Show of former indian agent does think much of it WATER HARD TO GET BUT better opportunities exist both to the east and south in carbon and emery former indian agent myton boef chow hamo hmo Is now at salt bait lake city does net act think as much of tho the uintah reservation country am lota lots of folks who are leea acquainted with it he lie states in a recent interview hat that much of tho the land which Is to bo be thrown open to settlement Is but of little value from an agricultural standpoint owing to the climatic conditions and probable scarcity ot of we water ter major myton anticipates however that many valuable minloe claims of gold copper lead and tho the hydro will bo be staked stake off ence once tha the proe prospector gains access to that section Bec tien many ot of i he people nople who ure are getting gotting ready to to the uintah when it Is thrown open for battlement oro are going to bo be very nory much disappointed says myton in the first place the man who draws draw slot lot no noa 1 will lose loser money nOneY unless he Is a resident of uintah county to obtain title a person must the on the land fourteen months consecutively and must put substantial improvement pro on it the cost of the land I Is per aero acre and the tees fees ho ile aas then leg acres of land which Is absolutely worthless wort blesa for any purpose unless he pays to some company about all the land Is worth for irrigation g a tion nor is this all about the th 3 time these improvements are made madae the greater part et of tho the surplus water may have been dIver diverted td to utah luke as the government Is now tunneling the mountains with a abw of taking tie tte purples flow of tho the duchesne ane only imen who will make money out of the reservation will be those file on mining claims or the water fronts controlling the grazing lands adjoining and the parties abe wh get in on the ground floor on town sites it if a person really wants good farming land ue can do very ery much bolter better by purchasing from the state near green river on tho the denver and rio into grande or other points in utah whore where the water supply and the market arc are better and tho the land equally good of course there Is on an opportunity for the small to hie file on oil a claim with a it water front in the strawberry volley valley in tho the western lattof pa i tot tho the reservation I 1 be season reason is so short in all ports parts of the roe reservation that it Is difficult to raise crops frankly it ie is purely a grass graz ing I 1 lam am led to the tile aboe aa ail the result ot of deductions growing out of many eara residence in and about that section snow the tile ground till may and tho the winter snows begin to tali fall in september Sep temoer there la Is not a it day ever evev n july and august when the mornings are not cold enough to form ico too thick to bo be broker the thump of the finger people ai at prone to follow tho the opening of an indian reservation ita its a habit babit like buying a medicine fakirs wares wates under the tile of the quartette and the glare et of tho the gasoline light in this case the rank and ole file are going to be badly fooled and lose their time and money those wh file fliton an water fronts in tho the western martof part of the tile reservation will doubtless make a few hundred dollars as many grazers already have their herds berds in tho the lands back frem front the water fronts and will need tho water rights to keep their stock in gohl condition may W or zoo when hen the water f fronts go gc with them the indians are selling this land and they have already reserved the r A X beat best farming sections for their own owl use thero there aro are ditches there but the water la Is all taken and the only way tho the newcomers can expect te to get their land under water is to club together and form a ditch company to toko take in lolow acres or more because of lack of communally communal ity ty of 11 interest it will be difficult to form forin such a company and anti the geography of the country along tho the river la auch such that single hit banded tided effort in the build ing of small ditches Is well nigh impossible after registration is closed allotments ae made by drawing each person drawing a prize being notified at once and given a don non permit to go into the reser reservation vailon and make such selection selee 1 tion or selections as ho he may see fit ut when his time comes to ille ho he may pay the fees and make a second trip to mark his selection with a monument or some other con tr ivanco ivance to notify other that bebas he has made his tits select it a then begins his residence et of fourteen months As a farming location the lunda lands osra many drawbacks chief among which aio aie distance from the tile railroads though it ie Is under stood that in time tho the road will pass through tho tile reservation close to myton a on the du cli chudne catic yet salt lake city will bo be the nearest market place and freight from that point here must be figured in addition As to mineral locations none may bo be made until after two months and tho the chances for getting good mineral claims seems to me remote phen it is considered that for three years the florria ce and the haven raven people have hat had their octora scouring the country looking for the best things it goes s without buying that long before the newcomer hoe has succeeded lu in locating a claim all the tile good ones will have been taken into camp oil 1 I do not expect a very large stampede in 1898 when I 1 threw throw the un reservation open there were only three claims hied filed in the whole reservation of two million acres IQ in the first three |