Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-03
VAST TRACT FOR FARMS
Features of Uintah Reservation
 Soon to Be Opened.
THE LAND REQUIRES NO CLEARING.

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 When the Indians Have Been Pro.
 vided For-sixteen Hundred Claims
 sf vaIue-said to Be No Finer Land
 Tn Point of Fertility.
 More than million acres of the Uin. tah reservation in northwestern Utah are to be subject to the location of the white man on and after Aug. 2s, says a Denver special to the St. Louis Re public. By proclamation of the presi- dent, under authority of congress. reg istration for right to locate in rota. ton to be determined by lot recently began at Vernal, Provo and Price, Utah, and Grand Junction. Colo
 Every native born and naturalised male American over the age of twenty. one who has not availed himself of tho homestead right and is not the owner of 160 acres of land and every woman of the same citizenship and above the same age who Is the head of a family or unmarried has the same privilege.
 The reservation that Is to be opened comprises 2,245,O00 acres, walled in on three sides by the Uintah and Wasatch ranges and debouching on It's eastern slope to the Green river, whose tribu- taries drain it. For its greater part 1t is q waste. apparently worthless, but here and there in 1t are spots that can be used to advantage. These spots are of various sizes and varied utility, There are lands available for farming, under irrigation, and these are to .be allotted to white men after the Indian has had his pick of the farm upon which he shall end his days. Other tracts have a sufficient natural vegeta- tion, sustained by the natural rainfall to make them desirable for cattle ranges. Other spots of limited area are rich in gilsonite and other min. erals.
 Of the area 1,O1O, 900 acres have been placed in a permanent forest reserve. which guards the timber, but does not stop the mine hunters; 250000 have been reserved for the Indians to grase their herds, 3.840 acres taken for tho Fort Duchesne military reservation. 112,OO0 have been allotted to the h. dians in severalty, and this leaves open to settlement of the whites 1,069 OoQ acres. Of this latter three-fourths ia practically valueless, but the other fourth is to be ranked as choice. high ly desirable valley lands, susceptible of irrigation.
 All this means that some 1,600 heads of families are to draw the prizes of the reservation at the opening on Aug. 2S. These 1,6OO farms, at the propor- tion maintained in the opened irrigated sections of Utah and Colorado. will in q few years support population of 25,000 through farming alone. and as the years go by and farms are cut down from 16O to 80. then to 70 and to the 20 and 10 acre tracts of the beet raiser and fruit grower, this population will multiply rapidly.
 The ground requires no clearing. Ma ture has kept 1t clear of harassin9 growths. On the building of a ditch to apply the water to the seeded land the response is prompt and in quanti- ty that means ample reward for tho labor entailed. The soil is rich. For, ages 1t has been accommodating the ele-l ments that grow plants. and the plants to exhaust 1t would not grow because the rainfall is never more than half the amount that in the nonirrigated sections must fall to mature the crop.i
 In point of fertility there k no fines land. It will produce anything: Fruits, such as plums. peaches. aps ples, pears and cherries. will yield enormously. Alfalfa, with its threa crops season. producing some ten tons of hay annually from its one time seeding-a perennial-is q sure crou that appeals to the less progressivd and less ambitious farmer. It ia un. equaled for feed for sheep. hogs and cattle. A farm once seeded to it is q perpetual income and at an interest earning rate that the eastern farmep cannot comprehend. Wheat. averages above forty bushels to the acre year after year. The yields of oats, bar. ley and rye are double every year tho best the nonirrigated section can pro- duce as an exceptional crop.
 The lands now being opened wfll in few years advance in psice from SIPS an acre, which the settler will pay the government for them at the end of i've years, to. at the period the government price falls due, an averags value of $50 an acre.
 vernal. Utah. Is in itself the great. est possible inducement to the new corners to get into the reservation. d valley of the Ashley fork of the Green has been brought into high state of cultivation in . few years and served as an object lesson of what the resers vation valley will become.
 vernal Is isolated from the rest of the world. It is 128 to 14o miles from .anywhere" by the nearest rcuts. Az routes to if lead over barren. dssolatd wastes of mountains dry. even sprine lees and wholly wanting h ths nttI< rivulet1 that mark mountain esct3on( elsewhere than in northwestern UtAA The journey to ft has beea hard t1r ing. exhausens. he 6an b o~ef mountainous deserts. and tb9s h noth ing whatever to encouraes tbs loeatof.
 But suddenly the scene chsAgss. l great wide valley eovesmg moN