Show TUE POCATELLOI LAND BILL Provisions of the Measure that Senator Shoup Has Succeeded Suc-ceeded in Having the Senate Pass cf r Tho passage by the United States I Senate on Friday last of Senator Shoups bill to ratify the treaty with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians concluded con-cluded February G 1S9S does not as may be supposed by many of the uninformed un-informed comprehend the restoration to Ihe public domain of the entire Fort Hall Indian reservation Nor does the courteous treatment by the Senate of thc extremely modest measure Indicate I anything as to the action of the House for twice previously has the bill practically prac-tically in Its present form passed the higher legislative body only to be killed in tho House Each time It has come up for debate it has been strangled by the I sickly sentimentality of the far East whose Representatives saw in it an attempt I at-tempt to rob the Indian of his heritage though of the two parlies to tho treaty thci Indians gel decidedly the best of the bargain as will be shown by Its analysis analy-sis and its contemplated tel provlslon 1 Is the hope of the Indiana as well as I of a few white men that the bill will pass the House during the present term but the treatment It has previously received re-ceived does not augur too favorably for a warm reception now Under the act of JunelQ IMG the Secretary of the Interior apPointed as United States Indian Commissioners Benjamin F Barge John H MeNccly and Charles G lloyt and under this act the commissioners were authorized well as In the accepted meaning of the iin I It may be staled here too that I since the establishment of the railroad town of Pocuiello in the center of the reservation there has been a marked Improvement among the Indians which must be attributed lo theIr association with the whites Of the lands within the proposed cession ces-sion aside from the possible 50000 acres of arable land the mountains and low rolling hills will afford excellent and extensive cattle ranges There arc also extensive forests of cedar which have attained a good growth amI in the higher pnris of the range Lhere Is an unimportant growth of the pines Of the mineral possiblllilcs of the area comparatively little Is know the Jealousy with which the Indians have guarded against anything like an Intelligent Intel-ligent prospecting of tho region having discouraged all but the most surrcptl bus efforts in that direction One strong copper ledge however too prominent prom-inent to be left unnoticed crops out In the mountains cast of Pocatcllo and has been Iraced on the surface for five miles and In this section some remarkably remark-ably handsome specimens of azurite have been picked up Gold and silver are also In evidence but to what extent they may be found cannot he guessed at until prospectors may work without molestalol Pcrhdps the mineral Industry In-dustry lint will be the earliest realied upon will be the quarrying of n very superior building store There are some reefs of red sandstone to be found but the prized article is a white sandstone t 1 1 A AP I I Y I OF af 1 1 rx HAL L INDIAN I RESERVATION fCI 1 du DAHO 7 v bhOll presnf bounaari I eSlnd t I proposed cebbtorr T I tothe I VNITD5TIIE f I J II I n I I J II r i I r LV I tF1 0 J l t If K > fl M S II o v 1 I 1 S 1 11 INdJRD PRR LEl oa f i II r 42 I Q cu4H L D I l 7 I I I I r I I t I d 1 iL s z L l jjj I ftO tw r i1t I I 3t8 8 It 4 VJ f l r < r Q 1 J I 1 J rrm 6 C lW1pN I VLRi l i 9 J It J lL rr I r I IU 1 iJHT I I 1 r17 J l Brl r t 3Z 33 34 35 3b 37 3 9 r 5cbe 6 Miles I J Present 0oun < ftry I to mclj Proposed cession 1n f lo negotiate with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians for cession to the II United States of part of their surplus lands Under this authority the treaty 1 r I of cession of nearly onethird of the I lands given to the Indians by the Fort Brldger treaty of July 3 1SGS was concluded con-cluded Jim TJallard better known as Maj Jim Pooalello Tom Kunecke aclo I Johnson and 217 other male Indians I I over IS years of age and representing I both tribes signing the agreement At thai lime FG Irwin Jr of the army and acting as Indian agent certified that 227 constituted a majority of the male adult Indians of the reserve so that the acceplance by 250 selected to act for the two tribes constituted no constluted a I clear majority The lands so ceded embrace I em-brace about 300000 acres and of the least desirable portion of the reservation I reserva-tion as will be shown and as consldera Lon the Indians are to receive 600000 75000 of which Is to be expended In the erectIon of a modern school plant at I ereclon Ross Fork and for educational nce san s-an the remainder to be paid In eight I I annual payments of 50000 each and I 1 one of 523000 In addition the deferred I r paymcnts are to bear interest at 1 per I I cenl and the entire sum is lo be exempted I I ex-empted from payment of any claims I I I for depredations elc Further LH Indians I In-dians will have the privilege of retainIng retain-Ing any lands they have settled upon I I within the limits of the proposed ccs sion or choosing to select other lands II I I within the reduced reservation may remove re-move or sell theIr improvements on the lands they acate Of the proposed cession It is doubtful If there arc altogether POOOO acres of arable land The bulk of it Is mountain moun-tain and lava fields and a study of the above map shows hat the Porlneuf Is the only waterway within Its limits This while < considerable stream I lions for the most part through narrow canyons and making but narrow strips along Us banks that might be cultivated culti-vated AH of the unsnrveyed lands shown on the map In the proposed cession ces-sion are mountains as arc also fully twothirds of the surveyed portion hp most considerable area of laiidcapabic of cultivation within the proposed cession ces-sion Is In townships 5 and G range 31 cast where thc alley o the Portneuf widens out from Pocatello to the north Here approximately 22000 acres of gently sloping bench land covered with a luxuriant growth of sagebrush is capable of being brought under a state of high cultivation and sufficient water for the entire area can be brought from Roes Fork creek shown to the north on the map But even here the enterprising enterpris-ing setter will be conscious of the Irony of the situation and of the abSurdity ab-Surdity of the expressed fears that the Indians arc being robbed He will sland al ihe anglfc of the northwest boundary of the cession which happens also to be the northwest boundary of the sage covered dcserl and will look down with hungered eyes on the magnificent I bottom lands of the Portnouf TOES FOIl creek and twenty other great I tributaries of the great Snake river To I the north and west he will gaze on I wi a7c I hundreds of square miles of fertile I grassy plains and meadows enriched with the depositions of ages from the many rivers Lands that under the beneficent dominion of tm i while man would become a domain fit to rival the 1 alleys s of the Nile In productiveness I But these arc not f 0 him or his race I I inoy are to be retained for the In I I I cinnn who also receive 500000 for the I giving i up ° c somclava btrelchps which tJiey do nOl want Hero Is I f new ver sion or hit whIle mans burden HP must ml icclalm the desert and make glad the waSle places hut where nature hasH unlt has-H her fcfndllMU moods here must a homc bJ reservcd for the In dlal and the Government will give him wi n mowlug lohlre to cut the hay to sell i lo the Government A Condition equally happy for the In dlam exlSLs to the WW of the Dun nock lUnge vhero the Infe tooad and fertile valley o Bannock civek is fertle 10 stl served to them ° mr ee Many ot the Bannocks are here engaged in the cultivation of I from the soil the Government their Implements being gifts I I and they arc be coming good Tndhrng Irc nr la ha Hmrnl fls 4 < which Is found In extensive beds and Is hardly I yet metamorphosed being somewhat soft and easy to work but hardening with exposure Under special r spe-cial permission from the Indians enough of this stone to construct several sev-eral handsome business blocks in Pocatello Po-catello has been quarried and Us dress Ing and exportation is expected to develop de-velop into a considerable Industry after the treaty Is ratified From the above It will be seen that In the treaty made two years ago the Indians obtained decidedly the best of It They receive a handsome sum for the lands that are useless to them the I arid hills and plains where theIr forefathers I fore-fathers hunted the Jack rabbit and the lava stretches where they carved the obsidian arrow heads and spear points l I And they retain for their own the rich and picturesque bottom lands of the Snake the ferllle Bannock valley the rich stretches lying south of the Blackfoot I Black-foot and perhaps dearest of all to the Indian heart the great mountain I masses that arc piled against and around the lofty Mount Putnam where the bear the moose the elk and the deer abound a total area of 900000 acres of as choice a region as the sun ever shone on Trust these Bannocks and Shoshones f I lo make a good bargain for themselves In any kind of n transaction as the I following will show A settler at Warm Creek had lost one lof his horses and surmised that ll had strayed to the reservation Meeting n Bannock Indian on horseback the following fol-lowing conversation took place You seen my horse Jim Yes me see um got white face Yes 4 I Yes me sec um got tree white foot 7 footYes Yes Yes me see urn got reached mane Yes I f i Yes me sec um got glass eye r Yes yes where is he Jim Yes me no see um Hold on here the setter cried as the Indian started to ride away Here heres half a dollar Ugh Half dohili me no sec um ketch tree dollah urn me see um five dollah me |