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Show i - 62 - allotted lands, theoretically under ditchea, for loss than the average sum invested in the canal construction, is adhered to strictly, these lands will remain on our hands after the wator filing has expired and will be of no use whataoovor to tho Indian allottees or to anybody else. They are pood for no purpose whatever, except to hold the earth togother and to fill space that would otherwise be a hole. In zsy judgment, some of those landa could not be sold at any prico> some of them, probably, can be sold, perhaps, for 13.00 or 510.00 an acre. ^y sarnaat belief Is that it would be £\r better to get out of them 3uch salvage as may be possible than to hold thorn until the primary water filing ahall hava expired, when it is manifest that thsy ->&11 thon be vorth nothing. It se*«r.a a work of supers rotation to refer to yet other allotmanta of tho same general character aa the A'amiore iraota, but there is one, located thr^e or four miles above handlett, out of which suoh salvage as may be possible ou^ht to be taken immediately. A part ot it ia covered with brush and scraggy cottonwood trees, but the greater part of it la practicallyw only an old river bed covered with bi£ boulders. I am presenting herewith a photograph of Superintendent Xnoale sitting in a blackboard on tho bod of this old stream. Perfectly manifestly this land is wholly unfit for any agricultural purpose. |