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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OB INDIAN AFFAIRS. 87 also $9,135 for engineering and office work, $14,325 for construction , force, and $20,700 for stock, forage, and equipment. Owing to lack of funds only $25,000 could be allowed him, and this must also cover the irrigation work on the Hopi Reservation, for which he had asked $4,000. All that could be spared for ditch work on these reservations during the last fiscal year was $10,000. It was expended mostly in constrnct-ing the Wheatfields Creek storage system and repairing &tches in the San Juan district. This storage system, which is nearing completion, cost about $7,200, and will cover about 1,000 acres. Pima.-The Pima problem was cared for by an appropriation in the act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 1081), of $50,000. In my last annual report I said that preliminary work was then under way under the direction of the Geological Survey and this Office. A mis-understanding between the two bureaus as to their respective obliga-tions toward the enterprise caused a dissolution of partnership, and, altho my own belief in the correctness of the attitude of this Office re-mained unshaken, I felt bound, in the interest of the Indians, to shoulder the whole task instead of wasting valuable time in contro-versy. It is only fair to say, nevertheless, that if the Indian Offica had understood that the entire burden of finding water for these Indians mas to be borne by itself, it would have adopted other methods instead of taking over bodily the project of a coordinate bureau. Tho the separation came late, immediate steps were taken by t,his ' . . . Office to make up as far as possible for the delay; and on January 5, 1906, John J. Granville was appointed a special agent to make pre-liminaky surveys with a view to adopting a plan for construct,ion. This work he performed in connection with the chief engineer. On April 25 the latter submitted a report to the Department, including Mr. Granville's. They discuss two devices for obtaining power to raise the underground flow to the surface. , The matter is now before the Department. Meanwhile, the Congress has made another appro-priation of $2501000 toward the work. Pueblos.-Work on the Zuni Dam has progressed sa,tisfactorily, altho the conditions have been adverse. More than 75 per cent of the task is finished; and tho Indian labor, with all its unsatisfactory con-comitants on a reservation, has been used to a great extent, the work accomplished mill compare favorably with anything of the kind yet attempted in the United States. The supply tunnel has been finished, but' the canal and ditches are yet to be nndertnken. When these are in shape, an ample and permanent water supply will have been given the Zunis. Their lands should then' be allotted. Other pueblos are in urgent need of assistance. The unusual rains hnd floods of this year and ,last have generally destroyed the intakes, |