| Show KING HITS THE INDIAN BUREAU Secretary Wilbur defends Gove- Gove in Attack Made By Utah Senator Interesting To Uintah Basin asin A few days ago some fire fireworks fireworks works loomed up in the national capitol Senator Wm Win H. H King of or Utah made a serious attack on the governments government's handling of the Indian Bureau giving It severe criticism because of alleged incompetency incompetency incompetency in- in competency and supposed robbery of the The next day secretary Wilbur I defended the governments government's policy claiming that the Indians are i caught in a mesh of legislation PO 10 that reasonable administration I is hampered at every turn Senator Wheeler Montana joined senator King rong of Utah in denouncing the policy polley and anti claiming laiming that tuat t tIle trUl 1 lands are being depleted and the wealth taken from the Indians The critics critics critics crit crit- ics deplored the heavy overhead of ot the Indian Bureau Dureau It was a ahot ahot ahot hot debate and the administration tion had to defend Its iL J actions Here in the basin we know a lot about both sides of the Continued on last page KING lUNG lilTS HITS INDIAN BUREAU Continued from page 1 question from practical ence With our white people people peo peo- people we have about 1140 Indians and mixed bloods When the former reservation was Wll opened in n 1905 it was on the assumption that we had hud about 1981 1984 Indians an and farms and grazing areas were I set aside on this basis A check checkup checkup checkup up a few years later showed the gross error of this old list of Indian Indian Indian In In- dian names duplications blunders blunders blunders ers errors galore But this was not until the government government government gov gov- had spent nearly one million dollars in reclaiming tribal tribal tribal trib trib- al lands scattered over a wide area although not reclaiming all the acres of farm lands set aside for the Utes In 1914 for instance the surplus farm farmlands farmlands lands were advertised and sold I each tract being valued terms allowed and considerable was so I disposed of and the money we believe went to increase the Indians Indian's Indians Indian's Indians Indian's In In- dian's wealth The government has done faIrly fairly fairly fair faIr- ly well for the Indian as the above should show While operating operating operating oper oper- costs may be high yet the wealth is large now valued at over ten million dollars and were a railroad provided this wealth per government testimony would be Increased to flinty millions or more This wealth should not be increased so much on farm lands and the acres of grazing lands but on gilsonite and natural al l asphalt Every Ute In these three tribes Is really rich and soon these riches will be pouring ou out It wont won't be long |
