Word: navajos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
Last week the groans were rising to a new crescendo. In the first 230,000-acre sale four weeks ago, 23 oil companies paid $27.5 million for leases, plus a 12½% royalty on every barrel of oil produced. A fortnight ago the Navajos got $3.2 million for a second 82,200-acre block of land. Last week a third and final 158,505 acres went on sale, brought $2.9 million and pushed the total Navajo take to $33.6 million...
What sent the bids soaring was the promise of the biggest oil pool in the West, under the barren Navajo buttes and mesas. Texas Co., which had started exploring the area about three years ago, recently drilled its exploratory Navajo C-4 well on tribal land located between the big Aneth oilfield in San Juan County, Utah and another series of proven wells farther south. Texas Co. wanted to find out how far the Aneth field went and whether the two pools might be connected. Though Texas Co. tried to keep the well secret, every oilman suspected that something...
After the sale Texas Co. announced that its Navajo C-4 was indeed a producing well, pumping an average 642 bbls. of high-grade oil daily, and oilmen felt much of the nearby leasehold could be considered proven oil land. Then two more wells came in on Navajo land. Superior Oil brought in its Navajo B-1 well, with 1,402 bbls. daily, and Gulf Oil brought in its Desert Creek No. 1 well...
...Navajos, one of the poorest Indian tribes (per capita income in 1955: $420), the cash from the auctions added up to $423 per capita, will double the tribal income this year, provide money for new reservation roads, schools and irrigation projects. Said a Navajo brave: "Let the white man have the oil. My people want irrigated lands. We now know how we can get them...