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Show the UINTAH BASIN FARMER PAGE SIXTEEN Fort Duchesne Fort Duchesne, located a mile; many white purchasers as the Indian are south of the Victory highway andj lands and Indian water rights and lands other to about 8 miles east of Roosevelt, is held superior one of the most interesting places! water rights in the Basin. The resen at ion extends 100 miles in the Uintah Basin. . i It is the center from which has! to the southeast and 75 miles to radiated the leclamatiou of the Bas-- , the northwest from the Fort. ) t Education, health and industry-arin by the white men. First in the V of central ihiee actiity points and latter iesulting Ashley Valley Int rested by the Commissioner of in the opening of the Indian J?' affairs and the Fort Duchesne dian in to the white settlement UTE INDIANS IN INDUSTRY his entire force a... . 'gemeni and 1905. The location was selected because hcaitily support that policy as is decided to wait until the expiration a better location. of its strategic amt centra! position demontiated by their aUitity and securing and a public spirited citizen. He returned to Jensen during the for the work to be perf-j- tiled. It the results. His is not an exceptional example club work in conducted school year of 1906 and 7 to keep It is one has long since been tiansterred from; The within the grasp of every the War department to the Interior among the Indian children and eery the children in school, returning to citizen exercising industry, perser-verandepartment and is the headquarters er'fo.i is made to bring their work his homstead in the spring of 1907 and thrift. for the Indian D&paiu.unt Landu.ig up to the standard of white chilwhere he has resided ever since. the affairs of the teniaining Lie anu drens work. Ouray Indians. Splendid results are obtained. From then to the present he has It consists of commodious quart- One Indian boy thirteen years old been an active factor in the developGusher Service Garage ers for the emplojees, office build- carried away the blue ribbon for He ment of the Neola district. Harvey J. Nielsen and Sons ings, school, hotel, hospital and the state last year on his garden The project. other necessary buildings. helped survey the Neola townsite We will do it or have it done" Better and are The Uintah and bought the first lot sold there. Ouray grounds splendidly laid out with green lawns, plenty of shade Homes and Livestock association was He was active in organizing the UinStaple Line of trees, electric lights, water works recently formed. There are seven Groceries and Tourist and sewers so that it has all the chapters and one womens auxiliary. tah Meadows Dairy 'Assoiation, conveniences of the most modern Twenty-eigh- t Indians attended which organization is richly fulfilSupplies city. J. P. Rudy conducts a gen- the Farmers Encampment at Logan ling his judgment that it would be eral store and is the licensed Indian this year to observe better methods the prime factor in bringing prosGUSHER, UTAH trader. of agriculture and live stock. to his neighborhood. perity On the Victory Highway reThere are now 1175 Indians These Indians are progressive. an been factor He also has active siding on the reservation. At the They desire good homes. The tent time the reservation was opened to is no longer desired' except during in organizing and operating the Dry the whites in 1905 the rights of the hot summer months. They own Gulch Irrigation system on the the Indian were protected by treaty. splendid work horses and some of broad" lines of cooperation it" has Eskelson and Domgard Some 50,000 acres of the best ag- the finest blooded cattle in the Bas- followed so successfully. He has served as superintendent ricultural lands and 250,000 acres in. Garage of the best grazing lands were reof the Sunday school and was the The splendid school at. White-rock- s served and allotted to individual Inw ill be described in the White-rock- s Bishops counsellor when the ' ward Gas, Oil Dedians. An Indian Irrigation was organized. section of this publication. Kelly-SpringfieTires He has one of the best farm homes partment was established by the General Repair Work Government with headquarters at in the Basin. His farm is highly now under the direction of Myton, He has demonstrated productive. Stop and see us engineer Tom C. Guyn. the success of fruit growing in the On the Victory Highway at the district. His home orchard conMr. F. A. Gross is Indian agent, top of the hill In charge at Fort Duchesne. He tains peach, pear, plum, apricot, cherries and apples, as well as all has been in this position the past GUSHER, UTAH 11 years and under his direction small fruits. He says that his trees and management the Indians have rarely fail to bear an abundant A story of a man who has made harvest. made commendable progress in defP veloping their portion of the Basin. good. Six children of his nine children James F. Woodward, of Neola was They have buitl many miles of good are living. Three are married and Rudy Mercantile Co. roads, opened their farms and put selected by his neighbors at a pub- he has 5 living FT. DUCHESNE grandchildren. thousands of acres of sage brush lic meeting as their representative He located on his homestead with citizen whose modest achievement and desert land under cultivation. small he has raised a fine capital, Their irrigation system now has and success is fairly representative which he family has educated and 780 miles of canals and laterals and of what any average citizen may started in life with splendid pro200 miles of telephone line are main- accomplish in the Uintah Basin, Licensed Indian Trader spects of success. He has developed tained by the Indian service con- especially if he locates at Neola. a fine farm and attained comfortMr. Woodward was born 53 years necting field sections with headable so that the world quarters, white leases and water ago at Draper, Salt Lake county, looks competence to him. He has been good Utah. Born on a farm and has users. to his neighbors and helpful followed that occupation all his life. Indian allotments vary from 40 gained General Merchandise acres to 320 acres each. In 1926 At the age of 14 he moved with his their confidence as a wise councellor of 60 days and take chances the on the Indians have in crops 1300 acres parents to Colorado and resided of wheat, 850 acres of oats, 250 there until 1903 when he moved to acres of corn, 152 acres of other Jensen, Utah, to wait for the opengrains, 6250 acres of alfalfa, 2050 ing of the Uintah reservation. acres alfalfa seed, 650. acres sweet The motive which prompted this clover, 200 acres in gardens and move is a fair index of the trend orchards and 4,000 acres of pasture. of all his activities in business. He The total value of their crops will knew the reservation and its opreach around $4,000,000.00. portunities and had the foresight to FT. DUCHESNE, UTAH inThe Indians have gradually anticipate its opening and prepared creased their cultivated area until I for the opportunity. He realized Distributor for it is now more than 15,000. 35,- - that intelligent preparation for a 000 acres of their lands are leased task was the secret of success. It OVERLAND WHIPPET to whites, 6824 of whom reside on is this trait of character which has characterized his life work in the the reservation. and WILLIS-KNIGH- T A sub station is maintained for Basin. CAES This trait is emphasized here bethe Indians about Ouray. M. W. Curry is the licensed Indian trader at cause it is the pivitol point around Expert Repair Men that point and a ferry operated en- which all success must be built in j tirely by Indians is maintained there any line of human effort. Automobile Accessories He selected his homestead across Green river. one conmile sonth of the present site of NeTwice a year the government ducts land sales for the disposal of ola in 1906. His drawing number Indian lands. These sales attract at the opening being so high he j e j 9r on j i i 4-- II ce ld CRUMBO GARAGE |