Show surrounded BY A WALL the alio institution ill hi the old world which first shocks tho the in mind and of one born and nurtured inn lured in tho air ol oi freedom is ig the institution af entail entailed od lands upon which aristocracy and oven monarchy I 1 itself is foun founded dod it is almost incomprehensible to ono one reared in the shadow hadow of the stars and how such nations as england whore where deiv civilization has made its gendot strides ean can set aside vast aro ares w for door deer parks and grounds for the nobility ahito hilo thousands thousand of their inhabitants must breathe the contaminated air of the cities and never realize what hat it is to own a foot of the earth on which destiny has placed them aud and yet wo who live lico lic o in in this glo glorious hous republic of the west tho the crowning achievement in the history of government have only to look on our own borde bordors s to pore perceive oivo as flagrant 0 an brior en or is as is to bo be found abroad do the people of utah realize that more than half the arable land in the territory and ands some ortho of the richest mineral lauas lands are bur surrounded rounded by a wall that is as impassable as it is intangible tho the extremity ortho of the indian reservation lies about twenty ahrea miles ea eat east t of provo thence the boundary follows tho th eUintah Uintah mountain northeast to within fifteen milos miles of the wyoming line at this point it turns southeast and extends to greo greeir river about ten miles down ther the river ivor the southern boundary boundary y bo boins begins 0 ins curves curved inward and reaches its most southern point about ton milos miles north of pleasant valley junction the northern line of the buncom maligro rose reservation bisects tho the eastern side aide of tho the Ui umlah itah reserve runs east to color colorado ado south sixty miles to green river liver and north to the uintah agency in order to give tho the reader in cen aral utah an idea of this I 1 may that the two reservations embrace an aej area equal to the counties ot utah salt lare lake davis morgan ta and weber Wo lor and pos possess sesE as much land capable of cultivation the principal streams anis lying alyin choly in the reserves are the duchesne Du chesno and uintah binl 11 rivers which have nu numerous tributaries tributa ries fod fed by the perpetual now banks in the uintah range green I 1 biyer traverses the uncompahgre 0 reservation er from froin north to south and the whito white river hows flows within its bound 1 akrieg arie for fifty miles everyone who I 1 goos wb W b the strawberry valley lying surrounded by mountains and cohering yering co eo the entire eaid d of the uintah reservation er is enthusiastic in praising its beauties in iio summer green and tender grass is knee high and crystal cry fital lakes alive with trout are W A r A i found iu in every basin it is a mid summer eden with the cherubim at its gates atti attired red in in brass batons and government brea brooches chos to bar out tal alio 0 o t stockman and tho the huntur hunter the mountains aro are covered with it a wealth of biln timber pino and fir enough to build homos homes for all tho the bottlers settlors sett sott lors lers in utah T every E very summer the uintah ind and du chesno chasna tire are full felho to the brini brim and t they carry a groat volume of water during the kontilo year their banks aio 0 asi green is as tho storied shannon but thoy they to nature land and her primitive wildness pro prevails vails everywhere the soil on the resor reservation is not surpassed in utah for the production of co cereals reals broad level valleys vallous are spread everywhere every vv hero iiii biting the finiga tin ting 0 ditel ditch land and tho plow 0 of f the huab husbandman a nd thero there are farms for sot set thors after provi providing provideno dino tho au an average of the to tho the family gives a population of 0 that could bo supported by the agricultural ro sources of this section alono alone not to mention it smi an and grazing lands land and tho the con commercial ii nei cial points that would wold d spring up furnishing a livelihood for as many more snaking huking a apos poy population ula of on a now devoted only to 2000 lucians lud Iud ians at the junction of the tv two 0 o reserva bious is tri angular strip of teri territory tory which was wa opened by congress in L 1388 forminio for mining purposes the arilson ap faltum co ships of tons tend of gilsonite gils from here to lo st lous louis via price annually thoro there it is ig used in the of 1 insulators U and I 1 fo for many other purposes near the colorado 1 ano no 0 of the uncompahgre ro reservation aro are immense bails of this samo same material which have boon been staked for miles and a bill ia 13 now in congress to open the scrip strip and make inaho the location Y aid r many old pi prospectors especto s 1 will V 11 rotate h in a a gaurdet iway w ay discoveries made along the flie foothills L of tho the atia vintah atall MOU mountains uta ia is dut but such outbursts asti of are choel checked cd moro many dro are roye aled anh the tr t is told to wait until its opened many maily of the indians indian too possess tho the sa soret ret of hidden wealth and they 0 guard it as jealously as if il were vero tho the bystry of perpetual wal life two years ago a ute Uto brought a nugget of puro pure gold to the post traders store at fort Du duchesne chesno and sold it but he received such a severe savero rebuke f aiom om th the a in indian than a agent ent that tha t ho is not likely to repeat tho the e experiment peri ment immense veins of coal from five to twenty feet in width o ostend tend alon along the base of tho mountains on online 1 tho north across A ashloc ahle y valley for a lit hundred indred miles up the yampa river in iii colorado thoro there are also dep deposits obits of gypsum and paraskewa paraS and g great oat quantities of building stone on the roser reserves ves the state of utah will probably pio plo bably bo be written before this land willbo willbe thrown for only the powerful lev leverage orage of statehood can win so great rent a prize until then those who have the interest of our match matchless loss torri territory tory at spare no endeavors to enlighten b tho the ignorant at homo and the abroad in regard to the indian question under tho the present policy posterity will bo be tho the only gainer ona one or two gyne generations rations will sw the itoh uto a name biame in history and our do cond cendan ants ts will reap the results of our ovi onil folly wo a time when this groat great ai area ea will hoar hear tho busy lium hum 1 y f i 1 l t I 1 of tho the reaper reap or and hundreds of 0 happy homos malco make the valleys glad when cities and villages will opting up on oil the places whon when tho the whito white stearn will hurl trains byor tho the expanse and turn tho wheels of factories and mills when tho the richer PO portion artion of tho torri territory tory will como to tho the treasury sury of tho with her surplus ni wealth and andrako kiako smil smiling in utah tho the prid arido of the west salt lalo lake times |