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Show OOMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 147 The Uintah and White River Utes, numbering 774, all received allotments, the total area being 39,349.84 acres. Heads of families were allotted 80 acres and all others 40 acres of land. The grazing land, approximating hut not exceeding 250,000 acres, for the most part lies along the boundary of the forest reserve in townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 1 to 9, inclusive, west, and also along the White Rock River. Small tracts have been reserved for timber, coal, burial grounds, school sites, and similar purposes necessary in aid of the civilization and uplifting of these people. Three town sites were selected by the commission, and they are to he surveyed into lots and sold by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The proceeds, less expenses, will be available to carry out the provisions of the law relating to the opening of this reser-vation. The future of these Indians depends upon a successful irrigation scheme, for without water their lands are valueless, and starvation or extermination will be their fate. The circumstances are such that delay or hesitation will be fatal, because all rights to water in Utah are based on the priority of use. It is believed that an appropriation of not less than $500,000 for irrigation for the Utes should be asked for at the next session of Congress, to he reimbursed from the pro-ceeds derived from the sale of the Ute lands restored to the public domain. I t is hoped that the necessary legislation will he enacted so that these people may he properly protected. The act of March 3, 1905, provides that the Raven Mining Com-pany shall, within sixty days from the passage of the act, file in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which its claims are located, a proper certificate of each location, and the descriptions shall also he filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, with a map showing the locations made by the company on the Uintah Reservation in Utah under the act of May 27,1902 (32 Stat. L., 263). The company filed location notices and maps of location of 71 mining claims. The Florence Mining Company is likewise required to file descrip-tions of its claim to the 640 acres of contiguous mineral land, also granted by the act of May 27,1902. The description and map were duly filed with the Secretary of the Interior. PUYALIsUP LANDS IN WA8HINQTON. As stated in the last annual report, the unfinished work of the Puyallup commission was turned over on June 30, 1904, to the super-intendent of the Puyallup School. It consisted mainly of a collection of deferred payments due on lands sold, the sale of lots within the Indian addition to the city of Tacoma, and the appointment of administrators for estates of Indian allottees who have died since |