Show written for tho POP paw THE reservations houss WARD WABD salt lake it maybe that a low few facts facto about the uintah reservation will not be out of place and may be of great rest benefit to those who are anxiously awaiting the opening of that section of country so I 1 will venture to give them for about aboul twenty five fire miles from the bo headwaters adwaters of the strawberry creek or where the road goes over the divide at the head of daniels canyon to Is a beautiful grazing gracing or stock country for summer buttery but very cold la in winter snow fallin to the depth of five to wn ten feet ice oo 00 will form to the thickness of quarter of an inch in july and august and each night the grass grams Is white with froat I 1 do not think grain or any kind of vegetables will grow there alter after you travel about twenty five miles east or down the strawberry you leave the grass grace and beautiful meadows and low rolling hill halle commence with currant creek a tributary of the strawberry this is in a beautiful stream of water encased incased by high red sandstone new walls aila the valley or bottom land between those walls lb its only a lit tle tie wider than the bed of the stream and there to but bat little grass or feed for took stock seven miles across red sandstone san and cedar hills brings you to red bed creek a tributary of currant creek plod bed creek to JA a small mall stream and its name to Is very appropriate for lis its source Is ig be tween twee walls walla of a kind of red clay colors colon the water which often to in unfit for use either for man or boost beast the valley or bottom land along this stream to only a hundred or so yards between walls and of but little use for agriculture twenty five miles across desert sands sandr rocky cliffs precipice deep sands gands through cedar and nut pino pine groves the cedar glod for fence posts and the nut pine good for fire wood but bug no grow grass or water we come on to the strawberry river there is no terming fanning land for in many places the bluffs of sandstone come down to the waters water to edge and tor for two and a half miles the road takes taken to the bills again after grossing the river at a very bad ford and going by more bluffs sand and rocky glauss glance and cedars we again bome to the stream there are some cottonwood trees and a little teed feed two and a half miles brings us to the Duc duchesne tionne river where the two streams COMO come together here there is straat a tract of land perhaps lour four thousand acres of good looking soil some of which could be made a meadow it if the water was turned on it the Duo besne to in a beautiful small river for about eight miles down ha the valley if it can be called one for in no place is it more than a mile wide from bluff to bluff the road goes then it 16 has to take to the second bench over rolling foothills covered with boulders of various sizes and plenty of them it is a very bad zoad joad from here to fort duchenne Duche aae at ite se dom comes to the river only in about three places place and then for only ft a few yard when ewhen it takes to the hills billa again A art tar far as aa the river Is in eight bight of the road in no place la in it to exceed two miles mile from bluff to bluff on the auth south side of the ducheane Duo heane from where the strawberry empties into it going east for forty rulles miles there la Is as far to the south auth as an you can see am a vast desert no cc cedar no ao pia pice no ng grass gram no vegetation of iny any kind only sand and rook rocks and deep gorges all the vegetation on ton ten thousand acres acre would not feed a jack rabbit for four hours hour take the ducheane Duo Duc heene valley from the mouth of the strawberry to fort du cahoone which to about fifty miles the valley would afford many food sites for farms on one side aide of the river or the other and sometimes sometime on both I 1 believe the oil moll is good and the climate quite pleasant water Is in abundance there is scarcely any feed on the bot toms and absolutely none on the hills some cottonwoods cotton woods grow along the river what I 1 say any about the ducheane Duo heane I 1 can may bay about the others ot of the streams the country lying between the du chesne from where the strawberry straw berry em into it going north across t to lake fork furnishes no vegetation and nd la is worse than all no soil oil and a bleak rocky sandy desert lake fork is a beautiful stream ol of good water there are plenty of fish and some ducks duck and gems geese in the fall of the year and lake Fork for about 26 25 miles mile from its source would furnish many searchers ear chen after homes homei with nice places to settle its if narrow valleys are incased encased in high walls of red and white sandstone where the lake fork empties into the be ducheane Duch Duc heene eBne could be made a nice sized settlement with good land and plenty of water building timber is about 80 to 60 50 miles mile distant for lumber house logs log fence posts etc there 14 ponty of this and of a good quality ind and which will no not be used K up forages ik gee MY dry creek or dry fork as some call it about eighteen miles mile from lake fork Is a nice piece of land about one mile wide and several miles long the soil moll Is rich but there is no water unless lake fork or the uintah river is brought on to it which might be objected to by people living along those streams stream there lano Is no gramand grasa and cotton cottonwoods woods along the dry wash eight miles brings bringa us to the uintah river at fort ducheane Duc beene there to la some good land along this stream in the narrow valleys as an in other streams stream io in the reservation white book la in a tributary of ef the uintah river it to is a short stream but would furnish many good ranches oo on the headwaters of all these streams there to is abundance of good timber to supply the farmers of that section for many years while Imay I 1 may not agree with some who describe that country as a paradise I 1 aim to tell of it 16 as I 1 saw it along those streams the be valleys are so narrow that it would necessitate settling it for a long stretch to got get population sufficient to have a school and some children then would have to travel a long along ways the streams 0 go o zigzagging across the valleys valley in amr places place there in no gram ira or 01 food feed persons who can oani spare pare the liras 4 bear the expense should bould go and we for themselves themi elTea before deciding to go atte on the reservation when it is evenol don dont s think you will find 40 acm plowed up with a row of fruit bregg trall trail w around in lull full bloom JOHN B R |