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with a message of May 23, 1878, H. Ex. Doc. 91; 45C.2; Serial 1809; 

 pp. 4, in which he described the means taken for the protection of 

 residents of western Colorado and gave a map showing parts of the 

 Ute reservation, with the portion in dispute in the Uncompahgre country. 

 As a result of this pressure the removal was provided for by Congress, 

 and the lands in question were ceded by the Utes June 15, 1880. A 

 letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs tells of the condition of 

 the Indians to be removed, H. Misc. Doc. 57; 45C.2; Serial 1820; 

 pp. 5; while after the bill had been passed, the Committee on Pubhc 

 Lands, through T. M. Patterson, advocated the survey of the boun- 

 dary between Colorado and New Mexico, on the ground that the 

 mineral deposits in the new territory made such a survey necessary, 

 H. Rep. 708; 45C.2; Serial 1825. Four years later, the removal 

 having been accomplished, on August 28, 1881, the Committee on 

 Public Lands again brought up the matter of the Ute agreement, and 

 asked for legislation to protect the settlers in their titles in the old reser- 

 vation, its boundaries not having been surveyed, and the land itself 

 not yet having become a part of the pubhc lands, H. Rep. 561; 47C.1; 

 Serial 2066. The same report, with slight verbal changes, is found 

 also in Sen. Rep. 186; 47C.1; Serial 2004. The question of titles 

 in these lands was long a matter of confusion, a homestead bill for 

 them being considered in 1902, and advocated by Shafroth of Colo- 

 rado, H. Rep. 1275; 57^-1 ; Serial 4403. 



The decade of the eighties is one of rapid development in all direc- 

 tions, bringing as a by-product many difficult questions concerning 

 the administration of the public lands. The common occurrence 

 of agricultural school lands turning out to be mineral lands produced 

 in 1880 a report from the Committee on Public Lands, Sen. Rep. 256; 

 46C.2; Serial 1893, and another in 1898, H. Rep. 792; 55C.2; Serial 

 3719. Similarly, the confusion among the railway land grants to the 

 Union Pacific and the Denver Pacific Railways is responsible for a 

 bill introduced to protect purchasers of such lands in their titles, H. 

 Rep. 2846; 50C.1; Serial 2605. All of the agricultural lands received 

 a new value as irrigation progressed. The proposal to lease the arid 

 lands of Colorado evoked in 1882 majority and minority reports from 



