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Show / / ^..irrigation DEPAH Uvi L N T O. inL i M i t m O h, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, WASHINGTON. ••Lit iff w H ° Capt. c. c. Hall, Acting United States Indian Agent, Whiterocks, Utah. Dear captain: Your letter of March 19, 1910, has been received, and I note your views with reference to tho necessity of establishing a definite policy with respect to the water rights for Indian allotments in order that the latter may be protected. I also note your request that Mr. Hill should visit you during the early summer, with a view of remaining there thirty days. I will endeavor to have Hill visit you in case I can not do so myself, but no living man oan outlino a plan whioh will enablo the Indians on the reservation to retain their water rights under the state laws of Utah, unless beneficial ue§ is made of the water. The state has treated us liberally in granting the extension.of time, and if at the expiration of the nine-year period the Indians have failed to make use of their w_iter or we have been unable to loaoo or noil tho lands, thoro in no quontlon but thot oortain rights will be lost. If the Winters decision was con-h |