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Show Release Thfifaday, April 36, 190? » PX0SESRS PAHTEDi Unci© Sam is seeking &00 hardy f&rrem, mountalneere preferred, to turn aver to thorn for & merely nominal rental' 75,000 &cree of irrigable land located in the Uintah Indian Baeervafcioh* More | than 1$,fifth) acres of thaaa lande are now irrigated by ditchea constructed b,y the Government* Other canals are being built rapidly/ to e'evex/ Ijhe balance p.nd the new nettle rts will bo given employment at/good wages on thia work. * /These land® arc the allotments made to the Ute Indians, the,,:' band -.v'Hie.'h recently left the Reservation ^nd ??&ndered northward into Wyoming and SJowth 3%ikotft • Ae those Utoa non*t rsro particularly* for Cantmifflg the Government ie offering; the white farmers an or-pof- - tunlty \ta Lc'i;uire a home And a competence by cultivating these faring ^ \ < \ ftoe^tjofl of yajraau-. The Uintah Indian Reservation le located in Northeastern Utah in the 'drainage ban.in of the Duebeone River and its tributaries* The ift'nds r..r«'ln the valleys of these streams* The altitude do from <:|$5,0OO to 0,000 feet above $*£ level, giving this eection a delight-'' 2 f ul.,\clim»te» -The au rosier temperature'' ie rarely above PO degrees and'-. rVthaAUntera are extremely ffiila* Wheat, oats, rind alfalfa fere, the /principal crops c*"ovm, although in. the•• lower and ir:ore oheltered £%*liey& applfal pears, apricots, peaches and p%mp» do quite troll, ;';ili;"of./the fruit i«s of excellent flavor * "•'....- '• ,f •: 'Surrounding the irrigated ;4»hda is a vast area; of'grazing. '-"iands-f which sustain enormous fieedts of aheap and herds of 'cattle*. _•>* • •Extensive dar-owitoof minerals h-.ve been found":in tbe denervation' an i the develop mnt' of thin resource will £r«vidfL a PJPl^ndid .re-rJrefr 'for all farm products. At the present time the; demand for stock food exeeeSfr^jut j auyrly &n& prices ere rery'high* last.fall eats sold at the thresher for two l&enta a pound and'in' the-winter for throe and one half cents. Alfalfa early in the-fall, sold fit $14 per ton t\n>! in the winter for #30 pel* ton. As the yield of alfalfa rune from 3 to 5 tone per acre, it affords a very profitable crop for the farmers* Take the XNsnver & Rio Grande Railroad to teaclc, IB miles west of Grand Junction, Colorado fend-there transfer to the Uintah Railroad to Bragon, Utah, WIM**® a stage meats the train &n<& carries .. tbe paesanger to the Indian Agency at White Rock* Utah, in the center of the farming area. The Indian Agent there rill show the home-eeeker the land© and arrange the terms for acquiring a hoisa thereon*' Uncic Vk>.K wiU leaee these landa for a torra of five years • at an annual rental of twenty-five centa pc-r acre, payable ayral~«:aia r nualiv, ?hr: settler ia not required to live upon hie farm, but cast cultivate it. On tURS eri.lrr.tienvof hin les. ,io he v-'ill'be p.: r-mitted to fiumx-t it, and in the event of the death of the India*} allottee, he rastiy acquire the property in fee simple by purehaae'i The particularj regarding terms, location of the farme ready for occupancy, cliraate, cro|»a, etc*, «say bo obtained from C.^pt, Kail, Indian Agent, '"hits Hoe tee* Utah, of from the Conmlaeioner of In~ aiaa Affairs, Washington, D, C, TK« r... -•..•^-•cr. * ' -. a :! :•? in a region of ;.' onie rf :J! ncehiO b^autv ' |
