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Show ( uiouont junnent ) ( -settlements settlements -Sattleaments Sattleaments ) . For 41 all ( practiOl-pur'-o-aes practiOlpuroaes ) , a region which ( docs does ) not average ( much imich ) more than ( cme One ) person per ( thousand fliotissand ) square miles , ( may inay ) clearly be ( classified chissified ) as uninhabited . Testimony by Bennett ( Vol . 17 , ( page Imcre ) 3241 ) , ( Loper 'Loper Loper ) ( Vol . 12 ) , and others shows that during ( ths the ) boom of 1892 ( upwards upiNrards ) of several hundred were ( at- at ) tracted to the Glen ( Canyon Caiiyoii ) section of ( tlie the ) Colorado River and the San Juan River below Bluff . The boom , however , was short lived and apparently the only ( so-called socalled ) permanent ( homos homes ) on a ( river riyer ) frontage of ( nearly imirly ) a ( thousand thomsaild ) miles , were those of ( Wimmer Winimer ) , ( Halvcrsou Halverson ) , ( Wolverton ANIolverton ) , and Valentine , on the Green ( River RiVCT ) ; the ( Plites Hites ) and ( Pert Bert ) Loper , in Glen Canyon , ( on oil ) ( the tho ) Colorado ; and the ( Spencers Spelicers ) and Zahns , ( on Oil ) ( San Stin ) ( Juan Juall ) River . ( Kolb , Vol . 4 , pages 791 , 799 . ) From ( cm an ) ( agricultural agricultitral ) standpoint . ( Practically -Practically Practically ) all of the evidence shows clearly that the only land being tilled at the present time is on irrigated tracts ( in ill ) the ( vicinity -vicinity vicinity ) of Green River , Moab , and Bluff , ( Utah Ut"111 Ut111 ) , ( and aud ) ( on oil ) ( dry-fanning dryfanning dry-farming dryfarming ) land in the ( vicinity i-i-einity iieinity ) of ( Monticello Afontieello ) and Blanding . ( With 11,7itli 117itli ) the exception of possibly a thousand acres of scattered bottom lands along ( Green Gi-een Gieen ) ( River Plixer ) 1 ( any tiny ) increase in the area of ( til- til ) lable land would be in the vicinity of the localities ( mentioned leiltioned ) . According to Exhibit 5072 a press ( re- re ) lease of two ( detailed letailed ) ( Government Governinent ) reports , ( the tbe ) ( addi- addi ) tional area ( which NvIfich ) could be irrigated ( amounts imomits ) to about 28,000 acres ( in ill ) ( tlie the ) vicinity of ( Green Greeil ) River , Utah , 1 , 000 acres in the vicinity of Moab , and ( possi possi- possi ) bly 25,090 ( in ill ) the vicinity of ( Blanding Blailding ) ( and aild ) ( Mon- Mon Alon- Alon ) |