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Show I Improved Conditions. Since the i3suar.ce and enforcement of the temporary injunction, little difficulty haa be«n experienced aithor i by the officialo of the Government or by tho Indians. The hope is expressed by all c&rsctly interested in the question that a final determination of the case, favorable to the Goveriment, may bo reached at an early data, so that tho Indian allot tea a way not experience difficulty newt suzwter through a shortage of water in the Government canal3, In ordor that this brief discussion of th® water situation maiy be presented in a honos-enocua and consistent form, I am introducing at this point a statainont made to me by Superintendent Xneals in respect of it. It covers, to an extent, sona of the 3ame ground which I have covered herewith, but contains SOIES points of interest and importance. Ha said: ,,-rr Statement •<• ./.aWr Kneale Relative to the water situation, I desire to state tiiat on the Lake Pari Rivsr we have three canals. On the two lower canaia - the Rodcap canal and the U. S. Dry Gulch canal -> there has boen a shortage of water during the low water period in July and August of the two years of my incumbency,- I am advised that this shortage cf water obtained during those months In years prior to my incumbency as Superintendent . Tha first intimation I had relative to this shortage of water cawe to no in tho la to spring of 1915, when ;.'r. Eryant, Engineer in charge of tha Uintah Irrigation Project, advised ao that the U« S. Dry Gulch i c |
