| Show BELIEVES CONGRESS WILE PASS ON INDIAN BILLI prospects are good for the passage at this session of congress oi the bill which would settle the matter of the payment of royal tie on the navajo indian reservation in utah and allow the development of oil there to proceed according to H J hagerman of santa fe N M who is of the department of the interior to the navajo tribe in this capacity lu has jurisdiction over nearly acres of navajo lands located in i arizona new mexico utah and colorado under a decision of secretary of the interior albert fall a num ber of utah concerns and individuals filed oil and gas prospecting aepli on the navajo reservation and succeeded in developing oil later however the decision of secretary fall was reversed by the then attorney general H stone and oil op orations erat ions were stopped the former held that executive order indian res of which the navajo i utah is one are subject to entry ur der the leasing act of 1920 and thai royalties go to the united stat attorney general stone however held differently he ruled that royalties on such reservations should go to the indians the hayden bill mr hagerman claims in effect carries out the stone decision and restores to the applicants those permits which were filed prior to may 27 1924 and which have been carried out in good faith since that time it further provides that future oil development will be on the same basis as on the treaty reservations at the present time the oil which has been discovered i on the navajo reservation is of good quality and is found at relatively shallow depths he points out |
