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Show THE UINTAH I RESERVATION! Tlie editor of this papr hearing hear-ing tint onr townsman, Alma Kldredge, had returned troiu the reservation, called on lnm for an interview, in which he gave, us the following- Yet, I returned fruti) the Uintah reservation a few day ago, that land with the varied soil and climate. We entered the &servtion at an elevation of 10,030 feet abow sen level, passed down Rhode canyon, then West Fork and crossed the Duchesne river just below the junction of West Fork and DucliL.Mic; elevation at this point 6,20. The river at this IKJiut, and for several miles down, hugs closcl) to the face ol the bluff on the west side of the river bottom; if bottom we may term the tract of land extending from the bluff to the river, as I am inclined tocill this space of land, the first bench; or plateau; as it is too much elevated to orcrflow or even water-soak from the rtver. The laud is ofa light sandy nature, carrying some clay in its mixture. The land undulates un-dulates but little and slopes to the southwest. About nine miles below the junction of the West Fork and 1 Duchesne, the mountains draw' neater together ami the beautiful u BcncFuTouTTwii aTrourTftceiT feet, and thui begins the river bottom where plateau cuds. One and a half miles of narrow cau-you, cau-you, good grazing along the bottom, aud the land again raises about twelve or fifteen feet aud a nice valley lies before you for a distance of twelve miles, to Rock Creek. This stream comes ill frout the northeast, aud at its ' mouth are a number of Indian farms; elcvatiou 5,yoo feet. The Iudiaus raise quite a variety of . farm products here, oht ol which is nice Jarge watermelons. ' We have now passed from the base of hills which gradually recede aud develop into mountains moun-tains aud find our valley hemmed hem-med in by abrupt bluffs, in fact bluffs almost perpendicular, which rise to the height of 700 or 800 feel above the river and these form the base of a grand table land which extends, for miles and only terminated by intervening gorges The face of the bluffs shows the character aud texture of-thc t rock, clay, sand and soil that J must be encountered in conduct ing water from the Duchesne river to the Uluo Itencli. Don't imagine that these blulTs cau be trave'rsed with canal from the Duchesne river to the Illue Iieuch for less than Sboo.ooo, Down the viillev we go t'-e the liver still lingering to the west bluff until within about two nu'cs oftheDucJiesnebridgc where the river makes a detour towards the east bluff for a dis- Itauce, aud theu returns to the west bluff. And towering about 500 feet above us for the last ten miles on the east is the long broad enchanting Illue Bench. Three and on half miles be-1 be-1 low the Duchesue bridge is the junction of the Duchesue and Strawberry rivers, aud at this point it situated the towusite Dora, elevation 5,514. It is named in honor cf a young lady who has n steady nerve and sterling character. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the varied aud romantic .condition of the country, its unsettled un-settled and primitive state, the weirduess aud pceularities ol the cottiers and goers, Miss Dora, with many friends, was present wheu the towusite received the name by which, I' trust, it may be known for all time to come. Down the Duchesne river from Dura to Mytou, distance about twelve miles, is what some day must be a productive valley, The vallcv is about one mile wide at Dora and gradually widens out to a distance of six mites. The land for the first six miles below and around Dora, were covered with filings from the first numbers num-bers called. The last six miles or the adjoining six miles to Myton has been alloted to, well, if half what I heard was correct, to Indians, many of whom have sometime since gone to the 'Happy Hunting Ground." Mytou towusite is situated in a grand locality. When I passed (through that section of the I country quite a number of years 'ago, I remember saying that it was thelocalitvof UiccmnhiiQwWo "tlic'Uiniah 'rcserv'atroii.' 'ffit were "not for the "allottiucilts" I would say the same now. As you pass over the Blue I Ueoch from Duchesne bridge you idavvu upou a lovely tract of laud capable of furnishing homes to thousands of people only one 'thing is lacking and that is water upon the bench. There is plentv in he river 500 feet belcW. The climate is too genial and the wWr too plentiful to allow- that large tract ofdand to1 remain worthless for all time to come. At the'east end of the Blue Bench you drop down about 800 feet in two miles. Yes, in one aud ouc quarter miles, and when you look to the face of the blulT and the k 11 owls and pinnacles, you will wonder what the Master Mas-ter ever made such a stretch of co mi try lor which comes within the range of v our vision. To the east von tgaiu turiv aud you look upon a streak of cotton woods. Amid these scattering scat-tering cotton woods (lows the water of Lake Fork.but between you ami the stream is a distance of about three miles, undiilatiug lands of a sandy loam, There is no question about the productiveness product-iveness of this soil, as attested by the verdure that springs up where the waste water inns from the Indian farms. This laud is mostly allotted to the Indians, and if I mistake not, judging from the number of Indians I could traca out. many allotments have been made to fellows new dashing in their war paints .11 some other sphere. However, lying near the Duchesne river, south of this point, is a beautiful tract of land. The sight of the river is excluded from view, when oil the laud by a low smooth river, that runs the cutire distance of this con cave valley. The laud all along the Duchesne river on the north side, is allotted to the Indians from one and one Imif miles from the river, and only her and there is a nook or corner that a forty acre tract could be squeezed out of, until vra reach .1 poiul directly direct-ly north of Myton. At this point there Is a lovel) tract of about nlnty acres;' overlooking over-looking the country to the east, south and west, and standing serenly above Mvton. This tract of laud our genial friend John James, e-countv clerk of Salt Lake, planted his insignia upou. I commend his judgment. From Myton to Fort Duchesne Du-chesne is about thirteen iuil When you cover eight mites of" the same by passing over a picco of country which rises about fifty feet above Myton, you decern! de-cern! into Dry Gulch. This is n valley that rises gradually to the north west for about fifteen miles, then an abrupt rise of about sixty feet, then tableland for some distance. The width of the valley varies from two to eight miles. The soil ' of a sandy.loamy uaturc,th. -four feet iu depth. There is a stretch of round leaf cotton woods traversing the valley its entire length. In my judgment this is the Ivdcti of the unallotted laud of the. former famous Uintah reservation. However, water flows here only to the first of June. This region of country, therefore, niiistaccuip water from Lake 'Fortatjoirythc, Uintah riverjiKitlieawMym au1dWMl!n79? |