Show PORTRAITS PORTRAUPS PRESENTED NUTES TO IJTES BY STANDARD CARTER CAIMR HEADS mad J beai beautiful ul lifelike life like portraits 9 rtralts of 0 representatives qt the white river uintah and ouray bandi bands of the ute indians were presented to the tribe recently by oil executives executive sIn in an impressive ceremony representing repr6s tang tlng oil coropaniei comp&nles operating operatin operatic ope ratin in that area were john R suman vice vicepresident president of S edard wdard 11 bilof oilof of new jersey 0 4 vil schorp ot president resident ofcar of carill cara ter 1 company who wentto rentto wen tto tho tribal headquarters tat at the lott4or for the presen presentation tatiom rex curr curry Y chairman of d the tribal council and members john victor delia della curry albert albertf alberta harris john wopsock russell Rus selT cochand cuchand Cu cuda cudf chand and forrest IL stone su perintendentf perlntendent received the e por traits onbehairct owbehalfct the utes poowegup of ibe white river band and andrew prank frank of the uintah bandAl bandtwof bandaltwo two of the subjects odthe ofthe of the portraits were present but pawwlnee pawwtnee of the ouray band wax was high la in the cintas ulntaa uintas t tending his sheep i in presenting rapresentlng the paintings mr simian suman said othis morning as we flew mew over r lat lzt the uintah basin and later visited 1 the garter carter oil companys companas Comp anys new discovery on tribal land at duchesne I 1 could not help but recall the history of oil d development jentof mentof of this area todia today oil U wasin production 0 induction iduction in inthe the uintah basin ff isa reality tea lity with three pools under development and many wildcats projected or drilling yet as recently as five ye years agolmany ago4many agol many of the oil industrys ollindustrys indu strys best experts would have told you that there them could not be any oil inthe uintah ulntaln ulntah baslo s tor continued on onpage6 1 i I 1 1 Z PROTHAITS PRESENTED TO UTES BY OIL COMPANIES continued from page 1 division exploration manager and oscar okar schorp the president of the carter oil company so strong was the faith of these carter men that oil could be discovered that the carter oil company alone ha hai pent spent almost half of the ali lli 11 million dollars that all oil companies have invested in exploration in the basin ba in while much credit Is due to these men of our organization and aind while they are continuing their efforts to expand these successes which now have been achieved we could not have put their ideas into effect without tht aht operation cooperation co of you people assembled here today your superintendent erin tendent and your tribal council chairman have given long and serious thought to all more than 50 30 years prior to the first discovery on tribal lands at roosevelt many geologists looked over your range land yet almost with wjth wath exception their conclusions clu sions were all the same it is not a good place to look for oil all the fact that oil was discovered at all is the result of vision perserverence perserver ence and faith on the part rt of a small group of individuals d duals puals four of whom whorn ahorn are here with me today phil williams senior geologist larry hart district geologist ray sloan of the many problems arising from time to tune time in connection with our exploration program they have given you you the benefit ot of their knowledge and we appreciate their operation cooperation co with us in our efforts to evaluate the possibilities of the basin you have assisted us by leasing leasin cou19 your land in order that we could assemble blocks of sufficient size to warrant the drilling of new cew wells you have recognize recognlz recogniz rec ogniz ed the benefits of unit operations and have committed your land to these units in order that the maximum recovery of oil under your lands will be realized As evidence of our appreciation for the operation cooperation co which you have given us I 1 wish at this time to present to the tribe several of the oil paintings the work of bettina steinke who you will recall visited you lasi lar year |