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Show -5- t'-sk appears to be a hopeless one under existing conditions. There is another matter which gives serious concern, and '..hut is, that tlisre is in reality but very little, if any, land within the entire Uncompahgre reservation proper suitable for .allotment as agricultural land. The coi.rr.issi oners report with posi-i. iveness that while certain parts o.f the reservation are suitable tor grazing all otments,none of it east of Green River and but little of it comparatively speaking '.vest of that river is .fitted for agricultural allotments to Indians. As the Department is aware, when the Uncompahgres were removed to Utah lands were selected for them not only within what is now the Uncompahgre- reservation, tut also the lands along the Duchesne River from its junction with the Green up to a point ei/ht miles above the in• uth of the Uintah River. The lands along the Duchesne are within the boundaries of the Uintah reservation, end the Uncompahgres are entitled to take their allotments there, but not farther than eight miles above the mouth o.f the Uintah. In the original instructions to the Commission it was pointed out that there was believed to be a very considerable area of fertile land on the Duchesne, as yet unoccupied, and they were instructed, if such was found to be the case, to see that every acre |