Show THE reservation why W hy it has not been opened SNAP FOP the T fie indians would welcome the whites talk with some of the lie chiefs enquirer correspondence your hare al way wara ban ba n alive ta t and sews newe pertaining to the welfare ol of the people of utah I 1 write you tf cf my trip to this wild country azil the week I 1 spent epert anione the of uintah county knoff ingall do that the opening of the uintah reservation has been a q anes nes tion of vital importance the real bacs in the case may piove giove of interest to your readers I 1 left provo aug 29 11 for the purpose of viewing this country and ascertain ing ini the real sentiment of its inhabitants going by bv way of the strawberry a and nd upper duschene I 1 found a pretty rough and wild section I 1 reachel reached the upper duschene on the fourth day of a we wery ry some trip through the sandy benches and in the hat ha sun anere I 1 found masy of the utes their pickups dotti R g the riverside nver eide for thirty miles some are engaged in the work of farming while others live and die in the shade beneath their teppers tep peas at one cne time chief ol oi the XI utes tea and who is now in his hia bolst year and totally blind tox together ether with his sons BOOB do some borne farming this sessna they will have about bushels of grain and a great duil ded of hay the P ment meat has given table a threshing threading machino machine to ehreth his hia bushels of cereals leaving the tha Dape daphene Da chene hene I 1 passed through some ul mountain 8 scenery cenary that if painted by an artist would prove grovr grand to those these who love lova tho the art about alty fl ty miles brought me to what is called the upper agency oyer over this road thousands of acres of as fine land ag ever a plow penetrated were traver traversed zed lying idle simply lor for the want wank of intelligent cultivation the indians indiana occupy only those lands bor derieg the ganv rivers rivera that penetrate the reservation many of the tribe have houses built by the government but they prefer living in the open air or underneath what we term bo bowe rieF few genuine pickups are now used the upper agency like the lowar one is established for the purpose of directing and tea teaching ebing the utes civil civilization and to di distribute tribute the rations issued by uncle sam two elegant befool buildings coating probably each have been built at each arency teachers are employed to teach the young and great efforts are exercised on the part ot of those in charge to assist them in learning it may bs bg a sur oriee to many to know that the government spends thousands of dollars yearly in support of the tribe as an inducement du cement to have hare them become civils civil iced nut the pro progress grese is slow and st at the present rate it will take about thirty years to wipe out the tribe from ignorance sufficiently that they can make an honest living by their labor every indian over the age of two weeks m receives each year this amount is interest on money hold in re cerve by the government lor for lands landa from which the tribe were removed years azo in addition to this the indians get cash from rom the ibe nutter cottle cattle co who the strawberry coun conn ry for their he be ds which nets tor for each 9 50 more besides this E eum um 0 of 1 18 75 pound of fresh meat is ia distributed weekly among them from esch each agency and clotting clot Ling and blankets sufficient to keep them in a somewhat civilized manner machinery and implements clements ts of bit at kinds are issued to those who prove themselves anyway of performing work each rears gets a new wagon every three years if he wants iland indians generally want it for if a wagon gets slightly damaged they soon boon destroy it that they ma may r get a new one apparently much carelessness carless car cess is ex ext habited in a the distribution of rations such as machinery as mu ma h are de stayed to the expense of the people who pay government revenue while mesa rations rati reile from the cash are issued by the 0 vern ment olli cors for tho the civil of an ignorant tribe they at the asams time produce idleness among them which is ia certainly the object sought to relieve THIC asia is well known the question of opening thesa theoa lands landa for the battlement of the whites has been one of mali ma h importance for many haara and to know the exact feeling of the ii diana toward it one has to go ga among thim tha ilis week I 1 spent on the hearthstone atif if the utes proved belond quee tion that tha little trouble would be met in accomplishing the purpose which our congressmen have claimed to have worked so hard to accomplish I 1 talked with many of the old chief an and d many others who were equally as intelligent and most of them had bad the desire besiie that the lands ianda aught to bo be opened under the conditions of course that chev should be protected equally in their rights with the whites one old chief said me ate beep like white man me know not farm white man beep smart show me how bow to farm white man wino farmer fart ner me want whits white man neighbor at both agencies there are supposed to be 2390 indians india is at least rations are furnished for that number but it IS ie claimed ta tat at there are not over 1800 in a 1 it is ia also said that the trib anba iz i decreasing col is chief commander of the two troops now stationed at the post he has a different idea from that which I 1 have demonstrated to my own knowledge he conter contends fda that concessions cannot be made with the indians for the tha opening ot of the tha reservation and it is 13 through his bis in influence flence and advice that the tha so called commission made their adverse report to the tha secretary of the interior conclusions clu would at this point be formed that the colonels ideas were based noon a theory of Belf benefit and a half dozen others who hold soft soaps snaps in his bis department on the this so called commission spent nearly three months at 10 a day abo about the reservation boding conr confer ances with aba indians seeking some satisfactory arrangements wi wih h the in aeo their report stated bati but I 1 get it from good anther ty that their von con betances fe of card parties and d chat beside the blazing fires in in the elegant furnished parlors ot of the officers of the fort veterinary surgeon mcdonadd McDo at the post proved a genial and lug ing chaperon fur for your correspondent he assisted the writer in ratting patting a pretty good insi insight alit to the beauty and grandeur of uncle sams barns fine build buildings rigo some euma thirty u number finely furnished famished and finished owing tj ta t j the fact that the fort was built for six troops and only two at the present are stationed there many of the elefant offic arBI quarters and soldiers stations are vacant fine lawns have ben been fixed up en closed with durable lence i thou sanda of shade trees are strictly in accord with natures best beat work and the entire fort presents a bome like and pleasant appearance the are all calorel co lorei lorel and but bug four on out t of the e entire a tir a are married men talk has bean current for some time that the lort fort may be abandoned at an early earl day this is is evidencia evid enca erica of the indians indiana good goad feeling towards the whites alo are reedy ready to concede anere is is little need of the tha troops capt whitlock who transfers this the U 8 mails to and from the tha agen agencies cleg is ie anro aler genial old fellow to talk with it may be surprising to mauv many that some gome mining is is going oa in this part ot of utah about twenty miles north of verna varna last aust aff en the tha reserva ain some of the richest copper properties in this country are situated the big four owned by R 0 Cham chambers bere and others re working fourteen men the ore goes fifty and sixty per cent capp erand some well defined defined veina veins have been uncovered covered ua that bat rive kive easaya assays as tigh high at as 81 8 per cent copper some bose lead aud and a little silv silver or shipments from the big four are stead ly made the coat cf which when laid down at the ar aelter ea elter amounts to 45 i er ton at this Proceed ure a fair fa i r pr fit is ill made for the owner Ow nerL oher properties ere are equally as good locatti in that thai section sec ton A railroad through this cour itry would open up a vast and rich ini mineral ejection one oae which would add murn much mineral wealth to the worl world its I 1 leave for provo tomorrow and am fully fally satisfied in my own mind that abe sentiment of bath indians and whites atiz reservation deserve fart duschene Da Dus ebne abandoned and the lauds lands opened for settlement M L SCOTT whiterocks P 0 unetah co bitah |