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Show 140 The unfortunate Uncompahgres were to be settled at the present site of Grand Junction, Colorado. The following terse announcement is given in RCIA, October 24, 1881: The Commissioners appointed under the act of June 15, 1880, ratifying the Ute agreement of March 6, 1880, have selected a reservation in the vicinity of the confluence of White River with Green River, Utah, adjacent to the Uintah Indian Reservation, for the Uncompahgre Utes, who were formerly located at Los Pinos Agency, Colorado. The Uncompahgre Utes have been removed thereto; the agency buildings at the former Los Pinos Agency have been sold, and new ones have been erected at that new agency, which is designated Ouray Agency, in recognition of the friendship and faithfulness to the whites ' of Ouray, former head chief of the Utes. The White River Utes have been removed to Uintah Agency, where lands will be assigned to them in severalty, as provided in the Ute agreement, so soon as the requisite surveys shall have been made. The lands referred to above were to prove to be a calamity to the Uncompahgres. The area was unbelievably poor and bleak. They were shocked to have been removed from the beautiful San Juan Mountains where they had been called the "Switzers of America." These were the Indians who had remained loyal and friendly to the United States! The White Rivers who had been involved fared far better. The Commissioner observed in the same report that: 9 RCIA, 1881, p. 37. |
