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Show INDIAN IS LAZY Prefers to Lease His Land Rather Than Work It S. M. Barlow, a traveling man who has Just r turned from a business trip through the Vernal country, doesn't take a verj optimistic view of the Indian, so fur as his becoming a useful citizen Is concerned. Instead of working tho farms with whi h tin- Government has provided them, and which by the way, are fertile und well wateredi the Indians are cein-tent cein-tent to lease them to white men and live upon their annuities while healing about the agencies They are becoming fond of the luxuries of white men, and Mr. Barlow Bar-low had little dlfHCUlt) In disposing of delicacies and high-grade provisions te the red me n He a:- they are fond of tea and coffee and pastr. mince pies bc-Iiik bc-Iiik an especial favor I ti with them The hones crop in the 1'lntah country Is almost ' failure thi--- year, because of the failure of the lucerne crop. The bee?, of course depend entirely upon lucerno for th'ir raw material, and whereas the Uintah country has furnished the best and largest qantity Of any section of Utah heretofore, little if any will be shipped out this year. Mr Barlow looks upon that section of country as the coming agricultural region of the State. There is so much water and the land Is capable Of producing such varied i r--p. that Mr. Barlow thinks it cannot full to be a great agricultural region. re-gion. Until the railroad truvc-rscw the SCCtlon, Mr BartOW thinks the fruitgrowers fruit-growers could Und :i read market for thi lr product If hi would put In an evaporating plant and use up the fruit of the country In that way. shipping It em i at their lelsun li.' US-mlle- wagon haul ii I mo.-1 pre,:! nje- 1 1 1 , ir iMspumi,- ol the fre-;h article, and Mr. Barlow thinks th. only way It i an be handled success-fiillj success-fiillj is by evaporating and packing for shipping purposes |