The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-07-20

Will follow It's present course Inc maj surveys
are now being made by party OF engineers
camped on Bonner Lake. The construction of the
tunnel will be carried on as fast as possible.
With the departure of the Dakota on her
maiden voyage from Seattle to the Orient, which
will take place next month, there will be estaD-
lshed regular schedule of sailing for the two
mammoth steamships, the Minnesota and the Da-
kota, and Seattle will rejoice in possession OF
line of freighters which in size and carrying ca
pacty, has no superiors in the world. The cargo
of the Dakota for the Orient has already been
assembled and when she leaves it will be with
a full cargo on board. Each of these great steam
ships will carry nearly 1000 carloads OF freight.
1t would take more than twenty such steamships
those which ply in our cOaStWlSe trade TO carry
the cargoes which will be carried by these two
steamships alone. Thus these two vessels alone
represent the equivalent of large fleet OF steam
ships of the average size of the freighters which
do the bulk of the carrying trade OF the world.
The aggregate of the freight which these two
vessels alone carry across the Pacific, in the
of the year. will be equivalent to the whole
volume of the freight carried from American
ports across the Pacific annually but few brief
years ago. Moreover from their enormous size,
they can carry freight at lower cost than it could
by any possibility be carried in the smaller YES
sells which once monOpozed the trade. From no
other American port on either ocean is there any
fleet of American owned steamships, operated in
the deep water trade, of the aggregate freight
capacity of these monster vessels. 1t full cargoes
can be obtained for them on each voyage, that fact
alone will give Seattle immediate pre-eminence as
the first port of the United States in the volume
of it's Oriental commerce, and there is not the
slightest reason to doubt that full cargoes will be
secured fis1gDYQ alqi.5
The president has signed the proclamation
providing for the opening on August %, 1905, OF
the unallotted lands in the Uintah Indian reser-
walton in Utah. Such lands as are, or may be
reserved prior to August % for military, forestry
and other purposes and such mineral lands as
may have been disposed of under existing laws
will not be subject to entry. Registration for
these lands will commence at o'clock a. M
Tuesday, August l, at Vernal, Price and Provo,
Utah. and at Grand Junction, Colo, and will close
at o'clock p m. Saturday, August II. To obtain
reservation each applicant must appear at one
of the registration places in person registra-
ton by mail will not be permitted. HOnoraby dis
charged soldiers and sailors OF the Civil war,
the SpaniSh-American war; and the Philippine
instruction, who are entitled to the benefits Of
section 1904 of the Revised Statutes, as amended
by the act of congress March l. 1901, may regis
ter through an agent of their own selection to
which agent the soldier sailor must give
duly executed power of attorney on blank form
provided by the commissioner OF the general land
Office, but no person can act as agent for more
than one soldier or sailor The order in which,
during the first sixty days following the opening
the registered applicants will be permitted to
make homestead entry on the land will be deter
mined by drawing publicly held at Provo, Utah.
commencing at O'Clock a. m. August II, 1906
and continuing for such period may be neces
sary to complete the same Following the draw
ing the making of entries will begin August g.
at Vernal, Utah. Persons who make homestead
entries for any of the lands opened will be re-
quired to pay therefor at the rate of $1.25 per
acre upon making final proof but no payment,
other than the usual fees and commissions will
be required at the time the entry is made. The
total area of the sUintah Indian reservation is
2,445,000 acres of which 100000 acres have been
placed in permanent forest reserve, 100000
acres have been reserved for Indian grazing lands
1000 acres for the Fort Duchesne military reser-
walton and approximately 900 acres has been
allotted to the Indians, which leaves only 100000
acres available for entry Only nonlmineral land
can be entered during the first sixty days and it
is considered that not more than one-half of the
land e11hioct to aricutural entry will be desirable