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Show D E P A R T M E N T OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE Uintah & Ouray School, Port Duchesne, Utah, N^° January 7, 1915. Dear Lir. Sells, Did it ever occur to you,when you were considering the Uintah proposition, that there are approximately 90,00 acres of land that must be farmed by irrigation; that the total Indian population is less than 1,200; that there are less than 250 able-bodied male adults; 'that, in order that the Indian should handle the situation, every able-bodied man would necessarily be required to farm something lika> 350 acres, whereas 40 acres of irrigated land is all that one man may be expectdd to handle, even if that man be white and expe rlenced? Granting that every able-bodied male adult handles the limit of 40 acres, the total placed under cultivation would be only 10,000 acres; leaving 80,000 of which they could make no use whatever, even if it v/ere placed under cultivation. Granting that we °;o ahead anr1 reduce by some method all of the available raw land to a state of cultivation, what is to prevent its returning to its original state? x / I realize that I have been here but a few da*7s, a.nd \F. .possibly should not express an opinion. However, I have 3, f/f~ 3\3 already formed an oninion and will venture to exnress it. 3\F • i* , '•'. -0 "• |