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Show Land Consolidation And Exchange EDITOR'S NOTE: A recent issue of "The Ute Bulletin," a mimeographed publication that originates at the Uintah and Ouray Ou-ray Agency at Ft. Duchesne, carried an item or two that might prove interesting to the readers of the Standard. With their permission we are reprinting re-printing the following article. Land Consolidation & Exchange A highlight of the Land Exchange Ex-change and Consolidation Program Pro-gram was accomplished July 28, 1950, when the Tribal Business Committee gave its official approval ap-proval to the exchange of 14,-'781.10 14,-'781.10 acres of scattered tribal land and a sum of $14,821.25 for 13,498.28 acres of land owned by Folke A. Myrin qn the Strawberry river drainage in Sam's and Dry canyons. Final approval must be given by the Indian Office in Washington, D. C. before November 1, 1950. This exchange completely blocks out a grazing unit for the Indians in the Strawberry river area which they have heretofore here-tofore been unable to use fgr-grazing fgr-grazing because the White owned lands have been so located lo-cated that access to water and egress to these lands have been impossible. The transaction also al-so rids the Indians of widely scattered, uneconomical so-called ceded lands, tracts of land not homesteaded when the reservation reserva-tion was opened for settlement, and which were finally returned to the Ute Tribe in 1945. Many of these lands are located in the Arcadia area among White owned lands and have been a subject of heated controversy as to potential Indian use and friction due to trespassing. Mineral rights are being re- served by both parties to the exchange. Although the exchange contract con-tract is being executed between the Ute Tribe and Mr. Myrin, the transaction is in reality a cooperative effort of Mr. Myrin and 14 of his neighboring stockmen stock-men through escrow agreements. The 14 stockmen agreed to purchase pur-chase certain of the tribal lands included in the exchange from Mr. Myrin at a price determined by the officials of the U&O agency. In each case the Ute Tribe is being credited with the full purchase price toward the reduction of the cash consideration considera-tion which enters into the agreement, agree-ment, Uintah Basin stockmen who are participating in this cooperative cooper-ative exchange are Wm. Field-sted, Field-sted, Ray D. Broadhead, Earl N. Wright, Clarence C. Wright, Ray Thomas, Noma Rowley, lie A. Christensen, Bert T. Coleman, Cole-man, Thomas Gilbert et al, John F. Ross and Darrel Eph-raim Eph-raim Lambert. |