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Show C3 Companies Bid For Duchesne G. j & Indian Gas, Gil Leases On Land ! Approximately 19,500 more Mes of Ute Indian lands in j -ie Uintah Basin were offered! ,- t Thursday for oil and g-asj J, ;es, is an announcement com-J com-J -g from the office of the Uintah ,! A Ouray Indian Service ot-t ot-t at Fort Duchesne, j The top bid for 10,651 acres -i the Ioka area, located in Du-J Du-J -'Kne County, was $184,049.1 j fiut the seven companies and -we individual elected not to I -a on 8,848 other acres up for f -onus money lease. All the : wis were in Township 3 South, 1 and 2 West. , Shell Oil Co. made the highest j ..a-$oi.27 an acre for 805 ji es That firm also was high on 3 o 2'625 a"es, bidding :fal of $80,854. Other high Superior Oil Co., high on 631 I acres for total of $27,770; Carter 1 Oil Co., high on 2.821 acres, totaling to-taling $24,118; Carter and Sinclair Sin-clair Oil and Gas Co', (jointly) high on 4,027 acres for total of $46,997; and Charles W. Hendjrl III. Salt Lake City, bid a total of $194.75 for right to lease a 40 acre trace of "allotted land." Sun Oil Co. was too low with a bid of $5 87 an acre for three tracts totaling 2,000 acres on tribal lands. . Some 8,232 acres (Jf tribal lands and 11,267 acres of allotted al-lotted (individual Indian) lands were up for bonus lease. - j The land was placed up for bid in 135 separate parcels, of j which all but 23 parcels were Indian allotments ranging from less than 40 acres to 640 acres |