Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-07-29
THE GREAT UINTAH
RESERVATION OPENING
What il iS--TOW to Get There--HOW TO Get Claims
An Interesting Article TO Home
SteaderS.

any of the Oklahoma openings fresh
in public mind. The lands are worth
three to n over even the splendid
farms of the Oklahoma reservations.
Already the vanguard has begun to
arrive at the centers of entry. A new
land office was established two weeks
ago at Vernal, Utah, and there the
people are going in a struggling
string from all points of the compass
and by all manner of co~nveyances.
1t is here at Vernal that the final
entries upon the reservation landS
must be made. Registration for the
allotment or drawing, may be made
at Price and Provo, also in Utah, and
in Grand Junction, in Colorado, but
after the registered ms has been
awarded his number or right to locate
in rotation, he must journey to the
United States land office at Vernal,
and make his homestead entry the
same as in any other case in filing
upon government land. He is given
time to hunt out the piece of land he
wishes to locate and this, If wise, he
will do only after a personal journey
over the territory and selecting his
tract.
Entries in the rotation determined
by drawing, beginning at Provo,
Utah, on August II, can be made for
sixty days after the drawing, and this
time will permit everybody who Sc
cures the right to file, time to look up
his location. Some, the early num-
bers, possibly the first so or 100, even
the first 300, will find ready buyers
for their rights for cash at prices of
hundreds and even thousands, for
there are not a few, particularly of
the Mormon church and the mining
companies, who have their eyes upon
tracts that they are willing to pay
well for the right to select over the
chance of another getting them.
Transportation for the thousands
is rapidly being solved. The Denver
& Rio Grande railroad. the available
route into the registration points and
the edge of the reservation, will solve
the problem of journey to within a
short distance and a new railroad,
built by the ~non-favored but only at
t~ractive gilsonite mining company of
the section, will carry passengers to
within sixty-two miles OF the land of
. fee.
The regulation fee for filing a home.
stead Is SIG, but in the case of this
kind this fee is only payable when
the actual entry of land is made. The
payment of this fee gives the settler
a right of first claimant to the en-.
tered 100 acres of land. lie is pre-.
sumed 10y the law to be making his
home upon the land and doing what
he can toward farming and utilizing
II. After FIVE years of residence, he
is, on showing good faith in makinl
use of II, permitted to complete his
title by paying the government SIP,
an acre, or 5000 for the 100 acres O
his tract. Under good farming worl
the land at that time will have
r value of around $50 an acre. an,
there will be few settlers who hav
4 carried their lands 10 that stage O
cultivation who will care TO part wit
e It, even at that price. The lands pu
In fruit trees will by that time b
4 worth from $500 to $1,000 an acr,
o and earning annual profits In keepin
e with such prices as an investment.
4 Locations of mineral claims cannC
be made in the reservation for sixt
days after the opening on August q
There will be many go in to prospeC
in the meantime. Gilsonite prospec
ing is a simple and easy matter.
sticks out plainly. The prospectol
= who go in expecting TO pick up claim
of this form of mineral are in GOO
chance of being disappointed. Tw
companies have been given the rigl
TO grab all they can find, and 1t
needless to say they have not bee
asleep in the opportunity; if they hay
overlooked anything they do not kno
il.
Soldiers who have served Uncl
Sam are allowed two advantages
this drawing. In the first place the
are permitted TO register through a
other. II they have some friend &,
ing TO the registry point they ca
appoint him their attorney to registC
for them for the drawing. That /
one can appoint some one, but thi
one cannot act as attorney for MOI