| Show NEW AGENT FOR UINTAH INDIANS C Reported That B 6 R McDonald May Succeed Captain Mercer I MISTAKES IN OPENING ACT t LAW REGARDING RESERVATION TION g JIO BE CHANGED V Captain W wJ A is to be re relieved relieved relieved soon soun conas as agent on op the Uintah In Indian indian dian reservation reSer n and and be appointed superintendent of ot the th Carlisle Indian Indians I school s hool to private advices from frem Washington Wash Jt According A to the he same mine authority B 8 R H McDonald of Price Pric is Ja to be made agent at White WhiteR WhiteRocks Rocks R eJr on n on of f Senator Thomas Reams Kearns t p The of the Carlisle school i Ia generally considered a desir desirable desirable desirable able appointment nt It carries with it ita itI I a year ear in addition to tta t regular salary as an aD army officer It te is stated that Captain Mercer has baS ba already been selected d for tor the place Ice and that the for formal formal mal appointment nt will be made me mafe soon R It S Collett of Vernal has hag been after the appointment 88 s agent a nt hit bat Senator Sento Reams Kearns has bas endorsed McDonald who is isnow isnow isnow now agent of the RIo o Grande Gran e at Price McDonald was a Kearns candidate for forthe forthe forthe the state state senate last fall being de defeated tented ted by b Harden Reunion Benion 3 Xay ay Delay Opening The opening of o the reservation may maybe ma maybe be delayed by defects in the act gov governing governing governing it In lit any event dome ome tinker tinkering tn lug ing will probably be done at the forth forthcoming forthcoming coming session See JOn of at congress congre s It now develops ps that no provision was mad madr reserving r front from entry eRtry tort Wort Duchesne the tl agency and aM other im lm improvements improvements worth several hundred bundred thousand dollars As the law stands any citizen could enter the ground con containing taming these expensive buildings and hold bold them under the homestead act The reservation re is BOt to be thrown open until Oct 1 and consequent consequently ly 17 1 there will wll be time tle to remedy these defects t I I The Ibe buildings at Fort Duchesne J e have hav i cost the government a large targe amount of money The agency a ency buildings cost i I over The Ouray school five i miles south s uth of Fort Duchesne and the Uintah school fourteen miles north of I the post are also expensive buildings In addition there are two coal mines mine I ten miles from the agency opened up I under the administration of Major H HP HP HP P Myton My ton to furnish coal co l for the i agency These also will wll probably be I reserved i The contract for surveying ng the 2250 I 1 WW OO acres on the reservation will ill be let July 15 li The cost will approximate Twentynine bids have hae been received which are being tabulated It Itis ItI iri is I estimated that the survey will em employ employ employ ploy over 30 men and require a year and a half balf to two to years for its coin com completion This is said to be the largest single undertaking of its kind ever at attempted attempted tempted in the United Unit States Twenty contracts con tracts for fer Jt it will be let A large part of the work will win be difficult as it will lie in the rugged and lofty Uintah mountains in some places over over feet high I |
