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Show - 3 - V i . to this is the remoteness of the traot from transportation facilities. "Vithout a railroad running through the Project it seen_B almost an impossibility to induce people to take up farming as they have no means of disposing of theirn- Produce. Jurther-mors, the Indian land is interspersed with that of the white man and the interests of tha two seem to conflict to a very great extent. The attitude of the pro°ent white settlers seem3 to be 7 - . . . A'- • . flfl ,. that of u3urping and appropriating all of the rights of the;-. Indian, ana is altogether one of arrogance and independence." It would almost seem from the inception of the Project that some far sighted person contemplated the gradual wiping out of tha Indian and his rights, and the rise to supremacy of the whitaa. I quote herewith from the Aot establishing the Project and throwing the Reservation open to white settlement. 7 .••;-.• " PROVID-iTD; That such irrigation Systems shall be constructed and completed an'-* held and operated, and *satsr therefor appropriated under the laws or the State of Utah, and the title thereto until otherwise provided by law shall be in the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the Indians and he .ray 2Ue and be sued in matters relating thereto." * AUD PROVIDED 3TJRTH3R; Shat the ditches and canals of Such irrigating -y stems may be used, extended or snlaxc-sd for the purpose of conveying water by any person, association or corporation under and upon compliant ^ith the provisions of the law° of the State of Utah." Under this authority, after the Government had built the Irrigation System, the white3 proceeded, to take possession by enlarging the ditches. This was not done by any approved ..••.£? .. ;Y-i;v;" 7 7 metnods but in a very rough-Bhod manner, much to the detriment of the Indians* rights and property,- the method used being to ^plow do^m the sides of the ditches and turn in a large head of jwntar and to enlarge the uitch by shear force regardless of re- Suits. The whites have also built ditches across Indian lands |