| Show 1 Independence Man ManTakes Takes ayes Issue With Senator Smoot Independence Ut Vt U t. t Feb 16 10 EDITOR CHIEFTAIN IX If you ou correctly report Senator Sena tor Smoot in ill your paper of last week it seems teems that he has introduced introduced in- in a n bill to allow the State of Utah to l buy u all the theIn un tin- appropriated land laud of the Reservation at nt per acre Now as the law stands at present the s settlers will have havethe havethe havethe the right to buy these rough lough lands the cominA coming conning com conn- ing inA fall How Ilow many settlers do you know who have been expecting to bu buy a few acres acre of the rough lough lands or fractions of forties adjoining their home home- homesteads homesteads As a reason for this bill to turn the land over oyer to the State of Utah it is asserted that the State can then water it under the provisions of the Gore Carey act The lle State is already to water r it with every Pery assur assurance ance a of success und under r the irrigation gaBon gation district law In this wa wa all the land can be he that there is water vater for fort and it ita ia j i ja a for far more economical plan tha tho the Carey act oct Under the pt present sent law winland win winland land is not homesteaded can b bought in ill the coming coaling fall anthe anc ani the land that would thus bil IH bought and added to the dis districts districts districts would add great strength to them and insure till nil the Ian lan being watered very speedily It is a bad plan to try to ride two horses If lf the Corey act net is is introduced it will materially in interfere interfere iu- iu with the district law The land segregated by thc State will be ue tied up for tor years and will not be ue of any arty assistance to us in placing ph bonds for gation It will be a sad day doy to the I Reservation if this bill passes and it will be a period perio of good tinier times in the Reservation if tit tin present law Jaw is allowed to stand and the land as the law pre pie prescribes scribes placed on the market ii it small tracts the conning coming fall I It t I I will hasten the development of the Reservation and give c many man poor settlers a chance to obtain sonic some grazing grassing land The Indians Indians In In- now have ve thousands of acres cost theta them nothing Why can not the American America n pioneer pioneer pioneer pi pi- pi- pi be allowed to buy a few acres of pasture re or perhaps land laud that can be bc reclaimed as the law now provides If the State has it for fot sale it wi will cost per acre acie find and reCI require require re re- CI quire years to obtain it Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Smoot certainly do does s' s not riot I understand the thc local situation on this point Can not some someone someone one who has his ear explain it to him hits i Respectfully es Lows Louis LOUISN N. N SHANKS IS I |
