MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
FOR INDIANS’ OIL LANDS. WEALTHY TRIBE. Aistralian and N.Z. Cable Association VANCOUVER, March 20. At Pawhuska (Oklahoma) oil operators bid a total of 14,923,000 dollars for the leases of the Osage Indian lands. There .were five bids of over a million dollars each, the largest being 1,990,000 dollars for 160 acres. The Osage tribe has now to meet to consider the bids.
In a reference to the sale a month ago it was stated that every leading oil company was expected to bid for the leases, and the Osage Indians, the world’s richest people, would Bee their wealth mount up.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 6
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103MILLIONS OF DOLLARS New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 6
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