Show oil alie removal of tiie ates congressional confiscation Is what the bill for their removal is termed while the people of utah are doing and saying but little concerning the proposed removal of the southern utes to the new reservation in san juan county the inhabitants of denver and other colorado cities and towns are worked up to a fever heat and the colorado papers are almost daily besieged by some one from the neighborhood of the proposed new reservation who is anxious to give reasons why the utes should nofa come to utah it is true a majority of the people of colorado favor the removal of the indian because such a step would mean the opening up to settlement of thousands of acres of the choicest land in the centennial state which has been looked upon with covetous eyes for many years past there arc those however principally stock companies no doubt who are bitterly opposed to he coming of the utes in a recent communication to a denver exchange we find the following dated richardson utah the letter of your durango correspondent constans three facts first the dur people will be beno fitted by the removal of the utes to utah second the utes will be obliged by it and third the proposed reservation is better than the one they are leaving and more extensive all the other statements however honest may be the writers intention are false directly or indirectly if durango needs help utah could better afford to make up a subscription for her than to take her utes on the terms offered he says nor would their removal work a wrong to any the bill before congress makes ample provision to reimburse the settler in good faith whose possessions lie in their path it does no such thing the valuation does not cover one fourth tho real value of the improvements made by settlers the bill simply ruins three claims that are patented the rest have no title but that of settlement in good faith as the country was withdrawn from market at the commissioners orders the bill practically confiscates mining property cattle claims and orchards and vineyards from white people cormons mormons and gentiles for the use of and benefit of indians again he says the new reservation is practically cut off from the settlements of utah on two sides it is but men are going and coming with teams between it and everyday except some very small ones that are provided for does that mean moab and erichardson chardson Ei how are they provided for those very small settlements will make a very large kick when the time comes it is contiguous to the coveted hunting grounds yes it is and those hunting grounds are now occupied by cattle ranches and farms conflict between the utes and white people would be only a remote possibility I 1 say and I 1 speak for the settlers that conflict would be a certainty the talk about the rich fruit lands is misleading san juan county is in new mexico and not occupied by indians at present its fruit lands are insignificant in area compared with the noble domain about to be stolen from utah the colorado reservation is well watered and may raise apples and hardy fruits but I 1 have been all over it and where it has one acre valuable for fruit culture we havro five the blue mountains contain some of the finest grazing lands in the world they comprise fine fruit lands good wheat and potato lands and their settlement cap not be long delayed in five years the utes would have given them up colorado can get choice from southern utah with the greatest ease there are probably a hundred tons this beason in the young fruit raising valley of little grand alone the present difficulty is the want of good roads to the railroad all tho best men of the section are interest edin forming a new country la sal which runs down to the north end of the proposed reservation the project is regarded as certain of success in salt lake where it has the highest influence on its side the officials will probably attend to the utes cowboys enough can be mustered to wipe out the tribe if the durango people mean fo provoke war to get rid of the utes two can play at that game we may as well die fighting for our rights as wait to be murdered or driven out an indian told mr frank smith athla summer that he would have to move when they came down as they meant to take all the land to the dolores ten miles north of us until this im famous achele of plunder was planned the utes were shy of this neighborhood buckskin charleas Char lias war party stole some horses killed two men and were attacked by cowboys a few years ago between mill creek and little castle creek the fight lasted two or three days and twenty seven dead indians and one squaw were lef on the 1 ground counting choso who were murdered about ten white men perished bat the were highly satisfactory they behaved themselves after that the prowling thieves wo cannot afford to give up our heui a to the control f savages the attempt must be made to teach those utes to live like whites or else one ninth of utah has been taken at Uintah for colorado indians bow more acres with a vast range of hunting is offered them gentleman we have had enough this case has to go before the united states where we have rights as well colorado and the indians As for the character of foliose indians they are already too well known here the la sal mountains were their rendezvous after the thornburg and meeker massacre in which they GO fiendishly participated buckskin charlie and his band fled here and remained until danger was past of course they know and like the country I 1 repeat that not until they had assurances that they were to possess this country did they dare to venture in hero after the little castle fight there are now at this writing indians camped around the la sal who claim that the government has firven them this country and that the settlers have got to get oat because it soon will be in their hands they are killing deer by the thousands for summer skins while white men are compelled to obey the game laws of utah it would appear from the present indications that the pioneers of southeastern utah have no rights which government agents and indians are bound to respect time will tell whether the senate can be induced to ratify so great an outrage there is considerable similarity between artemus wards heroic resolve to sacrifice all his cifes relations and the profuse generosity with which colorado is willing to give away property to the indians |