| Show PLOWS WORKING ON ACRES INDIAN LAND during buring the past thirty days contracts and leases have been let from the uintah ouray agency office ft duchesne duches ne utah for the clearing plowing and leveling of acres of raw land seventy six leases for a term of fi five ve years have been made by which the lessee agrees to clear plow and level and fence the raw land during the first year of the 11 lease ease for a consideration of I 1 and leave one fourth the entire area in a good stand of lucern lat I 1 at the expiration of lease on i leases made covering live indian allotments the lessee is paid for the work during the first year and then during the last four years of the lease he is required to pay into the agency office a certain rate per acre on the I 1 dead indians land a lessee is given a five year lease and he can have all he raises on said place for the clearing plowing and leveling of the raw landin all cases the indian furnishes the wire and staples for fencing and the government issues the lessee a free permit to cut from the indian grazing Reser necessary posts most of the leases have been made on land situated ion the altanah bench andin all acres have been leased under this new system the past 30 days sixty contracts covering an acreage of acres of raw land have been executed the average cost for clearing plowing and leveling per acre being 6 00 fifty miles of fencing has been contracted for at an average rate of 30 cents per rod 35 miles of the fencing has been let in in the myton district six carloads of wire for this years fencing I 1 has been ordered and two carloads will arrive any day the present time proposals are being distributed covering sixty one pieces of raw land with a total acreage of 2500 acres to be bid on up to p march 25 on the and of each month until all the land has been disposed of from twenty to fifty pieces will be advertised verti sed for clearing plowing leveling and fencing these lists will be mailed to all requesting them on the and of each I 1 month giving the prospective i bidder ten days in which to view the land on march at I 1 seventy five men stood anxiously waiting in the ft duchesne agency office to ascertain their success in bidding on the fifty pieces then offered 1 I 1 on april 20 1915 the largest sale of indian lands ever advertised will take place 88 pieces of axce excellent ilent farming land is beling being offered at ridiculously low prices ce s for instance land is appraised pra is ed at 15 per acre the c carrying a r capacity in the various ditches is worth more than 15 per acre for each acre of land the water filing is worth more than 15 per acre and the land is worth more than 15 per acre therefore the government is offering 30 pe per r acre to purchasers for taking the indian lands off of their hands from to acres of inherited indian lands will be offered for sale during each of the next three years the government expects d during ur the coming fall to prove up on the water right to all land whether belonging to indian sold or patented which is under cultivation ti and upon which beneficial iise has been made of the water each year the lands placed under cultivation will be brov anup on |
