The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-14

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manner In which the reservation shall
be thrown open to settlement Though
II the persons most interested were
consulted they would prefer the rush
lhelhOd, which was so popular in Okla
hoiha years ago and which was accom-
panied by so many thrilling incidents
mat plan was for the contempIative
settlers to line up on a given date at a
given hour and, at the firing of A sig
nal gun, TO rush in. helter-skelter. and
ME their claims on any hOmesteads they
might be entitled to under the law. No
man could take UD more than one
homestead, and. though the territory
was large there were some wild do
inSs on that memorable day. especially
IN the locality which is now known as
Lawton.
Many Prefer the Drawing Plan.
The conservative settlers who have
been drawn into Ashley valley bv rea-
son OF the alluring stories told of the
/ wonderful possibilities of the reserva-
| ton, from the mineral as well as
from the agricultural point of view.
prefer To take their chances by the
plan that has found so much favor in
/ other sections of the country during
I recent years in the allotment of In
dian or public lands-that of drawing
Tor the sections they wish to ACQUIRE
/ title to-and it is not unlikely that this
plan VIII be adopted at the opening
of the reservation
BY this plan on a given day all per
sons VINO desire to settle on the reser-
Walton VIII assemble at some pIace
hereafter to be agreed upon. presum-
ably at the Indian agents quarters AT
fott Duchesne, and to each will be
gwen ticket bearing number. 1t
/ VIII then be announced that the first
days drawings viii consist of 100 or
-VO NUMBERS. as the case may be. and
so on To the end until the full 0uota
shall have been exhausted.
Inc first number drawn will eutftle
/ the holder TO go into the reservation
ana file his claim to 160 acres wherever,
he may select, and the government
guarantees the title to the homestead
( MED upon The same will be the rule
I as 10 edch subsequent selection. Per
sons not acquiring numbers for the
Hrst days drawings VIII have to wait
from day 10 day until their numbers
are posted It is the contention of
the department Of the interior that the
settlement Of reservation lands by this
system VIII go great way towards
eliminating the possibilities Of phvsi-
cal encounter. many times disa stro11s
between the men who may be actu-
ated oy mercenary purposes to get in
on the land and fight for possession.
II IS better, the department officers
say, to let 200 men go in. one at 4 time
and make their selections in an orIerI,,
manner. than TO turn 5000 men loose to
90 Just as they please. the strife in
such cases often leading to deadly con-
f:cts
Indians Getting Their Share.
Atthe present moment the lzot-arn,,,e,,+
ofhcials are engaged i'm alIotting to the
indians their part Of the reservation.
ana 1t IS believed that this part of the
work VIII have been completed within
two or three weeks. The tribes en-
Titled TO sections within the reservation
are the Uintshs and the White River
ties In all there are about 900 In
dams. Each head of a family is en-
Titled to eighty acres and each child
has the right TO claim forty acres. The
head Of the family is construed to mean
the husband If living or the wife if the
husband is dead Altogether it is com
puted that there are 200 heads of fami-
hes and about 400 children who will
nave the first call on the selection of
the homestead lands. The government
0hlclaiS say that there are about $50
coo acres of available grazing land
within the reservation beside the aIIot
ments to the Indians. At a rough cal
culation the Indians viii take up only
5000 acres. leaving 2lS.000 acres for
! the white settlers who may want TO
take up homesteads.
Law Violated Now
4 singular feature in connection
with this Uintah reservation has come
up within the past few days. Accord
( ing 10 the treaty with the Indians, it Is
said, the government directed that no
one should enter the reservation until
the presidents proclamation should
90 into effect. Notwithstanding this.
however, it is claimed that number
OF persons from the east have been
enjoying the exceptional trout fishing
/ within the bounds, having entered by
/ way Of the Strawberry river and
quietly evading the patrol sent in from
Fort Duchesne by the cOmmandant OF
that post.
Another fact that is Of perhaps far
more significance is that within the
/ reservation there are mineral lands OF
great value. the principal of which, so
/ far as Utah is concerned, are coal
/ lands 1t has been known for some
! time that Interested parties have been
making Surreptitious excursions into
/ the reservation and have been quietly
plating the territory with a view OF
obtaining these coal lands as soon as
the proclamation of the president goes
| into effect. These persons are acting
as the agents of certain corporations,
and in order to succeed in their purpose
Z a IlLillU-f Ul 0GittEiIttS VIII Ne present
I at the drawing, if that is the way in
which the hOmesteads are to filed upon.
| and as soon as they receive their num-
hers they viii comply with all that
the government exacts and will subse-
QHently transfer their holdings TO their
employers II may take two or three
or more years to do this, but, as In
many other instances in this and other
states the operating companies can
well afford TO wait until the public
mind Is in such condition that il viii
not notice the final transfers
Agents May Be Waiting.
On the other hand should il be de-
| creed that there shall be a rush into
| the reservation when the proclamation
| goes into effect, the interested parties
viii have instructed agents along the
| line who viii go in and file upon the
| land in accordance with instructions
| previously prepared. AS a matter of
/ fact it is stated generally that one coal
| company already has wagon train
within the reservation seeking the best
| mineral lands to be found. This equip