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Show 30 atterness Between whites and Indians, Toverni-ent Stecs right is carried by tha primary filing will lapse in 1313, unless tha allotments aro placed undor cultivation and beneficial use is made of thewatsr before that time. It is ncodloss, perhaps, to point out that tho white land owners and ranchers in tho Basin are doing everything in their powor to provant the Indians fron completing thoir water rights, nnd thus "saving tho water" for their allot-nonta. Or^nt bitterness lias arisen between the Indians and the whits settlers in the Basin in respect of the uso of tho water. Under tho law, tha settlers on the hifh^r lands are entitled to use only tha flood .,-atflrs of the siraans, but despite that restriction, ihay practically continuously uso the 7,-ater belonging, primarily, to the Indians. Personal diffieultiaa betW9*n the Indians and whits vater users ar* not Infrequsnt; and innumorable instancoa might b« citod of the destruction of water gates and actual stealing of wator properly belonging to the Indiana. Tha Covermont finaily, during your administration, "ir, awoke? to the sericusness of tha situation and a case was brought in tha United States Court for the District of Utah to restrain the privately ownsd ^tor conpani,50-and thoir wator users from Interfering with Nature's 3upply of "Bator for tho Indim allotments, last July a temporary injunction was Issued by tho United States Court ia compliance with tho request cade by the |