Letter to Secretary of the Interior E.A. Hitchcock from Chief Engineer W.H. Code dated April 24, 1905

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Title Letter to Secretary of the Interior E.A. Hitchcock from Chief Engineer W.H. Code dated April 24, 1905
Subject Indians of North America; Federal government; United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Uintah and Ouray Agency; Indian agents; Water rights; Land use; Grazing; Ute Indians--History; Forests and forestry; Indigenous peoples--North America
Spatial Coverage Whiterocks (Utah); Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Washington (D.C.); Utah
Keywords Land Rights; Allotment; Indian Agency; Reservations; Correspondence; National Parks; Whiterocks River; Crazing Land; Forest Proposed; Irrigation Code; Native Americans
Tribe Ute
Band Uintah
Creator Code, W.H.; Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1835-1909
Description Chief engineer W.H. Code inquires about the rights of canal-builders to access lands allotted to Indians. Code attempts to protect water rights for Indians looking to create homesteads on reservation lands. The U.S. Attorney General responds to the correspondence; he claims that, under Utah law, that crossing private lands for the purpose of irrigating ditches is a circumstance in which the laws of eminent domain may be applied
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1905-04-24
Type Text
Format application/pdf
File Name 2of2-1905-SS013
Language eng
Coverage Whiterocks (Utah); Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation (Utah); Washington (D.C.); Utah
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
Holding Institution American West Center
ARK ark:/87278/s6tn06v6
Setname uaida_main
ID 378970
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tn06v6
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