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Show : 4 Uintah-Ouray Agency Announces Oil Lease Bids Oil activity around Roosevelt has been increasing during the past two weeks. This week it was announced that sealed bids will be received at the Uintah and Ouray agency, agen-cy, Ft. Duchesne, until 2 p. m. June 1 for oil and gas mining leases on nine 40-acre tracts of restricted individual Indian-ownership land, located in Sections 1-11-12, Township .2 South, Range 1 East. Each unit is being offered for separate least, for a cash bonus in addition to the stipulated royalties, roy-alties, and rental at $1.25 per acre per annum. Bids for a minimum of a single sin-gle unit, or for two, or three or all of the units of the area, as advertised, will be entertained, 111 , Also this week, Carter Oil Co. announced a, change In op eration procedure at the Ute Tribal No. 1 well, located near Bennett. Four pumpers W. T. Swisher, Virgil Scurlock, Giles Ortschid, and Kenneth Rood have been assigned to take over pumping operations at the Ute Tribal by May 15. These men, all with from 8 to 15 years of I service with Carter, will be under un-der direct supervision of Adolph Johnson, of Carter Oil at Vernal. Ver-nal. Until the arrival of these men. the Ute Tribal production crew had been composed of local contract labor. Seventeen men of a Sun Oil geophysical exploration crew, of Beaumont, Tex., directed by' Party Chief R. L. Davis, have been stationed in Roosevelt for about a month on seismograph work. Mr. Davis said this is the first visit of the Sun Oil Co. to the Uintah Basin. How long the seismograph crew remains in this area will depend on oil-bearing oil-bearing structure discoveries, or possible transfer to another locality. |