Show the indian reservations indian agent waugh tells how the reds are getting on oil robort waugh indian agent for the uintah and reservation with a tribune reporter last evening mr waugh said that the indians liro are making very good headway in civilization and he is entirely satis flod fled with the progress they are making on the uintah reservation they have a first class s school ho hool with an attendance of from sixty six to seventy pupils the schools have bave been established there for some years and the indians take kindly to them on 01 the uncompahgre reservation it is different there have never boon been any schools on that reservation until lately the buildings have recently been comple completed tod and they aie pronounced by army officers to bo the fines fc work in that hat line that they over saw san on a regor reservation tho the buildings are opened for school but so far no indian children have attended yet every evorY persuasion available will bo be used on the indians in order to got get the children to attend school in connection with the schools also there is a wark workshop in which the children are taught the secrets of working with tools in regard to farming mr waugh says the indians are making good progress they aio cultivating their farms in good shape and ho he thinks they will eventually become self sup porting A gristmill grist mill has been erected thero and this summer tho bosi best machinery will bo be put in this will be for the use of the indians in connection with farming mr waugh has started the indians to work on a ditch which will take water out of the duchesne river and carry it a distance of about six miles this will bring water on oil about six thou thousand saud acres of good farming land the work on the ditch is all being dono by the India indians nii and they make fairly good workers this ditch will be completed early this summer in regard to the recent loase of mineral lands of the reservation mr waugh i says overy thi 1 ug was done in an all honest manner and according to the law the only people who are protesting against it are those connected with the gilson asphaltum Asphalt utu company who want the reservation themselves in order to form a trust on the asphaltum product of utah the company that propose to lease it is composed of good men who are giving the indians better bargains than they would get if the government purchased pui chased the land mr air waugh says that tho the idea of it not being right to lease the mineral on the ro reservation is redi ridiculous culous as the same laws apply to that as to leasing g razing grazing lands the lease of acres of grazing land on the reservation er or to charles P F homer was busl approved on march 2nd and this land is leased at an annual rental of after talking of the indian affairs mr waugh said that it pleased him to se see e tho the good fooling feeling a that exists in this city and the way the citizens are moving to improve the city getting the copper plant was a good thing now the boulevard should bo completed and then the people want to go to railroading what is wanted is a trunk line through hero here the people can well afford to as a bonus to in induce duco a railroad to come I 1 and the increase in the value of tho the property would bo be enough to more than pay it salt lake tribune |