Show the fantau reservation is in receipt of a copy of the bill now pending in congress to return to the public domain a portion of the uintah reservation and of the report of the house committee on indian affairs recommending its passage the latter document explains at some length the character objects and intended effects of the bill and the reasons for the corn mit tees favorable report upon it it recites the discovery of the mineral substance called gilsonite from which is produced and the locating of the mine by certain citizens of utah at the time the discovery was made and the mine located the locators the officers at fort da chesne agent on the reservation mineto be outside of reservation the A careful gurvey however disclosed tho fact that it lay about 1000 feet inside the reservation the report says inasmuch ros these deposits are tha deposit this mineral in states anda new industry was developed by their dis deemed advisable to re 1 1 t 75 store to the public domain a small portion of the reservation on which tho veins aro located this action has been recommended by the present governor of the territory in the interest of the general as promoting the general welfare his views are concurred in by other prominent citizens of the territory it is further represented in the report that the uintah reservation embraces acres that that portion of it which embraces the gilson ito mine is a sandstone desert unfit for agricultural or grazing purposes and is unused by the indians for any purpose and that it is proposed to restore to the public domain only acres the bill provides that the locators of the mineral deposits heretofore discovered on the tract to be restored shall have priority of right to secure their claims that the price of twenty dollars per aero shall bo paid for them and for like claims located on the tract in future and that the proceeds will go to a trust fund for the benefit of the indians on the reservation the bill is not to take effect until ratified by a three fourths vote of tho male adults among the latter and the secretary of the interior is required to submit it to them the suspicion that the well known longings of stockmen stoc kmen and would be settlers to get possession of a portion of the fertile lands embraced within the reservation which was created by reference to tho above bill in the telegrams from time to time is thus removed the measure is designed only to throw open for development the deposits of gilsonite which have been discovered in one comer of the reservation and the fact that tho indians will get twenty dollars per acre for all the land to be possessed by whites will go far to offset any objections that might be made to the passage of the bill A dispatch states that the bill has been signed by the president |