Show NOW KNOW UT All By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS What about the Indians In Utah When was the first treaty with the red men inca negotiated Where were the original reserves set apart for the original Americans Utah had hid been settled in 1847 but no treaty was made with any of t U-e U e Ut Ut- tribes until December 1849 1849 1840 and then On n the of ot the month a treaty was concluded with certain bands of Utes Utes' This treaty was one of peace and und friendship and was provision s made that reservations might be made or established for the bands that joined in the treaty whenever the occasion should demand Four lour reservations reservations reser reser- were set apart under this treaty during the theten theten theten ten years ears succeeding by the Indian agents in charge They w were re the Corn Creek Deep Creek Sanpete and Spanish Fork Folk The four reserves contained within their boundaries acres and in 1864 1804 under the provisions of an act of congress were ordered s sold ld Jh The price wasa 6 62 cents per acre aCle Within the Corn Creek reserve which was In Millard county I the tract extended east and west ten miles mlle and north and south sauth twelve miles the northeast coiner corner coiner of ot the tract joining the townsite to of ot Fillmore The Deep Creek Cree Ie reserve was in the southwest part of ot Tooele county count which h was wa's was as set for the tribe by the Indian ag agent nt It is Is' on this reserve that an epidemic of flu iu las has prevailed for the past palt several weeks This reservation is part in Utah and p part partIn In Nevada The Sanpete reservation was wa's was established in the southern thern of so part Sanpete county Spanish Fork 1011 reserve which was was' the smallest of the four was In Utah county and extended about ten miles along long Utah lake S S In 1861 b by an executive order o of President Abraham Abraham Abra- Abra ham mm Lincoln issued October 3 a reservation was es established established es- es which was glen giren several b bands of Utes an and l included the en entire tin valley of the Uintah river within the territory of Utah and extending on both sides of the river t to the crest of the first range of contiguous mountains on each side May 4 1868 congress approved the order older by passing four foul acts covering the case casc 0 C Six hands bands of red men and several small bal bands ds which were we're not considered d as us tribes were to to occupy this reserve th the six bands bands' being the Plede San Pitch und stud Uinta There was a large tract of land which the claimed ned bu but which was vas tal taken en possession of ot by by bythe the United States without the formality of ot a treaty or by pur- pur hase It was a vast area and included reserves established established established b by executive or order er It extended from froni the Uintah mountains on the north this range lange of mountains mountains moun moun- talus being the only lange range in the world with the x eption of oC the Himalayas that run lun directly east and west to the divide south of the Strawberry river and from Crom the I Wasatch mountains on the west to the first range of ot hills east of the Uintah river liver I I S a The rue tract that was left and which p passed h into to the hands of the United States was an empire in Jt- Jt t self for It included the triangle east of the reservation reser reservation reser- reser bounded by the river on the east the Uintah mountains on the north and the fIrst firs firs range of hills lulls east ast of the Uintah river on on the west vest In addition to this was a tract south of the reservation which extended to the west and south boundaries of Utahan Utah an and ind included the larger Jarger part parr of the counties of Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon Emery Millard 1 Sanpete Sevier and Wayne and also the eastern portion of ot Garfield Garfiel and Kane coun coun- Ue ties Jo |