Show Denver trial to set Value of Indian Lands in Colorado Valuation trial to determine the value of approximately acres of land in southwest Colorado ceded by the Confederated Bands of under the Brunot Treaty of 1873 will be commenced in Colorado on August it was announced recently by the law firm of l and who are representing the Ute I The Utes are claiming that the Government paid them only per acre for the vast acreage of land which is rich in mineral In 1950 the Confederated Ute Indians recovered some million for approximately acres of land taken by the United States Government in An average of some per acre was paid on these lands plus interest due from the time of until States-seU tied with the Utes some 70 years The Uncompahgre and White-river bands of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation are participants in this latest suit against the United States for their ancestral homes in Colorado along with the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado and the Ute Mountain Utes of |