Stand to Lose Tidy Sum ' Mldweet ftaflnli9 and Mutual eompanlee, tha Bouthweetern Oil ayndtcata and tha Wllaoa-Craa-mar ayndioato are likely ta loae comparatively large amounta expended ex-pended tn development work on varioue Indian reaervatlona. aaya tha Financial Review, Tha United Btatea attorney general gen-eral baa advlaad tha arc rotary of tha interior that the all leaning act the ltle dora not apply ta eieoutlve order Tndlan reaervatlona and that former e),cretary Fall haa violated tha lawa geverntng tha land aet aaldo for tha Indiana. 8uch leaaea were laaued ta Ika oompanlaa named a nova On tha Boundary Bulla structure, which atraddlaa the I'tah-Arlaona llnee, the Mldweat company haa apent 12(0. 000 on one well. Including Includ-ing the building of a road that coat tta.eOS and the development of a coal mine. At Oraaa Rock, the Wtlaon-Cranmer ayndlcate haa apent about IM.O0S In drilling, and ether largo auma have been expended ex-pended In aurveya and geoioglalng by numeroua ooncarna. Pending a hearing, all operallona will be discontinued. dis-continued. All these structures are covered by permits laeued by Secretary Kali under what Attorney General, Vme bellevee was a misconstruction of the scope of tha leasing act. The question of the right of the Interior department to teaue thsse permits waa raised by the Indian Rlghta association and not because of thd hue and cry against Fill, |