UTAH LAKE. The largest fresh-water lake in Utah, situated 30 miles southeast of the Great Salt Lake, into which it discharges through the river Jordan (Slap: Utah. B 1). It is about 25 miles long and eight miles wide. and *lies on the extreme eastern harder of the Great American Basin, at the western base of the Wasatch Range, and at an altitude of 4505 feet. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, but receives its principal drainage from the east. The chief town on its shores is Provo City.
UTE, at. or UTAH. An important tribe of Shof,lionean stock (q.v.), who formerly occupied the mountain region of western Colorado and eastern Utah, with portions of the adjacent ter ritory on the north and smith. and extended their hunting and raiding expeditions far down into the plains. They were subdivided into bands, of which the principal were the Tabe quache, Slnache, Capote, Wiminache, Yampa. and Uinta. They seem to have been the original nucleus of the Shoshonean stock, as commonly recognized, occupying a central position and having no tradition of any earlier home. They were usually at peace with their neighbors and kindred on the north and west, the Shoshoni. Banak, and Piute, and also assumed a protector ship over the Jicarilla, but earried on constant and relentless warfare with the Navajo and with all the tribes of the plains. They were a rest less, warlike. and aggressive people, living tirely by hunting and on wild fruits and roots, and, like other tribes of the same stock, were democratic in their tribal life, with centralized or hereditary ehiefship and careless of Their native arts were simple, but by trade with the Navajo and Piute they obtained blankets and baskets, while from the Mexicans. and by raids
on other tribes, they procured herds of horses, sheep, and cattle. Their ordinary dwelling was a brush shelter or small tipi. In their family relations the husband seems to have had more im portance than among the Plains tribes. The Ute made their first treaty with the Government in 1S50, and by various subsequent treaties were limited in range until the entire body, with the exception of the Southern Ute. were removed to the present reservation in Utah. In 1881 they were officially reported to number 3974. In 1901 they had been reduced to 2589, of whom 941 were on the Southern Lite Reservation in southern Colorado, the remainder on the Uinta Reserva tion in northeastern Utah. Those in Utah were fairly prosperous, while the majority of those remaining in Colorado were in a miserable con dition, owing to neglected treaty promises and the desert character of the land upon which they are compelled to live. See Plate of AMERICAN INDIANS, under INDIANS. _