Show Roosevelt signs water lease With Ute Paving city streets promised Two important decisions were inched at the July 20 meeting i the Roosevelt City city blocks will be finished in the near future from cut-to-curb with an oil mulch and the signing of a water the Ute Indian Tribe Us been The road improvement is to begin this week Orson chairman Streets and Roads of the In Six blocks will be in the area and the other six r scattered throughout the Some of the 12 blocks already been but were done before cf Uie curb-and-gutter project and will now be finished up to the curbs on cither Property owners are pay- a portion of the paving I Roosevelt is cooperating with county in this i Water Lease d The council also voted ap- of a lease with the Ute Tribe making available some tribal land in the Leeton area which is presumed to have un- developed springs on John attorney for the Ute drew up the According to Mayor Kenneth R. the spring area is approximately one-fourth mile cast of the city's main pipeline in the Leeton To Be On Meter Upon development of the springs the city will pay the tribe on a meter basis for water The lease drawn up by the Ute legal counsel provides for a term and an option to renew for another 25 The council suggested several clarifications which could be made in the The agreement has to undergo scrutiny by the area office in Phoenix of Bureau of Indian Department of the and the ribal Business Council also has to approve the |