OPENING THE LAND OF THE UINTAHS. 



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discriminate s'aughter goes on year by year by these 

 Indians. In the Uintah, White and other mountains 

 in and around this reservation are more deer, bear, 

 antelope, mountain lions, pine and sage hens, grouse, 

 etc., than in any other locality in Utah ; hence it is a 

 delightful resort for the hunter in search of small or 

 large game. And if fishing is desired, the streams 

 all of them are so well stocked with trout, etc., as to 

 afford fine sport and large catches, 



RAILROADS PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE. 



From Salt Lake City to Park City the Utah Central 

 railway has been operating for several years. It is 

 being greatly improved and the company propose 

 pushing it ahead into and through these reservations 

 and on to connections with Denver. It promises to 

 be the first road to tap the country. It has the route 

 graded from Park City to Moon's Mills, a distance of 

 twenty-five miles, and much of the material re- 

 quisite is on hand. It is a splendid route for a rail- 

 road, having easy grades, while the requisite timber 

 is available in the Uintah mountains, which the road 

 would cross. It is 178 miles by this route to the Col- 

 orado line, the farthest point east of the reservations. 

 This is a route destined to be the short line between 

 Salt Lake and Denver, and the Utah Central, having 

 made the start, promises to be the first to enter this 

 new domain, and it will reap a rich harvest from the 

 traffic which is sure to come to it. 



AN OBJECT LESSON. 



Ashley Valley lies a little east and north of that 

 portion of the reservation about White Rocks, and is 

 separated from it by some table or mesa land. Ash- 

 ley Valley was settled a number of years ago by a 

 people so far removed from the outside as to remain 

 at home almost permanently, and having no market 

 for their products except in driving their stock from 

 one to two hundred miles to the railway or else haul- 

 ing their wool and other articles a like distance to a 

 shipping point. And yet they have been a prosperous 

 people, have raised good crops of grains, vegetables 

 and some fruits, and are well contented with their 

 country and homes. Theirs is called one of the best 

 and most prosperous valleys in the State of Utah, 

 and the opening of the reservations is going to work 

 great benefit to them, while the building of a railroad 



there will give them greater energy, bring renewed 

 prosperity and greatly change the aspect of their 

 country. 



The towns of Ashley, Vernal and Jensen, now 

 small places, will become lively towns soon, because 

 of the changes to be wrought in removing the res- 

 ervations boundaries. Ashley Valley, where culti- 

 vated, affords an excellent object lesson of what 

 changes may be wrought through cultivation and 

 irrigation of desert lands. It is now a genuine garden 

 spot, and shows what most of these reservation lands 

 may be changed to by the same means employed 

 here. 



THE VARIOUS ROUTES. 



Salt Lake City has been mentioned as the best out- 

 fitting and starting point for this new domain. Every- 

 thing desirable can be secured in this city, and if 

 persons wish to drive through by team the route 

 by Strawberry Valley will be found easy, pleasant and 

 most desirable of all, and the shortest. If one wishes to 

 go part way by rail, Price station, on the Rio Grande 

 Western Railway, 125 miles east of Salt Lake, is the 

 next best route. From there it is 120 miles to White 

 Rocks agency, and about ninety miles to Fort 

 Duchesne. This is over a road prepared for the 

 military and agencies, and besides being hilly has 

 much sand and dust to contend with. The routes 

 from Rock Springs, Green River and Carter stations 

 on the Union Pacific, in Wyoming, are longer and 

 more difficult than either of those mentioned. 



THE PROSPECTIVE SETTLER. 



To Utah the opening of these reservations to settle- 

 ment means a great deal. To many people outside 

 of the State it offers opportunities for making for 

 themselves homes, to engage in farming or stock 

 raising, while many will make haste to enter its 

 canyons and scale its mountains in search of 

 precious metals. The sawmill man will find there a 

 rich harvest in the magnificent timber just as soon as 

 the country demands lumber, and there will be such 

 varied opportunities for employment and business 

 that the rush for places will be much like the in- 

 cidents of the opening of the Oklahoma country, 

 while this new domain has more inducements to offer 

 the newcomers than any others had to bestow. 



