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Part of the land which "Uncle S a m Is -i-.<v trafficking- in is not, strictly peaking.' his o w n . H e is simply a •powerful g-uardtan manipulating tie in- " rests of his wards, the Indians. ITor • : eir benefit he holds title; to hun- -eds of thousands of- acres_ and for -heir benefit he Is now disposing of -Tt of.this immense domalniV." Utih contains one of the-largest ipor-rions of this land renerved fbr Indiana. :. lies in tha east -central part ot the a.-ita and at one time comprised all iVie west end of Uinta county and the .--utt end of Duchesne cotmty, formerly r.irt of Wasatch county. It Is .plentl- I'Mlly watered t>y small rivers and •reams and Immense tracts of it are, - -.-non. the finest agricultural land3 in -^le west.- In 130 5, Uncle Sam decided that he •-r.A set aside too m-uch. land for the Indians and decided to give some of it ., the white men. Before doing so, '..iwever, he allotted to e^ery Ute In-in. man. .vnmin and child, a piece f thn choki.-st ,.,-ifrlculturaJ land in -B reservation r.im.inj. in siie from ' . to 220 acr"i. In adiiltion, he held - tha Utfti, i tract containing 230,- ,0 acr-rs of choice -,-razlng land lyintr ;....st .«.nuth of ihe Ashley forest reserve. lining done thin he thr^iv the rest .-.f thfl reaen.-n.tion open to entry un-r the lir.i:i.>-.t' i.l In '.v.i. T h o result --iii ono of the largest m - \jxes of settlors ever seen in any Fec-vi of ih'x '.v.st. So in.iny home.seek-l h,i ,,i iiuj-funity in , r -I • I, n i l I n I in.I i I i .M't , .- I;-.- 1 'U-.l.i. h > .In l.lm.1 e-ld by the Indians or whites. I'll ii.".-' " l.ui.l In Oi,, . not either li •.oTr.esead -<l O y AS After r-vernment ir.a, -s» Or practic 1-s 7ya:c r-^bt is heid -by the 1 TO WATER RIOHTS. :;j.kir.? the allotments, the rur.ary water fii-overy acre of state of Utah which gives seven years to anyone "who files on water to m_uke 'beneficial use of it in order to secure a permanent right to it T h e first person filing on the land la said to. hold a primary, right to It. If. he does not file o n all the water in.'a; stream, a n other- person .may .secnre a secondary filing?.'.which.'• gives hirruthe: right.to use-all the water not used by tho first party. E v e n territory water rights ma.y be secured under similar terms. If-the person holding the primary right doee not m a k e beneficial use of it, and the holder of the secondary filing does, the latter obtains.the permanent title to the water. .-' • - The period of time allowed for perfecting- a water, right is seven years. The-.state engineer has the right'to grajit aa..extension of seven years at his. discretion. S«ven years after maJc-lng the flltogs the. government found that it could not perfect all its; rights and requested the extension, which was granted. This gives it until 1919 to perfect title to the water rights. In the meantime, however. It had spent, hundreds of thousands of dollars building canals and Irrigating ditches to convey the water. It had, In fact, advanced m u c h faster in bringing the water to the land than It had 1n getting the land under cultivation. Recently it realized that unless extraordinary measures were taicen, the water could not ,be -put to a 'beneficial use as required -by law and the Indians w c m M lose thMr water righ:.». Hon. Cato Sells, commlsKioner of Indian affairs It Is 'belloved h:m solved tile problem. H e <iecld<_d that the bwit -..•-i y of tfo...r:ny the land und.-r cultivation would be to sell part of It and b-aye btrge portions of tho remainder. lie perceived that. In order to perfect title to the water rights covering approximately S'0,000 aeren, ihe termM <,f both the sales and tho lease., had to bo exceptionidly ,-i.Ltractive. Aa a roiisi'iiiiPOCij, it I.: possiO:,. to :,u/ on Minn -...inn i.f 111.'. I"- il I ml 0l l!,r I 'lnla |i":iln ,. nil I'dipt'ii'i"' ' :• ,i tlia west, at litll.) l.io.'r. than i'. .v.-nid take to con.itn.i_t ditches and canals to convey water to it. Trje highest orice at which tha .'and is appraised is 3 20 and raoges from that down to about $12. and these sales carry with them perfectable primary water ri^ht3. T h o jjoviM-nmeni 13 disposing of land which was allotted to Indians w h o have since died, or to incompetents w h o cannot m a k e use of it In the latter case the m o n e y " obtained goes to the credit,of the incompetent Indian. In the case of the dead . In-dlansthe money goes to his heirs... .p. • | P : H O " W SALES. W E R E 'MAiDB_7'W The method'of selling this summer waa - as follows:. The superintendent of the reservation;A. H.,Kneale,.-had all the.land for- sale appraised, . and published the values.. H e then advertised for sealed bids and sold' the parcels of land to ihe highest bidders. Under special authority of the Indian department, any piece of land which has been duly advertised in this manner may, if not sold under sealed bids, be "disposed of by private sale, the superintendent of the reservation acting as sales agent for the government This year aibout S.00 0 acres of land have been sold, and there is now. available albout 2.000 acres more. - On June 1, 1916, there will be ap-proxlmaiy 6,000 acres in addition pnjt up to be disposed of. In view of the publicity given to Uinta baain, the wonderful results achieved there, and the Imminence of tha construction of a railroad, it Is cxpeoted that there will bo no lack ot purchasers for tho land. Appraisals of thl3 land wiil be puijjllshed April 1, and anyone desiring may visit them for inspection and to make a choice before they are actually put i:p for sale. Every acre will havo available water so that cultivation may b<*gin at once. Tho llb-nUll.-/ of Lie leasing terms for Indian land.-. Is really .ij4toni,.h- Ir.g. It virtually amount) to Ihe -jy/- onimont pa. tr.t. a n..on ._ considerable sum of money fur breaking and cultivating the land nnd fftvinig him. In ran make from irjis of Ihe 1 .'l-.e-i ihe two most •addition all : .'ale of crops. vary snmewh. pirp.ular .1 rp :< Tim l'li-il in ;at I T H _ t P. K • 'OP ll' Id i l l l l l . r . | l - | V | , l| | 111,17 1'"'" ''--'J In " I '" ' " ' I ' ' IHI'I , ia,>t more I|;MII '', ;" ..\il , r t'.vn 1 < tut i.i i "raw," that is. unc-u'tivated. T h a i^ss^e ' has the free use of all the waiei- ;io-pu'rtenant t. the land as well .as free use of the iand for a period of five years. Tl;e prircipal r»pi:Lrement m a de - f him is that he cultivate tha land .ust cd rapidly- ._, pos_=.ble. Ho must also fence It, tout the furnishes the wire, post free. T h e last requiremf construct a two-room h, logs or sawed lumber a specifications ^furnished V dian department."fl: '; 1 The department..wilTin approximately-JCOO 'for r-fencing the land and'wi: all he can raise on the la five year3 of his tenure. that a m a n ..of "small, iric a lease, -have given hir lump s u m as he "finishes payments enough to sup: doing- the preliminary-enough as a result of'tb work to carry him - thr year and eventually ma', profit from the crops-he the land. ; ••, ?*y -,' ANOTHER F O R H C ,- • i The second form of If ly the same asthe-flr: tho- lessee may. Instead house, pay a small rent during the last threey The third year he pav acre rental and the f-y? ar Jt an acie. H e r-« amount, however, for- i land so that his cash transaction lsapproxim 40 acre traot besides a1' on the land. Thus it m a y be see^ the choicest !and In Ui tained on terms uneq": for liberality. It Is d tho gov^mm^nt wculd HI ch-?ap r-!*h.-r fir 21 It not obliged to do -o • the wat.ir rights. Tier another advantage to r a considerable quantlt ^'lrroundlng tlvln OP them Is cultivated fl" '.,•.•. -,>. It will ;prc 'Mr •--• .,! ilnt ntit-li 'I- >-ir ret I >l domain y a v"..-.i-t t has the grontest futur itabie inland empire, r tt-.at as yet have .pari Although the/ greater homestead land ha? comparatively lit-.o ' |