Show INDIAN LANDS which of the territory want opened the wintah and uncompahgre indian reservations which delegate rawlins is endeavoring to have opened for settlement this winter comprise some of the richest agricultural and mineral lands in the territory there are about five million acres probably one fourth of which is available for agricultural and grazing purposes and two hundred and fifty thousand acres for agricultural purposes alone there is an abundance of good water available for irrigation and for mining the reservations are owned by about two indians who have never attempted to cultivate those portions that are tillable and who still live in a state of savagery so far their possessions have not been encroached upon though they leave long been coveted the miners and prospectors cannot long be withheld for rich minerals arc known to abound therland there and neither fear of indians nor the power of the federal government will prevent the prospectors from examining and sampling the mountains the citizens of utah reason that this country should not be given over exclusively clu to a few well fed lazy indians when it is capable of being made rich in farms villages railroads factories and mills they hold that with allotted lands surrounded by civilizing influences these indians may bedtime good citizens of the united states which they certainly arc not now they claim eliat tho theory of sending afew white men among them to teach them how to farm and read and tend stock is a false one tha tonly by contact with the whites and different surroundings can they ever be reclaimed there is no attempt to rob the indians or to drive them out the proposition is to give bliem farms in severalty which will all be under ditches constructed by white men and thus they will leave practical teaching and ready markets cormons mormons and gentiles gyn tiles are a unit upon the question of utilizing |