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Show -3- premises. He suggests, and strongly recommends, that a timber reserve of at least one township, (6 miles square), be set apart, from which these Indians may obtain building material, the tract suggested to embrace the Agency saw mill, a township of the drawf cedar tract, near the Agency, to supply them with fence posts and wood fuel, and a tract of 160 acres of land embracing a certain vein of coal situated in Farm Creek, about 3 miles north t>y northwest of Unitah Agency headquarters at "Whits Rock, for use of the Indiana to provide them with fuel. Regarding the necessities of this reservation, he states that the Agency saw mill, including planer, shingle and lathe machinery, is practically new, in first claee condition, and of great benefit to the Reservation at the present time, in providing necessary building material, which is very much needed by both Agency and Indians; that the Indians are to be allotted irrigable lands only, which lands contain little or no timber; that the bench lands, nearly all of which can be irrigated, are the most desirable lands forfarming purposes on the Reservation, but are entirely devoid of timber, and it is ___... / |
