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Show Stockmen, Utes Reach Paper Stage On Land Division A division of land long pending pend-ing between many white stockmen stock-men and the Indian service, in behalf of the Ute tribes, reached the paper stage last Thursday at a conference in' Duchesne between be-tween Indian representatives and the stockmen. A deal has not been' made, but a stage has been reached where the provisions of a tentative ten-tative agreement can now be put on paper. At the Duchesne conference the Indian service was represented repre-sented by J. L. Hook, district land officer from Phoenix. Ariz.; Paul Krause, forest and range supervisor of the Uintah-Ouray agency; and Lawrence Appah, range aid for the agency. The stockmen, including William Wil-liam Fieldsted, Boneta; Ray Thomas, Reed Lyons, Bert Rowley, Row-ley, A. Christiansen', Mt. Home; Ray D. Broadhead, Earl N. and Clarence Wright, Delbert Broad-head, Broad-head, Utahn; and Bert Coleman, Hanna, were represented by Attorney At-torney George E. Stewart, Roosevelt. Roos-evelt. Stewart says special credit should be given Folke Myrin, Salt Lake City, and the Olsen' Bros., Duchesne, who made negotiations ne-gotiations possible by including their land in the proposed deal. Under the transaction, the Utes will acquire . solid ownership owner-ship in the Sam and Dry areas, between Strawberry river and Uinta national forest. They will give up land to whites at the mouth of Red Creek, the head of Lake Canyon, Can-yon, several tracts along Lake Fork river, and small tracts on the Duchesne river between Utahn and Tabiona. , According to Krause, one of the Indian service negotiators, this is only the beginning. There will be other trades, large and small, in the future. The Ute tribes had about 234,000 acres of ceded land restored re-stored to them August 25, 1945, scattered throughout Duchesne, Uintah, and Wasatch counties. In some of these areas the Indians own 50 per cent of the land within certain drainages, and are attempting to acquire white-owned land. At the same time they are attempting to rid themselves of isolated tracts in white areas. In the same sense, stock raisers rais-ers are trying to arrange deals, so their land will be in' a solid block, not interspersed with Indian-owned land. |