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Show With a sufficient water supply the Pima Indians can support them-selves in comfort with no pecuniary assistance from the Government. Without this, appropriations must be continued indefinitely. I can not too strongly urge the passage of the bill for the construction of the proposed reservoir. Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho.-December 5, 1899, a telegram from the Fort Hall Agency informed this ofice that the receiver of the Idaho Canal Company had reported that the canal from Blackfoot River to Ross Fork Creek would be completed by December 12, and it was urged that a competent man be sent to inspect the same. The telegram was submitted to the Department December 6, with recom-mendation that Inspector Graves be instructed to inspect the work and to accept it if it had been completed in accordance with the terms of the contract with the company. J anua~y26 , 1900, Inspector Graves reported that the condition of the canal at that time was such that it could not be accepted as having been so constructed, and that the final payment of $22,500 ought not ' to be made. June 29, 1900, the Department directed that no further payment be made so long as the work fails to meet the requirements of the con-tract, or so long as claims on account of the work remain unsatisfied which might be enforced to the injury of the Indians. The report of Agent A. F. Caldwell, dated May 24, 1900, showed that the following liens had been filed on the dates indicated: Aug. 1,1896. James Pratt .................................. $24.00 Aug. 1,1896. Lee Warren .................................. 6.50 Aug. 1,1896. George Bozarth.. ............................. 17.00 Feb. 5,1898. CharlesD. Chapin.. ........................... 157.50 Feb. 7,1898. Julian DeCoster ............................... 1,125.00 Feh. 7,1898. Fred Wilson .................................. 525.70 Feb. 9,1898. JosephM. Johnson ............................ 88.50 Feb. 10,1898. Roy Davis.. ................................. 121.15 Feh. 11,1898. Joseph E.Hal1.. ....................... 108.50 Feh. 11,1898. G. H. Nickerson ............................. 1,189.80 Feb. 14,1898. John A.Modine ............................. 1,805.30 Feh. 16,1898. Murdack & Cowles.. ........................ 229.85 Fob. 26,1898. George J. Wernett and WilliamDial.. ......... 450.00 5,848.80 The following is a list of all unsatisfied judgments, with the date of each: Mar. 11,1897. Jacob Teeples ................................ $437.34 . Mar. 15,1898. J. H. Brsdy ................................. 6,633.12 Mar. 23,1898. E. T. Wilson. ................................ 668.50 Mar. 29,1898. 0. E. Thum, receiver.. ....................... 742.30 Oct. 1,1898. Grant H. Nickemon ........................ 1,290.40 Mar. 30,1899,'John A. Modine ............................. 3,665.12 Mar. 30,1899. E. T. Wilson ................................ 324.50 13,761.28 |