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Show INDIAN SOHOOL SITES. 569 land for a distance of 538.5 links on the south side of a t m t of land in the SW. f of the SW. f of see. 13. T. 1 S.. R. 1 W.. Ute meridian. viz: . Beginrun6 bl rle aollll,wcet corner uf Ill? SW. 5 uf the J\V. ! uf did see. I$ llltncr east hV.5 links. Then ht or ua) an this land ertcrrds frunt theutltlr mdeuf ther~cllvn$8 1, toand slurlg thcwuth s~deoFth~~i ~, '~;xn~durn crlonL nilwey 4. An agreement dated.May 26,1903, with the city couuril of Grand Junction to furnish the Indian school at Grand Junction, at a rental of $100 per annum, with continuous and ample right of way for the m g e of the sew e of the school through the city sewers from a manhole at a point on the north s3e of the Denver and RioGrande Railroad track neartheintersection of Second street and the firstalley south of South street (as shown on the plat of sewers of the city) to the point in Grand River where the sewage of the city of Grand Junction is now deposited, from June 1, 1903, to May 31, 1904, and thereafter, at the option of the United States, for ninety-nine years, with certain privileges and restrictions therein set forth. 5. An agreement (not dated) with the Rio Grande Junction Railmad Compsny (thmugh its officers), by which that companygranted to the United States theprivl-lege of laying, operating, and maintaining a single line of sewer pipe over and acroas its lands, to cmss at right angles the right of way and track of the railway at a point 134 feet essterly from mile post No. 76 of said company'smileage, in the NE. t of sec. 23, T. 1 S., R. 1 W., with eonditioniand restrictions therein set forth. 6. An agreement (not dated) with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Com any (through its manager) to enter its property at a point 10 feet south of the nortieat corner of the NW. of sec. 23, T. 1 S., R. 1 W., nlnning thepce west, parallel with the north boundar of its property and 10 feet south therefrom, s. distrtnce of 1,885 feet, thence on a Ene bearing N. 8T0 39/ W. a distance of 332 feet to manhole of Grand Junction sewer, with conditions and restrictions therein set forth. Thee deeds, with abstract of title and city conncil proceedings, were submitted to the Department September 25,1903, with a recommendation that the deed from Mr. Jensen, with abstract of title, for the land on which it was proposed to erect the pumping plant to the water pipe be laid before the Attorney-General for hi written opinion as to the validity of title. Superintendent Lemmon also forwarded to this O5ce an order issued by the board of county cornmiasionem for Mesa County, Colo., directing the tearing up of the present sewage system an or before October 9, 1903, in default of which the road supervisor was directed to tear it up. He reported that if this was done the school would he without any method of sewage disposal, which would compel the ahandon-ment of the plant until the new water and Bewage system could be put in. Suhse-quently the superintendentinformed the Office that the board of commissioners were willing to extend the time if "prompt and decided action looking to immediate con-struction should be taken." The Department; September 30, returned the agreement of May 26,1903, with the city council of Grand Junct~on, and suggested that certain conditions (1 as to the approval of vouchers for rent by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs an h (2) as to the approval of the agreement-by the Board of Indian Cornmiasionere he eliminated as unnecessary; also that a proviso beinserted in the agreement "that if the United States should at any time within the ninety-nine years from May 31, 1904, abandon the Indian school at Grand Junction, Colo., said agreement should cease and deter-mine." The Office returned this agreement to Superintendent Lemmon October 16, and November 16,1903, he forwarded (in quintuplicate) new agreement dated May 28, 1903, with the city council of Grand Junction and madein accordance with Depart-ment suggestion. November 27,1903, the Department approved this new agreement and granted authority for the payment of the rental annu~tyd uring the continuanee of the school. The deed dated June 1,1903, from the Mess. County State dank, granting to the United States a right of way for the construction, maintenance, &nd o eration of water main by iron pipe on the strip of land on the east side of the c'sont~wesqt uar-ter of the northwest quarter of sec. 19, R. 1 S., T. 1 E., of the Ute principal merid-ian," aas returned to Superintendent Lemmon November 2,1903, with instructions to have a new deed executed in lieu thereof, describing the strip of land over which the pipe line was to he constructed, etc., as "the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 1 E., Ute principal meridian." December 3,1903, it was returned hv him. O n ~ l ~ e h l 1e2r,1 905, thrUepanmen1 ret l r rn~pl lats of wawrand srweragrs~etom anll thc Jensct! (Iced, with the ~gpirliuno f tlre .4tMrnej-Gcneml, rpmlrrrd Oetoher 20, 103, a i tco the \,alitliry of title, and slau returned wit), his apprasal the utller |