The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-04-25
Pioneers Wanted.

Uncle Sam is seeking 500 hardy farm
ers, mountaineers preferred, to turn
over to them for merely nominal rent
al $4,000 acres of irrigable land located
in the Jintah Indian reservation More
than Is, 900 acres of these lands are now
irrigated by bitches constructed by the
government. Other canals are being
built rapidly to cover the balance and
the new settlers will be given employ
ment at good wages on this work.
These lands are the allotments made
Ute Indians, the band which recently
left the reservation aud wandered
northward into Wyoming aud South
Dakota. As these U tes don't care par
ticularly for farming, the government
ia offering the white farmers an oppor-
tunity to acquire home and a compe-
tonce by cultivatng these farms.
The Uinta Indian reservation is locat-
ed in northeastern Utah in the drainage
basin of the Duchesne river and its
tributaries. The lands are in the val
legs of these streams. The altitude is
from 5000 to 5000 feet abovesea level,
giving this section delightful climate.
Tie summer temperature is rarely
above 80 degrees and the winters are
extremely mild. Wheat, oats and al
falfa are the principal crops grown, al
though lathe lower and more sheltered
valleys apples, pears, apricots, peaches
and plums do quite well. All of the
fruit is of excellent flavor.
Surrounding the irrigated lands is O
vast era of grazing lands which sustain
enormous flocks of sheep and herds OF
cattle. Extensive deposits of minerals
have been found in the reservation and
the development of this resource will
provide a splendid market for all farm
products.
At the present time the demand for
stock food exceeds the supply and
prices are very high. Last fall oats
sold at the thresher for two cents 9
pound aud in the winter for three and
one-half cents. Alfalfa early in the fal
sold ut $14 per tons and in the winter
for $50 per ton. AS the yield of alfalfa
runs from to tons per acre, it affords
very profitable crop for the farmers.
Take the Denver and Rio Grandt
railroad to Mack, IS miles west o
Grand Junction, Colorado, and there
transfer to the Ulntah railroad to Ora
gon, Utah, where stage meets thu
train aud carries the passenger to tn,
Indian agency at White Rock, Utah
in the center of the farming area. Thu
Indian agent there will show the home
seeker the lands and arrange the term
for acquiring home thereon.
Uncle Sam will lease these lands TO
a term of five years at an annual renta
, of twenty-five cents per acre, payabl
semi-aunually. The settler is not re
quired to live upon his farm, but mus
cultivate it, On the expiration OF hi
lease he will be permitted to renew il
and in the event Of the death of the In
q dian allottee, he may acquire the prop
. erty III fee simple by purchase. Th
particulars regarding terms, locatio
of the farms ready for occupancy, eli
! mate, crops, etc, may be obtained fror
, Capt. Hall, Indian Agent, White Rock
Utah, or from the Commissioner Of III
dian Affairs, Washington, d. G.
The reservation is in a region of Won
derful scenic beauty surrounded b
lofty mountain rising $1,000 feet abov
sea level, their slopes heavily forested
Beautiful lakes abound throughout th
reservation. The streams ge> we
stocked with gamey trout and in tn
mountains are many kinds of big game
The vigorous, hardy mountain farm
er will fnd this section ideal for HON,