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Show - 33 - F I 2 L D 30TES. , • . o --.--' * ',p Burl_ng my sojourn in the Uintah Easin, accompanied by Crips over Superintendent 2ncals, I mad3 several trips over various parts the Basin. of tho old Uintah and '-uray Starvation. The trips were made on horseback, in a backboard behind a span of mules and in an automobile* »e covered, on our journeys, approximately 260 miles. >-9 visited, chiefly, the allotments of land made to tha Indians nearly twenty years ago, when tha reservation was abcut to be opened to settlement. iluch of the land allotted •Wt&,?i-he. .Indiana - the allotments aggregating 3ft,OOT acres may be considered fairly good, although a material part oi it is substantially worthless. 1 saw thousands of acres of land allotted to Indians on -Bhich I would not pay ths taxes for it. In any ordinal*"/ circumstances, it would be impossibls to subdue it at a cost that mi^ht be considered reasonable. Under the Utah law, it will be necessary, in order to "save the ^ater" far theso allotted lands, to subjugate them by Julyy :.•••,'..; .:ww yy • 1, 1919. The Subjugation-of the land Includes the fencing; leveling, plowing and the raiainir; of a crop. As no crops can bo raised oni this land without Irrigation, it will bo necsasary to complete on each allotment a system of farm ditohea. through which water may be placed on the land from the Jovernment irrigation canals*, i ,;' • • / Mo Time to Oaste, |