Show wi P ills 97 AC governor takes hand in general protest THE FLORENCE SYNDICATE of political grafters anil and bunco mining operators behind the postponement washington march marell 10 the strato committee on indian affairs has struck out the amendment to the indian supply bill which extends tho the time for opening of the uintah re reserve tho the bill will viii bo be sent to a I 1 conference committee und tho the senate will wilt insist upon its action standing senator smoot was before bolero the corn coin mattev and explained the situation it now virtually remains with the people of utah to say whether the resen set gi shall bo be opened at tho the date late fixed by law october next if thy they can bring pressure to bear a upon the surveyor general of utah so as to induce him to push the work of survey the allotment of land will I 1 ulso also bo be completed complo ted in time and nil the I 1 reserve res opened in october Goi governor ernar welli has telegraphed 1 protest against the delay in opening the reservation while the utah delegation in congress will call on the secretory secretary of tho interior and endeavor deaver en to induce him blin to chango hi program the land haa has awarded eighteen contracts for sun sur eying which it will bo impossible to complete until the summer of 1903 1905 the allotment of lands cannot be m mid ado until theu then that the formal opening up of the uintah ie hns lins been deferred for a year or until october 1903 1905 appears nc ac to the congressional record ecord Il to have been on the reci mend aaion of the secretary et of the interior inthe in the coin communication mu on which this order was agreed to the spere secretary tary su submits alts that it will require the whole of the next survey ing season to complete oom the survey of this reservation after the ump letlon of this survey 0 coritina continue s I 1 the secretary somo sixteen hundred allotments are to be made they will require at least three or lour our months or probably longel as tho the act of 1902 provided that ahw allotment shall be of agricultural lund which can bo be irrigated and if it the whole of the next surveying season Is required to corn complete the the tho allotment can lot bo made by llast of october MI ile accordingly reque requited cited that the opening be extended forjone ayvar W A Ilic harila commissioner of the gethral land office replying to an inquiry concerning tho the time required to completo the sure says 1 I hove hao the honor to state that owing to tit alie necessary such as a the proposals bardina and letting of contracts cou tracts and aa of instructions the sure surveyors ors were nvere not ready to talo tale tho the held until inaus in augast last leaving but it short acason for fur their operations in the clev abed region embracing the reserva i tien han I 1 ani ain informally advised that nuno none of the contracting surveyors their field work und and 1 dumot um of the opinion tho r york rork y ork in tit the hold field the tit office 1 cork on the pints plate and held field notes by ilie the surveyor or general generali force the field inspection und and sub fruent office examination hero hilll require tho whole of tile the next survey ing season und that tho the date of said sald opening should ba be postponed nt at least under the order which excludes tho the prospector und and settler from front thebes er antion for another ear a hardship will be visited fatted upon not a few who have been waiting but there is nothing left but resignation which has las already aten severely tried major 11 P I 1 miton formerly in charge of the forbid forbidden dou region as indian agent hafl s that tho work of allot lug to the redskins has been exaggerated ag as the will not timed 1 eight indred it la Is anfor tu aiato R ir r the settler but ho Is aith I 1 h out a nril pt al and equally unfortunate for utah tali in that the pro prospecting 5 acting of a region eo so generously endowed enclosed with fl th tho minerals min erula la Is to be Cef deferred erred |