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Show -5- vestige of the reservation that was allotted to them. They know that every dollar received from the sale of ceded lands has been expended to conserve the waters of the former reservation, which will In all probability be appropriated by their white neighbors. Jurisdiction of their rights has been transferred from Federal to State control and they live in a community where they must witness the inexorable march of progress and pay for it the inevitable price of the weaker peopled It is difficult to believe that the rights of these Indians have been sacrificed to meet the demands of local Interests, but it is more difficult, after following step by step the administration of their affairs, to reach any other conclusion. In the first instenee, the time allowed under Act of Liarch 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 996.) for allotting the Indians, vis, until September 1, 1905, was not sufficient to permit an alliotting commission to act with any degree of precise information concerning the location of the Indians, their needs, the availability of water for irrigating their lands, or of the character of land to be allotted, especially as the snrveys of the land had not then been completed. Bevertheless, the allotments were made bet.veen April 3, and July 18, 1905, |