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Show Uinta Council, 67. Here are these people, David Copperfield, John Duncah, and others^ they want to hold these mountains and this water# We want to keep them. We have farms down here on the Bench where there is no timber: we want to hold those farms, and v/e want to hold some of this timber up here in the mountains too. I want you tell the truth, and not tell anything crooked. I do not like this 250,000 acres of pasture land. I have a cattle range at Rock Creek west of here and north of Strawberry River, What will they do with my cattle range? I want you to fix it so I can hold that piece of land. Here i3 Henry Jim. He was talking to me yesterday evening, Henry Jim said that your talk is good, it i3 all right, ge liked it. I would feel more satisfied if you could say it was more than 4 Q acres for one person. I have lots of cattle. I hear that if we do not come to you and say that we agree, you will go back and say! "These Indians would not agree to this." Then they will come back and give me land, I do not like that. I want to pick my own land. Now here is Hump. He has come to live with the Indians. I do not like anyone to carry a gun on the reaervation. I have my farm that Colonel Randlatt made for me and I want to hold it. I have a good farm from which I sell hay and get §8.00 a tan. Some times I get 400 dollars from it and I put it in my pocket, and I like that. I: like what you say. I like it that I can go where I wish without a pass, I can go and see my friends the Bannocks or anyone else. Now I want you to give me my piece of land on Rock Creek where my cattle are. |