The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-18
THE NEW RESERVATION.

What pity the Indians did not ask lOl
Provo, or some large, pleasant town in
stead of Moab. Denver should secure {
Ute for real estate business. The present
reservation contains about one million
acres, and not one acre is to be compared
with the lands of Moab leaving out of queS
ton the fine young orchards there, unsur-
passed in the world for yield of fruit.
The Blue mountains have never visited.
They are said to contain Aztec relics, build
ings and painted caverns. The commits
SlOnerS pronounce it a superb grazing
country and the Mormon bishop at Mon
ticello says that forty and fifty bushels of
wheat to the acre can be raised there with
out irrigation. Its only settlement consists
Few Mormon families Carlisle's great
STOCK ranch 1.-THE Carlisles are foreigners,
and are said to hire men to hold land for
them and a few cattlemen in Indian val
ley. The cattle and horses to be moved
willnumber nearly as many as those cleared
out of Oklahoma.
Blu. that is not the question. Great as
may be the injustice of giving away 1900,
600 of Utah's acres without her consent,
those thus dispossessed will receive some
compensation from the government. The
shame is in so wording the treaty that the
Indians will believe they own the La Sal,
and thus saddling the danger Of an Indian
outbreak on the struggling pioneers of Lit
tie Grand, Fisher and Little Castle valleys
in Utah, and the beautiful, wealthy and
progressive settlement of Paradox valley
in Colorado.
For, it must be remembered. the band of
red cutthroats under Old Hatch and
Mancos Jim are TO be added to the Utes
on their removal For years these rene
gades have been roaming through the coun-
try doing more or less mischief, and under
no control Of any tribe. On the whole, the
Southern Utes are not bad Indians. Their
pleading to remain en- their old reservation
was pathetic and earnest. They are learn
ing to farm, after fashion. BY degrees
they will become able to take care of them
selves, and the Indian problem will be set
tied. 1t is not possible, according to the
delusive promises of the commission, to
send them where white men cannot pene-
trate.
The better and wiser Indians know this
They know their only hope is in conform
ing to the white mans laws. To push
them in on Utah in the proposed fashion
may please the young and reckless, but it
will break up their poor little attempts at
farming, it will place them where the gen
eral
FEELING IS BITTERLY HOSTILE,
and on lands so valuable that they must
again be ordered out. This is what article
means. We certainly will not leave the
country, nor win Moab take it quietly.
The men here are no strangers to Indian
wars and, much as they would regret one,
cannot afford to throw away their hard
earned farms
The commissioners were so full Of care
for the Indians, that, in concluding their
report they advise the government to keep
all herds out of San Juan county, lest the
grazing should not be in good condition
when the tribe moves there.
Not one word of pity have they for the
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Bluff City and Monticello, who, as the
bishop says, 'Are, some of them, too poor
to have team, and must leave the homes
they have defended and seek others, God
knows where"
Not word for Meabs half-million or so
of property put in danger by them; not a
word for the brave settlers of the La Sal;
not one for the trembling homes of Para
dox is uttered by this commission, assur
edly disgrace to Cleveland's administra-
ton, in its utter folly and recklessness of
human rights.