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Show C)OldMI8810NE& OF INDIAN AFFAE8. 75 best, this amount to be returned to the United States from the sale of the surplus lands. Congress appropriated $50,000 for the purpose of beginning the contemplated work. At the present time a test and examination of the water supply is being carried forward under the direction of the Indian Office, while the Geological Survey is getting the data and preparing plans for the dam and power generating and transmission plant, all of which are prerequisites. Meanwhile, the precipitation has been so great during the last year that no suffering for water has occurred. 5m PUEEM, AmzoNA. The work on the dam is progressing satisfactorily in spite of the obstacles met. Indian labor available is unsatisfactory, and the progress is not what could be accomplished if better labor were at hand. This undertaking is in many respects the greatest yet at-tempted by the Indian Service, but the conditions are so favorable that success is bound to come, and the work is in such shape that it may be completed during the year. Then all that will be necessary to give the Zuiii all the water they will need for irrigation purposes will he the construction of the necessary canal and laterals to conduct the water on the land. This will require time, but presents no unusual difficulties. When this project is finished the future welfare of the Zuiii ought to be assured NAVAEO BEBEEVATION, mI5. AND N. MEX. The plan of constructing small irrigation ditches within the Navaho Reservation, especially from the San Juan River, as set forth in previous reports, is still being carried out. During the year Samuel E. Shoemaker, supervisor of constructed ditches on that reservation, was engaged in repairing and improving ditches already constructed in the northern portion. He resigned June 30, and George Butler, superintendent of irrigation, receipted to him for all irrigation prop-erty. He was instructed to continue and complete the work there and to proceed next to the Fort Defiance division of the reservation to repair and improve certain ditches in that southern section and to construct new ditches, which will bring under irrigation good lands already occupied by the Indians. Ten thousand dollars of the exist-ing irrigation appropriation has been assigned to hi for use during the present fiscal year on the Navaho Reservation. William T. Shelton, superintendent of the San Juan Indian School, has been granted authority to expend about $3,000 to repair and im-prove certain ditches in the northern part of the reservation and |