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Show INDIAN SOHOOL SITES. An option of purchaae was given August 10, 1901, by A. F. Haycock, for the pur-chase of a tract of land near Panguitch. Utah, at $4,300, as follows: Beginning sl the northrut corner of BE. 1 lee. Y T. 34 S.. R. 5 W. Sslt Laks rnc"diao and nmning thence west %Ic.l%lai l t ~,n unh 6.11 rhsiln;, weri €6.63 rheln8. 3 ' 5 0 12' \V. 18.67 rhs;ns. e a r 21.34 ebim s ou~ l lI O Nr llrlllr PRF~ld .mcllain8, nunb 10.larhslnr ra-t 31.46ehalne noRI. 1 clba8ua l o Lho 1'1acei1b mlnnlnE. culm&lnltl&! 117 45 acre3 rnoreLr I p s I ~ b l h ewl llh all w;lrr 12dl>t*a ntl'ap ,lac- LPr~~~~Ces~l~~CIUdwllnilg~ornnrd erlmlus~.hra, y mke .2 Ion, walai~ogxndr ulky . h n r r ~wh am, hnr. n e s a n d unp, ! ! l l p t ~ t l apl r oPcrry r\nnl $%antedl .l r realty call 1.r had for11.98. August 31, 1901, Supervisor Dickson suhmitted his views as to the several tracts of land offered as a school site, and said, as to the Haycock tract: "He has excellent water rights, well secured, and obtains water from two sources, one ditch being from Lake Panguitch, and the other from the Sevier River by what is called the 'long canal.' The cost to him per annum for this water is leas than $30, and he has the privilege of working out his assessment" Septemher 6, 1901, the Acting Secretary of the Interior granted authority to ur chaae the Haycock tract of 147.45 acres, for $3,920, to include the land, water rig%ti outbuildin etc. C. 0. W~Ptte more,U nited States attorney, on the 12th of October, 1901, trans-mitted to this ofice a deed dated September, 1901, from Albert F. Haycock and Diania F., his wife, conveying to the United States for the use of the children of the Shehit, Cedar City, Muddy, Wnaca and other Indians in the southern part of the State of Utsh, for $3,920, the follodnz described tract of land: This deed was returned to Mr. Whittemore October 29 1901, and he was instructed to secure a new deed that conveyed title to all the waterJrights referred to by Super-viaor Dickaon, and that embraced all and singular the land namedin the option. November 25, 1901, Mr. Whittemore forwarded a new deed dated November.8, 1901, for 150.93 acresof laud in Garfield County, Utah, fully described thereln, from A. F. Haycock and wife, with all the watsr and water rights appertaining to said laud or helonging to the grantors and heretofore used upon said land, which water rights were particularly described as 191$ shares of the capital stock of the East Panguitch Irrigation Company and 1373 sharea of the capital stock of theWest Psnguitch Irrigation Company. With this deed were abstract of title, and certifi-cates issued November 8, 1901, by the secretaries of said irrigation companies, that A. F. Haycock was the owner of said shares of the capital stock of mid companies as evidenced by the hooks of said companies, and that he had transferred his rights therein to the United.States. The papers were submitted to the Department Dewmher 6,1901, with the informa-tion that there was a suit pending in the court in connection with said water rights, hut that, in the opinion of Mr. Whittemore, there was littlechance for the other claim-ants to hurt the rights of the East Panguitch Irrigation Company, yet until the case was tried and decided he was reluctant to express an opinion as to that portion of Mr. Haycock's water rights. Attention was also invittd to the fact that as there was no general act of the legislature of the State of Utah giving its conseut to the United States to purchase land for public use, the Department was precluded, under section 355 of the United States Revised Statutes, from expending any money for the erection of buildings on that land. It was suggested, however, that althou h the legislature would not convene in regular session for twelve month, yet undger the circumstances it would he well to complete the purchase of the land from Mr. Hay-cock, who had given a limited o tion for its purchase at $3,920, for the reason that it was s very desirable location 8 r Indian school purposes,. and there were very few such locations in that vicinity, and it was questionable if they could be purchased. Moreover, there was a large dwelling house on the tract which could he uaed tempor-arily for school purposes. On the 10th of December, 1901, the Department returned thedeed and aeeompany-ing papers declining to complete the purchwe while a suit as to water rights was pendin and before the State had given consent to such purchase. arc% 2, 1903, Hon. Thos. Kcarns forwarded a certified copy of an act of the leg-islature of Utah, ap roved February 20, 1903, giving its consent to the purchilse of land for Indian sclool purposes, and on the 28th of March, 1903, Miss Laura B. Work, su erintendent in charge of Indian school, forwsrded a deed (with abstract of title) Bated March 27, 1903, from Wm. Cameron, trustee i? h a t for Cameron & |