Show THE uncompahgre reservation according tj t the dispatches the result of the visit to washington of the leading men of the utes has been their full consent to the immediate allotment of lands in severalty to the families of that tribe it has been announced that the work of making the allotments would be completed in time for the remainder of the reservation to be thrown open on the first of next april but persons in a position to express a reliable opinion think it will be wholly impracticable to do this winter seems to be upon us the lands are not surveyed the indians are naturally slow to act in such a matter matt er and it seems highly probable that next summer will be pretty well advanced before the reservation will be thrown open to the public when this is at length done it is doubtful if there will be much of a rush to secure reservation lands the fact is that only a very small portion of the lands embraced within the boundaries of the reservation are valuable for farming purposes considerable tracts afford fairly good grazing but the bulk of the area of the reservation is worthless for any purpose of civilization it is rough broken destitute of water and hopelessly arid and desert the buncom will be allowed to choose choope lands either on an their own reservation or on that of the Uinta hs which adjoins them on the west and there is every reasonable assurance that all desirable arable land on the former reservation will be taken by the indians who will then not have nearly enough to go around and will take a great deal of the most desirable land on the uintah reservation the latter tract embraces a large amount of very good land it is intersected by the lake fork and duchesne rivers and numerous smaller streams a and nd great areas can be very easily irrigated the soil is naturally rich and the climate is delightful but this reservation cannot be opened until a treaty is negotiated with the united states to this effect so t that hat some years will probably elapse before the whites have an opportunity to secure farms upon it and even then the best of it will undoubtedly be first taken by indians when the uncompahgre reservation shall be thrown open it will probably afford opportunity for a limited number of stockmen stoc kmen to secure desirable ranches and tor for a few farmers to get good locations but it will offer no inducements du cements to justify any great rush in that direction the asphaltum lands embraced within it are reserved by the government and these comprise most of what is valuable in the entire tract |