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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONEE OE. INDllllrT BFFbIRS. 55 d e Nev. r e p a i r :- - $2,511 .26 Western Shoshoni, Nev. (repairs)., ------_-------805-.00- --.----.----- Yakfma, Wash------------------------------------------------ 4,000.00 Mieellaneoua ........................................ 4423.41 Headquarters, chief engineer, and salaries---, .................... 6,14223 92,834.75 Special appropriations to the amount of $685,000 were made and some tribal moneys and other funds have also been used. 0roa.-The work on this reservation has been chiefly in the nature of maintenance. The total amount expended was $38,771.45, of which $14,684.99 was paid for Indian teams and labor. For* Ball.-The complications in regard to the Blackfoot Marsh project, alluded to in my last annual report, have all been adjusted, $75,231.40 having been paid for lands and rightz for the reservoir site up to August 20. A total of $105,086.50 was expended during the year in work on the old system, erection of buildings, and purchase of lands and water rights; of this amount $14,113.76 was paid for Indian labor. Since the close of the fiscal year, the reservation canal of the Idaho Canal and Improvement Company, with the water rights appertain-ing thereto, has been acquired at a cost of $90,000. M&siolz Indium.-Investigations and surveys have been made by Chief Engineer Code and Superintendent Olberg on various reserva-tions in southern California to ascertain the water possibilities, and the expenditure of some $30,000 on these reservations during the fiscal year 1909 is contemplated. Navaho.-The snm of $17,096.20 was expended on repairs and further development, of which $5,708.22 was paid for Indian labor. Pueblo.-Three small rock-filled crib diversion dams were built at Laguna and Acoma, at an expense of $5,441.67, to supply canals already built. Tongue River.-Chief Engineer Code reports that the irrigation system for this reservation will be very costly, in view of the small area of land which will be covered thereby. The special appropria-tion for this project was supplemented by tribal funds, and $54,947.03 was expended, of which $23,512.03 was paid for Indian labor. Uintah.-The work of constructing the several systems of jrriga-tion on the former Uintafi Reservation in Utah has been carried for-ward during the year at an expense of $149,006.29. Of this sum, I regret to say, only $3,356.48 was paid for Indian labor, as it was almost impossible to induce the Ute Indians to work on canal con-struction. Superintendent Means reports that the total amount expended on the Uintah project to June 30,1908, is $329,424.78. With that have been built 73.1 miles of main canal and 101.25 miles of |