The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-15
WILL PROBABLY
BE SIGNED TODAY
Proclamation Opening Uintah Reser-
walton Drawn Up.
DETAILS NOT GIVEN OUT
OPENING WILL LIKELY TAKE
PLACE SEPTEMBER 1.
Especial to The Herald.)


IAI ASHINGTON. July 1.-THE procla-
w nation opening to entry the unaI-
loted and unreserved lands of the
Uintah Indian reservation in Utah was
forwarded to the president today, and will
in all probability be signed at Oyster Bay
tomorrow or Monday. The proclamation
will describe the lands to he thrown omen.
he entered, will give date and place at
which entrymen are TO register and date
Details Kept Secret.
Until the proclamation is signed the
improper to discuss any of its features
which are left for the determination Of the
president and no intimation is given as
10 the date when the lands Will be thrown
open or where the drawing will take
place. There are rumors. however. that
the opening will not occur until Septem-
Der. the latest date allowed by law, ana
there is a possibility that there viii be
registration officers both at Heber and at
road and easily accessible. This. how
ever. Is mere surmise and is not sustained
by any authorized statement.
Will Get an Even Chance.
Speaking of recent reports that the
Mormons were attempting TO corner I'm I'm
tab lands at the time Of opening by in
fluence with the local Land office Off
Gals Land Commissioners Richards SAID
''The Mormons are not going. to con-
duct the opening of the Ulntah lands;
neither will any other people or sect. The
lands are going to be opened in accord
ance with the law and terms of the presi-
dents proclamation. and every man Will
have an equal chance be ne Mormon
or Gentle. There is to be no tampering.
1t is to he an absolute. clean, straight
first drawn will have the first selection
OF land and if he knows the reservation
and is fomDeten Mt 70 eho0se ne ~1 OF
course, II he is not familiar with the
land and makes haPhazard selection.
he must run the risk Men familiar with
the land are most apt TO get the best
lands The government viii not attempt
to locate any man whose name is drawn;
nor Will II indicate to any what lands
are good and what are. not There Will
be ample time sixty days. in which en-
trvmen can make Selections after their
names are drawn. After that period the
lands will become subject to general en-
try
Statement 70 Sc Issued.
Commissioner Richards. speaking of the
prospective opening. said that when the
ments giving additional facts bearing up
on the opening and lands which are 10 be
come subject to entry. He believes that
much INSTRUMENTATION regarding the Uln-
tab reservation had gone forth to the
public and he intends TO correct false I'M
pressions as far as possible He states
very positively that there is not an album
dance of fine land remaining in the reser 5
walton. although there are some good
tracts. which viii be subject to entry on
date fixed by the president II Is ms
intention to arrest the belief that seems
to be spreading in some quarters that all
the land of this reservation is good Tor
agricultural purposes He does not want
any man TO go on to that reservation
with erroneous ideas about what he viii
find there.
Less Inquiry.
Commissioners. Richards has been ad-
vised by local land officers that there is
less inquiry about Uintah lands than
about other Indian lands that have been
opened in times past, but these prelimin-
arv inquiries are not necessarily sure IN
dication of what actual demands will be
made for lands at the opening The first
true Indication will be the registration
of prospective entrymen. Commissioner
Richards says entrymen going into the
Uintah reservation from Price Will pass
over considerable vacant public land now
| Open TO entry which is equal TO any land
/ that is TO be opened on the reservation
| AHotments to the Uintah Indians have
! been completed and the land office viii
soon be able to make public a statement
J showing all allotted lands, lands reserved
/ for any purpose and land that will be
| subject to entry. The area that will be
/ opened to entry is not yet ascertain
/ able