East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-03-28

OPPORTUNITIES
INDIAN AND RECLAIMED
LANDS WILL DE OPENED

No Date Can BE Set for the Yakima
Reservation Opening, As Surveys
Are Not Complete and Segregation
for the Time Being Is Impossible
Terms Under Which Yakima Lands
Can BE Secured Are Given Below;
Water Therein VIII Cost But s22
Per Acre.
| circular has been issued by the
general land office in reply to many
inquiries that have been sent in re-
garding the date for the opening Of
the Yakima Indian reservation, mar
rates the Yakima Republic. The
commissioner states in this circular
that the date cannot be specified even
approximately. He says in part:
"The act also includes within said
reservation, and recognizes the In
dams title thereto, a tract contain-
ing approximately 293,S37 acres ad-
joining the present reservation on the
west, which was excluded by an err
roneous boundary survey, and pro-
vides also for the defining and mark
ing of the western boundary of said
reservation, and that where valid
| rights had been acquired prior To
March 5. 1904, to lands within said
adjoining area so included. by bona
fida sattIers or nurcbosers under the
public land laws, such rights shall
not be abridged. With the area SO
included. said reservation contain,
lapproximately l.145.OOO acres and
SURVEYS will have To no made for
about one-fourth of such area before
the required classification can he
made.
"As considerable time musr elansa
in making the survevs contamnlatod
bv said ACT. in making the oIlotmonts
to the Indians Hereunder. and in the
appraisement and Classification of the
same. It is impossible at tha nresent
time to specify approximatelv abe date
when said reservation will ha oman.
ed hut when instructi,,s oro ;.,s,,aa
at the local office NJ Nortb Y,lh,,a
Wash. due notice win no given in The
press
"You are further adyisod +ha+ 80,
rarson will ~. ,,ar,,.,,,o, u, ''ru ."''' nv
u nn oocun,. az a,,,o,. 80. =. -
evcer.t os nresor,haa t., -, -
nation u,tu of,on .ha si..,,a,
sixtv days rron, tho - 80" %
same are onened for .att,o,,o,,, 80
ent,y"
The secretary of the ipterior hos
let contracts for tba srrvo,, 90 ,,,o $50.
SURVEYED lana on tbe rosorvo,inn on,
If is said that tbis v,,I, ho ,,,,,,o, a..
completion after which ~ -.
horizons Of tho law. roIo.t,r ., at,a.
ments and ,nnroiso,,,o,,t. I'm ~,
pushed to co,nnlation
The NyinIdoIsa Lands n, Ia.,,o
From tba poiso ctato.,,,,,, ~ -,
u.a sa,,..,', '''e '''"'es'i'd'i Is taken
S.,cretarv of H. r...,
Garfield is sard,n, ,,,,,a
settlers or tha ,Ii,,,1s,.t e
undor tho nro,,isio,,,, - -, ..''
r,op not u,,tor ,,.i,, Wy
| bnginniuy of tb. ir,too,t.,i -.
this wear to all irrigobIo h,nd, ',.i,,.,
| in townships r o IN ,.o,,th ,
%, o3. "a ana o. aos, ~ e., n,e
meridian 40 sbou, h. a., '1'.
plats.
pr,co n, w,.
The prico of wn.or "a', "a, 40,
por acra creo, .intaro.. - d. SO
been felt bere In ,,hat 81, nos oiWays
cost Of vater nnris ~ pioo"p'e
ject If has baen va var,"r.,' In .i.is pro,
at frorn sI9 to no hIah -. cor
acre. This anrounoarn, 49, pc.
will ho on -, a 80 ''''i' titt IL
much pleasure bv tha so.,,o. ~ ~
money Is payabIe IN instaitn,an, t, s
the secretary s;ateo in this n,n.,,Ia. .u
that it must be Maid in nnt ,o.n Iu,, ,,,a-
five or mora thon n ' 'e9s theih
mcnt to hs No, ,aa, us, saom pay
acre. There is no t,.on. -v per
red payments y" ueier-
The circular announce. 49,
first naymant .,,a, ounees that the