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Show n\ Land- Allotr.icntn 0.%77-191E& E P A R TMENT OF THE INTERIOR J T R UNITED 8TATE8 INDIAN SERVICE Allotment former Military Uintah & Ouray Agenoy, Rcsorvo. fft. Duc'noimo, Utah* JMI April £,;i91S. Cor.iniaaionor of Indian Affaire, VTanhington, D» 0. ' . Sir: ' , ' Ao directed by abovo cited letter, arrangoztionto havo boon mado to allot tho arable land Of tho former Military Reserve at' this a^andy to such of the Indians " y as had allotnonto Cf non-irrigable land. f A list of living full blood Indiana having fvaluc-leos allotments has beon prepared eruffioiont to taho up all tho valuable"land on the reserve which io available. Somo of tho industrial employees wore detailed during tho winter to locate tho cornero and mark thorn by _rub9tantial poste. At many of thoso corners stonos woro found, thus showing that tho Military Reserve had been officially surveyed by'the sdmo party who surveyed the surrounding land. Tho boundary linon of the Reserve are not coincident with tho t_odtlou liMs, however, but are parallol ttith thorn, thuti loafing a'taw of ••lota" ftrduna fcho outoiuo. Many of thono lots aro Valuable and ooUootlraly tho*y rop-rooont a larrro fraction 01 tho txtixhlo land.. I wroU to the local land offioo at Venial, 'asking -;ar tho acr|go and numbering of those lota on the approved Dlf.t bufin -reply I an adviood that there BOOMO to bo no npyroroj" .,i„t |