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Show L-2769-7 5? ', •" '•'•', •/' • In the mattor of water powor on tho Duchoone, '\y \y .• ', it noor:0 1;ho only information tho Dlrootor had to .... .... / /,.:„ base recommendation wao the fall per milo of the '7/ water line. I 7*avc not been up this rivor myself, •••'/' ''•.' . .'. but am told liy informed persons that thoro aro no ' rock walls or narrows at any point whero Indian , allottod loads tone); the river. The river flows over alluvial deposits caused by the wash of the, - river, and in such oases the value of the wator '•' '.''' ' power is nil. ' '• . < ' ' ' . . . , . •:•'• ' . A . , .-. , ' It is believed that tho interest of the Indians requiro the sale of part of their allotted ., ... land whilo tho wator right still attaches in ordor o i . A ',''.,..• •• A ''/•'' A .'.*• . that they may get funds with which to,improve thoir remaining land, nnd to onnblc them to make beneficial .'••• use of the water before the period for euch beneficial 7 uoe oxpircs during tho wintor of 1914 - 1915, There ore also casos whero tho Indians aro old and incoropetont and need tho proceeds of the sales to supply thorn with tho necessaries of lifo. Suoh saleo.no oro now in the ,,Offioe erid are in proper form have boen prepared for approval, and it is recommended that all saloo of allottod lands on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation bo ap- ' proved at as oorly a dato as practicable. ,-' In each of the sales tho reasons aro given why the applioanto dosiro to soil tho land, and rooom-raondation will be mado in each caso as to the disposition |