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Show Ml I ' . , - . - - t i .i E:;:;.:rcc3'U;:n.f:rS:t-tIwA.tout E:;:;.:rcc3'U;:n.f:rS:t-tIwA.tout cn tLw Ui.tk.J . : Reserve. ' - 'WASHINGTON, V. C -April 2. The Uintah- reserve will be opened March 1st of nexi year. Instead of October Oc-tober 1st, ' the date . now fixed by la, as It trill be Impossible to open on the date named this' year,. To accomplish this It will be necessary to get'. an Increased, In-creased, appropriation of; $5000.. j This will be provided In an amendment to the sundry civil supply bill. -'v The first Information the Utah dele-" ration had of the Inability of the Government Gov-ernment to get ready for the opening was lii the form of a protest from the people of Uintah county. Gov. Wells also urged that the opening, be postponed post-poned and many other prominent men, especially from Uintah county, urged postponement of the date. . r An amendment had been presented to the Committee on Indian Affairs fixing the date of opening one year from October Oc-tober 1st. This was stricken out, through the efforts of the Utah delegation, delega-tion, before the bill was reported to the Senate. An effort made then to reinsert rein-sert the original date was defeated. 'It was supposed that all danger was past and that the reserve would be opened as originally contemplated. .But when the bill was sent to conference another an-other attempt was made, this time by the Secretary of the Interior, to postpone post-pone the opening. He' said that with the limited force ' at his disposal it would be impossible to prepare the pre-llmlnarysurvey pre-llmlnarysurvey or do the office work and allot the lands In time to meet the requirements of the law. In his Judgment Judg-ment It would take at least a year from October 1st next to be fully prepared. ' When Senator Kearns learned this he wired Surreyor-General Anderson and Gov. Wells concerning the matter. The replies received were that, It would require re-quire the time until July of next year to complete the work for opening Senator Kearns communicated with the Indian department and learning that no . discretion was vested ' In the secretary to postpone the data of opening, open-ing, decided that something must be done in the form of an amendment to the supply bill, He was opposed to such long postponement and March 1st, 1905, was agreed to as a compromise, based upon the additional appropriation. |