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Show _ W not done, in many instances. Indeed, care secisa to havo been taken by the coraaoissions to hold fron the Indian aliotmwnts much cf the bast land, which now is owned and occupied by white aottlcrs. Uncompaghre ' • "lien ^h® allotments wore mado, a considerable number of Lar.cs. the Uncompaghre branch of Utes received lands in the Uhiteriver bottoms, east of Curay. Thia tract comprises, pofi3ibly; 6,000 acrss, a large percentage of frhich might be developed into ?-j_.od agricultural land. it *cuid be comparatively easily irrigated from the .VMtariver. rraliminary surveys havebes-n made, but .othlng haa boen dona iovar-_3 the construction of canaia. Super in tandani Kneale, repeatedly,haa called the attention of the Indian Clfloe to this situation, hut r.o action has yet besn taksn. Sithin tho last sight months, a large acraaga oi land Iyir._; in the Craen 3Iver bottom was withdrawn from entry, ponding the determination of tha establishment, of * great reservoir, tho 3tored water to be-used in irrigating lands; in Southern California. . . Shcul'a this resarvoir be 'established, it is not improbable that the lands allotted in that valley would bo affected, as they, A Reservoir naturally, r-ould bo tho reservoir sita end would be under 50 feet Possible . of rater- I talked to John IZcCook, one of the moat influential chiefs |