OCR Text |
Show EXPERT PRAISES LANDJF INDIAN no iiirrrtm roun than that op ci.vrui insiN. llrrt 11. Kneiilr Trlla of the Oppor-tiinltloi Oppor-tiinltloi KtlMlnK On the former t'lntnli ltcrv-atlon Tor tho Home-mi Home-mi k( r nnil Invrrlor Kvrrjtlilng drawn Under the Sun 1 Produced. That better lands with unquestioned water right nnd complete Irrigation system can bo purchased for less monei from the Indiana on the Uintah Uin-tah recurvation than anywhere else on earth was the deetarntlon of Albert II Kneale superintendent of the t'lntnli Indian refervatlon who was at Halt take CltJ last week In the Interest In-terest of Indian lands. Kneale, nn exert agriculturist ha been In charge of the Uintah reservation since Januari 1. 1916 nnd In that time has devoted praitlcntl) hi entire tlmo to evolving methods of bringing tho surplus sur-plus Indian lands under cultivation If ever) one of the eleven hundred Indians nf the reservation cultivated all the land It Was possible for each to work there would still be slxt)-flve slxt)-flve thousand airf of tho finest land In the cotintn under a perfect Irrigation Irriga-tion system still uncultivated," said Mr Kneale And If there I nn other place on earth w here a man can purchase as good land, with n prl-man prl-man water right nnd unquestioned title ti-tle for fifteen dollar nil nere the price asked b the government for these lands I'd like to know where It Is It can't bo found Wlij, It cost the government twelve dollars nn nere to put the water on the land Itnllnmil Mi mi' llluliir Prices, And let me tell ion something more, the minute n railroad start n line Into the dlstrlit the laud la going to be worth stVcnti-flvr dollar nn acre The pun baser gets clear title to the land and ha four tnrs In which to pa for It Hut my greatest Intrmt Is not In selling the land, but to bring It tinder cultivation Through tease nnd sates thirty thousand ntrea have been taken up thl ear, but only about five thousand aires have be n purchastd I'ime people have been afraid of the land on account of the nllltude, but tin Ir rents are without grounds We have n record for twenti-flve VMirs of a hundred nnd twent-flvo frostles da) it )eitr nnil tin re nre man) men on the reservation lauds growing corn nt n profit. flft bushels or more to nn ro Wheat nf li r the first J wir will produto forty bushels to the nere mid oats, nlnet) bushels It Is a great potato countri nnd the avelnge leld for potato field Is four hundred bushels to the nire An for Mignr hot, the land cannot be surpassed We grow the finest In tho stale, but onl) enough for cattle feed as there Is no way to get them to a factor). Hut there nre n million acre of land In the basin on which sugar beet can be ralred nnil when the railroad comes, nnd I have good reason to bellevo It will come within two or three jenrs, the farmer will not I m growing sugar beet for stock feed." Kneale said that In addition to the lands subject to cultivation, the Indians In-dians own four hundrid thousand ncr of fine grnalng land In the district dis-trict which could be had at reason-able reason-able prices. |