Show UINTAH SURVEY NOW Engineer Believes Reservation Can Bo Opened March 10 4 PRAISE FOR THE REGION 4 SAYS IT CONTAINS SOME OP BEST IN Hubert J Page of this United States deputy surveyor who was awarded a contract for the p t of the tory to the opening on the of next March and who Is now work tip his map stated t erday that all the surveys have be as welt an the of the land antI soils and cur on the reservation have been t over to the surveyor generals office II this city for and to final ap approval In regard to Ut fear that hits been expressed that through defective the opening would necessarily be Mr Pae as that there is no ground for such apprehension Soiro of the stir were b the examIner to make and these were as required The were all and filed as staLed wIth the eral arid are expected to ce forwarded to WashIngton as soon as the 2 In the matter cf th to tie indians on the Mr Page tatem that there be no delay from this are but about 00 Indians In the total To these will willbe be allotted eIghty acres to each a family and forty acre io all others It is believed the will not had these be along the sido of the reservation and on the Uintah river though there will be some on on Rock creek and on Lake Fork The is generally accepted by the Indians but as In all cases there Is some 1 and some las been raised That this oppoSItion b ma Mr Page does not entertain ay faIth and he is of the opinion that all differences will be adjusted nud the al allotments completed In ample time for forthe the opening I Says Is Good GoodIn In the matter of climate Mr Page has some Interesting comparisons to draw He spent most of last winter there and was between this valley arid the Duchesne valley which is on the eastern de of the reservatIon alter during the le Is em in his that the mate portion will compare with that of Salt Lake valley The altitude Is on an average of 1000 feet above se level and the climatic condItions are such that while there are no cold winters the cain m rs ae also seasonable Wild grass attaIns a growth by the beginning of April sufficIent to sustain work horses grain or other feed and In this area it is assured that a great agri cultural region will be developed Mr Page gives it as his belief that a eon city be reared in the Du Duehesne valley one that should within a year or two after the opening far out Tornal Pine Country For Stock From the eastern side of the tion to Its boundary there is a In the until at its western edge and In the Strawberry valley the Is feet This is the ideal summer range not by any in time west with an supply and a soil that rt ed to hay Would cut In the wild condition greater crops than arc averaged In the of lower ci To balance this summer rang there Is the winter range that ever lay out of doors This is a stretch between the Strawberry and the Duchesne principally on Red creek where the snow never falls to any depth and the fail grasses re remain main nutritious until the ond of March when the new growth starts Mr Page had eighteen animals In his outfit last winter and after March 15 he fed them nothing but let graze the native grasses The northern line of the reser reservation exhibits some topographical con conditions that wilt come as a surprise to many persons of Utah who have here tolore regarded Mt Nebo cud the Wa Wasatch satch peaks as the highest elevations within the state There are six named lOkS hm the range that equal or excel in altitude the famous Nebo They are La Motte feet Wil Wilson son GIlbert Emmons 13 Burro Agassiz The feature of these mountains Is their great basal width arid the fact that their sides are covered with the lest growth of timber known in Utah of the mountains arry perpetual and form a watershed supplying the sources of the Lake Fork the Du Duchesne chesne the Uintah and the other numerous streams that water the Strawberry Duchesne and vat leys Chances For Agriculture From a rough guess Mr Page mates that of all the flow lag waters within the sate of Utah are within the reservation and what most enthuses hint as to the pea z of the of time re g lon once it IS to settlement settlements I s the fact no great engineering necessary to the theater w ater on to the lana for irrigation N more Is necessary he says t bati the yo of gravity d itches and this he argues is within t he reach of any man This fact of I Mr Page belIeves will result In a great rush for the low lands for w wl water can be out on the theand wo l and at the cot many men o f the yen t where they would hesitate if the g etting of water to the arid land was energy and enter p rice of capitalists This abundance of water will all be a for appropriation the l ends and from the plentiful supply Mr sage is of the that the twit t ta er questIon which ia so thoroughly tn a other of tle state will willever n ever be heard In of i |