Show I UNCLE SAMS WORK UINTAH INDIANS INDIAN S Y S l 5 p I IS Ij r j S 4 5 fl fr 3 i 4 i S s ii S f c 1 I lf i y yI d 1 1 r t j jS S 5 S 5 2 S I I 1 I f 5 c 5 H Hv He kb v tS i SJ R r L t J i vi a aS av S v so rs t j M S e 11 I 3 I 2 I SUPERVISORS AND SCENES ON GOVERNMENTS UINTAH INDIAN PROJECT Key 1 at nt lied Cap d ditch I toll 2 WeIr of Indian ditch which hleb I Iff Ic fluent finest water del device ice In tn state ft 8 Bench ill ditch fell on res rex reservation 4 1 Portions of mountain Hide due I de removed for Tor Indian B 5 H n C Menn superintendent of Irrigation and nOlI distributing dl agent U IJ S Indian ervice 6 0 Capt Copt C G Hall HaIl acting Indian agent for the and nOlI Unco BY FRED L WATROUS I the government authorities WHEN W more than thirty yeats years ago told the tha Ute tribe of Indians to se select select lect leet for Itself a D tract of ot land for a per permanent permanent permanent manent place of abode the red man might have chosen an almost unlimited acreage in any of o several S eral western states where he had bad been wont to room roam rOl D follow following following following ing the dictates of his savage desires He selected a corner in the northwestern part of Utah geographically known as the Uintah basin Here he dwelt in plentitude the native products of the toe country and the bounty of Uncle Sam supplying all his needs No doubt the tribe would have lived and died on the Uintah Indian reservation had not the curious and envious eyes of at oncoming civilization got occasional glimpses of the Ute domain There they had one of the fairest sec see sections lying between the two oceans There were thousands upon thousands of acres I growing luxuriant grasses great water watercourses watercourses watercourses courses full of fish and carrying hun hundreds hundreds hundreds of ot cubic feet of water from the snowcapped mountains In the distant ranges The country abounded with game anti anil a 1 delightful climate blessed this spot of ot natures handiwork No wonder the Ute had chosen the Uintah basin for his dwelling place Five years ago on March 5 the Uintah Indian reservation was thrown open for settlement The Ute tribe has not as much land today as in the tho years gone by but what he has been allotted was the choice of the reservation The Indian service department has been busy on his behalf and the accompanying photographs show what the government has been boon do doing doIng doing ing for this rapidly diminishing band of savages Improvements Near Myton My ton Quietly without show or ostentation the Indian service has spent almost within a radius of about twenty miles mUes of ot the town of Myton No advertisements havo have been sent heralding to the world that acres of land with water on it would be leased and in many oases cases sold The Tha government spends little money to tG advertise Its reclamation projects Thus Thug while the home seeker has been rushing north and south and west for fora a piece of this one land Jand crop Uncle Sam through his representatives Captain C G Hall Halls acting Indian agent and H C Means Meads superintendent of Irrigation has been preparing the way for the Independence Independence independence dence of thousands of families Today the land with water rights with canals and laterals and water flowing through them awaits the application of or orthe the industrious settler Bettler A live livo Indian means potential wealth to the state An Indian dead means ac actual actual actual tangible assessable real estate While alive aUve Uncle Sam as guardian will lease to the white man the red mans allotment When dead lead he be will sell seU it for forcash forcash forcash I cash and it becomes a unit in the great commonwealth of the state Civilization the great enemy of ot the American Indian has thinned out tho the ranks of the Ute tribe lu In common with the tha tribes of every other reservation In Ina a few months time as a consequence of departed allotments made five years cars ago will be duly advertised and sold by Captain Hall at the government post of ot Fort Duchesne Thousands of ot acres of some of best land watered by byas b bas byas as finely built and complete a water system system tem tern as the west can boast of will wilt be knocked down to the land seeker May Lease Allotment In case the land seeker is a person of moderate means and cannot afford to buy a piece of real estate these Indian still offer him an unusual opportunity to better his con condition condition condition He will be permitted to lease the tho live Indian on un the most favorable terms Any Improvements that he makes on the property will be I deducted from the amount of ot his lease A can make no mistake by giving this matter a thorough In Investigation Investigation investigation Should he take hold of one of ot these an Intelligent cultivation of the tho soil solI will not only af at afford afford atford ford him a good living and a profit be besides besides besides sides but during the tenure of his lease opportunities will be presented where he can acquire a farm tarm at a mod moderate moderate moderate erate cost The whole Unita basin con contains contains tame approximately acres and as a large per cent cOnt c nt of it is agri agricultural agricultural agricultural cultural land and the section com corn comparatively comparatively thinly settled a should have but little difficulty in securing a piece of patented land or acquiring a relinQuishment to a home homestead homestead homestead stead or finding for himself land on which he can get a straight homestead filing The immediate advantage of or either buy buying lag InS or leasing an Indian allotment is that the farmer can at once go to work put ting Un it in cultivation Land and water await his efforts And the prices for all aft kinds kind of ef produce on the reservation are such Buch as to make mak the agriculturist t sit alt up and take notice Hay ranges from 15 16 l to 30 90 per ton Oats sell at from n 2 to per hundredweight Potatoes can usually be had around 1 a hundred although last spring they sold for 1250 Other articles of produce are in an proportion with the exception however of dry onions which command a price from 2 to 5 6 Eggs are never lower than 25 Ii cents a dozen and during the winter season go up as high as 75 cents Butter ranges between 30 SO and 60 50 cents a It pound Three crops of alfalfa are cut Potatoes and In fact all vegetables thrive In res reservation reservation reservation soil the amount of production being as large targe as In any other section of at atthe the west Corn and tomatoes yield im immense immense mense crops and mature In f splendid shape The section Is somewhat Isolated at the present time but If It It were not for the Isolation the land seekers opportunity would be gone However there are a number of ot routes and daily daB stages to and from several railroad points The basin will be directly on the Denver Northwestern Pacific road the Moffat road now building between Denver and Salt Lake City Cant you hear it Mr The call of the tile great Uintah basin The I call cnn of a manless land seeking for the landless man The Uintah basin offers you freedom and independence The In Indian Indian Indian dian service has paved the way WRY in hold holding holdIng holdIng ing out to you acres of some of the states bet best irrigated land Better look into It Mayhap Its your big op opportunity opportunity |