| Show THE COLORADO UTES As wf WE have published several articles on the subject of the removal of the utes from colorado into utah in which both sides of the controversy have been represented we give place to the annexed communication to the rocky mountain news which still further agitates this important question richardson utah july 26 25 the letter of conr durango correspondent printed in the news of july 14 contains three facts first the durango people will be benefited by aa the removal of the utes to utah second the utes will be obliged by it and third the proposed reservation Is better than the one they are leaving and more extensive all the other statements however honest may be the writers intention are am false directly or indirectly if durango needs help utah could better afford to make up a subscription for her than to take her utes on the terms offered he says nor would their removal work a wrong to any person the bill bih before congress makes ample provision to reimburse the settler in good faith whose possessions lie in their new path it does no such thing the valuation does not cover one fourth the real value of the improvements made by settlers the bill simply ruins abree three claims that are patented the rest have no do title but that of settlement in good faith as the country was withdrawn from market at the commissioners orders the bill practically aUy confiscates MINING PROPERTY cattle claims and orchards and vineyards from white people mormons cormons and gentiles for the use and benefit of indians again he says the new reservation is practically cut off from the settlements of utah on two sides it is but men are going and coming with teams between it and moab every day except some very small ones that are provided for does that mean moab and richardson how axe are they provided for those very sma adall settlements will make a very large e kick when the time comes it is contiguous to the coveted hunting grounds yes it is and those hunting bunting grounds are now occupied aupied by cattle ranches and farms conflict between the utes and white people bould be only a remote possibility I 1 say and I 1 speak for the settlers that conflict would be a certainty the talk about the rich fruit lands 1 is misleading san juan county is in new mexico and not occupied by indians at present its fruit lands are insignificant in area compared with the noble domain about to be stolen from froin utah the colorado reservation is well watered and may raise apples and hardy fruits arul but I 1 have been all over it and where it has one acre valuable for fruit culture we have five ahe blue mountains contain some of the finest grazing lands in the world they comprise fine fruit lands good wheat and potato lands and their settlement cannot be long delayed in five years the utes would have to give them up toive colorado lorado can get choice fruit from southerla Bouthern utah with the greatest ease there are probably a hundred tons this season in the young fruit raising valley of little grand alone the present difficulty is the want of good roads to the railroad OPPOSING all the best men of the section are am interested in forming a new county la sal which runs down to the north end of the proposed reservation renovation reBer the project is regarded as certain of success in salt lake where it has the highest influence on its side the officials will probably attend to the utes cowboys enough can be mustered to wipe out the tribe if the durango deop people le mean to provoke war to get rid of the utes two can play at that game we may as well die fighting figh for our rights as wait to be murdered or driven out an indian told mr frank smith this summer that he would have to move when they came down as they meant to take all the land to the dolores ten miles north of us until this infamous scheme of plunder was planned the utes were very shy of this neighborhood buckskin charlies war party stole some horses killed two men and were we re attacked by cowboys a few years ars ago between mill creek and blittle little castle creek the fight lasted two or three days and twenty seven dead indians indiana and one squaw were left on the ground counting those who were murdered about ten white meu men perished but the results were highly satisfactory they behaved themselves after that the prowling thieves we cannot afford to give up our homes to the control of savages the attempt must be made to teach those utes to live like whites or else one ninth of bf utah has been taken at uintah for colorado indians now more acres with a vast range of hunting is offered them gentlemen we have had enough this case has to go before the united states where we h hive ve rights as well as colorado and the indians A BAD LOT As for the character of those indians they are already too well known here the la sal mountains were their rendezvous after the thornburg meeker massacre in which they so fiendishly participated buckskin charlie and his band fled here and remained aed until danger was past of course they know and like the country I 1 repeat that not until they had assurances that they were to possess this country did they dare to venture in here after the little castle fight there are now at this writing indians camped around the la sal who claim that the government has given them this country and that the settlers have got to get out because it will soon be in their hands they are killing deer by the thousands for summer skins while white men are compelled ailed to obey the game laws of ira utah it would appear from the present indications that the pioneers of southeastern utah have no rights vi which government agents and indians dl ans are bound to respect time tim e will tell whether the senate can be induced to ratify so great an outrage rage there is considerable similarity between artemus wards heroic resolve to sacrifice all his cifes relations and the profuse generosity with which colorado Is willing to give ive away property to the indians Yndia indians ns |
