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Show 18 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDTAN AFFAIRS under the legislation, though it is probable they may do so in the immediate future. A contract was entered into between the Government and the ' > Middle Rio Grande conservancy district, a political subdivision of the State of New Mexico which provides for the irrigation, recla-mation, conservation, anh flood-control works for approximately 132,000 acres of land within the Middle Rio Grande Valley, including six pueblos, namely, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Sandia, and Isleta. This contract was executed December 14, 1928. The district is to finance its share of the cost of the work I from funds derived from the sale of bonds. It is understood that bonds to the extent of $2,000,000, bearing 5% per cent mterest, were , sold at 87.5 during June, 1929, and that there is an opbon held by a bond investment company on $2,500,000 more of these bonds. Under the contract the Pueblo Indian lands are to pay for the work , done for their benefits at not to exceed the per-acre amount to be paid b white land owners under the district, and in no event shall the In2 'a n lands pay in excess of $67.50 per acre. The p a p e n t s for and on behalf of the Indian lands are to be made out of reimbursable appropriations. The adjudication suit involving the water rights of the Walker River Indian Reservation is still pending. The master appointed by the court in the case has been taking testimony, but the United States deems it necess to secure additional hydrographic data in connection with the Zeced excessive losses in the Walker River g at a point before-it enters the reservation. be8%?have been fled for the collechon of delinquent construction and operation and maintenance assessments against private land-owners who acquired former Indian allotments on the Crow and Blackfeet projects in Montana, the Wind River project in Wyoming, and the West Okanogan project in Washington. A suit was filed in the State courts by one H. H. Francis against C. J. Moody, project engineer of the Flathead project, to quiet title in and to waters of certain creeks within the Flathead irrigation project. . It is understood that the jurisdiction of the State court will be brought into question with a view to dismissing the litigation. The principles of the Winters case (207 U. S. 564) dealing with water rights of the Indians were applied in a recent case entitled , United States ex. rel. re U. S. Attorney v. Hibner et al., reported in 27 Fed. (2d) 909-912. OIL AmD GAS LEASING Within the Navajo Treaty Reservation, Ariz., a test well on the Rattlesnake structure was completed to a depth of 6,765 feet. This well has been reported to have an average daily production of about 750 barrels of 38 Baurn6 gravity. There are now 25 producing oil wells in the Navajo fields, a number of which were considerably pinched during a part of the year. The total production therefrom has fielded to the Navajo Tribe $115,595 for the year. D~scovery of oil in the vicinity of the Mount Pleasant Indian School, Michigan, has been reported. The yield is said to be about 48" gravity. There are a number of Indian allotments remaining |
