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Show //1J UtrCH IN BCH.Y TO THC rouowiNO V p DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, &UJJJX ^ 14154-1900 OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, ^ Filers. WASHINGTON. February 29, 1908. ^ Subject: White Bettlers cutting cedar posts,etc. The Acting United States Indian Agent, Uintah & Ouray Agency, YThiterocks, Utah. Sir; , By reference from Honorable George Sutherland, U.S.S., the Office is in receipt of a communication from Alma Eldredge, dated Coalville, Utah, February 19, 1908, saying that in accordance with Office instructions of July 16, 1907 to you, he made application for permission for himself, his son, and others, to cut cedar posts from the tracts reserved for grazing purposes for the Uintah Indians by joint resolution of June 19, 1902; that you granted the necessary authority, but limited the cutting to dead cedar. He takes the position that dead cedar is not suitable for poBts and asks that he be allowed to cut green cedar. As a matter of fact, there is nothing in the law which limits the cutting of cedar and pine for posts and fuel to dead timber, but of course the Office would want to have the cutting, especially for fuel, limited, 30 far as possible, to dead timber; but it is claimed, and it is thought not without |
