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Show I Reservation News . . . ' j 18 About The $ I UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION f, LAND-OIL AND GAS Interest at the oil and gas lease sale of March 16, when bids on 29 individual Indian allotments al-lotments of the reservation were opened, was greater than had been anticipated. High bids ranging from $30.77 per acre on 18 of the allotments, made by fpur companies jointly. Carter, Continental, Sinclair and Superior, Su-perior, to $76.77 per acre on 11 allotments, placed by Phillips Phil-lips Petroleum Co., were received. re-ceived. A total high of $62,400 bonus on these lands was bid. In addition, the 1,280 acres would draw $1.25 per acre annual an-nual rental for the 10 year lease period. J. Grant Iverson, of Salt Lake City, bid on 20 of the allotments, but his bids, ranging from $15.00 to' $55.00 per acre were topped in each instance toy the higher bids of the major companies. This is the third time there has been a request for some of these allotments to be advertised adver-tised for lease. One was advertised ad-vertised for a sale held in Oct. 1945; some for a sale of Dec., 1946, and all were advertised for the sale of last Oct., 1953. No bids were received at two of the sales and in 1946, bid's ranging from 520 to $1.25 per acre were received. However, no leases issued. The allotments are located along the Whiterocks and Farmcreek Canals north ' of Whiterocks, and they, with 12,-222 12,-222 acres of Tribal lands on which leases have recently been approved, comprise the first block of Indian lands leased this far north on the reservation. reserva-tion. The decision to' accept the bonus offer and enter into o lease is up to the individual owners,- and they will be contacted con-tacted within the next month or two by representatives of the companies, for this purpose. R-N CERAMICS CLASS The Recreation Department of the Ute tribe has announced the inauguration of ceramics class for beginners on March 25, 1954, at 10:00. in the morning morn-ing in the old Agency Office building. The ceramics class will include type of clay, use of moulds, preparing, casing, sponging, painting, firing, glazing glaz-ing and finishing. A $2.00 registration fee per person will be charged for. non-memibers non-memibers of the Ute Tribe, and the beginners' course will last for eight weeks. Advanced course will follow the beginners' begin-ners' course at a later date. Nightly classes will be arranged as interest and necessity demand, de-mand, in addition to the daily classes. R-N BASKETBALL GAME The Fort Duchesne Huskies will entertain a highly favored basketball team from Ft. Washakie, Wash-akie, Wyoming, Saturday evening eve-ning on March 27, 1954, in the Alterra gymnasium. The rre- Iiminary game will begin at 7:00 p.m., followed by the main game, at 8:00 p.m. This is the last game of the season for the Huskies and the general public is invited to attend. . R-N ATTENDS CONFERENCE Roy Adams, education field agent, left Tuesday morning for Riverside, Calif. . to attend an Administrators' conference, called call-ed by the Phoenix Area office. School superintendents, reservation reser-vation principals and other education ed-ucation administrators from the area will participate. Mr. Ad-l Ad-l ams will return on Saturday. R-N |
