| Show navajo indians become oil barons their royalties already the navajo indians of southeastern utah northwestern new mexico and northeastern anzona noted for their industry in the manufacture of blankets baskets and for their fine herds of sheep are passing into the ranks of oil barons these indians who are the pride of the govern because they are the only red skins that are living today in the same manner as when the pilgrims landed at plymouth or when escalante was blazing the trail through the unexplored southwest are owners of the richest undeveloped oil land left in the united states A recent report of H J hager roian special commissioner to the navajo indians shows that close to half a million dollars has been credited to the tibal fund up to february 1 1927 as result of oil opera eions the amounts are as follows bonus royalties rentals fees 2007 total the total output of oil up to february 1 1927 was barrels divided as f follows hogback rattlesnake table mesa the reservation contains a num her of oil structures which have not been tested the recent act of con gresa signed by president coolidge on march 3 gives the indians the royalties from executive order in alian land of which there is a very large area surrounding the treaty land the present producing are all on the treaty land but f others be developed on the ex order land as soon as litigation pending m federal courts is dismissed the new law provides for dihe of the disputes which were in the courts af the time it was passed the boundary butte structure in southeastern utah had lan oil well producing oil that had been drilled by the midwest refining company but it was closed down pending the settlement of the land question with the indiana and the government this oil came framl the conglomerate at around 1600 feet which makes the prospects for oil in the pennsylvania encouraging the oil produced on the navajo reservation is of peculiar high grade unlike oil found any other place in the united states it comes from the ground an color and can be put directly into an automobile it runs extremely high gravity with the recent act passed end the matter settled the navajo indians will find their land specked with oil derricks and producing them millions of dollars ain royalties whether or not the navajo indians will continue to preserve their age lold characteristics or aiu become lazy indifferent and content to live on their oil millions letting their farms go unfilled their flocks die off and quit making navajo blankets tend baskets that are world famed is a that is of much concern with the indian department and hundreds of writers and lovers of th cavajos navajos Nava jos |
