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Show UTE INDIANS AS FARMERS. hi ' MM 1 11 Scenes on the ReservationA Harrowing Ride for a Squaw and Her I 'it ISHHi Poodle A Rich IslandA Lone Indian. h tj; Inland, May 50 Your correspondent look a elrlve recently up and down the Ulnti.h nnd Duchesne rivers near their Junction In thn vicinity nf the Ourny Indian school. Tho cottonwoods skirting skirt-ing their hunks were beginning to leaf anil a continuous stretch of bcnutlful green, wllh brown nml broken bluffs for n bnckground, mado n, r vacillating picture tor n sunny spring day. I.u-lorne I.u-lorne Ileitis came Into view like it gorgeous, gor-geous, grassy plain clad ln the tush, est and richest of verdure Irrigating ditches wcio bank full und here mid there teams were preparing nuts grniuitl Cor the seed or making It ready for the water. And ever) where the Utes were busy ns bees nnd happy In the rnntentntsllon nf tirnsttorll. p. rronfl As we leisurely drove nlnng 1111 In-stance In-stance of high art In farm lire inme full In view. A field sown to eita wns undergoing thn leveling process A toam of stendor tsinles drew tho drag, Tho driver, being nn Indian of ion pounds, his weight nn the drug would have tnntln an Impossible load for the ponle-i Hut his squaw, )oung, light nnd gay, jndc em It, In u comfortable seat, composedly chewing gum, and playfuly fondling a poodle elog. Two lessons were here pre-scnted. The Ule has adopted Improved methods or funning; his squaw Is not alnuys n beast of burden. A nirir isr.ANU Crossing n branch nf the Duchesne, wo drove over nn Island of 100 ucrcs or more of rich soil but uncultivated, then across tint main sticani, turning unexpectedly unex-pectedly upon nn Indian nnd his wife nntl two smnll children In the timber. He bail n careworn Inok, was spare In flesh, and ns hn uppmnched us In his shirt sleeves we recognized n man of dally toll, and now showing the fa tlgue of o. er-exertlon On Inquiry wo found tt had been Impossible to uintn tain a dam in thu rapid curtent nf the river thnt supplied his Irrigating tlllch with water, nntl knowing n low place In the hnnks ..hero the water nt nn ordinary ordi-nary stage or the river finned out nnd down n draw nlnng n tow bluff nnd aHjijjli'rJ li!l sB llionee to the river again, he took ad- V jwi Wi v. J vnntnge nf this natural waterway, and litla'M IO H i. quarter of n mile down cut through '-J Bf.Htslc'r 'Bl M the hi uft wllh pick nnd sho. el to nil- ST'"'tSl Stt 1 older draw lending on to his lateral 'tTI'K'WT rfl iH former!) In use Wc were Interested C lilt's ItJ M und followed nn ho led to the tunnel R M fIw H and showed us how he had planned nnd B' ' ,' tf IG iH worked 1'nr ten or twelve rods ho and J 'fir Mfl his squaw hnd cut n rhnnncl two feet f.n'Ji: IsH iH w I le ami higher than our heads through t'ri's'i tm aaM the hill. rkji irSHI The many dis spent In weary but j'WS ," 'tflLBI huperul toll we will not undertake tu wJj I injl i sthnnte The Indian hnd planned wlie- .Tf k ItiHal I), worketl ralthrull), and now has lltm if tVSaH wnter "to burn." Walls, tffllHfl He hnd not made known his plans at HaHp -IB MTHLl the agency, nor had white peoplo heard JtjURp.iQi MHH or the work ho wns doing, Tho super- ; Unfa j$HaH Intenelont of Irrigation, when advised WSiifc J ,HB of 11, went nt once with men nntl teams Ul f lIlBsl nud fill ugetl his laterals, liupruved tho UE,.,' u.SSaal newly-rounil wnlerwny. nnd had nn nl- EJC ii 4.(19 ll lownnco made to him Mr his work nml 5Bi&, fltnlflkH Ingtnully lu proving an uncertain dam MVV. 'JiHnl tei be supt rlluoiis Jja -.i!MB A I.ONI1 INDIAN. tUR'lljitillii In nnnther locality was nn lndlm of jfW, f'fPljHMHB prnbnbly 70 snows, working alone, hat VAW JttPHHfl tilt, widening and deepening his water Ailfe JEif 'JHI elllcli with n shovel He hnd been BfEfQ.' ItSH working early and late, nnd though sXIrW' MmsllilVHI help hod hren prninlsrd him from thn Tfuclf l'HIHsl ngeiic), he became Impatient und had Ijw !! 'iDmIbH already completed many tods. A little Wm II' "fiHsl Inter Icnms with plows nntl scrnpera ,'JW''mpY.pi!pML1 went In his relief. He hns twenty acres f'iKtvMSIHI In grain mid us much ln lucerne, he- UK hB tlH sides vigetuhle crops, (1(5! I' 'll UH His iHlghbor, nbout tho snme nge. Ilpt 1, hover mnile n reriird for work, hut this lltii I IH spring begun In geanl enrnest, whether ," P ' ' ti 9H to reileem hlmseir from the reputation J It ! HHI of Indnlencn In the post, nr to hedgo 1 t'l ' MaV ngnlust the curtailment ot rations In , l':i,.'. ' )Mb1 the future, w n cnn only surmise. I f aH fj Hl These Instances may servo to show fcV that tho unlnfnrmed or i.rejutllced whei Kii . . v ' HH writ.; or say hurd things nbout tho tfiji, t, ' weirthlessness nf the Dies, should not jffli' n fUHi be too sweeping In their denunciations, ' rt33uij i l nnd shoiihl take tlmo to remodel their ;!fffl1 . IHHI slercot) pod expressions to tally with ,Mk i 'iiHH the conditions ns they nre today, Wwil 4JHH |