Show UTAH HAS FARED 1 WELL INLAND IN-LAND LEGISLATION Will Result in Great Activity in the State Jt S i i > S f i is > WILL BRING tIN CAPITAL I Hundreds ofThousands of Dollars 5 5 Dol-lars I will Be Expanded Thousands of New Citizens Will Be Added to Utahs Roster Bo foreClose of This YearS S L S TRIBUNE BUREAU i012 Fourteenth Street Washington D C March 14 j r Legislation during the closing days of the session of Congress which ended on the 4th inst will result in great activity In development In Utah Results Re-sults will be seen within a month and before the close of the present year hundreds ot thousands ot dollars will be expended In Improvements and thou sands7 of new citizens will be added to Utahs roster OUR GILSONITE DEPOSITS The measure confirming titles to all locations of gllsonlte made upon the Uncompahro Indian reserve prior to 1891 and which became a law within a few hours before the adjournment of Congress provision rather In the Indian appropriation bill does not con flrin more than about onethird or one fourth of all the locations heretofore made It seems that about 730 locations loca-tions were recorded In Utah and Colorado Colo-rado and the law confirms less than 150 But of those confirmed the cream or the cllHonlte deposits are made secure se-cure Some hundreds of jumped claims are not affected Had the bill as originally orig-inally Introduced been made law tiome hundreds of original locations owned by individuals in Utah would have been made valuable Most of the locations confirmed are owned by a large cor poratlon and since the law requires that these shall relocated and registered regis-tered within three months great ac tlvltywlll soon be the order on the ron ervation4 I ST LOIJIS PARTIES It Is reported the Interior department depart-ment the claims are owned by St Louis parties that men have already gone to the reservation to relocate the gllEonlte claims and l prove up and that OH soon as 1 the enow Is off the ground the deposits will begin to appear In the markets of this and foreign countries coun-tries Developments will be Immediate and must result In very desirable developments de-velopments and Improvements for Utah Every other section not In the confirmed locations Is reserved by tho Government and the balance will be disposed of by the Government to the highest bidder but nothing of this kind can be done till all has been surveyed and thIn will probably take several years Further action by Congress will Ukely be necessary WHO DID CURTAILING Representative Lacey of Iowa chairman chair-man of the House Committee on Public Pub-lic Lands and a member of the Committee Com-mittee on Indian Affairs and Representative Repre-sentative Curtis of Kansas member of both those committees defeated the measuro confirming all good and valid locations and forced the compromise finally adopted otherwise all of the gil sonite deposits on the Uncompahgre reservation Would have been developed this summer and hundreds more of locators lo-cators in Utah would have fared well Mr Lacey has taken great interest In legislation affecting this and the Uln tall reservation and in fact Is authority au-thority upon legislation affecting public pub-lic lands and reservations in every part oC our country In an interview Mr i Lacey says saysLACEYS LACEYS VIEWS One of tho most important accomplishments accomplish-ments l of the session Ju9t closed In the way of public land legislation was tho opening up of the gllnonlto mineral lands of the Uncompahgre Indium reservation In Utah There has been a heated contro verny about opening up this mineral deposit de-posit for tho past ten years Thin reservation reser-vation contains tho entire worlds supply of gllnonltc bo far au known Gllflonlte In a high form of asphalt or pitch There Is also on this reservation large deposits of flatcrite a substance used as rcoilng varnish Both minerals arc In a very pure state and It In believed that the gll Bonito can be profitably used for troet paving If this la proved truo tho deposit will bo of Incalculable valuo to the commercial com-mercial world 1IIOH I BITING MONOPOLY The question of how host to throw these mineral lands open to tho public was one which engrossed the attention of the lawmakers law-makers for nome time Tho conclusion reached < was that the old cllncoverlrp or locntlonn made prior to mHo should beheld be-held valid At tho time these first discovering discov-ering scro made thin land wan under executive ex-ecutive order and tho general belief nt that tlmo was that tho mineral land on such reservations were subject to location tho same ns other mineral lands In order to prevent these lands from falling Into tho hands of a monopoly the law which provides for their opening reserves every other section of land to the Government This IH i somewhat disappointing to many prospectors who have located claims In tho last few years nn they will not be allowed al-lowed to anauirc title to tho loiMilons they havo made should such locations happen to bo on tho section reserved by the Government OTHER LAND LEGISLATION Chairman Lacey believes the measure mea-sure providing that the Government buy all Indian reservations and open them to settlement will hans at the next session of Congress He cites the passage of tho act providing for homestead home-stead entries of 310 acres In Alaslca which he believes will make of Alaska an agricultural and grazing country ON THE UINTAH It Is stated here by one directly In terested that the Florence Mining company com-pany and other parties Interested will be immediately active on the Ulntajj reservation this spring and summer and that rapid developments and important im-portant improvements will follow Altogether Al-together Utah has fared exceedingly well in reservation and public land leg islation |