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Show the gas and ooal development on the Ute Mountain Htaarrp I ion, there being no timber of marketable quanity. The cheap industry la the chief source of income• The opportunity ta grass sheep during the summer months on a nearby Forest Reserve at a low rate is an added advantage in stimulating the sheep industry* This holds true especially with regard to the Southern Utes. The Ute Mountain people do no farming, their land being arid with little or no water* Consequently these folk roam over a vast area with their flocks * living in tents and wickiups* ' Among the Southern Utes the number who da some farming is 78 end the acreage 1 s 3,057 » the acreage af the allotments leased totals 1,131* The farm equipment, live* ateck and work teams have bean secured by these people cm a reimbursable basis* The type of farming far which thia country la awitable ta the raising of potatoee. oata, wheat, stoe |