Show SLOW OPENING OF reservation A gentleman ge of 0 thin city yesterday received in reply to lie 0 a letter sent to the department of 0 the interior the following IoN vIng which ho he permits US to copy in a reply 1 to your ur communication dat dated ed J january U ia 1 ado I 1 have to advise you that bo art any of the ahe danils in tho the uintah arts n rs can ho be ocene I to 10 settlement it Is 19 necessary nece aMry that an agreement areen nin be negotiated with ulla id indiana tor for tho the allotment allatt nt of their lands in severalty and tile the comon of 0 tho the surplus to 10 the united state StaLl di which agreement must be ratified by bonewi ro before it can become effective in alonce of the negotiations of uch such agreement and ratifying the game it to Is to tell wh ther uch such alavi ap 1 cultural cul lural inels am a may bo be ceded will bo 10 disposed of 0 by auction or opened boned to settlement under the homestead fp t law the latter la is signed ly by CammIss lonel Brownl ns As wo construe const niB the foregO foregoing fore goine lIng it means mcana thra that no one can get title to any land on the uintah reser vallon during the present year the commissioners will probably pro bobly not st got to work before may if athey are to work fast they may have the itlie matter ar r ranged ready to be d to co con n gross when it meets meco in De december ember we think walt la Is the ithe utmost that can bo be hoped tor for and judging delner Ju by the way the th matter has thus tar far been conducted by secretary Seow tary hoke smith it ought not to 10 surprise any one cilie af K tho the ivil hole summer bummer shall bo be frittered fritt ered away and nothing done in hla his heart secretory Secret Secre lary nry smith la in OPP opposed d to ha the division of tho the land and especially opposed to giving prospectors permission to lo locate mines in that region this being the case nil all that can be accomplished will have to be ren reached ched by slow approaches land WO we doubt exceedingly whether the reservation will be owned opened to settlement dur ing ine the present year |