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Show W. M. Code, No. 4. lien in the Federal Government and if the Indians should not make beneficial use of euch wotern, I can see no hard-chip upon the State of Utah nor upon the people located thorcin. A.subsequent appropriation made by settlers would be Just ae valuoblo and, perhops, more so than if the Indinns did make beneficial use of all the water appropriated v/ithin the time limit of the laws of the Stnte. It in not an if the settlers were filing upon their lands with no knowledge of prior appropriations of Indians, and that subsequently it would be decided that the Indians had the rights to tho waters ahead of thcra, for in the latter cane, a settler might juntly contend that he built hin hopes and staked his fortune upon the reBourcos as to water as he'found them, and to be subsequently deprived of such waters without any prior intimation thereof would undoubtedly be more or less of n hardnhip. This situotion, though, han arisen in Beveral other inotnnoes in connection with the Indians. You nee readily Hw-o£poni« tion in this matter, and while I may be totally in error an to the rights of the Indians and my policy i^dongerouo or inadvisable, it in neoesnary to oome to some definite dooinion as to what aotion shall be taken. We are now advertising aome of the Indian lands for nole and I believe eome of them will be sold. Whether or not, through loosing or by oole of lands all the surplua or a good part thereof above the needs of |