Show E L IER F th e P eo pa e or tt h UINTAH RESERVE As large as mass ma SS 5 acres of land to each Y man an W woman and child and still the indians rights ea association claim they are crowded correspondence tho the interest we are taking in eastorn eastern utah and the Terri torys interest and we should be assisted on every hand the indian question has bothered the american people for more then four hundred years and the solution seems as blank to day as at any former date excepting tho the rapid decrease in the aborigines aborigine ea es of our continent our indian rights association claims that civilization is crowding row ding them too close their reservations being cut down tho imposition of labor imposed upon them and many other wrongs they call our attention to wo we are ready to admit that the people of now new england understand the present condition of the indians bettor better than we who have lived among them for Y years ears and see their daily needs and know the cause of the wonderful decrease annually among them what is the cause may kay be asked they have a territory almost as large as delaware rhode island and mass alas s combined in summer they roam through the mountains in search of comfortable lounging places in the winter they retreat to the low land and government rations they live in canvas tents and sloop sleep on the damp ground thus contracting rheumatism pneumonia la grip etc it is im impossible to give them proper medical attention or assist them in a case of pneumonia being provided as they are to meet the cold and severe winter why would it not be good policy for our government to abandon the course they have followed for years and give tho indians their land in severalty severally make them understand they must stay at home assist them in in summer to prepare a comfortable place to liyo in winter open the balance of the reservation to settlers once settled by whites chitos tho indians question will bo be solved jio will watch his white brothers till the soil and follow his example ho he will have experienced farmers f armors around him men who understand irrigation and the iha reclaim reclaiming ing of desert land the in majority C farmosa far mora employed at tho the agencies as instructors aro are eastern men and know no more about farming in ia an irrigating country than the indian dooe does how can wo we expect thorn them to become self supporting living as th they do wo need a change wo we bolice in protecting the wards of our government wo we belive in giving them their choice of a homestead on the present reservation we believe in the government fulfilling every promise made them but we dont balivo in holding the garden of utah in a desert state when we have so many people struggling to live and paying an exorbitant or bitant rent when they might bo be improving their future homes the uintah and uncompahgre reservations in uintah county has nn an area of sq miles or acres the indians of both agencies according to pay role number about 1920 but a correct census would fall short about 20 per ct or 1641 1541 indians this gives each man woman and child acres or to each head of a family acres those aio aie the people that are being crowded out by civilization there is not to exceed acres under cultivation on both reservations it is an outrage i imposed on the people of the alie west to be deprived of their homos homes in this way and a great stay to the advancement of the indian and a blow at the prosperity of the Terr itoi y in general did you ever give this a thought the same amount of territory in now new england vis mass rhode island and delaware is supporting Bup imp porting people the products of farms and orchard is and of factories and mills giving a total of per annum to the people of the same sized territory wo we are holding for 1541 utes in utah mass is about the size of uintah reservation orv er aJon it has a population of 2 her farm and factory products amount to per annum uintah reservation will do the same will not the people of utah and the rounding surrounding su states assists the dependent home seekers in finding an asylum whore where thousands of hap happy PY homes is waiting them |