By David L. Shaw

 Settlement talks in the Cayuga Indian land claim can continue for at least another 30 days.

 Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Neal P. McCurn told the lawyers involved in the case that he will issue an order to that effect.

 McCurn, who has imposed a gag order on the settlement talks, met with the lawyers after oral arguments on four motions related to the trial, scheduled for Sept. 8.

 In late June, terms of a purported settlement offer made by the state to the Cayuga Indian Nation was leaked.

 Those terms include $110 million in cash, split equally between the state for Sept. 8.

 In late June, terms of a purported settlement offer made by the state to the Cayuga Indian Nation was leaked.

 Those terms include $110 million in cash, split equally between the state and federal government, and paid over a three-year period.

 Also, the 464-member Cayuga Nation would purportedly be given the 3,120 acres of state-owned Howland Island Wildlife Management Area in Conquest, state conservation and canal corporation lands totaling 222 acres, 500 acres in the Great Gully area near Union Springs, unspecified commercial property of around 200 acres, a farm adjacent to Canoga Creek in Seneca County of about 200 acres, the 360-acre Peter Schuster Farm on Route 89 in Seneca Falls and a parcel of land north of the Schuster farm of undetermined acreage.

 The purported settlement would also identify other lands that will be identified as reservation land, acquired by the Cayuga Nation from willing sellers.

 That includes 2,800 acres around Great Gully in the Hardy and King's Corners Road area, 2,600 acres near the Schuster farm and 200 acres in the Canoga area of Fayette, Seneca County.

 The state would also be required to work with the Cayugas to build a long house or public museum in Seneca Falls.