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Show UTE INDIANS ARE WILLING TO MOVE i Washington. Nov. 2S. Negotiations with the Southern Ute Indians looking to the exchaugo of that part of their reservation within what is known as tho five-mile strip for lands that might be segregated for their use from the Montezuma national forest, are commended com-mended by Hans M. Randolph, superintendent super-intendent of the Mesa Verde national park. Colorado, iu his annual report to the secretary of the interior, made public today. Declaring that he has been Informed Inform-ed that the Indians would welcome such a change, Superintendent Randolph Ran-dolph continues: "Their land within the strip is of almost no value to them, but It Is of incalculable value to the park, since It contains tbe most important ruins ln the Mesa Verde district" The superintendent also reeom-mends reeom-mends that all private holdings within with-in tb-j limits of the park be eliminated eliminat-ed by purchase. A carriage road that will make the most important ruins of the park accessible to travelers Is one of the most pressing needs of tho park, he says, and he recommends that this Improvement take precedent prece-dent e of all other work. The Mesa Verde park contains about 400 prehistoric rums of the types known as "cliff dwellings," and "ancient "an-cient Pneblas," declared to be one of the "most notable groups of ancient structures within the limits of the United States." for the protection of which the park was established. |