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Show Notice Of Gas And Oil Mining Lease Sale UNDER SEALED BID, 2:00 P. M.. MAY 22, 1951 Sealed bids will be received at the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah, until 2:00 p. m.. May 22, 1951, for Oil and Gas leases on the following described units of individually allotted, allot-ted, restricted Indian lands, located on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reseration, Duchesne County, State of Utah, all of which lands hereafter described, lie within the Uintah Special Base Meridian Survey, to-wit; Township I North, Range I West Unit Allottee or Owner No. Des. Sec. Ac. 1. Minnie Ridley 624 U&W NE SW 31 40 2. Frank Chegup 82 U&W NW NE 31 40 3. Sylvia D. Oberhansly wVi SE 31 80 4. Sally Chegup 79 U&W NE NE 31 40 5. Chegup 78 U&W NW NW 32 40 6. Moquint 115 U&W SW NW 32 40 7. Ephraim Panowitz 589 U&W NW SW 32 40 Each unit is offered for separate sep-arate lease, for a cash bonus in addition to the stipulated royalties, royal-ties, and rental of $1.25 per acre per annum. The successful and responsible bidder for any lease will be required to pay in advance, an annual rental of $1.25 per acre, the cost of advertising, ad-vertising, and a filing fee of $5.00 for each .lease contract consummated. A deposit of 20 per cent of the bonus bid and 20 per cent of the advance rental for the first year must accompany the bid and be in the form of a certified check or bank draft drawn on a solvent bank, payable pay-able to the Treasurer of the United States. N o individual, corporation, partnership, company, or association associ-ation shall hold under lease for oil andor gas mining purposes, Indian tribal lands and restricted restrict-ed allotted Indian lands on any one Indian Reservation, in excess ex-cess of 25,000 acres. Acreage leased by an officer 0? director of a corporation, company, or. association, or by a stockholder holding 40 per cent or more of the" stock of the corporation, company, or association shall be charged against the corpor ation, company or association and vice versa. The acreage leased by a member of a partnership part-nership shall be charged against the partnership and vice versa. The acreage of corporations, companies, or associations having hav-ing common stockholders owning own-ing a majority of the stock of each corporation, company, or association, or having one or more common officers or directors direct-ors shall be charged against each other. Bids for a minimum of a sin-jgle sin-jgle unit, or for two or more or all of the units of the area, as advertised, will be entertained, and the successful bidder on such units will be required to take leases on the lands subject to the understanding that a separate sep-arate lease contract will be issued is-sued on each unit as listed, and jail conditions of this advertise-'ment advertise-'ment shall apply to each separate sep-arate lease contract so made. The sale will be held and the leases executed in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1909. (35 Stat. 781, 783), the Act of May 11. 1938 (52 Stat. 347), and 25 C.F.R., Part 189 as to allotted allot-ted lands. Lease Form 5-154h will be used for the allotted land lease contracts. All successful bidders will be required to prepare their own leases and secure the signatures of all Indian lessors. Successful bidders must complete and return re-turn the leases and all suoport- ing- papers within 30 days from date of award, together with the balance of the bonus and rental, payments and a $5.00 lease fee. An additional period of time will be granted for good and sufficient suf-ficient reason upon request made prior to the expiration of the original 30-day period. The Superintendent reserves the right, as a condition precedent to the granting of any extended period of time for filing a lease, to require the deposit of - any remaining sums due and owing on the lease, including the bal ance of the bonus bid and the first year's rental. Failure of the successful bidder to comply with the terms of the sale and the regulations, will render his deposit liable to forfeiture in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Leases not completed within the required length of time will be subject to revaluation of bonus and sales may be cancelled and deposits de-posits forfeited unless for good and sufficient reason an exten slon of the filing period is granted. grant-ed. Bids received will be referred to the respective owners of each allotment or unit for acceptance ac-ceptance before further action is taken by this office. Only ar such bids are approved by such owners, can a lease be drawn The right is reserved by the Commissioner of Indian Affair? to reject any or all bids and to disapprove any lease made or. an accepted bid Should any bid be rejected after a deposit is made, through no fault o' the bidder, all moneys depositee' shall -be returned. The lessee must furnish a satisfactory sat-isfactory surety bond aa required requir-ed by regulations. All bids must be marked on the outside of - the envelope. "Bid on Oil and Gas Lease, Allotted Al-lotted Indian lands, not to hf opened until 2:00 o'clock P. M. May 22. 1951." C. E. FAULKNER Actg. Supt, Uintah & Ouray Agency, Ft. Duchesne. Utah First Publication, April 26, 1951 Second Publication, May 3, 1951 Last Publication, May 17, 1951 |