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Show THE'OrWTAH -nrBEKVATrON, Rich TwcdtOf Uiand to Ob Throxm OpenUo'Batften Xext March. OonBldcrrililo dntcrcBt attncTica Jttst nc-w .to 'the 'Uintah Indian reservation, bernngo'df the provision in 'tiro last Indian appropriation bill, providing for Hie opening, and which carried an appropriation of $5,000 to complote the surveys, begun sonio time ao- The original bill llxcd October 1st, 1504, a tho date of the opening, but becnuso of the amount of worlt to bo iloniv In allotting hinds ami malting tho surveys, It was found noceRsary to postpone the opening until March 10, 1!I05, which was done by action of con. Kress The Uintah reservation lies In Uintah Uin-tah and Wasatch counties, Utah, In tho noitheastcrn ixirtlon of tho state. In area It consists of two million, (luce hundred and thirty-four thousand thou-sand ncres of mountain and valley. There are several lino htreams of water that rise In tho Uintah range on the noith, and traverse tho lower val leys, finally emptying themselves into (tioen river. The principal streams-ure streams-ure rtie Duchesne and Uintah rivers, with numeious forks, all of which enn be easl.y diverted for purposes of Irrigation, Irri-gation, making It one of tho best watered wat-ered sections of the stato. Fiom tho foot of the Uintah mountains, to tho south line of tho reservation, arc a continuous succession of benches of (soil that is admirably adapted to all kinds of ci ops that can he grown anywhere any-where in this latitude. In altitude, the reservation ningcs from 4,000 feet in the lower valtoys to 13,000 feet on the summit of the loftiest lof-tiest peaks of Ihe Uiutah range, tho highest In the state. In selecting lands for the Indians, tho allotments have been made principally prin-cipally along tho river bottoms, whllo the bench lands, which are usually tho most fertile, arc piactically untouched and will provide homes for many thousands of people. In climate, soil and ciops, the reservation reser-vation is identical with the Ashley valley, twenty miles to the cast, which is, without finest Inn, tine of the garden spots of (lie west. In this valley are grown magnificent "crops of grains of nil kinds and alfalfa liny yieldB three crops a year. Tho whole of the Uintah Uin-tah basin, which comprises nil the ter-rltoiy ter-rltoiy lying south of the Uintah range, draining Into Green river, and embracing em-bracing all of the Uintah and Uncom-nabcre Uncom-nabcre reservations, and practically all of Uintah county, Is adupted to tho growth of small fruits, especially, and the apples produced in the Ashley valley val-ley are the finest in tho world. This crop is unusually line this year, the orchnnls. In many instances, breaking down under tho burden of fruit that Is without blemish. In tome parts of tho Ashley valley, tho finest of peaches are also grown. Tho Denver, Northwestern &. Pacific Pa-cific railway, bettor known as tho "Moffat" Line, crosses Uintah county wall Its survey, and follows tno uu-chcsiie uu-chcsiie river and Strawberry creek across tho reservation and will thus open up this virgin section, at once, and make every acre of tillable, land valuable. The Uintah railway, which Is being constructed across the Hook Cliffs, from Mack, Colo., a station on the Wo Ornndo road, to tap tho extensive gll-sonito gll-sonito deposits of the White river country, will have for Its terminus, at present, a station called Dragon, on tho head of Evacuation creek. Dragon is fifty-live miles southeast of Vernal, and a first class wagon road will lie constructed between the two points. Tho climate of the whole Ulntan bnsln is an ideal one. Tho Uintah rango on the north, with Its towering peaks, tempers the hot winds of midsummer, mid-summer, und tho nights nro delightfully delight-fully cool, even In July and August. It Is doubtful If thero is nny place in tho world where vegetntion grows ns luxuriantly, lux-uriantly, and yet the heat Is not op-piesslve, op-piesslve, as Is tho case in the Uintah country Thnt Uintah county and the territory terri-tory now embraced In tho Uintah reservation res-ervation Is destined to become a rich and prosperous section, Is beyond question. With its marvelous production produc-tion or crops of all kinds, nnd a great transcontinental lino passing through it, opening tho markets of the west to Its produce. It is bound to becomo the great distributing point, from which will bo drawn the food supply for hundreds hun-dreds of miles around. The Immenso deposits of gllsonlte and other kindred minerals, to tap which tho Ulntnh railway Is being constructed, will form tho basis for n great industry, nnd will creato a good homo market for tho farmers of tho ulntnh bnsln. All around the Ashley valley, niuT on sorno parts of the reservation, are do-posits do-posits of coal that furnishes chenp nnd convenient fuel nnd tho foothills of the Ulntnh range nre covered with a tlenso growth of cedar and pine, which is easily necessablo. The soil ond climate of tho Uintah reservation and the Uintah basin in goncrnl, is especially adapted to the culture of tho sugar beet. Tests made on beetB produced in tho Ashley val ley, show them to bo abovo tho aver-ago aver-ago In saccharine, nnd the yield immense. im-mense. It is not known where the land office will bo established for legist ration and will not bo until tho next session of congress, but as Vernal is the closest clos-est available town to the reservation, it is presumed that the land office win bo located at Vernal. |