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Show IfilllS MUSI CdTWTE HOLMS r (Agent Says Redmen Musi I Work Their Lands or " Lose Tfiem. )f Information ' received from My ton. Utah, states that (hous-ands of dollars (are to be expended In the near f tjtutxj lUtwn tbe reclamation of lands in th. Uintah Indian reservation. Charles U rDavlB. acling Indian :icent. has resolved 'to make the Indians cultivatetheir land ;or !oi the title thereto. It Is stated 'ttat the 1200 Indians no on tho reservation reser-vation are the owners of many thou-'tUiSs thou-'tUiSs of acrtR of the host land in V.ie atita and that Irrigation water in nlentv SL to be had for use In cultivation. I A bill has been presented to congress ,M)clng for an .anpioorlation of ?3.fjQn,ooo firlth which to nay tho balance on a. ludc-'Bitnt ludc-'Bitnt against the United States in favor fCf th Indian?, obtained more- than a ktsr afro. The action noon which the jadjmient was slven csinc as a result of the rale of Indian land in Colorado, tha proceeds of which were to be Riven to the Ule IndianF. It Ib stated that ipnly H.2S0.00O of the Sn.oflO.OOO. at which Hh9 landr. were valued, has been received 1 the Indians. TVIth I he rrMpl of the t8fh from this sale the Indian acenl iys that tho Indians on tho'lJInlaVi reservation res-ervation will have enough to rav white natn to work the farms, if they cannot will not cultivate them themselves. ; If tho lands are not cultivated It is nhnned that the Indians shall lone title (o tlim and that they t?lia II be thrown BPn to entry for reclamation bv vnlte, |