The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-18
REGISTRATION ENDED
FOR UNINTAH LAND DRAWING
Over Thirty-Seven Thousand Names
on the List-seginnino Of
Drawing at Provo
August 17th.

Denver. Aug. 13.-About 38 900 peo-
pie registered for the drawing for Uin-
tab reservation lands which com
mences Thursday. The totals for the
four registration places are as follows:
Total 1857. Provo, 1858; Grand
Junction. 1887; Price. 1886; Vernal,
1876.
At Grand Junction yesterday 1876
Price, 143; at vernal. SO.
A Grand Junction dispatch last
night says:
At three minutes to o'clock this
evening a tall. sturdy farmer walked
into the registration Office and Clerk c.
B. Strong, in less than two minutes.
registered the last applicant at this
place for homestead in the Uintah
reservation. The big doors of the audi
torium closed and registration ended
promptly at 6 o'clock.
The clerks were ready for business
this morning promptly at 7:30 and the
Office remained open until p. M, dur
ing which time 1.736 persons were reg
istered, giving this city total Of 49,
3S7 In eleven days.
The number surprised great many,
as 10000 was the estimate at the start,
and many wagers were made that 12,-
900 would not register at this point.
The clerk will have considerable work
to do tomorrow and at 1910 Monday
afternoon they will leave for Provo to
assist in the drawing. which com.
mences August 18th.
AS fast as the envelopes are drawn
from the large pile they will be opened
and numbered and the lucky ones no.
titled by postal card. This work will
require large force Of clerks and
there will be no limit to the number
drawn each day. Every man register
ing will receive number. no matter
whether he is the last one or not.
Two of the local banks have made
arrangements to send notices to the
successful applicants by telegraph, for
which they charge 81, including the
prepaid telegram.
There was no one at the doors to-
night when Doorkeeper Dodgin closed
the office and no complaint can be
made by any one possessed Of proper
papers of inability to register. There
were scores of non-residents who failed
to get their names on the list, as they
did not comply with the laws. Every
day the clerks had from fifteen to
twenty letters to return to the veterans.
Some sent papers with no agents
name, others sent the agents name
on blanks sworn to in the town
where they resided, forwarding them
to the clerks to register, when the
agent probably lived in some eastern
state.
Two persons sent SIG money orders
and their discharge papers, without
power of attorney blanks, and some
even sent the papers without signing
their names. One lawyer in Illinois
remitted Sc in money, with no papers,
and asked the clerks to register Bob,
Hiram and Luther Clark.
Several four-horse outfits left to-day
for Vernal over the wagon road, some
having eight passengers, who paid S.
each to ride and their share of the pro-
visions. They expect to make the
journey in five days and be on the
ground when the drawing commences.
Many others left for the West on the
trains to-day and but few will remain
in this city to await the result of the
drawing. The notaries are richer by
about $4,000. divided among thirty of
them, and the city generally was ben
efitted by the crowds coming here ia
register. Most of the eastern people
left town tonight and the town will
seem quiet for some time.
The furniture men have plenty of
cots and bedding for sale cheap and
are about the only ones who lost
money on the affair, as the strangers
did not remain in the city long enough
to make the demand for sleeping ac-
commodations extensive. About q
dozen notaries will go out of business
and resume their former work.