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Show ir3. rally bend every effort towards securing a water supply from the streams mentioned, since without water their lands will be valueless. If they cannot construct ditches across the allotments separating them from the streams without the consent of the Department, the situation will be greatly simplified in so far as the water rights of the Indians are con-cerBed. We expect to protect these water rights in strict accordance with the Irrigation Gods of the state, but there are some features of the Utah law which renders our tasfc more uncertain than in the case of the Wyoming laws, which empower the State Engineer to accept, qualify, or reject at once any application to appropriate water from streams within the state boundaries. The Utah law provides that a would-be appropriator must file his appfication'with the State Engineer, setting forth in more or less detail the essential facts with reference to the nature of the contemplated construction, extent and character of lands to be irrigated, etc. If the State Engineer finds no errors in the application which obliges him to return the same to applicant for correction, he win cause the application to be published in some local paper having a general circulation in the vicinity of the proposed construction, as often as said paper is published for a period of 30 days. After this has been accomplished another period of 30 days is allowed in order that any interested parties may if |