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Show REPORT OB THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN BFFAIP.5. 55 lamation ~krvice and the commissioner of Indian Affairs and ap-proved by the Secretary of the Interior. The localities where irriga-tion work is required and the conditions to be met as regards future allotmknts of lands, treaty obligations, and fiscal relations, are to be indicated by the Commissioner of Indian Sffairs; the character and general location of the construction ~ o r akre to be recommbnded by the Director of the Reclamation Service. The chief engineer of the Indian Service is to report directly to the Secretary of the Interior in all matters of policy affecting the welfare of the Indians, sending a duplicate copy of his report to the Director of the Reclamation Service, from whom, in turn, he will receive instruitions as to engineering details. Headquarters of the Indian irrigation service have been established in Los Angples, Cal., and placed in charge of Snpt. Charles R. Olberg, .under the supervision of the chief engineer. This arrangement is expected to insure more elaborate supervision of important work, and, by bring-. ' ing all the irrigation work of the Gavernment into coordination, to effect eventually large economies of effort and expenditure. The system of cost-keeping in use by the Reclamation Service is now applied as far as practicable to the work of Indian irrigation, Chief Engineer Code having adopted it on July 1, 1907. WORK OF THE YEAR. The sum of $152,000 from the appropriation for "*Irrigation, Indian reservations," Tas available fof expenditure during the fiscal year 1907, and most of it was apportioned to the following reser-vations : Zunl, N. Mex ................................................... $85,296.54 Pala, Cal ....................................................... 12,004.30 Crow, Mont ............................................... 10,271.35 Navaho and Moqui, Ariz. and N. Mex. ----.--.-.----7,33-4..3-0 --------.. .............................................W... a k e Rive , Nev 7,132.46 T o e R i v e Mot. . 2,817.17 Pueblo, N. M e ................................................. 3,422.74 128,278.88 About one-half of the remainder has been expended mainly in repairs and maintenance of ditches and reservoirs on other reserva-tions; and some additional tribal moneys and funds specially appro-priated have also been used. Of the total above given, $3,435.81 was not expended but was returned to the credit of the appropriation, though too late for use elsewhere; also, $6,000 authorized to be ex-pended for the purchase of the " Barney pipe line," referred to here-after, was decided by the Auditor, after the close of the fiscal year, to be tmavailable for that purpose and hence was not expended. |