Show The Southern Ute Removal Following is the memorial which las been sent to Congress Your petitioners the Govcrnorand Legislative Assembly ot Utah desIre de-sire toset forth That the pretence of the southern Utes in southern tolorado i ollen sire i to certain citizens of that Stale and i H therefore proposed to eflect heir removal to Utah ther further proi > ofed and urged by said cllliena of Colorado that for these Indians tract of three mil lin acres of the public domain b set apart In Utah and that they have the freedom of three million acres additional in this territory for hunting and other purposes The proposltlott receives support rom the citizens of Utah The fel log rm in this territory Is I universal and strong against It 6tng citizens of Utah need and de I sire that all lands In the Territory belonging to the public domain and not Included in Indian or other reservations be open to Industrious cr lawabiding cltlierih such as maybe fable to govern themselves I and mahq positive 1 and Wiuabiecon g J Toe tp ibntlons to the wealth and prosperity I pros-perity of the Territory I Your piiitloncrs desire to represent repre-sent further that within the tract 7 1 l Uth proposed n thohome of the ptjt Indian extensive I and valuable mineral Ajoells are I bund Among the a extensive pIncer deposits Nckrly one thousand thou-sand five hundred estimated pet tiers have fund their way to this I region and ale developing its resource re-source Many others engaged In stockraising I and eng would have their jroperty and I perhaps their lives imperiled by 1 he proximity of large bands of indIana In-dIana living by nd used or regular occupations Betides eno the north f these settlers are the extensive reservations of the Uintah and Un compabgro Ue Between these reservations and the proposed reservation reser-vation would be no desirable location loca-tion for the establishment of American can homes Further In case such transfer of described should ndlans as above dlL be made a great damage and Injus Ice would IMS done in general to the interests of this entire territory and particularly to those citizens of Utah now residing on or near the proposed reservation To them i would mean In many Instances the losses and hardships Involved in abandoning thelr iomes and eeek log others Valuable rights would have to be relinquished in many homes would be placed in tear Important and extensive natural resources both mineral and agricu1 ural would have to b abandoned and would remain permanently undeveloped un-developed Gnot inducements now otTered by this Territory to In lustrlous an able immigrants would become valueless and a positive injury Inflicted upon ua in I the presence pres-ence cia large and idle population acUng both as a hindrance and a menace toour progress Moreover I does not appear that In the proposed transfer any advantage ad-vantage prop to the Indl ann Bother the large increase in territory accessible to them in the proposed reservation would b continual inducement to I nomadic and lawless life They would b deprived of the advantages ad-vantages of a neighboring compacted com-pacted American population with which they fcro now to their jreat benefit bermltted ot mingle treely In Uhron the contrary the American ranchmen and farmers farm-ers are more isolated and the neighbors neigh-bors with whom Vie Indians would most freely mingle would b the Dintah Unoompabgre Ute of civilization own not superior to their ownWe therefore your petitioners earnestly pray that you permit no change be mole in the reserva ion of the Southern Ute Indians oC Colorado tuth M shall Involve their transfer to the Territory of Utah and your peUUoneivwIll ever pray |