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Show THE LAND REGISTRATION. Iu company with about n thousand others, nil 'Jammed Into cars llko sardines sar-dines In n box, the editor hiked off to l'rovo on Friday last, having In view the securing of u chnnco at that much dlscuiuod hind In Uintah Indian res-orvntlon. res-orvntlon. A trlllo over 2.G00 others were there bent upon n like purpose, nnd tho following day there wero ibout biQ In excess of tho iibovo tig-,ire. tig-,ire. making n grand total for l'rovo of 18.&58, nnd altogether 07,057. Wkllo this la not quite up to tho gencrnl expectation ex-pectation earlier In tho day, which hud tho figure placed nt fully r.0,000. It Is about :13,000 moro than will get anything, but of course each nnd every ono Is confident some of them permit-tins permit-tins fancy's magical plnloiiH to spread so wide as to claim not only something, some-thing, but ono of tho low numbers. There can bo but ono No. 1, but ubout 37,000 expect to be "It." Well, fortunately, fortu-nately, thcro Is no law against expectations, expec-tations, oven though they bo great onoa. Grand Junction contributed 15,387, Prlco 1,330, and Votnul 1,870. By tho tlmo this reaches tho majority major-ity of our renders It will bo "known of all men" who tho low nnd theroby lucky numbers nrc, us tho drnwlng begins on tho 17th. Willi it square doul nil around the great iirmy of disappointed dis-appointed ones tdiouhl foci tholr disappointments dis-appointments less keenly, realizing aliat tho wheel of fortune Is a very capricious contrivance. In a short tlmo wo ahull know all about It. |