Show I The Uintah Reservation The Vernal Express which is a lively little paper published in Uintah county is gratified with THE HERALDS advocacy of the opening up of the Uintah reservation to cultivation and settlement It says concerning the land A person unacquainted with the land in I question can hardly realize Its extent But Imagine a largo basin or valley many miles ia f extent with the Ulatah and Duchesne rivers and their tributaries flowing through It and all but I a very small fraction held by the Indians Tate a look at the latest maps of Utah It will make the skeptic open his eyes It Is generally conceded by those who know that the best land in Utah of any considerable extant Is included within that reservation Besides the arable land which is amply watered there are the asphaltum beds and not far distant mineral min-eral deposits of great value No ono who desires the opening of this reservation so far as wn are aware wants to deprive the 1100 Indians who roam thereon of any just right Ample provision should be made for them either by allotting lands to them in severally or by annuities or both but they do not need a million acres nor should that tillable land be allowed to go to waste when so much is needed for homes and farms and orchards and gardens But little has been dona towards the i 1 civilization of tho Uintah Utes particularly particu-larly of late If they were settled dow on a smaller area provided with stockand placed under competent Instructors they might become useful citizens The Exprcss says that as soon as word came that Fort Ducnoane was to faa abandoned they commenced com-menced to wander oil into Colorado to killdeer kill-deer and other game indiscriminately something that white men could not do without being placed in legal jeopardy The news that the fort is not aftar all to be abandoned is very gratifying to the settlers set-tlers It is duo to the people who live in tho neighborhood the reservation that something some-thing definite should be dono for their protection pro-tection The Indians become very saucy when there is any probability of military restraint being relaxed and there is no good sense in allowing them to roam over rich lands which they will not put to use and to live a life that makes them a constant con-stant menace to their civilized neighbors The reservation should be divided up and settled for the good of the red men as well as the whites |