Show CONSIDER FIRST last week we bad something to say about the opening of 0 the uintah indian reservation Keser vallon and the advantage adva olage it will afford home seekers but when we refer to home seekers we do not mean those who already have hare comfortable homes but those people who are without homos bomes of their own who are living from hand to mouth as you may say eking out a miserable exist ance in some ol of our crowded cities who may better their conditions chodl lions by seeking homes bowes in a new country to these we would say the reservation when opened will afford an excellent opportunity but those who have bare farms arms or are otherwise e comfortably located should consider well before to seek a new home lo in a new country every ebery country has its drawbacks and the settler in a new country has to put pub up with many inconveniences unknown to those who have spent their lives la in the older settled bellied region cg I 1 oil V taeman the man who sells his farm to go to a newly settled country Is likely to be sorely disappointed with ith hla his new life and new surroundings ile he must accustom acou himself and submit his bis family to the hardships incident to frontier ren tier wo little realized by twoie who have never tried the experiment he may soon tire ol 01 his new life and wish himself back to his old home surrounded by the com comfort forus and conveniences s ol of modern civilization which are impossible to obtain in a new country forty years ago this valley was one or of natures most beautiful spots comparatively ively unsettled but affording the average inducements to home seekers to come and build up the country they came everyone every one ol of those pioneers with very few exceptions are today well to do leading citizens but contrast the difference here today and forty years ago ask them whether they would care to fo sell their homes here and again pass through the same experience in a new country we do not wish out our readers to inter infer that we are seeking to discourage the settlement Beit lement of new agricultural regions or tle tie building of new dew homes but we do ask those who are comfortably located and own a farm or home to think twice before disposing deposing of it and trying their fortunes as a pioneer to a there Is plenty of room in this valley lor for a rew few thousand home borne seekers yet and here they cau have the advantage ot at good schools and almost every modern improvement that goes to make life worth living this valley contains some ol of the best farming land in the state with water sufficient it 11 property properly handled and utilized to irrigate thousands ot of acres more laud land than Is now under cultivation with ith an excellent opportunity port part unity to increase the supply durin ing the lower water season by the construction st of res reservoirs ervol rs and an abundance of high water can be obtained from provo river and other sources by the completion of 0 the canals already under course of construction there are thousands ol of acres ot of land in a this valley that ought to be producing good alfalfa or other crops in ID stead of lying vacant producing nothing but a rank growth ot of sage brush la in our opinion there are few lo in this valley that can materially better their condition by disposing ot of their holdings here and going to this new agricultural eldorado but there are many we believe hel levei in other parts ot of this state and elsewhere who can improve their present conditions and rod flod for themselves productive farms and beautiful hames on the uintah reservation when it la Is to all such we would say go by all means and secure a good farm a od ad gro grow w up with the country and become independent citizens of this great republic Spring springville ville ind |