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Show The suggestion that the people of the Uintah basin get back their filing fil-ing fees on homestead lands never met with much co-operation on the part of the settlers. . The principal reason for this probably was that it was not generally thought that congress con-gress would pass any such legisla-. legisla-. tion. To get back, however, one's homestead right is a matter that :-ho".M pass. A similar Bill was re-rorted re-rorted favorably from its committee 1 at the laBt session of congress. There is every reason why the Uintah settlers set-tlers should have their rights restored, res-tored, and among the most pertl-net pertl-net ones is that congress allowed thousands of acre's of. the' best .land on the reservation to be bought at a very low price per acre, the minimum mini-mum being 50 cents, at public auction auc-tion sales. r |