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Show 1 allotted Southern Utes in Colorado the Ute Creek ditch was substan-tially completed, and the Old Spring Creek extensions were enlarged; and among 10 of the reservations of the Mission Indians in Cali-fornia $36,000 were spent in improving means of supplying water. In addition to the irrigation works which the office directly con-ducts, the Reclamation Service, under a cooperative agreement, has in charge four extensive and important projects for Indians. At Gila River, in Ariiona, where water for irrigation is being developed by pumping from an underground reservoir, canals have been exca-vated, concrete structures built, caissons placed at the wells, and 5 pumping stations built and their machinery installed,making in all 10 completed pumping stations. These pumping plants have been able to supply the water required to augment the flood waters of the river for the irrigation of all crops on the north side of the river over an area of about 4,500 acres. At least the main canals are now built above 10,000 acres. The Reclamation Service continued construction work upon the Two Medicine unit and the Badger-Fisher feeder canal, on the Blackfeet Reservation, in Montana, and has completed 46 miles of canals and laterals. As yet it has delivered no water for irrigation for the reason that active allotting has been in progress and no lands have actually been prepared for irrigation. Construction has been under way on the Jocko, Pablo, Post, and Polson divisions at 'Flathead, Mont., and canals have been built to cover 19,000 acres, of which 2,800 acres were actually irrigated. On the project at Fort Peek there has been construction during the year only on the Poplar River unit. In all, 7,500 acres were placed under ditch, but as yet none of this land is being irrigated. For these four projects the auditor during the year settled claims in favor of the Reclamation Service aggregating $607,000. There fell to our service much repair work. In January, 1910, the agency and school buildings and the entire irrigation system of the Supai Indians in Arizona were destroyed by a flood which swept down the Havasupai Canyon. Although the estimates for recon-struction of the irrigation system were $2,500, the work was actually done for $1,271, all but $80 of which went to the Indians in payment for their labor. At Moencopi Wash, at Tuba, Ariz., it was necessary to repair the loose-rock dam. Repairs were made, too, at Zuni, N. Mex., a reservation at which the Indians have made remarkable progress in the short time they have had water. They have 1,500 acres fenced and 1,000 acres in actual cultivation. At Fort Hall, Idaho, on January 24, there was the most serious flood on record in that country. The upper canal was damaged in its whole length, and several structures were washed out. Sufficient repairs were |
