Show I Ten to One Shots Shot on Land I. I Goodwin's Goodwins Weekly lIen Here is a land lanel investment iu where the thc element t of chance is reduced to the minimum where the thc planting of crops amounts to a certainty of profitable profI profitable prof prof- I production where the thc invitation Come Caine 1 standing in to and See is em embellished b. b bv by I sweeping canals growl growing in grain raiu bearing orchards wide fertile ranges perfect climate art an an iel ideal nr IJ ity This may sound like flit n fin 1 ad nd- ci n t. t It Th The Tho people e who ho live i it iJ i this modern Eden have l plenty to advertise l hut but u no means mans of carrying carr their message through the usual ans of exploitation If this little story of actual living in fact will help to Put People on the Land Lund some same of us will feel nm amply ply repaid for all the thc space required to recount it Fred L L. Watrous of the Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- I chesne l Record ecord at Myton lyton ton and I J. J M. M Bryant the gl government engineer and special disbursing disbursing irl ing agent a stationed at Myton lyton d In dr n Aped in last week to say that they were wert still strong inthe in iu inthe the faith of the Uinta rinta basin and to add in passing a few remarks upon the thc thickness of the thc average head that passes up so genuine a cinch as that which awaits the settler in the Uinta c country There is more land in the Ind Indian ser service serCe Ce in Utah Uial under I than that there ther is under cultivation atoll in the whole sta state e outside of If that area arta l Right now no there are acres aeres of In Indian Indianland Indianland land available l for settlement This This laud land h belongs long s to the tle heirs s of deceased Indians deceased Indians and it is irrigated irrigated- bv In eighteen canals which were weri were constructed by the government g at a cost of three quarters quarters' of a million dollars land laud lies in Uinta and counties most o of it in inthe the the latter It is IS all nit a tI part 0 of f t the 1 great Linta Uinta draina drainage t Irrigated Irrigated gated land too re remember that No Nn laud land agent need be tie seen to acquire right and title The process f purchase i is through h the discovery disco of the heirs wh which ich isn't t cl difficult fi a application ap ap- p- p for nr appraisement and andale sale ale and nud payment through tile the govern government government- of f the amount agree agreed upon Her lies lies an empire of ol more than a a- a million trillion acres access wh wholly lly surrounded surround d b by hy mountains ins where the the d drainage e is all nil through gh the land a d. d It isn't a adry adry dry ciry farts farm proposition prop No railroad railroad rail rail- road rod runs through it or near it it but some saute fay day the road roan will pierce lh that t basin hasin and treble the value aluc of Lind and hrin bring into touch with the markets markets mar mar- ket of If the world a l garden pr producing producing pro pro- duc ng more mitre than is now produced pro pro- 1 d c ced upon all the trie other acres of Utah In 1905 1505 you ma may r remember re remember re- re member the Uinta tinta Indi-in Indi resen reservation tion t was ns as t h ro V. 11 I open to settlement t. t Homesteaders took up acres Heres of the thc les- les cl They were so fa far r froth from the thc railroad and aud exportations tiona were so costly that only mal a n few of the thc prod products like Hk lila haney honey honey hon han ey cattle sheep and wool ever cr saw sow the ot other side of the moun tams The Thc farmers became land lond poor and were ere in in inne need deed ne d of of assistance In III 1909 1900 the Utah appropriated I for the relief of the farmers inthe in inthe I Ithe the Uinta basin Not l nil all of i I this money was eras spent but in ill inthe the year car 1913 the f farmers are are I aski asking n g for nothing i rl hut u t. t neigh neigh- hors bors They do Ice oat not seek eel assistance assis aSsir- 8 tance tonce fro from the state or f from any anyone one else Once an appeal was waa made it lo to the government go l to spend about in advertising ad ad- that lint region and augmenting aug aug- meriting its population Th The government g turned the sug suggestion down At the tile state fair the thc Uinta Tinta I country has won first prize fo for I honey and alfalfa products product from rain this thia region also won wort first firs prize Hay Ini brins ns 30 a ton a af after after af- af f- f ter tel a thirty milt haul The f fruit uit is the best hest in the world Here Jere is the shameful fact about the Cinta Uinta country Ten Teu settlers rs fr front from m Co Colorado or lave have secured secured se se- i cured I Indian n iau land laud th there re to one settler from Utah Ih Think ink that tha t OV over aver l The lund land l' l rightfully belongs s sto to Utah people But Utah people people peo pen pie seem to he be content to let outsiders conic come into the state and a acquire quile the choicest acres neres I that lie lic right at nt our own door The Thc Uinta Pinta and e I Utes have a judgment of 3 Uncle Sam and the thc only that the way way- government govern govern- Inch ment t can break eak even e is to d dis s- s po pose e of the laud land which h was thrown open for settlement t. t The Indians will get theirs Some Sonic of them are good far farm farin- farmers lers l- l ers more moie of them are not But Bu t the land they the once owned is is garden arden land irrigated producing producing I in ing i in rich abundance There is it main inane a land scheme I that has made money for its promoters in this and other I states where strangers were deposited deposited deposited de de- de- de posited upon alkali soil there is many ninny a laud land scheme brought broughto t to o completion c n with time the sanction tion of the state slate land board that should have hu been barred from front the market Main I any a promoter l has grown I 7 grown gran n rich by hy the forced population on o of worthless acres acres But tio nn n hand ham bard 1 has has' been heen bring the Uinta country into touch with wilh the consuming mar market market market mar mar- ket nor has hns there b been en a legitimate legitimate legit legit- effort to p populate the the fertile pyres acres that await wait the touch of the thc ph w in t the le 1 basin hasin Herc is a a real opportunity or Those have e been heen fortunate ante enough rough to tn visit isit the Uinta country coun country coun- coun try know knout what the thc land lunds js 1 do do- oIt o- o ing It would he be a profitable trip for any man neat to go po into that great region and investigate iu Those who Inn may obtain oh- oh tain tamo information as Yes IS to lands lauds by G Goodwin's Goodwins Weekly Salt La Lake Lae e City J J. J to M. M Bryant government O service Myton Utah Duchesne 7 I Record Ny Myton P Utah The information is free |