Show navajo tribal lands may hold new wealth WINDOW ROCK ariz G warren spaulding superintendent of the navajo reservation indian agency visualizes a line me in I 1 the near future when natural resources on the tribal lands will bring great wealth I 1 the ne surface er ey A been scratched he says of the vast potentialities here la in urani uranium tim gas and oil oll people are co ieng aing in with mn millions of dollars dollan in backing including bis big organizations which are pulling their operations out of utah say san spaulding at the rate these majors are coming in we really are axe going to nave have some thing uranium development on navajo land has bag so far resulted in payment to the navajos cavajos of more than that particular phase of development of natural resource resources Is in ite its infancy oil and gas leases have brought in a total of 18 million so far some of the oil leases going for as much u spaulding reveals that a total of of the reservation reservations more than IS 15 million acres are an now tind under oil and d 9 ga leases while only acres are an under mining permits and leases because of the limitation of acres for any single operation |