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Show visions of all acts providing for the opening open-ing and the surveys were made In less time than any similar work which the Government has had performed. - DEPARTMENT EXPLAINS DELAY ABOUT UINTAH WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. The Secretary of the Interior has prepared a report to the Senate In response to Kearas' resolution resolu-tion calling for an explanation of the causes of dslay In opening the Uintah res-tryatlon. res-tryatlon. The report will state that the act of May 27, 1902, provided that the Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior should cause allotments allot-ments to be made to the Uintah and White RiTer Utes prior to October 1, 1903. on which date the united lands of the Uintah reservation should be sold. Under the act of July 1. 1902. the Secretary was directed to estimate for surveys of the Utah reservation, res-ervation, which estimates were submitted, 8nd by the act of March 3, 3908. an appropriation appro-priation of 1175,000 was made for surveys and provisions made for extending the time of opening to October 1, 1904. The general land office took up rurveye of the reservation and eighteen contracts were let. In February. 1904, none of the contracts had been completed, and the cptnion was expressed by the general land office that work !n field, on plat and field notes, and subsequent inspection of field i work, would require the whole of the next I surveying season, and recommendation v as made that tha opening should be postponed post-poned at least another year. This recommendation recom-mendation was made to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior, who also stated that after the completion, of the surveys some 1600 allotments were to be made, which would require at least three or four months' time, or longer. The Secretary therefore recommended that the date for opening be extended one year from October 1. 1904. An amendment to the Indian appropriation bill for the year ending June S, 1905, extending the time of opening to October 1. 1906, passed he House, but was stricken out In the Senate. The conference committee adopted a compromise date, namely, March 10, 1906. and this provision is part of the act of April 28. 1904. The entire surveying season of 1904 was required to complete the surveys. sur-veys. Office work could be completed prior to March 10, 190a. but the large number of allotments to the Indians remain to be made, which it will be impossible to complete com-plete prior to March 10. The department has been diligent in carrying out the pro- |