Show Ute Indians Indian May Max BeW 4 t 1 1 dl may feme mar roar me day be the plutocrats pl 1 1 locra crat a of eastern ea tem Utah and w W Colorado was indicated in federal court proceedings at Grand Junction Tuesday as at at- attorneys attorneys for the Indians and the Indians and the United States Court of Claims began hearing arguments and testimony In In- In Involved Involved are acres of coal lands half of the Rangely and Wilson Creek oil fields and other oil domes in their entirety plus thousands of acres of min min- mineral eral forest and grazing lands The pasture lands and brush mountains and plains stretch along alone the Utah border from near the Wyoming line almost to the New Mexico line As one attorney conversant Continued on Page 8 U M I Jt rl Jed ed frO I le 1 with With the he the case summarized rh d the amount ey ow b tho people Indians oi 04 the tl United S Sates fe to the Indians in this ca e cant will prove to be enough enouch to stagger I Congress t ti J Z The validity of of the cl n It it- it itself self Is unquestioned an ed since the fo Federal eX eXan Court of Claims ad- ad ad ju this point It ln in the he fiction brought by the con con- federated confederated bands oi of Ute Indians Indiana do time one owners and d residents l of 1 ok the tremendous territory The present hearing is ls ex ex- expected to last perhaps eight weeks on the issue of surface surface values only surface Sub values will be determined in a B second section of the preliminary hear hear- hearIng hearing ing to be held probably in Den Den- Denver Denver ver next spring Then will fol fol- fol follow follow low a hearing before the Court of Claims in Washington and probable appeals to the U S Supreme Court |