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Show MOAPA 105 done in an Executive Order issued by Theodore Roosevelt on July 31, 1903. William Sharp's first annual report in 1904 indicated some likelihood of improvement at Moapa, including the building of a new schoolhouse and some farming success. Things were not completely rosy though. Of the 141 Nuwuvi at Moapa, all those that were able to work were off the reservation in search of labor. The sale of liquor to Indians off the reservation was draining them of any cash they earned. Large herds of cattle continued to trespass on the reservation, causing damage to growing crops/0 By 1906 Sharp reported that there was little farming on the reservation because of intoxication and because the Nuwuvi earned more working for the ranchers and farmers down the valley where there was much demand for their labor.36 Disease, which had been a major problem with the Nuwuvi since the arrival of white men, continued to shrink their population. There were few massive epidemics but enough sickness to bring a steady decline in numbers. In 1904 the population at Moapa was 141; in 1905 it was 136; and in 1906 it was 129. In 1912 two Executive Orders adding land to the reservation were issued. The first, on October 28, added 89.70 acres. The second, on November 26, cancelled the first and added 128.70 acres instead. That same year agency headquarters were moved to Las Vegas in order to provide better access to all of the Nuwuvi of Southern Nevada. Supervisor of Indian Schools Otis B. Goodall made an inspection trip in 1913 and recommended that agency headquarters be relocated at Moapa. He reported that the Nuwuvi population was rapidly diminishing due to tuberculosis and that the Indians with whom he talked "stated that they would soon pass away and leave their homes to the whites." ' This statement shows the resigned attitude to which the Nuwuvi had come in reaction to the growing white population on their former homelands. In 1914 the land at Moapa was allotted to almost all of the Indians there. Each family received 12 to 25 acres of "good land." By this time the liquor problem was so bad that the white town of Moapa, which had a population of "scarcely a score of people," had three saloons.38 Part of this problem stemmed from the difficulty of prosecuting white offenders. In order to do so the agent had to travel all the way to Reno to testify against those arrested. In 1916 |